I break point this week listeners this is Casey Leander I'm a contributor with the Colson Center for Christian World View and I'm currently sitting in from Maria Bear who is on leave but welcome to break point this week as always we're talking about the top stories from the week from a Christian world.

Today we're going to cover the state of the pro-life movement as we approach yet another march for life we're going to highlight a story out of Greenland where in the 1960s and 70s doctors inserted contraceptive devices into several thousand local women without their knowledge or consent and we're going to talk about exciting archaeological discoveries from the pool of silo and so many other stories. I'm really looking forward to our time together today. Thank you so much for joining us.

All right welcome to break point this week for the Colson Center for Christian World View I'm here with John Stouns Street president of the Colson Center for Christian World View and the host of break point John good morning to you.

Good morning astute listeners will quickly notice that you don't sound much like Maria and not much like Shane Morris either that's true a banner first performance here for you on this epic podcast weekly podcast so I think Casey got to take a second and tell people a little about yourself.

Yeah absolutely my name's Casey Leander been with the Colson Center for about a year and a half now John is that right I think that's about right.

Oh it seems it seems like just yesterday I'm glad I'm glad that it hasn't seemed like a million years and a long slog to have me on board but I'm coming to you live from Chanuga Tennessee where my wife and I work at a Christian college well she works at a Christian college I just live at one.

Yeah that's a little bit about me John I feel a little bit like a minor league baseball player who got tapped for the big game.

You know at the 11th hour and is now sitting in the dugout so if you want to know what's going through my head that's what it is this is really a great singer songwriter named David Wilcox who hails out of Asheville North Carolina.

I was introduced to him while I was in the Chetanuga area as a college student at a nearby school people don't understand that the whole Chetanuga area represents there's Christian colleges that represent every single denomination possible and they all like war and fight on the you know the sports fields in a halfway competent manner but the singer songwriter David Wilcox a fascinating guy he wrote this song about start with the ending is really about breaking up and that you know once you break up with a girl.

Then that's when you're honest right so you should start with a breakup then it would get all the messiness out of the way and he often tells the story about how you start at work you know what if you started working that way where you know your first day you got the you know you got the gold watch in the corner office and then you you know you wanted to be more with the people as you got more and more mature and then finally the pinnacle of your career would be at a summer camp.

So you're kind of doing that right the pinnacle of your career being right at the very beginning living on a Christian college campus you know just with the people and you know this kind of deep ministry that you guys are a part of so that's what I think of when I think of your life listen if my career ends up with me working out a summer camp as long as it's some

administration is I'm going to be happy because to this day john one of my favorite jobs I've ever had you know and I know you're my boss so it's weird to say this but was washing dishes at summit it was a party it was just a party back there and I'll even at that it was so much fun you just got went on the record saying that your best job ever was washing this is dishes not working for us so I just know that that's going in your employment file it's been an amazing first and last break point this week with you John thank you for having.

Yeah let's get into our stories the first thing that we want to talk about is the upcoming March for life it's coming a week from Saturday I believe so really soon January 20th in Washington DC and John this is the 50th annual March for life I didn't realize that before I started researching for this segment that we've done 50 marches for life and you've been to several of those is that right.

Yeah I think that's one of the reasons to talk about it there's always an opportunity because this is such a big big event to kind of take stock of the pro life movement and I think in particular given the events of last year what a consequential year for the life movement many you know people kind of see it as a sort of combination of these 50 years of work and and yet as we recognize many many many times it's not the combination as in the you know the end.

It's the combination of a stage of the pro life movement and off we go for what's going to be probably far longer than 50 years because what the Supreme Court decision did the dobs decision was overturned this kind of flat out presumed national federal right of abortion something that really made any sort of restrictions on abortion almost done on arrival when they came and you know of course the.

Logic of roe led to the logic of Casey and trust man putting logic and pretty big scare quotes there because there wasn't much logic certainly not much kind of deep sourcing from the Constitution and you know one one of the things that I have seen at various marches for life and it's such an impressive thing you know it's there people from various backgrounds it is a racially diverse age diverse certainly gender diverse although.

We know by that we mean to you know event there on the national mall it's absolutely enormous it dwarfs so many other causes and marches that get far more coverage from national media and so there's this idea of just faithfully showing up and for so many people it's such an inspirational thing an orient the rest of their year around this cause that they're going to take really really seriously but I you know I remember first time I took one of my daughters to the march for life and I

was the closing years under president Obama there was a real sense at that point that there was going to be another four years of a pro abortion administration there was a snow storm that was bearing down that would eventually bring two feet of snow my daughter and I got out on literally the last flight that left

it was a I don't want to say dark it wasn't dark in the sense that you know people were without hope are ready to give up but there was a sense like you know this was going to be years and years and years and years long the political

wins change the prospects change and the energy the very next year was completely different part of it had to do with the sunshine instead of the two feet of snow.

I felt like that last year where this kind of roller coaster of emotions up and down which the pro lifers have had to endure because we had this enormous celebration and rightly so for the end of Roe v Wade and then we walk into four five state initiatives where okay the issue now is back in the hands of the state.

And the state initiatives completely went in a way that reflected that we're not as pro life as we hoped we were the work that we need to do now it's great that we got these kind of legal obstacles out of the way or this you know kind of a presumptive decision from the Supreme Court out of the way with the way the court turned in a much more pro life direction.

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