Why "Evangelicals and Catholics Together", Praying for Enemies, and China's Worldview - BreakPoint Q&A
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🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
John explains the reason the Colson Center is involved in the group Evangelicals and Catholics Together. A listener asks what the group does and what recent developments have come out of the organization.
Shane pushes John to answer a question from a listener he knows about praying for one's enemies.
And to start the show John outlines the challenges present in China's worldview after a listener asks for clarity on a video he shows to his students.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to the Breakpoint podcast. In our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Shane Morris, host of the upstream podcast and one of the writers for Breakpoint. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm joined today by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the host of Breakpoint. |
| 0:14.9 | And we're answering your questions. These were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, short courses, |
| 0:19.5 | articles and columns, and the Colson Fellows Program. |
| 0:21.9 | If you'd like to send us a question of your own, all you've got to do is email us at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. |
| 0:29.1 | John, we're going to start out talking about a couple of questions that have to do with foreign affairs, as it were, and neither is actually about Russia or Ukraine, surprisingly. The first is from someone |
| 0:39.2 | who has observed this sort of difference in the quote-unquote Chinese worldview and is very |
| 0:48.1 | shocked by it. And wants a kind of summary of what that worldview consists of and why there |
| 0:53.7 | are some barriers there when it comes to talking about, especially Christian faith. |
| 0:58.1 | This person asks, I'm a middle school science teacher, and I often show my students a one-half-hour CBS news video on human genetic engineering in China. |
| 1:07.2 | For me, the part of the documentary that grabs my attention is when the CBS guy asks the |
| 1:11.7 | Chinese scientist if he is playing God, and the scientist has no clue what he means. Talk about |
| 1:18.4 | different worldviews. I've begun to point that out to my students, that we, Christian or not, |
| 1:23.1 | have a Christian worldview where we value the individual and see it as wrong to take the creator |
| 1:27.7 | role and manipulate human DNA. China does not have that worldview. My question to you is, |
| 1:33.7 | what should I call the Chinese worldview? And how can I describe it succinctly to my students? |
| 1:39.3 | What a great question. How to describe worldview to students? That's always going to be a big hit |
| 1:43.5 | here at the Colson Center to ask that sort of thing, |
| 1:46.0 | both given our belief that worldview is a wonderful paradigm to teach students |
| 1:52.0 | and also a great way to talk about the differences in faiths and cultures as well as the, you know, |
| 2:00.0 | how much we love educators. So much so here. I wanted to begin, |
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