Imagine what could happen if the church led the way in restoring what's broken.

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Shortly after completing the program, he worked with his church to launch his senior home,

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That's exactly why the Colson Center exists,

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Welcome to breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

In the Darwinian story, humans evolved by

winning the survival of the fittest contest between lower life forms. If that story's true,

then why do we find accounts of forgiveness so compelling? During the COVID pandemic, Dr. J.

Batacheria signed a declaration with other public health scientists, raising

concerns about the physical and mental health impacts of COVID lockdowns. Francis Collins was

the director of the National Institutes of Health at the time. In a since leaked email, he called

Baticharya a fringe epidemiologist who needed a quick and devastating published takedown of his declaration.

And that's exactly what happened.

A whole coalition of the powerful work to discredit Dr. Baticharia, his criticisms of Dr. Fauci's proclamations about natural immunity, mask efficacy,

school closures, and contact tracing were all called ludicrous and dangerous. In addition to all

the public humiliation, Baticharia received death threats. Now, five years later, Dr. Baticharia has not only

been proven right about the devastating consequences of COVID lockdowns, he was just appointed the new

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