What is Replacement Theory, How to Make Abortion Unthinkable, and How to Engage Business - BreakPoint Q&A
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🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
John answers how a listener can respond and think well about the issue of replacement theory, something that has become a popular topic due to the recent shooting in Buffalo, New York.
John also gives perspective to how abortion became not only illegal, but also unthinkable. He answers which came first and how the abortion movement can replicate the trajectory of slavery becoming unthinkable in society.
To close, John answers a listener's question related to social movements inside the business community. He provides a path forward for Christians who find themselves in a changing landscape.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | My name is Wayne Stender, producer and product manager for Breakpoint. |
| 0:10.0 | Today we're conducting our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm joined today by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center, and the host of Breakpoint. |
| 0:20.0 | And today we'll be answering your |
| 0:21.6 | questions, questions that involve what replacement theory is and Christian nationalism. |
| 0:26.7 | We'll also be looking at the issue of abortion, making it not only illegal, but also |
| 0:31.4 | unthinkable, and how slavery followed the same pattern. To close, we're going to be discussing |
| 0:36.6 | how Christians should live in the marketplace of ideas, knowing that there's a movement inside of diversity, equity, and inclusion training to challenge our faith. These questions are sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, short courses, articles and columns that we've posted at breakpoint.org. If you'd like to send us any questions, |
| 0:56.4 | please send us an email at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. John, today I'm |
| 1:02.8 | stepping in for Shane because he's a new papa. He's joining the ranks of you have to count |
| 1:08.4 | kids on more than one hand almost. Yeah, he's on quite a run. |
| 1:12.6 | Congrats to Shane and to Gabby and to their beautiful family. |
| 1:15.6 | Their beautiful expanding family, and it's always exciting when a new little one's added to the world. |
| 1:20.6 | Yeah, so he gets to spend some special time at home with her, |
| 1:23.6 | and we get to work through some pretty challenging intense questions. And this first |
| 1:28.9 | one came up because of some things that have happened in our understanding of and trying to make |
| 1:33.9 | sense of what's happening in the world right now, specifically looking at the shootings that |
| 1:38.5 | happened a couple weeks ago. A listener writes in asking this question, can you help me understand |
| 1:43.9 | what replacement theory is? |
| 1:46.9 | It seems like it crept up on me as a major idea that is driving a lot of people right now. |
| 1:52.9 | We have friends who have been critiquing our church that I attend, this listener attends, as a haven for Christian nationalism. |
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