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 something that Chuck Colson called the spiral of silence and whether the most recent election suggests that that spiral is unraveling.

We're also going to talk about the role of celebrities in our culture and whether that role is changing.

We have a lot to get you today. We're so glad you're with us. Please stick around.

Welcome to Breakpoint this week from the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. I'm Maria

Bear alongside John Stone Street president of the Colson Center. John, this week we're still kind

of dealing with the aftermath of the

election and hearing about all sorts of appointments being made to big offices. I think Nellie Bowles

at the free press said we're in week zero of the new authoritarian regime and we barely even

noticed it. So it's an interesting time to be alive.

But one of the things that's been interesting to watch is the analysis on, you know,

some of the larger news networks and in what we consider maybe the more mainstream media

about what happened. And you and I were talking about this clip that's been floating around,

and I think it's emblematic of a larger issue here where, you know, some people were talking about

why did Kamala lose? Why did Trump win? And there was a commentator, a conservative commentator who said,

you know, at the end of the day, people don't want boys in girls sports. You know know, that was a big part of the election, was this conversation about transgenderism.

And immediately when he said this, this was in a panel on CNN, he was interrupted by another

panelist who was very upset that he called them boys.

They're not boys.

They're trans girls.

And I won't stand here for this bigotry or whatever. And it was

just sort of a very fascinating, if upsetting, kind of clashing of heads. But it was also interesting.

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