Four years ago, in the 2016 election, only about 61 percent of voting-age Americans cast a ballot. Among self-identifying Christians, the percentage was about the same. In other words, while…
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A Lesson from Screwtape
In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis imagines how an experienced demonic operative might advise a younger, less experienced understudy in the intricacies of counter-Christian spiritual warfare. In one passage especially…
Pre-Election Prayer with Joni Eareckson Tada
Joni Eareckson Tada notes that everyone’s trust is broken. She points out that we don’t trust the news anymore, we don’t trust people’s motives or what they say. The prophet…
Divorce Rate Drop in Covid and Amy Coney Barrett Sworn In – BreakPoint This Week
Amy Coney Barrett receives praise from the Girl Scouts. The group subsequently received a backlash from culture after the positive tweet. John Stonestreet and Shane Morris provide clarity on constitutional…
Joni Eareckson Tada Calls Intercessors to Knees in Prayer for the Nation
Several months ago, I asked several friends and ministry leaders to help us pray our way through the upcoming election season. For weeks now, each Wednesday morning at 10:30 eastern…
There’s No Such Thing as “Safe Sex” For Kids
In 1984, only 14 percent of Americans wore seat belts. Anyone else remember bouncing unrestrained around the back of the family station wagon like I did? Three years later, after…
Is Being a Constitutional Originalist Racist Because of the Three-Fifths Compromise? – Ask BreakPoint
John and Shane end Ask BreakPoint with a challenging question. The listener asks if being an originalist with the constitution, in the way that Amy Coney-Barrett is, is racist because…
How COVID Could Push Us Further Toward Euthanasia
Last week, the Dutch government took yet another step down the very-slippery slope of euthanasia when the national health minister proposed that doctors should be permitted to euthanize “terminally ill”…
‘Born This Way’ Is Old Science
During the confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii expressed outrage and shock that the nominee used the term “sexual preference” instead of “sexual orientation.”…
How the unThinkable became unQuestionable
In a famous scene in the 1979 Monty Python film “Life of Brian,” which I don’t recommend, A character named Stan announces that he wants to become a woman and…