Looking Back at 2020: What This Turbulent Year Revealed about Us
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Shane Morris and Maria Baer join John Stonestreet to talk about the year 2020, and the numerous pre-existing conditions exposed by the pandemic and other trials that will remain critically important in 2021.
Societal trust has been eroding for a long time, but this year invaded our closest relationships, like churches and families. We saw just how many politicians and, for that matter Christians, consider church to be "non-essential." It isn't. And speaking of the Church, John, Shane, and Maria discuss the factors behind last year's scandals involving prominent Christian leaders.
And, of course, issues of race and justice, will re-emerge. The question is whether they'll be hijacked by wokeness, or actually addressed within a framework of human dignity and morality.
As always, they wrap up the episode with their recommendations for the week.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Colson Center Podcast Network. |
| 0:03.3 | This is Breakpoint this week, a weekly briefing on faith, culture, worldview, and mission with John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. |
| 0:14.3 | Welcome everyone to Breakpoint this week. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm Shane Morris, here with John Stone Street, and back with our colleague, Maria Bear, to talk about the |
| 0:21.6 | stories of the year from a Christian worldview perspective. You can find links to the stories |
| 0:26.3 | that we're talking about today on the program by visiting breakpoint.org, where you're also |
| 0:30.7 | going to find commentaries and resources every day to help you live and think like a Christian |
| 0:35.7 | in today's culture. |
| 0:40.8 | Guys, you know, Billy Joel had that song, We Didn't Start the Fire. |
| 0:45.0 | And I think he covered about 50 years worth of headlines with that song. |
| 0:50.4 | He's going to need to do a sequel devoted entirely to the headlines of 2020 because I'm looking over my list here. |
| 0:52.5 | And I mean, there's COVID-19. |
| 0:54.8 | There's pastor scandals. |
| 0:56.6 | There's President Trump's impeachment and acquittal. |
| 0:58.7 | The George Floyd killing and the subsequent protest, the Beirut explosion, Supreme Court. |
| 1:05.4 | I mean, it just goes on and on and on. |
| 1:07.4 | And then I haven't even mentioned the election yet, of course. |
| 1:09.7 | And rather than go story |
| 1:11.4 | by story through the year, like, you know, we're NPR or something, this is the Colson Center for |
| 1:15.9 | Christian World View. And so we want to, I think, isolate the big themes that emerged over the |
| 1:21.5 | course of 2020 because of all these stories. And we'll refer back to them. But there are some |
| 1:26.6 | notes we've been hitting, John and Maria, over the course of the year that we'll refer back to them. But there are some notes we've been hitting, |
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