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Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Coulson Center for Christian worldview. I'm Maria Bear alongside John Stone Street president of the Coulson Center

John before we get into the show today I have to confirm the eclipse was amazing. I did get a chance to go into the path of totality and I don't know what I was expecting but it delivered.

It was awesome. Have you seen a full total...

Like the sort of spiritual experience that everyone was talking about and the life-changing?

It delivered the goosebumps.

Yeah, absolutely.

Okay.

That's fair.

I think you could expect goosebumps.

I think other people maybe were anticipating more than goose

maybe didn't quite deliver that but well I do have to say we so I'm in Ohio there was a

family that came to the farm we were at to watch it and had traveled there from Washington State. That seemed like a bit much. But they did have

t-shirts and stuff. It was clearly like a family get-together, so that part was cool, but it was really amazing though. I it was fascinating. It renewed my interest in space

And my daughter my older daughter is really into it. Have you seen a total one before a total eclipse? we had one I don't know I know I don't

think so because I think it would just kind of you know I've seen almost like

partial yeah kind of yeah and it was I thought it was great where we were but you know we went out several times and saw it move around and

Right right right that was good it was just about done and my you know it was like the total you could see the

ring and all that stuff and my little five-year-old goes I never seen that before in

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