Well, welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and this Q&A segment.

We call it Ask the Colson Center.

I'm John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center, joined today by Michael Craven,

who's the director of our Colson Fellows program.

He's sitting in for Shane, who usually is joining us here for these conversations,

in which we tackle the questions that are sent to us from listeners,

we hear on webinars or from some of our Colson fellows. And if you want to ask a question that we tackle here on this every Wednesday

segment, you can email us at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. That's Ask the

Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. Michael, welcome. And listen, we're really excited right now.

We're have applications flowing in for our next class of Colson Fellows.

Just a month and a little bit ago, I guess, a month and some change ago.

We commissioned, or we saw about 400 and some odd fellows commissioned, having completed the program.

It's really a remarkable thing.

And you've been doing such a great job leading the program.

Tell us a little bit about the Colson Fellows.

Yeah, in fact, we just commissioned our largest class ever in the history of the program,

and the forthcoming class looks like it will be even larger.

And I think that's in due in large part to the growing interest among Christians. Why might there be growing interest among the Christians? Might it be that we're seeing

some convulsive changes in culture, the likes of which we've never seen in the history of this

country, and certainly not within our lifetimes? And, you know, historically we've been watching issues unfold in culture and we thought it was safe to be indifferent to those issues.

But increasingly, we're being confronted with some choices.

And the choices are really between compliance and resistance.

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