BP This Week: Defunding the Police?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
John Stonestreet and Shane Morris take apart the idea of de-funding or abolishing the police--from a biblical perspective. What Scripture tells us about fallen humanity should be enough to convince us that this is a terrible idea. Now, that doesn't mean, as John argues, that we don't police reform in certain areas. John and Shane discuss potential reforms.
Also in this episode: Anarchists take over a chunk of downtown Seattle and proclaim a "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone"; is "critical theory" compatible with Christianity? And feminist author J. K. Rowling criticizes trans-inclusive language and gets scalded. But not only is she not backing down, she's doubling down. And that, John and Shane point out, is a lesson for Christians.
In today's web-only bonus section, we get a clip from Them Before Us President Katy Faust from her presentation on the importance of fathers; John and Shane talk about the housing authority of Birmingham, Alabama, breaking its relationship with one of the nation's largest, ethnically diverse churches because the pastor "liked" a comment on social media; and John takes a reader's question: What should Christians think about the Black Lives Matter movement?
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to another edition of Breakpoint This Week. I'm Shane Morris here with John Stone Street to explore the stories of the week from a Christian worldview perspective. |
| 0:20.2 | And John, the top story of this week was unquestionably the call going up nationwide in the wake of protest and |
| 0:26.5 | riots to defund the police or even to abolish the police as some have it. Yeah, it's a heck of a way |
| 0:33.8 | to begin by saying it's the unquestioned story of the week because there was a lot of stories |
| 0:37.0 | this week. There were a lot of stories. a lot of them that continue from previous weeks um you know |
| 0:41.7 | even as we record this uh the day we record this here on thursday lots of reports of coronavirus spikes again |
| 0:48.3 | it desperately impacted the market on thursday that dropped about i think 1700 points one of the |
| 0:53.2 | largest drops uh one-day drops. |
| 0:55.4 | And there's a lot going on, and yet this is really a fascinating development. |
| 1:00.6 | What started as protest with a mantra, I Can't Breathe, which was, of course, the last words of George Floyd to the people who killed him now has turned into a |
| 1:13.3 | cry of defund the police or abolish the police. That's a major shift. |
| 1:20.6 | The Minneapolis Police Department where this is sort of the epicenter of the whole thing |
| 1:23.9 | actually pledged on Sunday to dismantle their police department, promising |
| 1:27.6 | a whole new system. |
| 1:28.8 | Right. |
| 1:29.0 | And then in Seattle, you actually had police forces standing down as a left-leaning force |
| 1:37.1 | kind of takes over downtown, right? |
| 1:39.4 | We'll talk about Chas in a minute. |
| 1:41.4 | You might have to introduce that. |
| 1:44.0 | I mean, you know, so it's interesting because I think this falls into the category of when |
| 1:47.9 | somebody says to fund the police, the first thing we have to ask is, well, what do you mean by |
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