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 news out of Iran, as well as a curious New York mayoral primary.

We also have a special conversation between John and Katie Faust, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Obergefell decision and the implications that

has had on children's rights. We have a lot to get to today, as always. We're so glad you're with

us. Please stick around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Colston Center for Christian

Worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street, President of the Colson Center.

John, continuing our trend now of kind of hitting some news stories at the top of the show.

Just want to bring up the military strike that President Trump authorized last weekend on several nuclear sites in Iran.

And at this point, there's a lot of confusing news about what was or

wasn't accomplished on these strikes. But I'm now hearing, we're recording this on Thursday morning,

and I'm hearing this morning that U.S. officials are planning to meet with Iranian officials next

week to talk about their nuclear program or lack

thereof or pause thereof. So something certainly happened, but it's hard to know the details.

What's your take on the strike? Well, you know, at one level, this is a quick story about how

difficult it is to live in a culture with such low trust, right? Because if one president

authorized military force without notifying Congress, the other side says that he has breached

the Constitution and his side defends him. And that's been going on now for four or five administrations.

Seems to me that he was within his presidential powers to do this, but then the, you know, the panic kind of sits in.

Not only that, but I think I walk through this actually with a group of high school students on Sunday morning, actually, about how this kind of jibes with just war theory, something that we've talked about a number of times here, but just in terms

of limited strikes, you know, reducing civilian casualties, doing just enough to get by, you know,

looking for peace as quickly as possible. And the predictions were pretty quick that we were going to

be in a years-long war. And then there was a ceasefire brokered the next day.

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