BreakPoint This Week - The Election and Public Trust
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
John Stonestreet welcomes WORLD Magazine, Christianity Today, and Colson Center contributor Maria Baer to "BreakPoint This Week. John and Maria (sitting in for Shane Morris) discuss the recent election and the loss of trust in not only the outcome, but in our public institutions themselves.
On today's episode: Presidential elections do matter when it comes to abortion -- case in point, presumptive President-elect Biden's plans to undo an executive order prohibiting funding abortion efforts abroad. Also, are megachurches best equipped to survive the surging pandemic and its aftermath?
John and Maria end the episode with their suggestions for the week: A storytelling podcast for children, and a beautiful painting for Advent.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Colson Center Podcast Network. |
| 0:03.6 | This is Breakpoint this week, a weekly briefing on faith, culture, worldview, and mission |
| 0:09.8 | with John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week, a weekly conversation about faith and culture from a Christian |
| 0:20.3 | worldview. Normally, you'd be hearing Shane Morris's voice, a weekly conversation about faith and culture from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:25.9 | Normally, you'd be hearing Shane Morris's voice, his silky, smooth voice that seems older than he actually is. But today he's off. And so I'm just really pleased to welcome Maria Baer to join |
| 0:32.1 | us in our conversation here on Break Point this week. Maria, great to have you on. Hi, John. I'm so |
| 0:36.5 | excited to be here. I am a little |
| 0:38.1 | intimidated filling in for Shane because I can't quite get that baritone and there's just a |
| 0:43.8 | gravitas that accompanies a voice like that. So I'm going to do my best. Well, the thing you could do |
| 0:49.0 | is just adopt a British accent because that also brings a level of authority. That's a great idea. Especially more authority. So I don't know if you can do that. My daughters can. And I think it has something to do |
| 0:57.6 | with the fact that they have grown up listening to the Focus on the Family Narnia series on CD. |
| 1:03.9 | So when they were little, they used to play in British accents. That's great. And yeah, |
| 1:08.1 | it was pretty great. Well, look, let's jump right in. |
| 1:11.6 | There's plenty of stories to have. |
| 1:13.4 | By the way, let me just say this. |
| 1:14.8 | If you aren't familiar with Maria's work, you can find her. |
| 1:17.5 | She writes frequently for World. |
| 1:19.2 | She writes frequently for Christianity Today. |
| 1:21.7 | And she writes frequently for us at the Colson Center. |
| 1:23.9 | So if you receive our daily breakpoint commentaries by email, then you'll have seen her picture and seen her name along with mine. She's helped me co-author, I think, some terrific commentaries over the last several months since she's been a part of the Colson Center family. Maria, obviously the story of the week that continues to be the story of the week. It's now the story of the second half of 2020, which is saying a lot, given how many stories there have been in 2020, is that the election in a sense continues, but really seems to be winding down. |
| 1:54.8 | There's a real debate over whether to use the term president-elect. It's certainly not official, although it's certainly not heard, |
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