Religious Persecution Around the World, Continued Chaos in Minnesota, A New Effort to Protect Children and Is Interracial Marriage a Sin?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Guest host Katie McCoy talks to John Stonestreet about their recent trips to South Korea and Brazil. More violence in Minneapolis as ICE raids continue in that state. The Greater Than Campaign is underway to remind us that children's needs are greater than adult desires. And we wade into a social media debate over interracial marriage.
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Segment 1 – Worldwide Religious Persecution
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A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today's World by John Stonestreet and Brett Kunkle
Segment 2 – Continued Chaos in Minnesota
Segment 3 – Greater Than Campaign
Segment 4 - March for Life
Segment 5 – Is Interracial Marriage a Sin?
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:08.5 | Today, we're going to talk about religious persecution, including John's trip to South Korea and what he learned about Christians there. |
| 0:16.4 | We're also going to talk about the continuing chaos in Minnesota over protests and ice raids. |
| 0:22.1 | We've got a lot to get to this week. |
| 0:24.1 | We're so glad you're with us. |
| 0:25.4 | Please stick around. |
| 0:28.1 | Welcome back to Breakpoint podcast of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm here with John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center. I'm Katie McCoy, |
| 0:39.5 | and we've got a lot to talk about. And for starters, John and I have been world travelers. |
| 0:46.2 | John, where have you been? Well, our listeners know, I've kind of spent some time in South Korea |
| 0:50.2 | over the last couple weeks. I'm back. I am almost over jet lag. That's nothing new. And you've |
| 0:56.4 | been in a different part of the world, Brazil. Brazil. And it was absolutely amazing. It was their summer. |
| 1:04.2 | So I was there in the middle of January. And it was hot, hot. And I don't know if it's because we were |
| 1:09.9 | just so near the equator. |
| 1:11.9 | But 82 in Georgia or Texas, where I lived for a long time, that's actually kind of a nice day. |
| 1:19.3 | 82 in Brazil is like hydrate or die. |
| 1:23.1 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:23.4 | It was rough. |
| 1:24.5 | Yeah, it was not that warm in Seoul. |
| 1:27.3 | But, you know, one of the things we were talking about offline, which I thought was really |
| 1:31.1 | interesting, and I wanted to chat about this, is first of all, the kind of things that America |
| 1:38.0 | exports around the world, when we talk about culture, when we talk about faith, when we talk |
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