Is Critique of Critical Race Theory Stifling Oppressed Voices - BreakPoint Q&A
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🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane discuss listener questions from recent commentaries. Today they answer an important question from a listener after our commentary on how critical race theory is a Christian heresy.
Another listener asks for an overview of the landscape of Christian hope. The person references a our recent commentary on the Pandemic of Despair. The listener asks if there is hope on the horizon, because they don't see it. The listener asks if he is looking at the wrong horizon line.
John then responds to a listener who feels despair in being informed by the tv news. John provides a sense of hope and how to remain grounded in the hope of Christ in this cultural moment.
To close, John provides an explanation on why we value the creeds and the challenge of knowing creeds in a time and place where we base our understanding of freedoms and rights on constitutions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. I'm Shane Morris, host of the upstream podcast and one of the writers here at Breakpoint. I'm joined by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center, and the voice of breakpoint. Today we're answering your questions. All of these were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, shortes, and the Colson Fellows Program. |
| 0:21.3 | If you've got a question, you'd like us to address here on the program, you can email us |
| 0:25.2 | at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. |
| 0:30.0 | John, I think there ought to be a rule against prematurely abbreviating things and then |
| 0:34.6 | assuming everyone knows what you're talking about because the new |
| 0:37.8 | abbreviation that's going around everywhere is CRT. |
| 0:41.9 | And I've had enough people just raise their eyebrows and scratch their heads and go, what |
| 0:46.2 | are you talking about? |
| 0:47.8 | Not to me because I don't use the abbreviation so flippantly, right? |
| 0:51.6 | But there's this general trend towards saying CRT, CRT. What is CRT? This first |
| 0:59.2 | question today uses that abbreviation. And I don't know where it came from, but for the first, |
| 1:03.9 | you know, several days I heard it. I thought people were talking about the old cathode ray tube |
| 1:07.9 | monitors. I used to work in a computer IT shop and we would, you know, we had the |
| 1:14.6 | old big, heavy style monitors with the glass fronts and those are called CRTs. So it took me |
| 1:20.1 | a couple of days to figure out what CRT is. It actually stands for critical race theory. |
| 1:24.9 | But that's the subject of discussion in a lot of circles right now for |
| 1:28.5 | conservative Christians, particularly in Baptist circles because of the debates going on in the |
| 1:33.9 | Southern Baptist Convention. And so we've gotten a lot of questions about CRT, if you will, |
| 1:39.4 | critical race theory. The first question is about critical race theory and it's in response to |
| 1:43.5 | a commentary we aired. And the question there is really good. And it critical race theory and it's in response to a commentary we aired. |
| 1:45.0 | And the question there is really good and it seems like a, it seems like kind of an extension of a, of a larger question that we've received frequently about this issue, which is how do we keep from throwing out the baby with the bathwater, right? |
| 1:59.0 | How do we address the concerns that are front and center among critical race theorist without, without buying the whole system of |
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