Recently, scholars announced another breakthrough discovery relating to Israel’s King David. The Mesha Stele, a nearly 3,000-year-old Moabite artifact, has long divided historians, particularly a section that some claim refers to…
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Best of Breakpoint: Asbury and the History of American Revivals
This Breakpoint was originally published on February 21, 2023. ___ Two weeks ago, what started as a routine (and, according to the preacher, “lackluster”) chapel service at Asbury University became something…
The 2023 Breakpoint This Week Year in Review
On our last program of the year, John and Maria talk about the most important cultural moments of 2023. If Breakpoint has helped you think clearly in 2023 about this…
Best of The Point: Why We Shouldn’t Ban the Teaching of Bad Ideas
In response to Critical Race Theory, Tennessee lawmakers have introduced a list of “divisive concepts,” which, under a law passed last year, are prohibited from being taught on college campuses. …
Best of Breakpoint: The Restless Heart of Generation Z and the Mental Health Crisis
Saint Augustine famously observed that the human heart is restless until its rest is found in God. That applies not only to individuals but also to cultures and entire generations.…
Best of The Point: What Dan Orlovsky Did When He Didn’t Know What Else to Do
When Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field Monday, several sports analysts called it the scariest scene they’d ever seen on a football field. Hamlin suffered a cardiac…
Best of Breakpoint: Why Mr. Rogers Was Better Than Barney, but He’d Be in Big Trouble Today
Not that long ago, culturally speaking, someone known throughout the world for being neighborly said some things that most likely would have gotten him fired today. And, believe it or…
Best of The Point: Canada’s Death Ed for Children
Canada’s campaign to normalize suicide as a viable and even preferred medical treatment continues to escalate. Already, patients have been pressured into physician-assisted suicide because of psychological pain, and even…
Best of Breakpoint: Why So Many Are Choosing Couches Over Pews
Today, the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns seems, at least to most of us, like an extended nightmare of yesterday. However, some of the ways that our lives changed have…
Best of The Point: Jordan Peterson Tells Dawkins “I Told You So!”
It is typically entertaining when two popular intellectuals get into a public spat. Recently, Canadian psychologist and YouTube star Jordan Peterson called out the famous British biologist Richard Dawkins with…