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 the increase in the number of Americans who say they are religiously unaffiliated and what that means for our

culture. We're also going to talk about whether Christians should attend same-sex

weddings. We have a lot to get to today. We're so glad you're with us.

Please stick around.

John, this is going to be relevant to the first topic we're going to talk about today,

but did you ever have a teacher growing up who was a nun?

I don't know that you ever went to Catholic school did you?

Oh good heavens I went to a independent Baptist Christian school so the answer

to that question would be no. Is absolutely positively no okay I had a couple I had a couple nuns in my time as teachers and principals and I loved all of them dearly and also I thought that their convent was magical. It was on my school's property, my elementary schools property and we got to every

year we would have something called Jesus Day and we would get to go in there and bake cookies

for them and stuff. And I just had this impression that it was kind of just a party all the time over there.

Like the ladies just hung out and gardened and prayed, which I think is probably not too

far off base. Okay, I'm bringing that up because I think of this every time I see these statistics about religious

affiliation because people use the word none.

I see what you did there. I see what it's very clever.

Do you see the pun that I did? Thanks, John. I see what you did. Thank you so much. I've worked really hard on this bit. I want to talk to you about some of these statistics though because there's new research now.

Well first sometimes people call this the rise of the nuns,

so I thought maybe you had some story of like,

you know, when they just had enough and they stood up and took over the, you know,

the local, whatever. They crested the hill with their swords.

That's, it was cookies. Okay, got it. I absolutely love that picture. Sister Maria Rose, she was my assistant principal in elementary school and I loved her and I thought she was a saint and maybe she is.

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