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

The hostages in Israel are on their way home.

We're going to talk about the tentative peace deal between Israel and Hamas.

We're also going to talk about a case before the U.S. Supreme Court about the rights of therapists and counselors in Colorado. We really do have a lot

to get to this week. Stick with us. 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.

And thank you to Katie Faust, of them before us, fame, for filling in for me last week. She did an awesome job as always. She's so energetic. I need to match that energy. John, we have a ton of news stories to get to this week. So I think we're going to try and do our first, really the first half of the show we're going to run through

some of these items. But really the big news of the morning is that a peace agreement has been

reached between Israel and Hamas, brokered by the U.S. and Egypt and Qatar and some other global

players. But this is huge. So according to this agreement, all of the remaining

hostages alive and deceased are going to be released in the next 72 hours in as much as the

deceased as possible. I was hearing this morning on the BBC that they're still looking for remains

for some of the, I think, 28 hostages are assumed to be dead by this point.

But this is a huge, huge development.

It's unbelievable.

And it's interesting.

People are being forced to give some credit here to President Trump on this and, you know, against their will.

But this is a remarkable moment.

It's going to be like some of those historic moments that we remember, you know,

if you remember that one image from the 70s, I think, and, you know,

hostages running to their loved ones after being freed the day after Jimmy Carter left office

and Ronald Reagan took office. These are just going to be

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