You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week

from a Christian perspective. Today we're going to talk about the dismantling of the Department of

Education. We're also going to talk about immigration policy. How should we think of that from a

biblical perspective? We have a lot to get to today. Thank you so much for being with us. Stick around.

Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Coulson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria

Bear alongside John Stone Street, president of the Coulson Center. John, I hope you don't work for the

Department of Education because you may have gotten a pink slip this week. Well, yeah, I mean, look, look, it's serious whenever anybody loses their job.

And we have a situation in which the government has increased in size in an unjustifiable way.

And there's no example of that more in terms of effectiveness or a lack of effectiveness

than the Department of Education.

We talked about education a lot here on the program, both the opportunity that Christians

have right now in this moment to be leaders in the educational space, and many are, and

that's why we're seeing some, I think, some very important developments.

But also the fact that there's just been a reckoning. And many are. And that's why we're seeing some, I think, some very important developments.

But also the fact that there's just been a reckoning. There's just been a reckoning. It goes back to at least COVID of parents choosing differently, of parents demanding accountability, of parents actually showing up to school board meetings, of school board members and other folks behaving badly and the Department of Education calling people domestic terrorists. So calling parents domestic

terrorists. Let's be really, really clear. The Department of Education was an idea. It was an

idea that didn't work. It got more than enough time to prove that it could

help and it didn't. And, you know, there's a Kiperian analysis. By the way, there's always a

Kuiperian analysis here at the Colson Center. If you know who Kuiper is, one of his ideas was

the idea of sphere sovereignty, which is that certain authorities were created by God to operate in certain areas.

And when authorities step into other spheres or when the God-given authority within a sphere breaks down, then it leads to really some long-term issues.

Education is an example of that.

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