Understanding Shootings in Buffalo and California, Body Shaming, and Russian Art
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
John and Maria unpack the web of the recent shootings in Buffalo, New York and California. Rather than rest on the narratives, John provides a helpful way to consider the landscape and the underlying ideas that many are glossing over.
Then, Maria asks John for perspective on some social media traffic around the recent Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition. Maria provides additional context to help us consider our culture's issue with objectifying women and how the church can provide a better way in this moment.
To close, Maria asks John for insight into a few Breakpoint commentaries from the week. John discusses how Russian art is important in this cultural moment, despite the call from some to cancel it in light of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. John also explains the scenario of a lesser known phenomenon in charitable giving that could impact Christians looking to support biblically-based organizations.
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| 0:00.0 | 10 people killed by a gunman with a heart full of hate. I knew several of the victims, three of them. |
| 0:10.0 | That was Buffalo, New York mayor, Byron Brown, in an interview following a mass shooting at a Topps grocery store this week. |
| 0:16.4 | We're going to discuss that situation, how we're talking about it in the media, and what it says about us as a culture. |
| 0:22.6 | We're also going to talk about the new cover of the Sports Illustrated SwimSuit edition, which has caused a dust up and a conversation about how we look at body image. |
| 0:30.6 | Jordan Peterson said, sorry, not beautiful, and no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that. |
| 0:36.6 | He doesn't have a lack of respect for women. |
| 0:38.5 | He has a lack of respect for this culture in this society that promotes obesity under the guise of body positivity and self-acceptance. |
| 0:45.3 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week from the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. |
| 0:48.8 | Stick around. |
| 0:50.8 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week. |
| 0:52.3 | From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street, the president of the Colson Center. |
| 0:58.2 | John, we are back home after the Wilberforce weekend, which was so fun and so much wonderful information, and I couldn't take notes quickly enough. |
| 1:07.9 | And it was so fun to meet so many people who listened to the show and to |
| 1:12.3 | meet so many Colson fellows who always, I have to admit, intimidate the heck out of me. Because |
| 1:18.1 | these are people who've spent like so much time and have read so many things that I'm sure |
| 1:24.6 | I haven't read and are so brilliant and dedicated. And I'm always |
| 1:29.2 | incredibly intimidated when I meet them. But this was a really special year. Was this the biggest |
| 1:33.4 | class of Colson Fellows that we've ever had? It was. It was the biggest class of Colson Fellows. |
| 1:37.6 | It was the most well-attended Wilberforce weekend. I thought the facility was really helpful and helping people connect. |
| 1:47.0 | We had, you know, more other ministries there on the ground with us than I think ever. |
| 1:52.5 | So a lot of those measures are really encouraging. By the way, you know, there's a way to solve |
| 1:57.6 | that intimidation problem that you just mentioned, you know. Are you going to tell me to become a Colson fellow? I mean, that would be one way to solve that intimidation problem that you just mentioned, you know. |
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