There are Pre-existing Conditions to This Cultural Moment - BreakPoint This Week
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
There are deaths from despair and acts of desperation that mark this cultural moment. Some are lacking peace and many are struggling to find hope from our cultural institutions and leaders. John Stonestreet invites Maria Baer to discuss the challenges we and our loved ones face currently. The two also identify how the Christian worldview offers great perspective and encompassing hope to participate in our modern world.
John and Maria also visit on the role of family and the challenges to thin society. Maria highlights that some might call a challenging person 'toxic'. In doing this many will avoid seeking restoration. John highlights how this thinking has flowed downstream and is greatly impacting how Christians live in church, culture, and even their own families.
To close John spends significant time discussing the persecution of Christians around the world. He notes Open Doors' World Watch List, an orderly explanation and ranking of persecution across the globe.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Colson Center Podcast Network. |
| 0:03.0 | 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 World View. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, welcome to Breakpoint this week. It's a weekly conversation on what's happening in the culture from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm John Stone Street, the president of the Colson Center, a host of Breakpoint. |
| 0:25.3 | Pleased to be joined here, not by Shane Morris, my typical partner in crime, but Maria |
| 0:30.7 | Baer, who's sat in before and has kind of becoming a kind of a common addition to Breakpoint |
| 0:36.5 | this week. Welcome back, Maria. |
| 0:38.0 | Hi, John. Thanks. I'm happy to be here. Well, listen, everywhere I've gone, everyone that I've |
| 0:42.5 | spoken to every interview that I've been on in the last week, it's kind of everyone has to |
| 0:46.0 | begin the same way. Like we thought 2020 was over and here we are in 2021. We spent a lot of time |
| 0:51.6 | last week talking about what happened at the Capitol. |
| 0:54.7 | Certainly heard from a lot of our listeners about that. |
| 0:58.2 | We continue to talk about that. |
| 1:00.7 | But the story continues. |
| 1:02.0 | The story continues in that the House of Representatives is voted now to impeach Donald Trump for the second time. |
| 1:08.9 | And as we head toward the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, |
| 1:14.4 | the United States, specifically Washington, D.C. is under a state of emergency. We have national |
| 1:19.3 | guard troops that have been deployed, not to another country around the world, not to a natural disaster, |
| 1:24.6 | but because of the threat of domestic violence and rioting and so on in the |
| 1:29.8 | nation's capital and the FBI has reported that there's credible reports or credible information |
| 1:36.4 | they have that suggests that violence is being planned or could be being planned in all 50 states |
| 1:42.3 | at the statehouse to protest these election results. |
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