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🗓️ 6 June 2025
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Critical theory was on display in the media’s reaction to last week’s terror attack in Colorado. The Colson Center wrapped up its national conference on Being the Church. And John and Maria reflect on N. T. Wright’s controversial thoughts on abortion.
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Segment 1 - Antisemitic Attack in Colorado
AP: What we know about the Colorado attack on demonstrators for the release of Israeli hostages
Breakpoint: A Double Standard on Terrorism
Breakpoint: "Stochastic Terror”: Truth Is Not Violence
Segment 2 - Colson Center National Conference and Concerns for Nigeria
NYT: Phil Robertson, ‘Duck Dynasty’ Patriarch, Dies at 79
Segment 3 - NT Wright on Abortion
Ask NT Wright Anything: Is abortion ever justified?
Segment 3 - Listener Questions
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian perspective. |
0:07.4 | Today we're going to talk about the anti-Semitic terror attack in Colorado. |
0:11.1 | We're also going to talk about the Colson's International Conference, our impressions, and how great it was to meet so many of you. |
0:17.6 | We have a lot to get to today. We're so glad you're with us. Stick around. |
0:22.5 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria |
0:26.9 | Bear, alongside John Stone Street, coming off yet another Colson Center National Conference in Louisville |
0:33.3 | last weekend, and John, I've been coming to these now for five years. I can't remember. And they're |
0:39.9 | always exceptional, but this one I think was my favorite one so far. It was such a special weekend. |
0:44.9 | So we want to talk about it, kind of recap it a little bit, share our impressions, but we're |
0:49.7 | going to do that in the second segment. We're going to kind of switch things around. Usually, |
0:53.3 | the past couple of weeks, we've been hitting some major news stories in the second segment. We're going to kind of switch things around. Usually the past couple of |
0:54.5 | weeks we've been hitting some major news stories in this first segment. We're going to do that kind of |
1:00.4 | one by one in the next segment and talk about the conference. But we wanted to start the show and talk |
1:06.0 | about what happened in Boulder. So just a few days ago last Sunday, there is a group that meets every Sunday in Boulder |
1:12.6 | and in cities across the country that March is almost too strong of a word. They gather and they |
1:19.2 | hold signs and they usually walk down a route. And this is in support of the hostages that are |
1:24.3 | still being held by Hamas. And this past Sunday, a man, an Egyptian national, |
1:30.4 | threw two Molotov cocktails at this group and injured more than a dozen people. |
1:35.7 | Thankfully, I don't believe anybody has died. |
1:37.9 | But this was a man from Egypt. |
1:39.9 | Like I said, he'd been in the country a few years. |
1:42.5 | His tourist visa had expired and he'd overstayed it. |
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