9/11 and Cultural Memory
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
John Stonestreet and Shane Morris reflect on the nineteenth anniversary of 9/11. How has 9/11 shaped a generation's cultural memory? And what events are shaping the cultural memory of today's younger generations--and what effect will that have on the culture itself?
Also in this episode: Dinsey's cozy relationship with the genocidal Chinese Communist government; is it really possible that people will fall for the idea that looting is not only permissible, but liberating for the oppressed?; thoughts on critical race theory, and the culture's schizophrenia when it comes to on the one hand condemning the sexualization of children while at the same time creating cultural artifacts--films, novels, etc.--that glorify the sexualization of children.
They wrap up the show with their recommendations for the week: Shane's praise for the Christian folk duo Gray Havens; John on Katy Faust's upcoming book Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movmement.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Colson Center Podcast Network. |
| 0:03.0 | This is Breakpoint this week, a weekly briefing on faith, culture, worldview, and mission with John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week. I'm Shane Morris, and I'm here with John Stone Street to talk about the stories of the week from a Christian worldview perspective. |
| 0:22.1 | Follow the stories we're talking about at breakpoint.org where you'll find commentary |
| 0:25.9 | every day and resources to help you live and think like a Christian in today's culture. |
| 0:31.3 | And I really want to emphasize that call to breakpoint.org because I think this was one of our |
| 0:36.3 | best weeks of commentaries in quite some |
| 0:38.3 | time. We hit, you know, big worldview topics like sexuality and human rights abuses and entertainment |
| 0:43.9 | and disabilities and the image of God and prayer and abortion and all of this in connection, |
| 0:49.2 | John, with current stories. And I'll just say my family learns from this stuff as we listen. And I say that as |
| 0:55.5 | someone who actually contributes to it. So I learned writing this stuff. Chuck believed in |
| 0:59.6 | Breakpoint. And I think it's probably one of the most important things we do and most timely things |
| 1:03.6 | we do. And speaking of timely, of course, as we record this, we're about to roll into the anniversary |
| 1:08.8 | here of September 11th, which was almost 20 years ago. |
| 1:13.2 | It's incredibly hard to believe that. |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah, I mean, there's at least a couple things to mention. |
| 1:16.7 | First of all, is most of the teenagers in your life, almost all of them now, because it's been 19 years, were born without a memory of 9-11. |
| 1:25.4 | I realized that with my own kids on the 10th anniversary. I think my |
| 1:29.0 | oldest at the time was probably seven or eight. And it was interesting because, you know, again, |
| 1:35.0 | it was a 10th anniversary. I had gone through nine other ones before then, pretty unemotionally. I mean, |
| 1:40.7 | obviously the day of was extremely emotional. And then how I dealt with the classes that I was teaching at the time and friends and family and so on and and just processing it like everybody else. |
| 1:50.8 | But it was a 10th anniversary that hit me and I think it was because I realized just how different a world was after 9-11 than before, especially for my kids. |
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