You're listening to a special end of year edition of Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the biggest stories of the year from a Christian perspective.

We're going to hit all the highlights in just a few minutes, from artificial intelligence to atheists seeing Christianity as a cultural good.

We have a lot to get to, though. We are so glad you're with us. Stick around.

Welcome to a special year-end edition of Breakpoint this week. From the Colson Center for Christian

Worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center. John, we've been

doing this together for a few years now, And every time I sit down to do this

end of year episode, I start to look back at some of the big stories of the year and can't

believe that this all happened in a year. It feels like it's been 20 years in some ways.

But you and a lot of other members of our team at the Colston Center have been putting together,

kind of synthesizing the year in these sort of six major worldview stories. I want to just briefly hit each one of those,

but before we do, can you talk to me about how you guys whittled these down and the process you

used, kind of what you were trying to accomplish with these? I think there's years when a lot of stuff happens.

This feels like one of those years when you think about kind of how much was loaded

into this year.

But I think there are also years, and I think this was one of them, where what happened

are more indicative.

It's more kind of definitive than just reactive. I liken it to, you are here moments.

You know, I've used that phrase here a number of times where, you know, if you remember those

gigantic buildings that are now cavernous, empty spaces called shopping malls, If you went to one of those things and actually were successful in finding whatever it is

you were looking for, it was because often you use the map.

And the big map there that was color-coded and multi-leveled.

And some of those maps were more complicated than the building itself.

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