What got a break point?

Daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

In the words of 19th century Scottish minister and author George McDonald, to be right with

God is to be right with the universe, one with the power, the love, the will of the mighty

father, the cherisher of joy, the Lord of laughter, whose are all glories, all hopes, who

loves everything and hates nothing but selfishness.

God's love and care for his world is something that poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning called

Earth Crammed with Heaven, and it's the theme of this year's Colson National Conference,

May 19th through the 21st in Indianapolis.

The worldview intensive part of the conference will be taught by Dr. Justin Bailey, professor

of theology at Dore University, an author of several important books describing a theology

of culture.

Here's Dr. Bailey from a recent break point interview.

I have a really strong conviction that grace is a post to sin, not to nature, not to creation,

or not to culture as such, and that grace comes to renew those things.

As soon as the thing that must be replaced, but culture doesn't need to be replaced.

You know, in the same way that I didn't need to give up my Filipino heritage when I came

to Jesus.

If anything, Jesus fulfilled and completed and pointed me in new directions, but it didn't

mean that everything needed to be replaced with that remainder.

I wrote a piece a while back when Kobe Bryant died, sort of reflecting on what we were

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