Breakpoint

John and Maria discuss DJ Daniel, Disability Awareness Month, and Christian history. Also, the idea that being "unencumbered" by responsibilities and dependents is the way to happiness is just wrong. And a new study puts another nail in the coffin of those pushing surgical mutilation for gender confusion.

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Segment 1 - Disability Awareness Month

FOX: Boy honored by Trump says cancer won't slow him down until 'God calls' him home

AP: Transcript of President Donald Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress

Breakpoint: Chris Nikic (who has Down Syndrome) Completes Ironman

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Dancing with Max: A Mother and Son Who Broke Free by Emily Colson

Lighthouse Voices with Joni Eareckson Tada

Segment 2 - The Key to Happiness

Institute for Family Studies: Ladies, Miranda July Is Not Your Friend

ET: Kieran Culkin SHOCKS Wife With 'Fourth Kid' Reminder During Oscars Speech

Oscars: Mikey Madison Wins Best Actress for 'Anora' | 97th Oscars Speech (2025)

Segment 3 - New Study on Trans Surgery

Oxford Academic: Examining gender-specific mental health risks after gender-affirming surgery: a national database study

FOX: Trans surgeries increase risk of mental health conditions, suicidal ideations: study

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Babies are on the brain for a generation raised in an anti-kid culture.

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The Trump administration is arming parents to take back rights, but it can't start and stop at the Oval.\

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It turns out wealth isn't the key to wellness.

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The gods of technology, demons and all.

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Examining the philosophical and worldview relationship, past and present.

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Big changes are being proposed to how we do education in America. The Phoenix Declaration offers a helpful framework for what education should look like. And increasingly parents are being encouraged to abort based on prenatal diagnoses that are often wrong.

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Segment 1 - Phoenix Declaration on Education

The Free Press: Betsy DeVos: Shut Down the Department of Education

Breakpoint: How to Fix Education

The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education

The Protestant Family Ethic Report

Clergy in the Classroom: The Religion of Secular Humanism by David Nobel

The Identity Project

Chasing Love by Sean McDowell

Segment 2 - Prenatal Diagnoses

Breakpoint: How in-Utero Diagnosis Is Being Used to Push Abortion

Breakpoint: The Latest Executive Order about IVF: Calling It Pro-life Does Not Make It So

NBC: Prenatal Tests Have High Failure Rate, Triggering Abortions

New York Times: When They Warn of Rare Disorders, These Prenatal Tests Are Usually Wrong

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The Phoenix Declaration offers a roadmap for a system that has gone off the rails.

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Christians should look at work as part of our created purpose, not just as toil.

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John Stonestreet has a conversation with the Dean of the Colson Fellows Program, Michael Craven, on being the Church in a time of chaos, creating culture, and the power of a Christian worldview. Learn more about the Colson Fellows Program at colsonfellows.org.