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

Today we're going to talk about the transition to a new presidential administration.

We're also going to talk about football and college football and expressions of faith on the football field.

So we have a lot to get to today. We're so glad you're with us. Stick around.

Welcome to Breakpoint this week from the Coulson Center for Christian World View. I'm Maria

Bear alongside John Stone Street, president of the Coulson Center. Well, John, this week there were a slew of

confirmation hearings. I feel like this is the most Congress has ever worked, at least in the past few

years. But I'll be here all day.

But there was a lot of, it was dramatic on Capitol Hill. Obviously, this is the exit of a president.

We're moving into the new administration as of next week. Any final thoughts kind of on this transition or the last four years?

Yeah, this is one of those weeks

where it's like, you know, we're not a political podcast. We try to be either pre-political or

outside the political square, unless it kind of directly relates to the sort of worldview

issues that really matter. And that kind of underscores something that is true about culture that Christians really need to understand.

And that's that the parts of culture that are the loudest are rarely the parts of culture that matter the most.

There can be a lot of a lot of noise.

What is that?

Life is a stage, as Shakespeare said, and full of sound and fury,

signifying nothing. All the world's a stage. All the world's a stage, right. Yeah,

there you go. I pulled that out just out of the deep recesses of memory. I haven't quoted that in a

while.

But the whole point is, is that's what politics feels like. And it's certainly, I think, an appropriate thing to have a level of cynicism about what politics can and can accomplish.

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