Breakpoint

John and Maria tackle a heavy news week full of worldview concerns… including the Little Sisters of the Poor, school-funded abortions in VA, mandated mental health exams in Illinois, the UK Women's March, and Kim Davis. Also, will the future of making babies be in a lab?

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The Tech Exit by Clare Morell

Christianity Today: Gaza's Hunger Crisis Is Worsening.

WORLD: Israel's Gaza strategy

Segment 1 - Worldview Concerns in the News

National Review: Leave the Little Sisters of the Poor Alone

FOX: Youngkin orders investigation into claims staff at Virginia school arranged abortions without parental consent

NY Post: Illinois parents, policy experts concerned over new school mental health screening law

AP: Supreme Court allows Mississippi to require age verification on social media

FOX: Supreme Court has 'good chance' of hearing Kim Davis' case urging same-sex marriage be overturned

UK Women's March now "Intersectional Uprising"

WORLD: 7,000 Nigerian Christians killed in 2025, watchdog reports

Segment 2 - Truth Rising Preview with Jim Daly

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Focus on the Family

The Truth Project

Segment 3 - The Future of Reproduction

NYT: The Next Parenting Trend Starts Before Conception

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The most underrated Founding Father.

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Because only humans bear the image of God, AI will never be human.

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Good doctrine supports Christians in their calling to be truth-tellers.

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Humans were made to worship with song.

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A British parliamentarian spoke about the dangers of abandoning Western and Christian values, but no one showed up to listen.

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An American Eagle jeans ad is called a rise of Nazism. A CNN reporter uses AI to talk to a long-dead teenager. And John and Katy Faust talk about Katy challenging an assertion made by AI's Grok.

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Katy Faust and Grok

Bioethics: A Primer for Christians 2nd edition by Gilbert Meilaender

Rediscovering My 1800 Heritage by Katy Faust

Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper

Segment 1 - Jeans Ad Causes Uproar

Babylon Bee: Can You Spot All The Nazi Dog Whistles In This Sydney Sweeney Ad?

Nike's ad for Scottie Scheffler's Open was tear-jerkingly perfect

Them Before Us

Segment 2 - Changing Definition of Death

Variety: Jim Acosta Interviews AI Version of Teenager Killed in Parkland Shooting

KLOVE: ChatGPT's AI Can Offer Dangerous Information & Guidance To Kids

Pro-Child Politics by Katy Faust

NYT: Donor Organs Are Too Rare. We Need a New Definition of Death.

Washington Post: White House Has No Plan to Mandate IVF Care

World's 'oldest baby' born from embryo frozen in 1994

Segment 3 - Talking to Grok

Katy Faust and Grok

Segment 4 - Questions and Recommendations

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Are Christians called to love, or called to being nice?

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In this bonus episode of Breakpoint, John Stonestreet has a conversation with Gabe Lyons, Andrew Walker, and Ryan Anderson. They discuss what can we learn by looking back over the last several decades of the Church's involvement in culture and what it means to embrace and lose our public morality.

Rejecting Christianity will mean losing those cultural goods that depend on Christian values, such as freedom of speech and religion.

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