Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center.

I'm Shane Morris, host of the Upstream podcast and one of the writers for Breakpoint.

Sitting in for John Stone Street today, we have Michael Craven, Vice President of Equipping and

Mobilization here at the Colson Center, who also leads the Colson Fellows Program.

Today, as always, we're answering your questions.

These questions were sparked by breakpoint commentaries, short courses, articles, or columns, and the Colson Fellows Program.

If you'd like to send us a question of your own, please email us at Ask the Colson Center at

colsoncenter.org.

Well, Michael, this is a big month at the Colson Center, I understand.

This month marks the opening of our upcoming Colson Fellows program for the 2022-23 cohort year.

And before we jump into questions today, could you kind of give people a brief explanation of what

this thing we call the Colson Fellows program is and what you're looking forward to in the coming training year?

Yeah, this is our 18th year.

And this goes back to an idea that Chuck had more than 18 years ago, which was, he believed, designed to solve what was the fundamental problem that

was creating so much shift in our culture today. And that was the evacuation of the church.

And that evacuation was largely intellectual. We stopped thinking about theology in public terms,

how it applied to every aspect of life and reality, what we commonly referred to as a Christian

life and worldview. And so Chuck felt it necessary to develop a very intensive, year-long

program to take Christian leaders and immerse them into a deep dive in the study

and examination of Christian worldview and how the Bible, either implicitly or explicitly,

speaks to every aspect of life and reality. And the fact that Christ rules and reigns over every aspect of that life and reality

and that we as Christians, we as followers of Jesus, need to understand his creational norms,

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