Are CRT Bans a Good Idea | Loudon County as Ground Zero for Liberty - BreakPoint This Week
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 4 June 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
John and Maria discuss the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Tulsa Race massacre, and Memorial Day. They discuss the challenges associated with remembering difficult times in history.
John shares important realities surrounding the Loudon county school district. John shares a story that is developing where a gym teacher was dismissed for his views on gender identity.
Maria then introduces the landscape that surrounds the movement to ban Critical Theory from schools. John points out the impact boycotting and banning has on our view of truth and our confidence in the Christian worldview.
-- Resources --
The Greatest Love - Chuck Colson on Memorial Day
President Biden's Stutter and the Image of God
Robert George on Critical Race Theory Being Banned in States Challenges Role of History
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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 worldview. |
| 0:06.0 | Today we're going to talk about some of the bans on critical race theory being taught in public schools that have started floating around different states, what that means for free speech and also means for the education of young kids. |
| 0:18.1 | We're also going to talk about some forgotten areas of history, such as the |
| 0:21.4 | Tulsa Race Massacre here in the United States, and the Tiananmen Square Massacre in China, |
| 0:26.5 | which a lot of Chinese residents don't even know happened. We have a lot to talk about today, |
| 0:31.1 | but we're looking forward to it. Thanks for being with us. Welcome to Breakpoint this week from |
| 0:36.3 | the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm Maria Baer alongside John Stone Street. |
| 0:41.1 | John, it looks like you are recording today in a jungle. |
| 0:44.3 | Is that, would that be accurate? |
| 0:45.3 | Yeah, I'm in the jungles of Philadelphia today at the jungles of the American Bible Society. |
| 0:50.8 | Actually, if you've never been here, this is a remarkable place. |
| 0:52.8 | I've been doing some filming the last couple days. And the new Faith and Liberty Discovery Center, which is right on the |
| 0:59.7 | historic, they call it a square or something like that, historic square Philadelphia. So I am |
| 1:05.6 | a close walk away from where the Declaration of Independence was signed. The Liberty Bell. |
| 1:13.1 | I tried to take it back in my carry-on. |
| 1:16.0 | It's a little heavy, so I didn't. |
| 1:17.8 | Anyway, there's a lot of really cool things in Philadelphia. |
| 1:20.4 | It's such a historic city. |
| 1:21.2 | And everything's within walking distance and right on the historic square. |
| 1:23.9 | Literally, when you come up from the, I think the train stops right here, too, doesn't it? |
| 1:27.8 | Anyway, it's just an incredible, incredible place. |
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