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 Mormons and whether they should be classified for government purposes as Christians.

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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, I want to start this week with something I

heard you talking about on the world and everything in it. You know, this is a story that normally might

have gone unnoticed, but maybe in our world is getting a bit more attention. So the Department

of Defense has a classification of religions for the purposes of like its chaplaincies and how

they treat soldiers and, you know, the services that they offer. And there was an effort to

consolidate some of their definitions. There was like hundreds of religions that were included in there,

and they've consolidated them. But they did not include, notably, the Church of Jesus Christ of

Latter-day Saints or the Mormon Church under its Christian classification.

And this caught the attention of Utah Senator Mike Lee. Obviously, Utah is a largely Mormon state,

who was pretty upset about this and wanted it to be included. This is an ongoing conversation

between Mormons and Christians. I know Mormons in my own life who consistently,

you know, say that they are part of the Christian church. And of course, the title that,

you know, they call themselves the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We had, I think,

a helpful commentary at Breakpoint this week about the differences between Orthodox Christianity and Mormonism.

But can you kind of walk us through that now? Yeah, it was a really interesting story. And it's

interesting in a good way, I think, because a lot of Christians are going and actually researching

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