With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

This June, the 2023 Special Olympics World Games were held in Berlin, Germany.

7,000 athletes from 170 countries took part in this annual celebration of people with disabilities.

Special Olympics were founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of US President John F. Kennedy,

inspired by her sister Rosemary, who lived with intellectual disabilities her entire life.

Shriver started the first special Olympics in 1962.

The competition grew and her efforts earned her both admiration and honor, including the

presidential medal of freedom.

New York Times' opinion writer Ross Douthet describes Shriver as a different kind of liberal.

Someone who, quote, saw a continuity rather than a contradiction between championing the

poor, the marginalized, the oppressed, and protecting unborn human life.

That consistency he thought was in large part due to her upbringing in the church, specifically

what she'd learned there that all people were made by God in his image.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.