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 conversion to Christianity of public intellectual and notable former new atheist and former Muslim Ayan Hersi Ali.

It's an incredible story.

We're also going to talk about the dramatic increase in the number of families across the United States who are homeschooling.

What that means for our culture and how the media is covering it.

We have a lot to get to you today. We're so glad you're 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 know we wanted to start this

story is just giving me goosebumps all week. I'm so excited about this.

So I on Hurckele is a sort of famous member of the I would say the new atheist movement.

She has an incredible backstory.

She was a political refugee for most of her childhood. I think she spent most of her childhood in Kenya where

she grew up as a Muslim and then eventually after the Muslim Brotherhood moved into Kenya and sort of took over there. She became very devout and

she was subject to a lot of a Sharia law implements that exist there and eventually renounced Islam, moved to the Netherlands,

was a member of the Dutch parliament for a while.

She became a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and just an incredible voice for freedom and liberalism classically understood, but also atheism.

Now, contrast that with last week I believe she published an

essay on Unheard talking about the fact that she now identifies herself as a

Christian. There have been a lot of conversations

about this piece since then.

There's not a whole lot of theology described here.

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