Are We as a Nation Capable of Governing Ourselves? - BreakPoint This Week
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This is not how we wanted to start 2021, with the Capitol of the United States of America being overrun by a violent mob. John Stonestreet and Shane Morris discuss the turbulent past few days and wonder whether Americans now have the moral and ethical wherewithal to govern ourselves. They also reflect on the truth that achieving freedom is not rare in history: Maintaining that freedom is.
Also on today's episode: What Democratic control of the Senate means for Christians; China's brutal and perhaps final crackdown on freedom in Hong Kong; plus John's and Shane's recommendations for the week: The Book of Proverbs and Pixar's new animated film, Soul.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Colson Center Podcast Network. |
| 0:03.0 | This is Breakpoint This Week, a weekly briefing on faith, culture, worldview, and mission with John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center for Christian World View. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week. I'm Shane Morris here with John Stone Street to talk about the stories of the week from a Christian worldview perspective. You can find links to all the stories that we're |
| 0:24.0 | talking about by visiting breakpoint.org, where you're going to find commentaries and resources |
| 0:29.4 | every day to help you think and live like a Christian in today's culture. John, remember when we |
| 0:35.3 | talked about not expecting the troubles of 2020 to disappear after the new year? |
| 0:41.3 | I think, you know, to quote, is it Glenn Sunshine, our friend Glenn Sunshine, who said this first? |
| 0:45.9 | How's that working out for you? |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah, I mean, it's hard to even make a joke, but the only meme that so far I found, I at least appreciated, was a picture of the |
| 0:56.1 | Joker with his arm around the clown from It. |
| 1:00.0 | It was Pennywise. |
| 1:00.9 | It was like 2020 showing 2021 the new job site or something like that. |
| 1:05.5 | Around the office, yeah. |
| 1:06.5 | And it's like, I saw the one of the, the one protester with the bullhorns or whatever, the Viking |
| 1:11.5 | outfit. |
| 1:12.5 | And it said, thank God 2020 is over and it said five days into 2021. |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.5 | And of course, none of this is in any sort of sense funny at any level. |
| 1:22.4 | But you do what you have to do to me. |
| 1:24.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.4 | Okay. |
| 1:26.4 | We call memes coping mechanisms. |
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