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.

Welcome to Breakpoint this week. I'm Shane Morris here with John Stone Street talking about the stories of the week from a Christian worldview perspective.

And John, sometimes stuff happens that's just awful in the news and it's really hard to bring

this uniquely Christian perspective to bear on it.

But I think there are some things that we can say today as we start the show about the top

news item of the week, which was the massive, unbelievable explosion that happened in Beirut,

Lebanon earlier this week and killed so far

135 people, a bunch more missing, 5,000 people injured.

The video of this thing was just apocalyptic.

I couldn't believe it.

It was like something out of a movie.

And then we got it from a couple different angles.

And then apparently the story is now that it was caused by a large Russian vessel that had been docked there in the harbor since 2013 or something like that.

And it was carrying ammonium nitrate, which is an ingredient in fertilizer, massive, massive amounts of this stuff.

We don't know what set it off, but that's what caused this damage and devastation and tragic loss of life.

Look, you know, I saw a Facebook meme earlier this week.

He said, Lord, please bring us some precedented events, you know, as opposed to the unprecedented that's been so far in 2020.

And I kind of felt that way watching this.

I mean, you know, it was something this week was also the anniversary of the dropping of the

atomic bomb on Japan during World War II. And many visually compared it to that. Well, it looked like

it. I mean, that secondary explosion was just incredible. We do know, too, that there were some

Christian churches there on the ground that were directly impacted. We know that some were, you know, miraculously spared. It

...