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, Breakpoint.

And I'm joined today by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the host of Breakpoint.

This week we're answering your questions about pointing depressed young people to hope

why political leaders and celebrities with such different behaviors can all claim to know Christ, online dating, and more.

These questions were sparked by breakpoint commentaries, short courses, and the Colson Fellows Program.

If you'd like to send us a question of your own to talk about here on the podcast, all you've got to do is email us.

The address is ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org.

John, the first question coincides with the conversation I had over the weekend with a friend

who is a school teacher, and he talked about in the public school system, rather, and he

talked about how he doesn't understand the source of many of the horrific mental health issues that are

kind of besieging middle schoolers at this point.

So he teaches middle school.

You know, and he said students will come in with their wrists cut and tell them about the

medications they're on and, you know, he deals with directing them to counseling for suicidal

ideation and so forth.

And so this question really plays right into that.

It's very good.

This person writes in, I'm reading Matthew Sleith's Hope Always and have a question about how to

practically reach depressed and or suicidal youth.

Dr. Sleith writes this.

A core belief of atheism is the acceptance that the universe or our planet and all the life

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