With a

look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

In a newly resurface clip from 2020 English philosopher A.C. Grayling claimed he could think of nothing

truly unique that Christianity gave the world.

But historian Tom Holland replied with what my colleague Shane Morris called one of his best mic drop moments.

In about 90 seconds, Holland rattled off a whole list that included lifelong marriage, concepts of sexuality that

protected women and children, the modern scientific project, the idea that humans

bear the image of God, the universality of ethics, and more. Holland put it this way, quote, essentially what I'm talking

about is what makes Western civilization distinctive. These are ideas that ended slavery,

expanded care for the poor, established democracy, educated the masses, and insisted that everyone's under the same law.

And the source of every one of these ideas is the centuries of Christian reflection on the truths

of the Bible.

In short, what has Christianity ever given the world?

Basically everything that matters the most.

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