K-12 Enrollment Drops, Supreme Court Declines Baronnelle's Case, and the Gift of Forgiveness
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 9 July 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
John and Maria start BreakPoint This Week by discussing a recent commentary related to forgiveness. Maria notes a special point in the article where John states that we are likely choosing to forget about forgiveness, creating a unique honor-shame culture.
Then John and Maria visit briefly on a story they covered last week where the IRS sent a letter to a Christian group stating they didn't qualify for tax exempt status. Due to public backlash, the IRS granted the Christian group tax exempt status.
Maria continues the line of conversation from the IRS to the Supreme court, who denied hearing an appeal by Baronnelle Stutzman who is facing financial ruin. Baronnelle has been bullied by Washington state and has an ominous road ahead due to the Supreme Court not hearing her case. John shares her story and why the church needs to come alongside her as she continues to faithfully follow the Lord.
Maria then asks John to give clarity on the situation in Haiti, where the President of Haiti was killed and now the country faces political upheaval.
To close, John and Maria visit on recent reports that public school enrollment has dropped significantly over the past year. This comes on the heals of debates to teach Critical Race Theory as an ultimate theory for the state of the world.
- Story References -
Why The Greatest Gift the Church Can Give Us Right Now Is Forgiveness
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Appeal by Baronnelle Stutzman
Haiti Hunts Down President's Assassins as Crisis Deepens
3% school enrollment drop is largest decline in over two decades | CRT Stokes Fire
- Resources -
Visions of Vocation: Common Grace for the Common Good
Steve Garber | Book on Virtue
Muscle Shoals
Documentary | March, 2020
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the big news stories of the week from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:06.1 | Today we're going to talk about the Supreme Court's decision not to take up the case of baronel studsman, a florist who declined to make arrangements for a same-sex wedding. |
| 0:14.7 | And what that means for Christians, we're also going to talk about the assassination of the Haitian president and how to think about that from a Christian worldview as well. |
| 0:23.5 | We have a lot to get to today, but we're glad you're with us. Thanks for being here. |
| 0:28.1 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week from the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. I'm Maria Baer alongside John Stone Street. |
| 0:34.3 | We're going to be talking about some of the top stories of the week, which you will be able to find links to at breakpoint.org. You're also able to find links to the rest of our commentaries and other resources there as well. John, before we jump into it this week, I have to tell you something. I was with our best friends last week on a little vacation up in Michigan. And our best friends |
| 0:55.7 | live in Phoenix. So we don't, we get to see them a handful of times a year, but it's always a big treat. |
| 1:00.4 | And they love this podcast. They trust you. They consider you a guru, which I tried to explain |
| 1:08.8 | was errant thinking, but that's, they're sticking with it. |
| 1:12.3 | I was sensing there was a butt somewhere coming quickly in this. |
| 1:15.7 | But here's the real butt, though. |
| 1:17.7 | They, so she, my best friend Chelsea has never seen you in real life. |
| 1:22.9 | She never seen a picture of you. |
| 1:24.1 | So I pulled one up and she could not get over how different you looked from |
| 1:28.5 | what she had in her mind. But for some reason, I could not get her to, she, like she couldn't describe |
| 1:33.5 | what she was picturing. She just knew that it was incredibly different. Your reaction. |
| 1:38.7 | My reaction is the microphone adds 10 pounds. I don't know what to say. I hear that a lot. |
| 1:44.9 | I was also confused. |
| 1:46.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:46.7 | I mean, so, you know, we've had various co-host here. |
| 1:50.8 | You're in a long line of the lustrious co-host. |
| 1:54.0 | And people used to say they couldn't tell me and Eric Metaxus apart and our voices. |
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