Are Institutions Racist, Suicidal Ideation in Teens, and a Theology of Being Fired - BreakPoint Q&A
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane field questions ranging from whose to blame for racism in institutions to rises in suicidal thoughts in teenagers. They also wrestle with a question on how to build a theology of being fired and what soft totalitarianism really is.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Shane Morris. Thanks so much for listening to The Breakpoint Podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | Today we're going to try something of a new format that I'm really excited about. |
| 0:07.5 | We're going to get through a few more questions than we typically do. |
| 0:10.0 | We've got some exciting ones today. |
| 0:11.6 | We're going to talk about suicidal ideation, especially its rise among young people. |
| 0:17.2 | We're going to ask the question, can institutions be guilty of racism? |
| 0:21.6 | And then we're going to also answer one on how to read the Bible, whether our approach to it is often too systematic and technical and not spiritual and personal enough. |
| 0:32.6 | Stay with us. |
| 0:35.6 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center. I'm Shane Morris, |
| 0:41.6 | host of the upstream podcast and one of the contributors to Breakpoint. I'm joined today by John |
| 0:47.0 | Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the voice of Breakpoint. We're here to answer |
| 0:50.9 | your questions. All of these were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, short courses, and our Colson Fellows program. |
| 0:57.7 | If you want to ask a question of your own for us to answer here on the program, all you need to do is email us at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. |
| 1:06.4 | Well, John, this week we're going to try to get through twice as many questions as we normally do. |
| 1:11.2 | And the key word there is try. |
| 1:13.3 | And to that end, I'm going to use some of my interview chops honed on upstream over the last year and a half to kind of draw nuggets of wisdom from John Stone Street's brain on all of these questions. |
| 1:29.0 | Man, I didn't know you learned miracles on hosting pot in upstream. That's pretty great. |
| 1:35.6 | Well, it's it. Believe it or not, I think it's been done before. It is, it is rare for those |
| 1:39.4 | nuggets of wisdom to, to emerge, but they do from time to time. So I'm going to try at my hand at that right now with this first question, and I hope |
| 1:47.3 | you're ready for it, because it's a pretty heavy question. |
| 1:50.3 | And it's on questions like this, it really is time to put on our, not only our worldview |
| 1:57.7 | thinking caps, but a lot of humility and care as we grapple with this. |
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