With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

This week marks the death of Colin Bannis, a priced follower used by God to nurture education

and establish the Christian foundations of Europe.

Born in 543, Colin Bannis grew up in an Ireland that had become Christian under the influence

of missionaries like St. Patrick.

Despite his mother's pleas, he left home to join a monastery, and after his own time

of learning, joined a group of companions sent to preach the gospel.

Being on the continent, he preached to locals, squabbled with nearby bishops over the

date of Easter, and established a series of educational centers and monasteries across

Burgundy and Northern Italy.

Colin Bannis believed that education, especially the study of Holy Scripture, offered us victory

over fleshly desires.

He died in the year 615 at his monastery at Babio, a center of medieval education, with

one of the best early libraries.

Thank God for Colin Bannis.

But the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with a point.