Classroom Discrimination at OU, A Rise in Brits Turning to Paganism, and Australia Bans Social Media for Minors
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
A student at the University of Oklahoma receives a 0 for having the wrong view. A new study finds paganism is on the rise in the UK. And Australia looks to put concerns about social media's impact on minors into law.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian perspective. |
| 0:07.9 | Today we're going to talk about a controversy at the University of Oklahoma over a student essay asserting a biblical view of gender. |
| 0:15.6 | We're also going to talk about a return to paganism in Europe, and Australia is outlawing social media for minors. We have a lot to |
| 0:24.2 | get to you this week. We're so glad you're with us. Stick around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week. |
| 0:30.4 | From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street, |
| 0:34.8 | president of the Colson Center. Hop hoping you all are having a lovely December. |
| 0:40.1 | John, I want to start this week with a story out of Oklahoma. |
| 0:43.6 | This has been making the rounds in local news and national news at this point. |
| 0:47.5 | The University of Oklahoma has placed a professor on leave after a controversy involving alleged viewpoint discrimination, basically what |
| 0:55.6 | happened is they assigned an essay, this lecturer, to, I believe it was university juniors, |
| 1:02.8 | to write about gender stereotypes. And a student wrote about a biblical case for the gender |
| 1:10.8 | binary. And the professor gave the student a zero |
| 1:15.2 | and the student has pushed back so this has all been made public at this point the professor |
| 1:19.5 | basically said your your stance you did not cite empirical evidence and it was very offensive |
| 1:25.3 | because she basically said the bible says there's men and women. |
| 1:29.4 | So this is, it feels at a glance like a local kind of dust up, but I think this has legs in |
| 1:36.9 | terms of it being a cultural story. What do you make of this? |
| 1:40.4 | Well, I mean, you know, I saw the whole thing and I, you know, it's, it's been an issue for a while where Christian views have been discriminated against. |
| 1:47.3 | But I also would say that it is not enough on a college assignment to say, well, this is my belief and the Bible says so. |
| 1:56.3 | I think you can argue from the Bible as a legitimate source because it is. |
| 2:00.2 | But then to do a college-level |
| 2:01.8 | work, you need to actually make an argument, not just kind of an appeal to its authority |
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