What's the Difference Between Single and Same-Sex Parenting? - BreakPoint Q&A
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
John and Shane field a follow-up question they answered last week from a single woman considering adoption. The question last week asked if the listener should move forward with an adoption knowing that the child would not receive a fatherly influence in the adoption.
This week a listener wrote in to ask what the difference would be in a same-sex relationship where two parents of the same gender are unable to provide the mothering or fathering a child needs.
Another listener reflected on work and worship, challenged to understand how to form menial tasks into worshipful acts. She pushes John and Shane for greater clarity in understanding what makes mundane tasks a spiritual expression.
To open the Q&A time, Shane presents a question from a listener who is questioning if she is residing in a Christian echo chamber. She notes that she follows a number of Colson Center resources and finds herself deeply invested in understanding the world from a Christian perspective, but is slightly concerned that she might not be seeing the full picture in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center. I'm Shane Morris. I'm here with John Stone Street to answer your questions. All of these were sparked by breakpoint commentaries and podcasts we've aired as well as short courses and the Colson Fellows program. If you want to submit a question of your own, you can do that by emailing us at Ask the Colson Center |
| 0:21.6 | at colsoncenter.org. |
| 0:23.6 | John, over the last couple of weeks, our colleague Wayne Stender has been choosing some of the |
| 0:28.6 | questions we get here, and he just has a talent for them thematically linking them to |
| 0:34.6 | not only stuff that we're talking about at the Colson Center, other things we're doing, but linking them to each other in a way that sort of creates this coherent, you know, narrative over the course of the podcast. |
| 0:45.6 | At least that's way it looks to me. |
| 0:47.0 | It's his hidden gift. |
| 0:47.9 | I had no idea when we hired him. |
| 0:49.4 | He had such a gift of kind of stringing together forced narratives in such a way that make our show interesting. |
| 0:55.7 | But you're right, though. |
| 0:56.9 | He does do that. |
| 0:58.1 | And he connects it all together in remarkable ways. |
| 1:00.6 | Well, I love this first question we got. |
| 1:02.3 | And it links to several others we've had, as well as some of the interviews that I've done in |
| 1:06.8 | particular lately. |
| 1:08.4 | There's one that's coming out on upstream shortly about social media, and I talked |
| 1:12.5 | with Trevin Wax about the documentary, The Social Dilemma. |
| 1:16.4 | But this listener writes in several times over the course of several podcasts, the idea has |
| 1:21.6 | been expressed that we too easily can live in an echo chamber of ideas. |
| 1:26.5 | Let's be honest, my time is spent reading |
| 1:28.6 | from a specific curriculum and listening to Breakpoint |
| 1:30.9 | podcasts, Q&A's, weekly recaps, et cetera, |
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