Islamic Terror in Australia, the Cancelling of Christmas, Foreign Mega Families and Notes on Being a Man
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
John and Maria discuss the rise of anti-Semitism and Islamic violence, and how Western nations are responding to threats by cancelling Christmas. A WSJ piece describes how foreign elites are building families via surrogacy. And a new book provides an update on the crisis of masculinity.
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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 perspective. |
| 0:07.9 | Today we're going to talk about the deadly shooting in Australia, rising anti-Semitism, and a changing landscape of safety around the world. |
| 0:16.5 | We're so glad you're with us. Please stick around. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria. We're so glad you're with us. Please stick around. |
| 0:22.4 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week. |
| 0:26.9 | From the Colson Center for Christian World View, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street, |
| 0:28.1 | president of the Colson Center. |
| 0:31.5 | John, we have to start this week with the shooting in Australia. |
| 0:36.4 | And I'm going to hand it over to you because we're recording this a week ahead of Christmas. |
| 0:38.1 | We are just about wrapping up the Hanukkah season, which I and my husband observe with our girls, and it's |
| 0:43.8 | really been a sweet week. But I really don't know what to say about this. So this was the |
| 0:49.3 | shooting on Bondi Beach in Australia during a Hanukkah celebration that killed 15 people, including a child and a |
| 0:57.1 | Holocaust survivor by two Islamic men, a father and son. So can you help me work through this? |
| 1:05.9 | No, because this sort of thing is, it's not senseless in the sense that some people call acts of evil like this |
| 1:12.1 | senseless it makes an awful lot of sense and a fallen world uh particularly coming from a |
| 1:18.3 | radicalized ideology that goes kind of all the way down the rabbit hole of that ideology what i mean by |
| 1:24.6 | that is Islam on Islam's term sees Jews as unworthy of life and actually |
| 1:30.9 | those that need to be eliminated. And we've seen a resurgence, not just in anti-Semitism and |
| 1:36.9 | attacks on Jewish people, although we have, but we've also seen a resurgence of Islamic |
| 1:41.5 | violence against Jewish people. And you remember just two decades ago, |
| 1:50.1 | in the wake of 9-11, we would have just consistent incidents like this around the world |
| 1:56.8 | in France, certainly in the United States with 9-11, but then also in other places as well. |
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