Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

In 1988, Chuck Colson honored Beningo Aquino Jr., a Filipino opposition leader,

who stood firmly against dictator Ferdinand Marcos with the very first Wilberforce Award.

Aquino was assassinated for calling for a free Philippines.

At that inaugural ceremony, Colson described him as embodying faith in action, like the

award's namesake, the abolitionist William Wilberforce.

Since that very first year, the Colson Center has stewarded the Wilberforce Award, honoring dozens of other recipients who have also made a lasting difference in various spheres of influence.

This year, Oz Guinness will be recognized as the winner of the 26th Wolverford Award at a ceremony that will be held at this year's Colson Center

National Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee. The great, great, great grandson of Dublin Brewer,

Arthur Guinness, Oz was born in China during the Second World War where his parents were

medical missionaries. The first decade of his life was a time of national and global upheaval, war, the rise of communism, a famine that took the lives of his two brothers.

Expelled with other foreigners in 1951, Oz returned to Europe. Eventually, he would earn a doctor of philosophy at Oxford University before sharpening both his faith and worldview at LeBrie, Francis Schaefer's home and the Swiss Alps.

In the decades since, Oz has committed his life to addressing the essential issues that face

humanity and society, all from a Christian worldview. In 1991, he founded the Trinity Forum,

an institution dedicated to the cultivation of the Christian mind.

An ardent defender of religious freedom and the rights of conscience, Oz was a key drafter

of the 1988 Williamsburg Charter, a celebration and reaffirmation of the First Amendment,

as well as the Global Charter of Conscience in 2012, which was presented to the European Union Parliament.

And Truth Rising, a documentary produced by the Colson Center and focus on the family,

Oz argues that this current moment that God has placed us in is what should be called a civilizational moment.

Here's what he had to say.

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