You're listening to Breakpoint this week.

We're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian perspective.

Today we're going to talk about a recent Breakpoint forum John Held

about whether and how Christians should engage politics.

We're also going to talk about the unrest in the UK

and what cultural implications that has.

So we have a lot to get to today.

We're so glad you're with us.

Stick around.

Welcome to Breakpoint this week.

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

Stone Street, president of the Coulson Center. John this week we had a

Breakpoint Forum and this was a live stream event where you and Denise Grace

Gitcham who wrote politics for people who hate politics and Eric Titzel talked about the

Christian involvement in politics and people wrote in a lot of really thoughtful

questions some of which you guys got to during the forum but we also had way more questions

than we had time to get to at that event. So I have some of those questions here

now and I thought maybe we could start the show today

talking through some of the ones that we didn't get a chance to tackle that night.

Yeah, and I'm just, what I'm going to do is just tell everyone how our guests would have answered so I will answer for them and if you get

not me right to them no I think look it there was a couple things that came up in particular, and somewhat predictably the questions or the critiques, and I understand that.

This is not an easy thing, water to weigh it into, know at the Colson Center we think that

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