The Atlanta Shootings, Competing Narratives, and the Blame Game - BreakPoint This Week
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
John Stonestreet and Maria Baer discuss the top events impacting culture this week.
They highlight the recent, horrible shootings in Atlanta and dig into the various narratives by people making sense of the situation, including those which blame evangelicals.
Maria then comments on the border crisis, pointing to the humanitarian concerns specifically impacting young people. John and Maria offer a Christian perspective to support both children and parents as the crisis is likely to grow in the coming weeks. Finally, Maria shares her gratitude for a number of virtues that make the United States a blessed place to live, while John alludes to line from Chuck Colson to guide our attention as we understand the privilege of living in America.
To close, Maria introduces a story on a new "Zionist Congress" being established by young Jews who are facing persecution. John and Maria both comment on the spiritual component of racism that is impacting our country.
Finally, John highlights the inspirational story that led Dick Hoyt to run marathons over the course of four decades with his son. Dick passed away this week at eighty-years-old. Maria shares a family tradition of honoring Passover with a recommendation for audience members to participate in a Seder meal.
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Resources
Join us at the 2021 Wilberforce Weekend, May 21-23!
"Curating Beauty," the Strong Women Podcast with guest Ashley Marsh
"Anti-Semitism: The Oldest Hatred," by John Stonestreet and Maria Baer, BreakPoint
"A New Zionist Congress Is Born," by Blake Flayton, Tablet
"Strongest Dad in the World," by Rick Reilley, Sports Illustrated
A Passover explainer and recipes: https://mjaa.org/passover/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:11.8 | Well, welcome to Breakpoint This Week on behalf of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. I'm Maria Bear alongside John Stone Street. |
| 0:20.1 | Breakpoint this week is a weekly show where we talk about the big news stories of the week from a Christian worldview perspective. |
| 0:26.9 | You'll be able to find links to the stories we're talking about today, as well as resources and other really great material at breakpoint.org. |
| 0:35.5 | Well, John, before we get into the major news stories, I have to tell you |
| 0:38.6 | something. You were in my head this week because I went to Chipotle. So I don't know what's happening. |
| 0:45.9 | I was in your head because you went to Chipotle. Hopefully there's more data. Hopefully there's |
| 0:50.1 | more data that's going to come in here. Okay. There's more data. Let me tease this out. |
| 0:54.1 | So I don't know what's going on with Chipotle, but the pandemic has hit Chipotle hard. |
| 0:58.5 | And every time I go to the one by my house, there's like a whole new staff. |
| 1:03.5 | Nobody is trained. Nobody knows what to do. It takes forever. |
| 1:06.9 | Everyone's running around like crazy. It's always a mess. |
| 1:10.0 | And I think I'm developing a beef with |
| 1:12.2 | Chipotle that sort of almost rivals your beef with the American Patriots over at the Transportation |
| 1:19.0 | and Security Administration. But I don't know if it's quite reached that level yet, but I'm |
| 1:23.7 | really frustrated with Chipotle. So this is actually there's something there that deeply bothers me in your comparison. |
| 1:30.8 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:31.2 | Here's what it is. |
| 1:31.9 | Yes, I'm ready. |
| 1:32.4 | You're equating inconvenience with direct violations of the Constitution, human dignity, and human rights. |
| 1:40.3 | But have you ever been really hungry and, like, waiting for your food? |
| 1:44.0 | Yeah, I don't think we can... I think what everything that you have just explained is the like |
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