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Since 1991, Breakpoint—a program of the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview—has provided believers around the U.S. Our daily Breakpoint commentaries, co-hosted by Colson Center President John Stonestreet, air on some 1,400 radio outlets with an estimated weekly listening audience of eight million people. Its "Breakpoint This Week" counterpart, also hosted by Stonestreet and Shane Morris in

cludes a weekly conversation with leading Christian writers and thinkers on topics ranging from the sanctity of life to marriage, religious liberty, and the restoration of virtue and ethics to public life. Over at Breakpoint.org, Stonestreet is joined by other thoughtful Christian writers through columns and feature articles equipping believers to live and defend the Christian worldview. Check us out online for great worldview content and resources, including book reviews for teens and preteens, need-to-know news headlines and more.

Top Story of 2025: Five Courageous ChristiansAfter his amazing victory on Mount Carmel against the prophets of Baal, Eli...
12/12/2025

Top Story of 2025: Five Courageous Christians

After his amazing victory on Mount Carmel against the prophets of Baal, Elijah fell into deep depression. Not only had he seen God work in a miraculous way, he had proven before Israel Who was the one true God. And yet, almost immediately, Elijah questioned whether God could protect him from Jezebel and (falsely) believed that he was the only faithful believer left in Israel:

“I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.”

There’s much to learn from this story, both about the vulnerabilities of humans and the kindness of God. For example, I love that the author of 1 Kings includes the detail that God sent an angel to Elijah to help him sleep and cook him food. Also, by informing Elijah of the 7,000 people in Israel who had not bowed a knee to Baal, God was reminding Elijah that He was still very much at work in the world, and that He primarily works through His people.

God has his people everywhere. Often, He uses unlikely candidates to be courageous voices of truth. The new film Truth Rising tells the story of five courageous voices in this civilizational moment.

As a young teenager, Chloe Cole was so completely lost and deceived about who she was, she underwent a double mastectomy attempting to be male. God worked in her life to reveal what was true about who she is, and now, having detransitioned, she advocates for the truth that humans are made in God’s image, male and female. She is now a powerful force pushing back against the darkness.

The story of Seth Dillon and The Babylon Bee is the story of the last decade. First, the popular and funny satirical site was cancelled from one of their most powerful channels of influence for saying what is true. Committed, as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn put it, “to live not by lies,” he refused to take a short cut around truth. But God was at work, and how the story turned out shocked everyone.

My friend Katy Faust was a pastor’s wife in the northwest with an anonymous blog. She spoke truth about an ideology that subjects children to the whims of adult desire. Then Katy was doxed by someone who threatened her and her entire church community. God used that incident to make Katy a leading champion for the rights and wellbeing of children worldwide.

Courage is not typically a required qualification for bakers, but it was for Jack Phillips. In one afternoon, Jack took a stand when asked to design a cake with a message that was not true. That stand led to thirteen years of attacks by the state of Colorado, and one of the most consequential First Amendment wins of our lifetime. Again, God was at work.

Perhaps best known among these stories is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, whose faith journey took her from Islam to atheism to Christ. An activist, political leader, and author, Ayaan has now found what she was looking for and believes deeply that God has placed her as a truth teller in a crucial cultural moment. That’s exactly what she’s doing.

Stories like these are at the heart of the Truth Rising documentary and study. They remind us that God is still work through His people today, just as He did on Mount Carmel through Elijah. They also remind us that we are not alone in our calling to this time and place.

The Colson Center believes that God wants His people equipped to live faithfully in this cultural moment. Every program of the Colson Center, including the Truth Rising project, helps Christians cultivate clarity, confidence and courage. Would you consider joining us by making a year-end gift? Thanks to a generous $500,000 challenge, every gift has double the impact. Please give at colsoncenter.org/December. That’s colsoncenter.org/December.

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Nick Fuentes’ Feminism for Men Over the last several decades, radical feminist ideas have successfully convinced generat...
11/12/2025

Nick Fuentes’ Feminism for Men

Over the last several decades, radical feminist ideas have successfully convinced generations of young people that women don’t need men, that children should never come before a woman’s career, that masculinity is toxic, that s*x is “free,” and that “a woman can do anything a man can do, and with heels on.” As a result, fewer young women aim to be wives or mothers, and many who do are ashamed to admit it. Instead, women have been taught to see the procreative aspects of who they are as problems rather than gifts.

According to Pew Research, women now account for record shares of chief executive and board positions, but nearly twice as many high school girls as boys say not enough women are in the workforce. Pew also reports that the number of young women who support abortion continues to increase. In 2024, 76% of young women between the ages 18 to 29 were pro-abortion. And, as more young men and dads return to church, more young women and single moms are staying away.

Today, young women who align with feminist ideology are the majority. They’ve been taught to put themselves before faith or family. They’ve been taught that certain vices are virtues, that they are the victims of a male-dominated society, and that men are their enemies.

And now, a similar interloper movement is seeking to change the hearts and minds of men just as the s*xual revolution did for women. In one sense, this movement is a reaction to the excesses of Covid lockdowns, the movement, and DEI. It is a movement much like feminism, only for men.

A growing segment of Gen-Z males, particularly among those who lean conservative, are following extremist influencers who teach that vices are virtues, that men are victims, and that women are enemies. For example, there’s Andrew Tate and his chest-thumping, self-focused hyper-masculinity. More recently, especially in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Nick Fuentes has gained the market share of lost boys who are looking to believe in something. Fuentes focuses on national, political, and racial preservation, with a call to burn the rest down. His is a Nietzschean call to power, which involves Jew hatred, the mocking and threatening of women, and an allegiance to white, American men.

Before it was taken down for violating hate speech policies, Fuentes’ America First was the number one trending podcast on Spotify. His followers, known as “Groypers,” are growing, even though Fuentes was also deplatformed by YouTube and Apple. Fuentes’ livestream following the assassination of Kirk attracted over 2.5 million views.

Recently, podcaster Liam Deboer attempted to explain the Fuentes phenomenon:

"Nick Fuentes … is the end product of a decade that told a generation of young men that their very being was a problem to be solved. … The deal once made to men—work hard and earn respect—was torn up. In its place came scorn. … When every fair complaint from a moderate was branded as hate speech, many stopped trying to prove their innocence. For years, moderates believed debate could bridge the divide. But when [Kirk] was gunned down, a dark realization set in. These people were celebrating blood. … That’s when many young men realized, if you can murder someone for talk, then there’s nothing left to talk about. Fuentes rose in that void, not as a mastermind, but as a symbol of what happens when shame and exclusion curdle into fury."

Fallen people, especially young men, are quick to accept explanations that excuse their own sin and treat them as victims. This is a big part of Fuentes’ appeal. A bigger part is that there is a group of young men who believe that life has no meaning and no moral structure. They are looking for identity in all the wrong places.

Parents and pastors should ask young men who they are following and what their vision is for being a man. The Biblical vision of masculinity is big and focused outward: loving God, protecting others, caring for families, working and providing, defending the weak, looking after widows and the fatherless, and leaving things better than they were found. It stands in stark contrast to a vision of the perpetually adolescent male, that mocks everything and neither builds nor defends anything. It is built on outrage and frustration which, though often appropriate, cannot offer a vision for life. Rather, it is essentially feminism for men. It will cause as much damage to them as its counterpart has to women.

Are There No Su***de Pods? Are There No Gas Chambers?In a striking scene in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer...
10/12/2025

Are There No Su***de Pods? Are There No Gas Chambers?

In a striking scene in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge asks two men raising money for the poor, “Are there no prisons? ... And the Union workhouses? ... Are they still in operation?” When the charity supporters reply that many would rather die than go to such places, Scrooge replied, “If they would rather die ... they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.” Later in the story, Scrooge is reminded of his dehumanizing words and is ashamed.

Recently, in real life Britain, Lord Falconer of Thoroton suggested to the British House of Lords that the poor might be better off dead:

“Where the reason that you want an assisted death is because in your mind you are influenced by your circumstances, for example, because you are poor—should you be barred from having an assisted death because of your poverty? In my view not.”

In Britain’s nationalized healthcare system, the cost of the procedure for the poor is not an issue. Rather, Lord Falconer seems to be suggesting that the poor should have the “right to die” if they are ashamed of being poor. Poverty, in this view, is a fate worse than death.

Most likely, Lord Falconer thinks this is an appeal to charity, like the charity workers in A Christmas Carol. In reality, his advice is indistinguishable from Scrooge. He might as well have asked, “Are there no euthanasia clinics? And, the gas chambers, are they still in operation? If they would rather die than be poor, then they had better do it.”

Now, Lord Falconer is not suggesting, at least not yet, that the state should round up the poor for su***de pods, though su***de pods are a real thing. However, he is suggesting that “being poor” should be added to the ever-growing list of things that make life not worth living. A few years ago, when advocates argued for death in Canada and Colorado, they argued that this was the compassionate choice for those with terminal, painful diseases and would die shortly. Why prolong their suffering?

But there is no slope more slippery than this one. In both Canada and Colorado, what gets someone approved for the death list has grown. In Colorado, severe eating disorders qualify. In The Netherlands, an early adopter nation of assisted death, euthanasia has been extended to sick children. In 2022, a Belgian woman who survived a terrorist attack was put to death to save her from stress. Ironically, the terrorists were not killed for their crimes.

In Canada, “medical assistance in dying,” or MAiD, is now the fifth leading cause of death. In 2016, the Canadian government insisted that only those facing “imminent death” would be eligible. By 2023, this grew to include patients struggling with mental illness and drug addiction. Last year, a Canadian man complained that his PTSD would not qualify him to take advantage of death. In another case a few weeks later, a young woman was granted the right to die for autism. The judge ruled that not providing MAiD in her case would cause “irreparable harm,” as if death for some is less harmful than living.

What other trials of life will be deemed suffering? A bad break-up? Not getting a wanted job? Just because? We once condemned the N***s for who and why they killed. Now, we’ve adopted their rhetoric.

Every person is made in the image of God and has infinite dignity and worth. Not just the healthy, and not just the wealthy. Human value isn’t lessened by pain, disease or, Lord Falconer, poverty.

The Church’s task in this moment is clear. We affirm life. We defend the vulnerable. We reject utilitarian thinking about human value. As Stanley Hauerwas said, “In a hundred years, if Christians are people identified as those who do not kill their children or their elderly, we will have been doing something right.”

Advent PoetryAbout a third of the Bible could be described as poetry, including Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and the Song of S...
09/12/2025

Advent Poetry

About a third of the Bible could be described as poetry, including Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and the Song of Solomon. Today, Dr. Glenn Sunshine offers an encouragement to Christians to engage with poetry, especially during this season of Advent.

Poetry is important to God. The longest book in the Bible is a book of poems, and the prophetic books are full of poetry as well. Throughout history, cultures around the world recognized poetry as an important art form and the highest use of language.

Modern America is the exception. We are a left-brained, analytical culture that tends to see only the literal meaning of things. Metaphor, symbolism, and poetry are foreign to our way of thinking, and so we don’t tend to read or appreciate poetry.

This is too bad, because good poetry helps us see the world around us in new and fresh ways, to get past “the film of familiarity,” as poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge put it, and to see things as they really are. Because of this, poetry surrounding Advent and Christmas is a particularly valuable way to get past both the commercialization of the holiday and the sometimes too-familiar and sentimental images we have of the Nativity.

But in view of our lack of understanding of poetry, it helps to have a guide. This is where Malcolm Guite comes in. Guite is a poet, an Anglican priest, a chaplain at Girton College, Cambridge, and a rock and roller. He is particularly interested in the intersection between religion and the arts, a theme we see in his books and sonnets. This makes him a brilliant guide to poetry, particularly as it relates to Christianity and the church year.

Guite’s book Waiting on the Word is, as its subtitle indicates, A poem a day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. (He has a similar volume, The Word in the Wilderness, which does the same for Lent and Easter.) Some are his own sonnets, but he also includes poems by George Herbert, John Donne, Edmund Spenser, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, G.K. Chesterton, Luci Shaw, and quite a few others. The poems cover a range of moods and verse styles, giving an overview of different types of English poetry.

But what makes this book so valuable is that Guite includes a commentary on each poem, explaining its connection to the theme of Advent and outlining what the poet is doing and how he or she is doing it. Guite’s commentaries help to understand the deeper meaning in the poems and how the poetic structures and techniques contribute to this. In the process, he helps us understand not just the poems, but what poetry itself is.

Too often, despite the best efforts of teachers, classes in poetry leave us with the impression that poetry is simply a matter of rhyme and meter. We may learn about other poetic devices and techniques, but we often don’t see that all these things are in service of the meaning of the poem, which comes to us obliquely rather than in a straightforward, literal way. Unlike our normal ways of viewing the world, poetry helps us see beyond the surface into the meaning embedded in the world around us and in our own lives and experiences.

That is the great value of poetry. We may live in a time where everything is reduced to the literal, but that’s not how Scripture sees the world. The Psalms point to the natural world and find spiritual truth in it. Jesus’ parables tell us that there are spiritual implications to everything from sowing seed to baking bread. Good poetry can help us learn to see the world this way, to find meaning, and to recover a more sacramental vision of the world.

Again, this is particularly appropriate for us in Advent and the Christmas season. Poetry can help get past the habitual ways of looking at Christmas and open new dimensions of what the Incarnation means. It can also give new perspectives on our own lives that we would miss if we simply followed the same well-trodden paths that we have followed every other year.

Like many other Advent devotionals, Waiting on the Word begins on December 1. There’s still plenty of time to get caught up.

A Decade of “Words of the Year”Every year since 2004, Oxford University Press has chosen a “word of the year,” based on ...
08/12/2025

A Decade of “Words of the Year”

Every year since 2004, Oxford University Press has chosen a “word of the year,” based on usage compiled from news sources across the English-speaking world. Today, speaker and author Abdu Murray describes how words reflect and explain culture:

“Oxford’s annual “Word of the Year” is more than a linguistic curiosity. It’s a cultural MRI, a snapshot of what society fears, desires, and obsesses over. Looking at the winners from 2016 through 2025 reveals a decade-long narrative of what has been called reality collapse: a decreasing ability to perceive the world directly, unmediated by algorithms, outrage engines, and the gravitational pull of our own preferences.

“The trend started with the 2016 Word of the Year, post-truth, capturing the moment when feelings began to outweigh facts. Post-truth was not about sloppy thinking, but a declaration of near-divine autonomy: If truth is whatever I feel most intensely, reality becomes something I generate, not something I discover. This was the initial push down the cultural descent into curated unreality.

“A year later came youthquake, the idea that a surge of young people could shake the social and political order. It captured the energy of those convinced they could reshape society through activism. But the youth who embodied the post-truth youthquake are now nearly ten years older. The generation that helped define post-truth and youthquake has bequeathed a landscape where reality collapse has accelerated.

“The Words of the Year that followed, utilized by the successors to the millennials, were eerily accurate reflections of the ecosystems that millennials built. In 2022, goblin mode was the Word of the Year. It captured a cultural embrace of laziness, a retreat from discipline and ambition—a far cry from youthquake. In 2023, rizz emerged, reflecting performative charisma—identity as performance, crafted for an algorithmic audience. In 2024, brain rot admitted what many had long suspected: endless scrolling, dopamine-baiting feeds, and digital passivity were hollowing out young minds. The promise of youthquake’s energy had given way to devices shaping cognition, fragmenting attention, and eroding mental resilience.

“Then came 2025, and the language of reality collapse became even more precise. The winner, rage bait, describes content that provokes anger to keep people in line with their groups’ ideologies and online to perpetuate them. Exaggeration or outright falsehoods bait us to believe the world is perpetually at war, conditioning us to view disagreement as insanity and nuance as betrayal. This year’s runner-up, aura farming, reflects a subtler, but equally pervasive phenomenon. Young people are striving to cultivate a curated self-image online—an aura that requires effort to maintain, polish, and present. “Farming” is the right word: the image must be sown, tended, and harvested. It is pressure to constantly self-create, where authenticity is measured in likes, shares, and comments.

“Rage bait hijacks perception externally, while aura farming enslaves the self internally. One distorts the world; the other distorts identity. In both cases, young people are made to live in a perpetual state of construction and reaction, as if their worth and reality depend entirely on their ability to perform, provoke, and curate.

“Christianity offers a liberating counter-narrative, which may account for why we’re seeing a surge in Bible sales and downloads. The Bible insists that our identity is not something we must endlessly manufacture. Rather, it is bestowed. Humans are created in God’s image, which carries inherent dignity, creativity, and capacity for authentic relationship. The God-given image frees us from the tyranny of being defined by our curated presences, our reactions to outrage, or the attention economy—we are defined by the one who made us. We are free to discover once again.

“Truth, in this framework, is not a subjective feeling or a self-fashioned projection. Truth is a Person. Jesus is the ultimate anchor for reality: unchanging, compassionate, and authoritative. He validates our feelings by bringing them into alignment with what actually is. He calls us to see the world as it is, not as the algorithms present it. He invites us to resist the cognitive and emotional conditioning of brain rot, aura farming, and rage bait.

“The last decade of Words of the Year teaches us that when we try to feel our way into truth, our reality collapses. When we allow algorithms, outrage, or curated self-performance to define reality, we fragment into rage, passivity, and distortion. But when we anchor ourselves in the reality of God’s image, we reclaim the capacity for thoughtful engagement, creativity, and authentic relationships—both with Him and with others who share that image.

“Anchored in that reality, we are free to see clearly, think independently, and act with integrity. We are not mere brains to be conditioned; we are image bearers called to resist the collapse, grounded in the one Truth who steadies us.”

Thanks Abdu. Today’s Breakpoint commentary is adapted from Abdu Murray’s forthcoming book, Fake ID: How AI and Identity Ideology are Collapsing Reality – And What to Do About It.

Top Story of 2025: AI and God’s Creation MandateArtificial Intelligence began in the 1950s with what was known at the ti...
05/12/2025

Top Story of 2025: AI and God’s Creation Mandate

Artificial Intelligence began in the 1950s with what was known at the time as machine learning. Over the past decade, and especially over the past year, dreams became possibilities became actualities, and new dreams were born, of both the benefits and dangers of AI.

Among the potential abuses of AI discovered this year was how mentally vulnerable users were manipulated into thinking they are prophets and had access to secrets of the universe. Rolling Stone told chilling stories of spouses and parents who watched loved ones lose touch with reality through AI. Kashmir Hill wrote in The New York Times about chatbots luring users down “conspiratorial rabbit holes,” encouraging them to take drugs, assuring them they could fly, and even egging some on to su***de. We also learned that Grok relied on N**i sources for its intelligence.

AI has disrupted learning by normalizing cheating. The technology news site Futurism declared, “AI is Destroying a Generation of Students, and New York Magazine warned, “Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College.” I know of at least one Christian college religion class in which there are no textbooks and the professor encourages students to use AI to submit their assignments.

New technologies require humans to wrestle again with ultimate questions, not merely as to what is right and wrong but with what it means to be human. Work is vital, not only as a way in which humans can love and serve our neighbors, but also as a fulfillment of the Creation mandate. The Fall turned much of human work into what Scripture refers to as “toil,” frustrating and futile effort that is unnecessarily complicated, often falls short of our intentions, and which can even be a source of evil.

Therefore, technology that alleviates futile, dangerous, and pointless work is a blessing. However, human activity should not be measured only in narrow, utilitarian ways. Easier is not always better. Knowledge cannot be reduced to data or data processing. We do not always need to be set “free” from effort or from inefficient conversation.

Sitting with an author, following an argument, or experiencing a narrative both reflects the fullness of the truth, goodness, and beauty that God infused into His creation and who He made us to be in His image. To optimize or automate reading, for example, is simply not to read. It is like asking AI to free us from eating a delicious meal or from taking a walk in the park with our kids. Some things cannot be optimized, nor should they be outsourced, because they are irreducibly embodied, conscious, and human.

It would have been more efficient had God offered a bulleted list of “distilled” theological “insights” and moral pronouncements, rather than the revealing Himself in the Old and New Testaments. Instead, He chose to offer a library of stories, proverbs, epistles, history, and authors, using diverse types of literature written over centuries, all of which comprise Holy Scripture. Part of what makes the Bible such a gift is the work and humility it requires of us to properly wrestle with It.

AI is not human, nor can it become human. As one writer put it:

"[AI is] a mirror ... and all it can do is reflect our own depravity back to us. It’s a computer learning from billions of humans all around the world, all endlessly sinning with their hearts, minds, tongues, and keyboards. Garbage in, garbage out."

In the new age of AI, we must hone the kind of discernment for which Paul prayed for the church at Philippi, specifically for a love that abounds with “knowledge and all discernment.” That will allow us to "approve what is excellent, and be pure and blameless for the day of Christ.” Paul also warned the Colossians, “See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.” To be clear, AI gets its philosophy and empty deceit from human tradition, so Paul’s prayers and instructions have aged well.

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The Reason for the Season (of Advent) The season has begun. Specifically, the season of complaining that the world has f...
04/12/2025

The Reason for the Season (of Advent)

The season has begun. Specifically, the season of complaining that the world has forgotten “the reason for the season.” It’s true, of course, but the “reason” many want restored often has more in common with Hallmark than with Christ. While celebration, family, and friendship are essential aspects of the holiday season as culturally practiced, the church calendar offers the season of Advent as a way of preparing our hearts and minds for the feast of Christmas.

Essential to the season of Advent is remembering and rehearsing the Story of Scripture, particularly those parts that promise salvation. To that end of remembering, Michael Card’s album The Promise is a staple in the Stonestreet household this time of year. The more musically gifted in our home, of which I am not one, also commit time to listen again to Handel’s brilliant oratorio, Messiah.

The brilliant and witty G.K. Chesterton was a big fan of Christmas. In 2023, Ryan Whitaker Smith wrote Winter Fire: Christmas with G.K. Chesterton, a delightful mix of essays, articles, poems, and meditations. Closer to Christmas Day, don’t forget about Tolkien’s Letters from Father Christmas.

For those interested in going deeper, the 2024 book by Rhyne R. Putman, Conceived by the Holy Spirit: The Virgin Birth in Scripture and Theology, is one of the rare works for both laity and theological professionals. In it, Putman describes Advent and the birth of Christ by reaching across the Scriptures and into various elements of the Christian walk.

Daniel Spanjer’s Advent is the Story: Seeing the Nativity Throughout Scripture combines rich theology with a day-by-day reading list for the entire month. From the first chapters of Genesis to the concluding verses of Revelation, Spanjer describes “Christmas as worldview”:

"The history of the universe is a story with a specific plot. It began with a garden of beauty and goodness. … [God] will bring the universe to completion as it was designed—Yahweh’s permanent, eternal home among his people."

Dan Darling’s 2019 book, The Characters of Christmas: The Unlikely People Caught Up in the Story of Jesus, challenges those too familiar with the Nativity story. Darling reminds readers how God used ordinary people to do the extraordinary, including Joseph and Mary, Zechariah and Elizabeth, and Simeon and Anna. As Darling described it:

"This is the real story of Christmas, the heart of Christianity: brokenness and new birth. The same God who birthed life into Sarah’s dead womb had breathed life into Elizabeth and Mary. And this baby, Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection, breathes new birth into His people. "

Yes, the season is bigger than commercialism and decorations, but it is even more than time with family and friends. Everything that matters ultimately finds its significance in the Work God is doing in His world.

Advent is to remind us of God’s redemption. As Mary sang in the Magnificat:

"[H]e has brought down the mighty from their thrones
and exalted those of humble estate; he has filled the hungry with
good things, and the rich he has sent away empty. He has helped his
servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, as he spoke to our
fathers, to Abraham and to his offspring forever."

Demographics is DestinyIn 2024 in the nation of Great Britain, there were 48 abortions for every 100 live births. This d...
03/12/2025

Demographics is Destiny

In 2024 in the nation of Great Britain, there were 48 abortions for every 100 live births. This does not mean that 48% of babies were aborted, as some wrongly reported, but it does mean that about one-third of babies there are aborted. That is far too many.

For added historical context, abortion rates in Great Britain increased by one or two per 100 live births from 2016 to 2021, by nearly 10 in 2022, another two in 2023, and an additional five in 2024. Throughout this period, the total number of conceptions remained reasonably constant. Therefore, the number of live births in Britain has declined precipitously in the last few years.

According to Philip Pilkington, a macroeconomist and Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, these statistics suggest “that British people are starting to aggressively curtail their own reproduction. At the same time the government is increasing immigration to prevent the country from bankruptcy. Britain is in a phase of self-euthanisation.”

Pilkington rejects the usual suspects for the significant increase in abortions in 2022, such as Covid or mail-order abortion pills. Rather, Britain saw serious levels of inflation, driven in part by spiking energy costs. Though the government responded with 58 billion pounds of household financial support and a tight labor market brought higher wages, the median household income still fell by 3%. Therefore, the best explanation for rising abortion rates is overall pessimism about the future.

Of course, Britain was in economic trouble before 2022. Boris Johnson, who led the Brexit movement and was Prime Minister from 2019 to 2022, was told to increase immigration to hold down wages or face economic collapse. This began mass migration to Britain from outside the European Union, a trend reinforced by flat economic productivity. Today, almost all growth in employment in Britain comes from immigrants.

The current British birth dearth will encourage even more immigration over the next several decades. To quote Pilkington again, “The babies not born post-2022 will need to be replaced with migrants 16-18 years after that to keep GDP stable in order to prop up debt/GDP ratios. So migration, already at record levels, will rise and rise.”

As a result, living standards in Britain could continue to fall, which could push abortion rates even higher. Pilkington adds, “Meanwhile, the new government is further liberalising abortion laws. It seems like they want to accelerate the self-euthanisation.”

Self-euthanasia is an apt description of what is happening to Britain. Demographics is, after all, destiny. There are many long-term implications of a decline in births, including implications for immigration. As noted in an earlier Breakpoint, a significant percentage of the new immigrants come from Muslim cultures and hold British culture in contempt. British imams openly state their desire to impose sharia on Britain, including making non-Muslims second-class citizens. The British government goes out of its way to protect Muslims while clamping down on opposition to immigration and Christian street preaching, presumably to avoid provoking the Muslim community to violence.

It is no accident that formerly high-trust, safe communities in Great Britain now have a massive increase in crime, knife attacks, and s*xual violence, committed largely by Muslim immigrants who carry with them from their homelands misogynistic attitudes and contempt for non-Muslims. Unless economic factors, the falling birthrate, and open borders are mitigated, it will be impossible to maintain the British GDP and social safety net.

So, pray for Britain, once the birthplace of world evangelization and now a birthplace of nothing. Pray that a movement of the Spirit will bring people to repentance. Pray that people would return to the truth about children, before it is too late.

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We live in a moment of cultural confusion. Fewer and fewer of the things that give meaning to our lives come easily. Family, community, beauty, truth seem to be constantly eroding around us—while our news feeds are full of despair, anger, and division.

How are Christians to make sense of the world around us? How can we make sure we have clarity in our daily lives?

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