You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview.

Today we're going to talk about the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

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From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone

Street, president of the Colson Center.

John, we're recording this mid-morning Friday morning.

You and I are just now kind of reading news about a suspect being caught in the killing of

Charlie Kirk at the event on a campus in Utah earlier this week.

I know we want to talk this morning about this assassination, what this means for us culturally,

what we should or can learn from it, how to process this.

I want to turn it over to you, but I want to maybe just start by asking you,

what kind of moment are we in

right now? What is this age that we're in? And has it changed this week? Well, I think that's the

sense that a lot of people have. And I do think that's a conversation that we need to have.

Absolutely. For the last three or four years, I have been advocating for a framing of a Christian

worldview, which I've kind of referred to as keeping the story in the moment straight. In other words,

we need to know what the moment is, but the only real way to know what the moment is, is to be deeply grounded in the story

of reality, capital T, capital S, the story, the true story of reality. And that's not a theological

way of dodging your question. It is an attempt to start at the right place. And I, you know, it's interesting because when you ask this question, what I immediately

think here is of that thing that I have said and how hard it is in real life.

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