You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview.

Today we're going to talk about the results of the election.

What does this say about us and what does it say about the future of the country?

We have a lot to get to today. We're so glad you're with us. Stick around.

Welcome to Breakpoint this week.

From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone

Street, president of the Colson Center.

John, wow, it's been a really big week.

I have to say, I didn't realize how anxious I was about the probability that we would sit down to record the

podcast on Friday morning and still not know the winner of the election this past Tuesday.

And I'm serious.

Like I had sort of just resigned myself to thinking, we're going to have to wait.

And it might, you know, my husband boarded up his office downtown in a city we live in.

Just because the past several years have just

been strange with regards to this stuff. So I got to say my first reaction today is I'm so glad

that we know the winner that it's pretty decisive. And, you know, I'll just say for me personally, I'm glad for the way that the election turned out. But there's, there was a ton that happened this week, not just, you know, a president being elected, but a lot of, what you're saying is not a small thing. I'm going to jump in because I was at, I was, you know, speaking at Liberty University

this week at what's called Convo, which is their big kind of chapel service and was asked by the

president, one of the America's great leaders, Donnie Coston, a Colson fellow, I must say,

to come and talk about the election. And I said,

Dondy, we're not going to know. And it became clear around 1230, we probably are going to know.

And then, you know, early the next morning, of course, I had a two-hour time shift, which all these

East Coast speaking invites. I need to be invited to speak in Hawaii where I get eight hours more sleep,

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