Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center.

I'm Shane Morris, host of the Upstream podcast and one of the writers here at Breakpoint.

I'm joined by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the voice of Breakpoint.

Today we're answering your questions. As always, these questions were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, short courses, and of course the Colson Fellows program. If you'd like to ask

a question of your own, all you need to do is email us at ask the Colson Center at

colson center.org. John, have you ever been in one of those conversations where you, you know,

you hear the other side and you just blink at what this person has said and you go, I have no idea where to begin.

Are you talking about in our conversations back and forth?

Are you talking about, no, I'm just kidding.

It is.

And I know this first question kind of falls into that category, but I think it's a good lesson for all of us.

And people will understand when you read the question. But we've talked a lot about this at the Colson Center in our team.

Whereas there used to be a, you know, people are probably tired of hearing me say that, you know, we're in that this is a football stage.

But what I mean by that is essentially there was a time when you could assume shared definitions.

Right.

Or shared vocabulary.

There was a time when you could assume when you were talking about what is morally good or morally bad, that you'd be talking

about the same things. It's a dramatic shift in a culture where what is good is now bad

and what is bad is now good. And that's different than, you know, people saying don't judge

me if I make separate.

Does that make sense?

Because it actually becomes a moral proclamation of the opposites.

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