Is Notredame's Rebuild Really a Travesty, What should pre-marital counseling look like, and how should we mentor?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 12 January 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane respond to listener feedback that critiques John's commentary on the Woke Rebuilding of Notre Dame. John and Shane walk through why they believe the rebuild has problems, while also offering that it might not be as bad as it seems.
Then Shane asks what resources are beneficial in pre-marital counseling, as a mom is asking how to come alongside her children in that area, and also in the area of race relations.
Another listener wrote in to ask how she should talk with her daughter who is adopted from China about her birth country. The mother is trying to celebrate the culture her daughter comes from, while also being honest about the problems coming out of China right now.
To close, a listener asks John and Shane to comment on the best process for mentorship in the church. John outlines the Colson Center approach, with an encouragement for listeners to consider joining the Colson Fellows program this year. For more information on Colson Fellows, visit www.colsonfellows.org
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast at our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. I'm Shane Morris, host of the Upstream podcast and one of the writers for Breakpoint. I'm joined today by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the host of Breakpoint. And today we're answering your questions. All of these were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, short courses, and articles and columns we've posted, |
| 0:21.6 | as well as the Colson Fellows Program. |
| 0:23.6 | If you'd like to send us a question of your own, all you've got to do is email us at |
| 0:27.1 | Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. |
| 0:30.6 | John, we recently ran a commentary a couple of days ago, I believe it was, on the rebuilding |
| 0:36.6 | of Notre Dame Cathedral and the |
| 0:40.3 | kind of accusations that there are quote unquote woke elements being introduced into it, |
| 0:45.8 | that there's a revisionism being weaved into the rebuilding of this historic cathedral that |
| 0:52.5 | is symbolic of the heritage of Catholicism in France. |
| 0:55.9 | And a reader wrote into us asking sort of whether that thesis is defensible, sort of whether |
| 1:02.8 | we can reconcile some of these elements with a Christian viewpoint. |
| 1:06.9 | I found it fascinating. |
| 1:07.7 | So I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. |
| 1:09.3 | This person writes, in your commentary on the woke rebuilding of the Notre Dame Cathedral, |
| 1:13.9 | most of the examples you cite as a travesty are actually pretty inoffensive, in my opinion, |
| 1:19.5 | Christianly speaking. |
| 1:20.7 | I mean, do we really have to take reconciled creation as political correctness? |
| 1:25.2 | Or can it maybe just be Christian? |
| 1:27.3 | Is an emotional space inherently |
| 1:29.5 | incompatible with a cathedral? Wasn't the original trying to evoke emotion? And if heaven intends to |
| 1:36.7 | include every tribe a nation, is there a problem with including Africa and Asia in the new plans? |
| 1:42.6 | Shouldn't we be more charitable here? I'm fully prepared to believe |
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