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BP This Week: DOJ vs. California--A Lockdown Showdown Over Churches

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Constitution is pretty clear: Freedom of Religion is not negotiable. Yes, governments can restrict religious freedom, but only under very special circumstances and only for a limited time. That's why, as  Shane Morris and John Stonestreet discuss, the Department of Justice is telling California it cannot single out churches restrictions it does not apply to other entities.

Also on today's episode: Thoughts on Ravi  Zacharias; when hospital restrictions go too far; evolutionary psychology's fairy tales.

And this week, on the podcast only, Shane and John begin a new segment: Answers to listeners questions. This week: surrogacy. We also include a segment of Pastor Chris Brooks's outstanding "Truth, Love, Together" presentation.

 

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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 Worldview.

0:13.6

Welcome to another episode of Breakpoint This Week. I'm Shane Morris here with John Stone Street to talk about the stories of the week from a Christian

0:20.9

worldview perspective.

0:22.2

And for us, John, at least in the Christian worldview space, the big story of the week was also

0:27.4

a very sad one.

0:28.6

On Tuesday, Ravi Zacharias, author, apologist, and founder of Ravi Zacharias International

0:33.7

Ministries died of cancer at the age of 74.

0:38.8

And you and I had a discussion with RZAM Executive Vice President Abdul Murray, which will actually air Monday on the podcast,

0:45.0

where we highlight some of the things that just made Ravi Zacharias so irreplaceable and life-changing

0:50.3

for millions who heard his messages. And we also look forward to what's next for the

0:55.6

small army of apologists that he trained and left behind at RZIM. We just talked about him last

1:00.9

week. We talked about his sickness here on this podcast and on this weekly kind of roundup that we do

1:06.5

at the Colson Center. And because it was escalating quickly, and it seemed to be escalating quickly.

1:11.4

And, man, I had no idea it was this quickly that he was going to leave this world for the next.

1:17.0

It's a great conversation with Abdu.

1:18.7

Abdu's a good friend.

1:19.9

Ravi meant a lot to him as a mentor.

1:22.2

And I've just spent the week, Shane, really thinking about the similarities between Ravi and Chuck Colson. We joked,

1:28.9

you know, with Abdu about the distinct voices. You know, I was talking to somebody else this

1:33.5

week. Like, you know, if you were scanning across Moody Radio and you heard Chuck Colson or Ravi

1:38.6

Zacharias, you were not going to mistake them for anybody else. It was that. You knew first two

1:43.5

syllables. The first two syllables.

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