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Covid and Christianity - BreakPoint Q&A with John and Shane

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

John and Shane field a challenge on using data to take a stronger stance on the covid situation around the country. 

The pair also field a question on the Trinity, and Shane provides some good resources to help build a Christian perspective that is rooted in Scripture.

To close John and Shane field a comment that helped a family navigate infertility. Through the Colson Center's presentation on IVF technology, the couple making the comment share that they were able to build a Christian view that has legs to stand. They thanked John and Shane for their work to help this couple hold a consistent Christian worldview.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Breakpoint Podcasts in our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center. I'm Shane Morris here with John Stone Street to answer your questions. These questions are based on breakpoint commentaries and podcasts that we've aired, short courses we've held, and articles and columns that we've posted. And if you want to submit a question of your own, you can email us at Ask the Colson

0:20.9

Center at colsoncenter.org.

0:24.0

John, we're coming up on the end of the year here, and along with the profusion of sales

0:28.2

emails I'm getting from literally every company that I've ever given my email to.

0:33.2

You know, I'm going through blocking all those and unsubscribing.

0:36.0

We're getting some really thoughtful questions and submissions. And I say questions and submissions here because we're,

0:41.7

we're getting comments quite as often as we get questions at the Ask the Colson Center inbox.

0:47.7

And there's one in particular that you wanted to bring up because not all these comments are,

0:51.9

you know, approving. Some of them are quite critical of the way we've talked about stuff or not talked about stuff.

0:57.9

So let's open with that because I want you to summarize one we've gotten recently and frequently.

1:02.7

Yeah, you know, it's interesting because you don't always get fan mail.

1:06.7

And that's okay, actually.

1:08.1

That's part of the gig.

1:09.3

It's, I've gotten, you know, thicker skin over the last several years, as many people can imagine.

1:15.2

And part of it comes when people have a very clear sense of certainty about everything that's

1:20.0

happening.

1:21.0

And part of the aspect of a Christian worldview that I think really matters is if I can use

1:26.1

a big polysyllabic word that I learned in seminary,

1:29.3

epistemological humility. It's really a view on our ability to know and to understand,

1:35.4

given our fallen nature, given the infiltration of sin and brokenness into the world,

1:40.9

something obviously that we want to be able to recognize and point out.

1:45.2

And so obviously, every time that we do commentaries on what's happening in the culture,

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