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Breakpoint

How Christianity Changed the Way the World Sees Disability, What Many Miss about Happiness, and New Study on Trans Surgery

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, Culture, Christianity, Currentevents, Worldview, News

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

John and Maria discuss DJ Daniel, Disability Awareness Month, and Christian history. Also, the idea that being “unencumbered" by responsibilities and dependents is the way to happiness is just wrong. And a new study puts another nail in the coffin of those pushing surgical mutilation for gender confusion.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:07.4

Today we're going to talk about Disability Awareness Month and the view of the inherent dignity and value of every person that Jesus brought to the world.

0:15.2

We're also going to talk about married moms. Are they happy? Are they tired? We have a lot to get to today. We're so glad you're with us.

0:23.3

Please stick around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week from the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.

0:29.7

I'm Maria Bear alongside John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center. John, it was interesting watching the presidents.

0:36.5

I think we're not supposed to call it a state of the union address yet. You're not technically allowed to call it. We called it that offline, but that's not what it is. It's like a joint address. I mean, it is a state of the, okay, yes, but there's some technicality. They're supposed to not be able to update you on the state of the union until they're two years in, which I appreciate the dedication to using the correct syntax there. But it was a state of the union. I mean, look, I would argue that there's a political reason that it wasn't a state of the union and an actual reason as well. But it was something. It was really an event. But we don't, we're not a political podcast.

1:11.5

That's correct.

1:12.3

But I know that you wanted to talk about, in particular, this really kind of tender moment from President Trump's address the other night in which he honorarily made a 13-year-old boy, I believe, from Texas, a Secret Service agent.

1:26.0

This boy's name is DJ Daniel, and he is battling brain cancer.

1:30.5

And this had been a dream of his to be a secret service agent. And so President Trump invited his

1:35.9

family to the address and took a moment to give him honorary secret service agent status,

1:41.4

which was very, very sweet. And of course, Daniel was there, and it was a

1:46.2

really sweet moment. Well, yeah, it was. I mean, even that, there's so much to talk about without

1:51.5

hopefully resort into the political. There was an interesting observation by a commentator

1:56.0

afterwards about the number of guests that you have in the gallery and that that's something

2:00.7

that was started by

2:01.3

Ronald Reagan. I didn't know that. And it certainly has become something that is a powerful way

2:06.6

to deliver, you know, a policy or to deliver a victory or to, you know, to deliver, you know,

2:13.6

some sort of stance that you're going to take. And I think that needs to be discussed at some point,

2:17.7

because what's the line between, you know, actually showing the people that are affected by

2:25.1

certain policies. And of course, this is something that both sides of the aisle, administrations

2:29.7

from both sides of the aisle have done for a long time. I mean, there's other people we could

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