BreakPoint This Week - How Strong Is Our Democracy?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Given the post-election turmoil and growing distrust of Americans in our nation's institutions, John Stonestreet and Shane Morris discuss the health of America's system of government, what Chuck Colson once called "the greatest experiment in Liberty ever undertaken."
Also on this episode: Are we on the cusp of a COVID baby bust? With the American fertility rate well below replacement level, what does it say about our culture that fewer people are having--or even want to have--babies? And what are the ramifications for our economy and our society? Have we lost hope?
In the meantime, NASDAQ is asking the Federal Trade Commission to approve new guidelines for companies listed on the exchange concerning the diversity of their corporate boards. John and Shane discuss woke capitalism and the proliferation of identity groups.
John and Shane wind up the show with their recommendations for the week. Why not actually read Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol"? And John is beyond excited about . . . the return of NCAA basketball.
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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. |
| 0:11.6 | 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. |
| 0:18.8 | You can find links to all the stories we're talking about |
| 0:21.3 | here today by visiting breakpoint.org, where you'll also find commentaries and resources every day |
| 0:27.3 | to help you live and think like a Christian in today's culture. John, you may have noticed this week |
| 0:32.3 | in all of our video exchanges, I was wearing a jacket, and that's because we had temperatures |
| 0:36.8 | down here in Florida |
| 0:38.2 | in the mid-40s, which is pretty cold for early December. And I just read in the South Florida |
| 0:44.4 | Sun Sentinel that it was cold enough in some places to cause the iguanas to fall from the trees again. |
| 0:51.3 | You know, it's an annual occurrence for us. It's one we cherish, like a Christmas |
| 0:54.6 | tradition. And as I understand it, it's actually one of the items on a newly circulated breakpoint |
| 1:00.3 | bingo game that we heard about on staff this week. Who said social media is not good for stuff? |
| 1:07.6 | You know, I mean, where else would you get? By the boy, the breakpoint bingo is, |
| 1:11.7 | it's way more redemptive and Christian than, you know, the presidential debate drinking game, |
| 1:16.5 | you know, where somebody, one of the presidential candidates says something that you expect and |
| 1:20.6 | then you have to take a drink. We don't do that here at the Colson Center. So instead, either, |
| 1:25.1 | you know, I mentioned TSA or you mentioned C.S. Lewis or either one of us mentions |
| 1:29.7 | falling iguanas. And then that's one of the items on the bingo card. And it's good. Weird stuff |
| 1:35.0 | happening in Florida, for instance, falling iguanas. That was how it was phrased. Everybody would |
| 1:40.2 | win this bingo game if we just talked about weird stuff happening in Florida. I mean, |
| 1:44.4 | that could be a weekly occurrence. That's a daily occur. If people had access to our, you know, |
| 1:49.8 | email exchanges among our editorial team at the Colson Center, the number of Florida man stories that |
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