Who was Chuck Colson, What's the "Violinist Argument", and Bridging the Gap in Public Schools - BreakPoint Q&A
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🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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John and Shane then provide some answers to how a public school parent can work to impact their community. A single-parent writes in asking how a parent can guide a student in the public arena noting the challenges in curriculum and ideology taught in public schools that oppose a Christian worldview.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. I'm Shane Morris, host of the upstream podcast and one of the writers for Breakpoint. I'm joined today by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the host of Breakpoint. And we're answering your questions. Today we're remembering Chuck Colson's vision for engaging the culture and answering listeners' questions about |
| 0:22.0 | alternatives to public education, plus the infamous violinist argument for abortion. |
| 0:28.1 | All of these questions were sparked by Breakpoint Commentary's short courses and the |
| 0:31.9 | Colson Fellows Program. If you've got a question, you'd like to hear us answer on the program, |
| 0:36.4 | all you need to do is email us. |
| 0:38.0 | The address is ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. John, the first question today goes |
| 0:43.9 | along with a conversation that we had in a staff meeting recently with a dear friend of |
| 0:48.9 | ours, Emily Colson, daughter of Chuck Colson. We talked a lot about what Chuck Colson's vision |
| 0:53.5 | for the Colson Center was, |
| 0:55.1 | what his mission and trajectory in life was, the calling that God had on him. And of course, |
| 1:00.1 | that transformation that this stage is kind of legendary, the story that's told in Born Again, |
| 1:05.1 | how God changed his life after Watergate and how Jesus Christ redeemed his whole purpose. |
| 1:10.2 | So this listener has a great question. |
| 1:12.6 | They asked, I really enjoyed all of the Eastern messages from Chuck Colson that you aired this |
| 1:17.2 | weekend. I've heard from many friends what a remarkable man Chuck was. I know you both worked |
| 1:22.1 | with him. Can you give me a picture of what he meant to you and what Chuck's vision is for the |
| 1:26.7 | Colson Center and how it's continuing |
| 1:28.4 | today. Yeah, absolutely. It's a great question. We enjoyed airing that Easter message. In fact, |
| 1:34.0 | this coming week on Breakpoint is the actual anniversary of his passing 10 years. On our |
| 1:40.6 | Breakpoint commentaries on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, we're going to highlight three different things. |
| 1:46.7 | The first on Wednesday will be one of the last projects he worked on. |
| 1:50.0 | And one of the first projects I had the privilege of working directly with him on, which is the doing the right thing series, which was a video curriculum that was produced. |
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