Truth, love, together. That's the theme of the Colson Center's four-week-long virtual event

featuring 20 of the leading Christian worldview thinkers of our time. We're now into module three,

becoming people of truth and love. And today on the Breakpoint podcast, we have a great and

eerily timed presentation by Andy Crouch, becoming the people the world needs.

At the end of the podcast, I'll have more information for you about our virtual event,

Truth, Love, Together, or simply go to conference.coulsoncenter.org to register.

And now here's Andy Crouch.

I'm grateful in one way that I get to speak to you from my living room because I get to

show you something that's on the wall in my living room, these three frames, each of them

given to me by a different friend at a different time, but all of them tell a single story.

It's a story of one of the most dramatic cultural transformations of the last several centuries.

It starts with the top frame, which reproduces a diary entry from the British statesman William Wilberforce in 1787,

and in it he writes, God Almighty has placed before me two great objects,

the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

Webberforce wrote this as a young man, beginning his career in Parliament.

It took his entire life before the act for the abolition of the slave trade actually was passed.

And what happened next is the story of the next frame.

It's a painting of a British naval ship pursuing a slave ship.

Guns blazing as this ship, which is part of what was called the preventive squadron of the Royal Navy,

attempts to actually stamp out that which Parliament had made illegal.

Because after Parliament passed the act for the abolition of the slave trade,

it took 50 years to actually end the slave trade across the Atlantic.

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