BreakPoint This Week: Chuck Colson's Birthday, Loudon County's School Board Abuses, and Euthanasia Denied
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
John and Maria reflect on Chuck Colson's legacy that endures at the Colson Center, and is also powerfully visible in Prison Fellowship and the Angel Tree ministry.
Maria then asks John for clarity on the situation unfolding in Loudon County. There are allegations that the school board in Loudon County failed to act in responding to abuse by a student identifying as a transgender girl.
To close, John unpacks the inner workings of the euthanasia movement through the story of a woman in Columbia who is battling ALS. Columbia recently provided provision for terminally ill people to receive euthanasia, but this woman's disease doesn't qualify her for the procedure. John also discusses the faithfulness of her grandmother and how aging and dying with dignity is more whole in a Christian worldview.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top news stories of the week from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:06.0 | Today we're going to talk about a situation in Loudoun County in which a family is making allegations that a transgender student assaulted their daughter in a school bathroom. |
| 0:16.0 | And we're going to talk about how the school has reacted and what implications that has for that policy. |
| 0:21.8 | We're also going to talk about the death with dignity movement, as it's called, and a woman who does not have a terminal illness, but in Columbia is seeking to die by assisted suicide. |
| 0:32.9 | We have a lot of things to talk about today. It's going to be a little bit heavy, but we're glad you're with us. |
| 0:38.0 | Stick around. |
| 0:44.1 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week from the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. I'm Maria Bear alongside John Stone Street. John, this is a big week for the Colson Center. |
| 0:49.1 | On Saturday is going to be Chuck Colson's birthday. |
| 0:52.5 | Yeah, it's been, it's hard to believe. |
| 0:54.3 | This is the 10th year since he passed away, 2012, or at least 2022 will be, and he was 80 years old when he passed away, |
| 1:02.1 | which is fascinating on a number of levels. |
| 1:05.0 | When I first went to work with Chuck Holson in a formal way, he had asked me to be a part of a couple of projects the last couple years of his life, |
| 1:14.5 | but he was about 78 years old, and we went and visited him and Patty, |
| 1:19.6 | and he had this idea for really building this thing called the Colson Center. |
| 1:24.7 | And interestingly enough, at the time, I was thinking, considering |
| 1:28.9 | heading to start a PhD program. And I didn't because Chuck said, well, I think I've got about |
| 1:35.8 | two years left. You should come work with me. And, well, we always joke, God loves us. And Chuck |
| 1:41.4 | had wonderful plans for our life. and he had this, he did. |
| 1:46.8 | And I'm certainly one of those examples. |
| 1:50.0 | But when he thought he had two years, he had two years. |
| 1:53.3 | He had some sense of that, which is really interesting. |
| 1:56.0 | Wow. |
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