A Very Full Week of Worldview in the News, Truth Rising, and the Future of Making Babies
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
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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Segment 1 - Worldview Concerns in the News
National Review: Leave the Little Sisters of the Poor Alone
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
UK Women's March now "Intersectional Uprising"
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Segment 2 - Truth Rising Preview with Jim Daly
Segment 3 - The Future of Reproduction
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week, |
| 0:03.9 | where we're talking about the top stories of the week |
| 0:06.0 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:08.0 | Today we're going to talk about a flurry of court cases |
| 0:10.5 | involving Christians and some other worldview issues. |
| 0:14.3 | We're also going to hear a special interview |
| 0:16.5 | about the upcoming documentary Truth Rising. |
| 0:19.8 | We have a lot to get to this week, and we're so glad |
| 0:22.6 | you're with us. Stick around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Colson Center for |
| 0:28.6 | Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Baer, alongside John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm happy to be back with you, John, this week, and especially this week, because as we were just |
| 0:37.8 | talking about offline, this seems like a really unique news week. Now, I get teased a lot for saying |
| 0:43.2 | at the top of the show that we have a lot to get to today. But if there were ever a day when we |
| 0:48.2 | have a lot to get to, it is today. So there have just been a lot of updates, it seems like, this |
| 0:54.0 | week to a lot of news items we've |
| 0:56.5 | covered in the past. And just to be clear, we cover news items from a worldview perspective. |
| 1:02.8 | These are all stories that have worldview implications. So I want to hit these as quick as we |
| 1:08.5 | can and just kind of hit some of the highlights. I want to start with a case this week involving the Little Sisters of the Poor, if you remember them. |
| 1:18.4 | Pennsylvania and New Jersey had sued. |
| 1:21.3 | There's kind of some legal complications here. |
| 1:24.2 | But basically the Trump administration number one had offered a religious |
| 1:29.0 | exemption to the Obamacare mandate that mandated organizations provide contraceptives and abortive |
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