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 to talk about the stories of the week from a Christian worldview perspective.

And John, with my governor, Ron DeSantis, laying out a plan to kind of reopen the state

in stages and many other states doing something similar, there seems to be light at the end

of this tunnel, doesn't there?

But of course, you know, even though COVID-19 will be with us for months to come, that

leaves us contemplating what America looks like after the

coronavirus, after the lockdowns. Oh, man. Well, it's an interesting thing to see. And, of course,

in a sense, it's a big experiment. The gradual openings up don't look the same across the United

States, which in one sense makes sense, given the different infection rates and the different kinds of

demographics and the different kinds of social densities. But you also have very different ideas

about this and we're seeing this kind of governor by governor. It was fascinating article in the

Wall Street Journal written by a guy that I actually know, a senator, a state senator from

the state of Illinois, arguing that

governors have had unchecked power in this kind of whole thing, and the legislators haven't actually

been able to speak to that, and that that's actually a violation of the sort of balance of powers.

And, of course, he's talking in Illinois, and that is one of those states where there's been

some very, very interesting policies, not to mention places like Michigan. And these places aren't just different,

you know, than other states. Within those states, you have Chicago and everywhere else in Illinois.

Within Michigan, you have Detroit and everywhere else in Michigan. And these are very, very

difficult decisions.

I mean, the governor of Michigan, you know, tells people they can't go visit their second

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