BreakPoint This Week: The March for Life, Our Problem with Death, and the State of Persecution Worldwide
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 21 January 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
John unpacks a number of recent commentaries from BreakPoint, specifically highlighting the march for life and a hero we profiled, Dr. Mildred Jefferson. John also discusses a new report from the New York Times which suggests that many prenatal tests give false positives more often than they produce an accurate diagnosis.
John then discusses death and dying and how we as a society struggle to think carefully about such matters. He highlights two recent commentaries the outline how the Christian worldview offers great hope and framework to deal with mortality.
To close, John shares the latest report from The World Watchlist on the state of Christianity and religious freedom worldwide. He highlights the stress on faith around the world and challenges Christians in America to pay attention to the plight of brothers and sisters in the faith worldwide. He also explains the importance of practicing and defending faith in our culture where we may not feel the stress of traditional persecution.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, welcome to Breakpoint this week. I'm John Stone Street, usually here with Maria Bear, |
| 0:04.7 | who has a much more pleasant introductory voice than I do. But unfortunately, Maria called in sick |
| 0:11.9 | today. We actually let folks call in sick at the Colson Center, just for the record. But stepping in |
| 0:18.4 | is Wayne Stender. Wayne's usually behind the scenes, doing all things production for Breakpoint, both the Breakpoint |
| 0:25.1 | commentaries in these weekly conversations. |
| 0:27.4 | So Wayne, big shoes to fill, pointy high-heeled shoes to fill. |
| 0:32.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.2 | Pointy high-heel shoes, probably not shoes that would ever fit me. |
| 0:36.3 | I'm 6'8, I have a size 15 foot, probably 14 since high school. We have to wait for the train to come in for me to get shoes here. So there's no way Maria's shoes are going to fit me, but we'll do our best today. That's actually true. Wayne is the definition of South Dakota lumberjack or North Dakota |
| 0:56.0 | lumberjack, right? Wait, what? North Dakota, South Dakota. Well, all three. I mean, I've spent time |
| 1:01.0 | all three. I was born in North Dakota. I live in Minnesota. So it is, it's so cold outside that |
| 1:06.7 | the air is mad at you here. That's true. You walk out and your face hurts. |
| 1:11.2 | It's pretty rough. |
| 1:12.1 | I knew that it was Minnesota. |
| 1:13.3 | Sorry about that. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm so used to whenever you go to the town of Fergus Falls. |
| 1:17.9 | Shout out to Fergus Falls, Minnesota. |
| 1:20.0 | All right. |
| 1:20.7 | Well, good to have you on. |
| 1:21.8 | We've got a lot to talk about. |
| 1:23.2 | So I'm going to pass the con over to you, as Star Trek nerds would say. |
| 1:29.0 | I love that. |
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