Divorce Rate Drop in Covid and Amy Coney Barrett Sworn In - BreakPoint This Week
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 30 October 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Amy Coney Barrett receives praise from the Girl Scouts. The group subsequently received a backlash from culture after the positive tweet. John Stonestreet and Shane Morris provide clarity on constitutional originalism, what it means for the Supreme Court, and the challenge of being pro-woman in opposition to pro-women groups.
John and Shane then discuss a new finding from Bradford Wilcox that praises a drop in divorce rates during the Coronavirus. The pair highlight the leading measure, that more couples are reporting happiness in their marriage since the start of COVID-19.
John talks about the culture's pressure to make marriage a transactional organization. He notes the adjustment in focus of marriage to working towards the completion of a project. The analysis provides hope as COVID-19 continues to rage in the current culture.
Shifting to recommendations, Shane offered theologian Alister Roberts Youtube channel. He notes that Alister loves the Bible as he pulls literature components from Scripture and shows the interconnectedness of Scripture. He is currently going through the entire Bible, passage-by-passage to highlight the theme and cross references in Scripture.
John shifted the recommendations to athletics, highlight the story of Kenny Sailors. Sailors developed the jump shot for Basketball. John notes that Sailors lived a well lived life as a girls Basketball coach in Alaska. Sailors' story was made into a movie thanks to the financing of Stephan Curry, the famous Golden State Warriors player who many claim has perfected the jump shot. John is recommending the movie documenting Sailors' life.
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Theologian Alister Roberts on Youtube
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Colson Center Podcast Network. |
| 0:03.0 | This is Breakpoint this week, a weekly briefing on faith, culture, worldview, and mission with John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to Break Point this week. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Shane Morris, and I'm here with John Stone Street to talk about the stories of the week from a Christian worldview perspective. |
| 0:21.6 | Follow the stories we're talking about by visiting breakpoint.org where you'll find commentaries and resources every single day to help you think and live like a Christian in today's culture. |
| 0:31.6 | John, the first story that we want to hit today is one that's likely going to shape American politics and law for |
| 0:38.8 | decades to come. And that is, of course, the confirmation of Amy Coney-Barritt as the newest member |
| 0:45.0 | of the U.S. Supreme Court just a couple of days ago, tipping the balance on the court to a, |
| 0:51.3 | maybe historic, actually, 6- three conservative majority. And there's no |
| 0:57.5 | telling what kind of cases could end up at the court that will be decided by this |
| 1:01.6 | conservative majority and reshape the way that the United States works for a whole generation |
| 1:06.5 | here. No, I mean, everyone's predicting they know, particularly those on the left, predicting, you know, |
| 1:12.5 | essentially an apocalypse and a loss of our way of life. And I think we answered a question on Tuesday or |
| 1:18.9 | Wednesday on our question and answer segment about, you know, whether being an originalist like |
| 1:23.8 | Amy Coney-Barritt, not only claims to be, but clearly explained what that meant during |
| 1:28.8 | her confirmation hearings, which if I'm a law professor with that persuasion, even I'm a law |
| 1:34.4 | professor of the other persuasion, you know, seeing it more as positive law than any sort of |
| 1:39.9 | kind of moral law or, you know, an originalist interpretation of original documents and so on. I'm |
| 1:44.6 | going to hold that up. That's the new teaching thing. It was such a clear, articulate take. And, of course, |
| 1:49.2 | it still brought up accusations that, you know, we're going to put people back in slavery or we're |
| 1:54.7 | going to put people, you know, entire segment of the population back to the originalist language of, |
| 2:00.5 | you know, partial, you know, |
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