Watergate's 50th Anniversary, The Story of a Missionary in Nigeria, Our God-Shaped Hole- Breakpoint This Week
Breakpoint
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🗓️ 17 June 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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John and Maria discuss the 50th anniversary of the break-in at Watergate. Although Watergate marks the decline of American trust in political institutions— something we're seeing in the January 6 hearings, John points out that Watergate's best legacy was the redemption of Chuck Colson.
After Maria shares an inspirational story on Mary Slessor, a missionary in Nigeria, they continue their conversation from last week on why uncarefully parsing first-order and second-order doctrines can be risky. They end by talking about our God-shaped hole for meaning to the point that even an elephant recently had to be declared not a person.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:06.0 | Today we're going to talk about the 50th anniversary of the break-in at the Watergate Hotel. |
| 0:10.8 | We're also going to talk about the hearings about the January 6th ride at the Capitol, and we're going to talk about a little-known missionary who changed the world from her work in Nigeria. We have a lot to talk about |
| 0:22.6 | today. Thanks so much for joining us. Let's get to it. Welcome to Breakpoint this week from the |
| 0:28.5 | Colson Center for Christian Worldview. I'm Maria Baer alongside John Stone Street, president of the |
| 0:33.3 | Colson Center. John, we wanted to start this week with something that happened before I was born. |
| 0:39.1 | And believe it or not, I think before you were born. |
| 0:42.6 | It did. It did. I am not 50 years old. |
| 0:45.7 | It's been 50 years since the break-in at the Watergate Hotel. And we are members of the Colson |
| 0:52.7 | Center for Christian World View. And Chuck Colson obviously had a part to play in that scandal. |
| 0:59.0 | I think you and I both felt like this was an interesting time to talk about it, not just for the anniversary, but also because people in the media and elsewhere, understandably, are making a lot of connections between that situation and these January 6th hearings |
| 1:12.8 | that are going on this week. So I have to confess something. When I went back and was reading some of, |
| 1:19.9 | I think the Washington Post was the paper that broke the story of the Watergate break-in all those |
| 1:24.8 | years ago. And they have like a whole page now that is, |
| 1:28.0 | you know, the 50th anniversary and they're talking to Bob Woodward and, you know, going back |
| 1:32.3 | over the events of that time and what was going on. Obviously, it was a big deal and it was |
| 1:39.0 | illegal and unfortunate and a bad situation. At the same time, I think this is a mark of our time that I'm reading about the story. |
| 1:49.0 | And part of me is going like, oh, is that it? |
| 1:52.7 | Like, oh, they were, they were spying. |
| 1:54.3 | I mean, spying took a lot more legwork than it does today because you can hack into people's computers and whatnot. But I'm sort of like, |
| 2:02.5 | oh, they were trying to figure out what their opponents were saying. Like, yeah, isn't that kind of |
| 2:06.5 | what everybody does? I mean, I was underwhelmed by it given the way that it's treated. At the same time, |
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