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Breakpoint

Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Terrible Life

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Politics, Culture, Christianity, Currentevents, Worldview, News

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Why it’s important to read bad books about bad ideas. 

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0:00.0

I've spent my career some 60-odd years, thinking, studying, debating, and writing about the great questions of human existence.

0:12.8

I consider this the calling God has placed in my life.

0:17.1

And yet, the questions I've spent my lifetime wrestling with have never been more urgent

0:24.6

than right now.

0:26.4

I believe that we are at a civilizational moment.

0:30.8

The period of crisis when a civilization, our civilization, completely loses touch with the inspiration that made it

0:39.9

what it is.

0:41.6

It is at this point, like all the other civilizations that have come and gone before us,

0:47.3

that we face three clear options.

0:51.1

Renew the original inspiration, replace it it with something equally solid or decline?

0:58.0

That's Oz Guinness in Truth Rising, a new groundbreaking documentary film from the Colson Center and focus on the family.

1:04.0

As Oz says, we're living in a civilizational moment.

1:07.0

We know museums and history books are full of artifacts of once dominant civilizations

1:11.8

that have been long ago reduced to ruins. And that's the inevitable future of the West if we are

1:18.1

detached from the essential truths that rooted and nourished it. Christians are not victims of

1:23.1

civilizational decline. We've been put in this time, in this place, on purpose by God.

1:27.8

Truth Rising helps Christians see how critical this civilizational moment is

1:31.9

and understand the role that they have to play in it

1:35.4

by embracing their calling to be agents of renewal wherever God has placed them.

1:40.1

The film premieres globally, September the 5th.

1:42.5

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1:45.9

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