The DEI fad is fading among corporations, two recent commercials for car companies display very divergent worldviews and allowing public school students to leave class for religious instruction is getting pushback in some states.

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Attend Advent Lessons and Carols service

Segment 1 - Companies Backtracking on DEI

Walmart becomes latest — and biggest — company to roll back its DEI policies

Walmart Abandons Trans Products For Kids, DEI Policies

1792 Exchange

Breakpoint: Six Key Worldview Stories of 2024: The Shifting Ground of “Gender-Affirming Care”

CNN panel blows up after commentator argues X is balanced platform: ‘You cannot say that’

Segment 2 - Worldviews in Car Commercials

Volvo Commercial: Meet the new Volvo EX90

Jaguar Commercial: Copy Nothing

Mass advertising campaigns on assisted dying spark anger among MPs

The Good Life by Chuck Colson

Segment 3 - Release Time in Public Schools

LifeWise Academy

Public school religious instruction release bill gets support, opposition in Ohio Senate committee

WORLD Opinions: The myth of the “secular” classroom

Prison Fellowship

Clergy in the Classroom by David Noebel

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A way to pray and sing with deeper intention this Christmas. 

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A “special instrument sent of God.” 

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A roadmap to avoid political food fights around the holiday table. 

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Ethics should also be a knowable truth. 

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The Christian knows about brokenness and the Healer. 

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The debate over whether men should be allowed in women’s restrooms moves to Capitol Hill, but is corrupted by our confusion over marriage.  RFK Jr. has sparked a national conversation about food, which is really a conversation about what it means to be human. Also, how Thanksgiving points us outward and upward in a culture that constantly directs us inward.

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Segment 1 - Capitol Hill Bathrooms

CNN: Republican’s effort to block first transgender House member from using women’s bathrooms brings campaign issue to the Capitol

Breakpoint: Six Key Worldview Stories of 2024: The Shifting Ground of “Gender-Affirming Care”

Pascal's Pensées; or, Thoughts on religion

Club Q shooting lawsuits claim owner negligence, officials ignored red flag law

Segment 2 - The Politics of Food

First Things: This is a Dangerous Moment for the U.S. Pro-life Movement

The Rest is History podcast

Good Energy by Dr. Casey Means

Dr. Casey Means on Real Time with Bill Maher

2025 Colson Center National Conference

Segment 3 - Thanksgiving Conversations

Breakpoint: Make June Fidelity Month

Overflowing with Thankfulness by Alistair Begg

Chuck Colson on A Crisis of Ethics: Doing the Right Thing

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A massive body of research proves the danger and deception of transition interventions for gender dysphoria. 

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Tim Goeglein on finding a way out of the bad ideas of the 1960s. 

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The poet of our day is wrong about women. 

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