Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center.

I'm Shane Morris, host of the upstream podcast and one of the writers for Breakpoint.

I'm joined by John Stone Street, president at the Colson Center, and the voice of breakpoint.

And today we're answering your questions.

All of these were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, short courses, and the Colson Fellows Program. If you'd like to send us a question to tackle here on the

program, you can email us at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. John, before we get started here,

I have a question for you. I want to know what is the most difficult question you've been asked

in the context of teaching worldview. What really stumped you? Oh, man, tough question.

I think it changes some. Sometimes some of these questions that kind of rise to the top are

culturally created. So some of the questions around sexual identity, which is what we're going to

jump into here in a few minutes. They remain difficult in many ways because we think about them as being topical and

they're really personal for some people.

And we'll hear that even in the question, this first question.

The other one that's always hard is the problem of evil, questions around evil and

suffering because I learned this early on that when someone asks you

the philosophical question of evil and suffering, they're probably asking the personal

question. It's not so much, why does God let bad things happen or how do you reconcile

the existence of evil and the existence of God? It's's why did God let that bad thing happen to me?

Yeah. And I've had that conversation a lot, and that's a hard one. People who ask that question,

often they want relief. They want someone to help them feel better. And it's understandable.

I don't mean that like in a, you know, take an aspirin and feel better in the morning sort of way.

Some pain can be relentless

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