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Breakpoint

J. Warner Wallace: The Case for Speaking Unpopular Truths

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Truth, Love, Together. That’s the theme of the Colson Center’s 4-week long virtual event featuring 20 of the leading Christian worldview thinkers.

We’re now into module 4, “Telling the Truth in Love.” And today on the BreakPoint Podcast we have an outstanding presentation by cold-case detective and apologist extraordinaire, J. Warner Wallace entitled, “The Case for Speaking Unpopular Truths.”

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0:00.0

Truth, love, together. That's the theme of the Colson Center's four-week-long virtual event,

0:07.0

featuring 20 of the leading Christian worldview thinkers of our time. We're now into module 4,

0:12.2

telling the truth in love. And today on the Breakpoint podcast, we have an outstanding presentation

0:17.5

by Cold Case Detective and Apologist extraordinaire Jay Warner Wallace entitled

0:22.7

The Case for Speaking Unpopular Truths.

0:26.2

At the end of the podcast, I'll have more information for you about our virtual event,

0:30.7

Truth Love Together.

0:32.2

Or you could simply go to conference.colsoncenter.org to register.

0:36.7

Now here's Jay Warner Wallace.

0:41.3

Thanks for joining me for this session of Wolverford's Weekend. My name is Jay Warner Wallace. I'm a

0:45.3

homicide detective here in Los Angeles County, and I'm also a senior fellow with the Colson Center.

0:50.3

Some of you know my work. I'm a cold case detective and you know my work from either

0:54.7

cold case Christianity or God's crime scene or forensic faith. And a lot of us have met each other

0:59.9

before in a Wilberforce weekend or doing the Colson Fellows training of one nature or another. For those

1:06.7

of you who don't know me, let me just briefly introduce myself. I have been working in Los Angeles County for a number of years, working cold case homicides.

1:17.0

These are just the kinds of cases.

1:18.9

Look, only a homicide has no statute of limitations.

1:21.8

So if we don't solve a case like that, a homicide, we can reopen it years later.

1:26.2

If you like cases you've seen on Dateline,

1:28.8

well, you may have seen some of my cases because I think I've been on Dateline more than

1:32.1

anybody else in the country. And that skill set is the kind of skill set that you learn certain

1:36.9

things about the nature of truth and about unpleasant truths related to crimes that we work

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