Mental Health Crisis Among Youth, the Church & Public Education, and Battles for Religious Liberty
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
John and Maria focus in on the factors contributing to the remarkable rise in mental health issues for young people, including the crisis of authority that results from the barrage of information online. Afterwards, they discuss how the Church has always led in innovative education and must continue to do so. They end on a recent win and two losses for religious liberty in the lower courts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Colson Center listeners, this is Maria Baer, co-host of Breakpoint this week alongside |
| 0:05.0 | John Stone Street. I'm here to tell you that I'm looking for a new boss. Just kidding, |
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| 0:51.1 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week where we're talking about the top stories of the week |
| 0:55.3 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:57.3 | Today we're going to talk about the growing mental health crisis among American teens, |
| 1:01.8 | what could be causing it and what we should do about it. |
| 1:04.9 | We're also going to talk about schooling alternatives as public schools continue to struggle, |
| 1:10.3 | what can and should Christians do to help kids get |
| 1:13.6 | better education? We have a lot to get to today. We're so glad you're with us. Stick around. |
| 1:21.2 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria |
| 1:25.1 | Bear, alongside our president, John Stone Street. |
| 1:28.8 | John, before we get into the show today, I have to thank all of our listeners who reached out |
| 1:34.0 | and shared with me their reporting on the ground reporting of what's going on in their libraries. |
| 1:39.3 | So last week at the end of last week's show, we had talked about a handful of stories. One of our colleagues |
| 1:45.1 | and then my pastor's wife had been asked to leave the library because they sat in the teen section |
| 1:50.9 | and they were not teens. And so I asked some of our listeners to let me know if that was going on in |
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