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 upcoming midterm elections. What do they mean? How should Christians approach our vote?

We're also going to talk about the nation's report card. This is an assessment that came out recently showing that kids' test scores when it comes to math and reading are not doing so well since the pandemic.

So we have a lot to get to today.

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Welcome to Breakpoint this week.

From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street, president of the Coulson Center. John, we have a lot to talk about today, but do I have the

right to dedicate a show? Can I dedicate this show to someone? We've never done that before, have we?

It's happy. We've never done. So you're just doing it. You're just, you know, I reserve the right. Unilaterally making a decision. Yeah, and you're going to tease me about it, but just don't tease me too harshly. I'm going to dedicate the show to a very special being named Beans, who is my puppy, who we had to put down this week. It's been a tough week at my house. That is hard. He's been our dog since we got

married. We got him the month after my husband and I got married and he had just turned 13 and he

was not doing well. I took it harder than I thought, but it's been a hard week. So this shows for

beans. Can you agree to that? For beans.

For beans.

It is.

I'm sorry you named him that.

We didn't.

That's actually not his name.

Do you want to know his actual name?

It's even worse.

You're going to tease me even worse.

His real name was Jethro, like, you know, from the Beverly Hillbillies.

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