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Breakpoint

Messages in the Barbie Movie and the Number of LGBTQ+ Students is Growing on College Campuses

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Barbie Movie is setting attendance records. What messages is it sending? LGTBQ+ students are flocking to Ivy League universities. What's driving the trend? And Russell Brand shares some insightful views about God and worship.

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Section 1 - Barbie 

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Section 2 - Ivy League Students Leaning LGBTQ

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"U.S. LGBT Identification Steady at 7.2%"

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Section 3 - Russell Brand on Worship

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For more resources to live like a Christian in this cultural moment, visit Colsoncenter.org

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Breakpoint this week where we're talking about the top stories from

0:05.1

the week from a Christian worldview.

0:07.1

Today we're talking about the Barbie movie and is it a fun movie or is it one that has

0:12.5

some cultural questions that it's raising, spoiler alert, a lot of cultural questions.

0:18.6

And then we're talking about universities, primarily Ivy League universities, students

0:23.6

that are identifying as LGBTQ plus at higher rates than ever before.

0:29.4

So we're looking forward to our time together today.

0:31.6

Thanks for joining us.

0:34.9

Welcome to Breakpoint this week for the Colson Center for Christian World View.

0:37.9

I'm Andre Cailer and I'm here with John's John Street, President of the Colson Center

0:41.3

for Christian World View and the host of Breakpoint.

0:44.3

So John, I am back.

0:46.4

Can you believe it?

0:47.4

You actually let me come back and co-host this with you.

0:50.1

You know, I got to be honest.

0:51.1

It was a close vote.

0:52.5

You know, it went, you know, there was a recount and an extra session.

0:59.3

To just determine, now I'm kidding.

1:01.5

You let me have you back.

1:02.8

Thanks for, thanks for sitting in for Maria.

1:05.4

Maria takes a lot of vacations.

1:06.8

That's really what this is about.

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