Where to Find a Spouse, Biden Wants Free Over-the-Counter Contraceptives, Politics from the Pulpit
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 25 October 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
A new study is out showing where people find their spouse, and the change over time is fascinating. The Biden administration is doubling down on its all-out support for abortion with a plan to make contraceptives free. And churchgoers overwhelmingly want their pastors to talk about politics.
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Segment 3 - Politics from the Pulpit
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian perspective. |
| 0:07.0 | Today we're going to talk about how all you couples out there are meeting each other. |
| 0:11.0 | It used to be through family, then it was through dating apps, but things |
| 0:14.8 | seem to be shifting again. So we're going to talk about what that means. We're also |
| 0:19.2 | going to talk about a new proposed rule from the Biden administration that would make contraception free for |
| 0:25.1 | every American. So we have a lot to get you today. We're so glad you're with us. |
| 0:29.0 | Please stick around. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week from the Colson Center for Christian |
| 0:35.2 | worldview. I'm Maria Bear alongside John Stone Street. John it's not lost |
| 0:39.7 | on me that we're talking online and the first story we wanted to talk about today is that the way couples are meeting is changing yet again. |
| 0:48.6 | So there was a really fascinating data set that was posted online this week. |
| 0:54.0 | Just looking at the data of how couples, married couples, met each other |
| 0:58.0 | and it was sort of showing the change over time in graph form |
| 1:02.0 | from, I think it started in the 1940s. the people met through family was far and away the most common way people met and then there would be |
| 1:16.9 | school and then maybe through friends and then your neighborhood and your church or at a restaurant or a bar or in college and then online of course was |
| 1:26.4 | 0.0% back in the 30s but now that is the by far and away the biggest share of the way people are meeting is online |
| 1:35.6 | however there is some more data suggesting and there was a breakpoint commentary |
| 1:40.9 | that you and Shane put together this week |
| 1:43.0 | about the fact that fewer people are using dating apps. |
| 1:46.4 | They're kind of on the way out in terms of the zeitgeist. |
| 1:50.0 | They're kind of not cool anymore. |
| 1:52.0 | Or at least they're at their lowest user levels I think since |
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