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Breakpoint

The Supreme Court, Jack Phillips, and Juneteenth Commemorations - BreakPoint This Week

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

John and Maria explain the significance of to important court cases that were decided this week. One case involving Jack Phillips challenges religious freedom in the public life. The other is a protection of the freedom of non-profit organizations to conduct businesses guided by religious convictions.

Maria introduced a segment on Juneteenth, a recently minted holiday by the Biden administration that helps us recognize the challenges Americans faced at the hands of slavery.

John then gives commentary on a recent canceling of a Nigerian author who recently referred to a trans-woman as a trans-woman.

Transcript

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

0:04.7

Christian worldview. Today we're going to be talking about some court decisions that were handed down

0:09.2

this week, including at the Supreme Court, where the court decided to allow Catholic Social

0:14.3

Services in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to continue to operate according to its religious convictions.

0:19.6

We're also going to talk about the concept of bodily

0:21.9

autonomy in practicing medicine and how some doctors are changing their tune in terms of the

0:27.7

ethics of their work. We're looking forward to our time together today. Thanks for joining us.

0:34.0

Welcome to Breakpoint this week. We're talking about the top news stories of the week from a Christian worldview. I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. John, we have a lot to talk about today. Some political stuff, some cultural stuff, some worldview stuff. But what I'm really interested in is, how are you?

0:56.0

Is that what you're really interested in?

0:57.5

John, just open up, man.

0:59.6

So have you seen those commercials about, you know, like people going out again and they forget

1:04.9

their shoes or they smudge, whatever?

1:08.0

Like, so I'm back in like a travel routine, doing a lot of speaking events, and I feel like

1:13.4

that.

1:14.1

Like, I woke up.

1:15.4

My neck is all, you know, crooked.

1:18.1

And, like, I get this, like, this, this, you know, cramp in my neck for two days.

1:23.2

I'm just, because I'm not just traveling.

1:25.5

Like, I'm back to that.

1:26.4

Like, I'm in and out so I can get home.

1:28.6

This week's my middle daughter's birthday.

1:30.8

So, you know, I hit two states in two days and, you know, three different events in two days.

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