New from the Colson Center! Interested in the What Would You Say? video project? Subscribe to be notified when new videos are released at whatwouldyousay.org/subscribe. Watch the latest release and explore the full on-demand library! ____ Following the lead of the province of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick became the second jurisdiction in Canada to adopt a policy of "presumed consent" for organ and tissue donation. Instead of willingly opting in to be an organ donor, residents 19 years and older, w...
Jul 07, 2023•6 min
One of the great and mostly unsung heroes of medicine was Cicely Saunders, the British nurse and social worker who effectively invented palliative care as we know it . A fierce opponent of euthanasia, she was convinced that easing suffering encompassed looking after the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of a patient. She worked tirelessly against outdated methods of pain management, including the idea that existing pain medication should wear off before more is administered. For her effor...
Jul 06, 2023•1 min
New from the Colson Center! Interested in the What Would You Say? video project? Subscribe to be notified when new videos are released at whatwouldyousay.org/subscribe. Watch the latest release and explore the full on-demand library! ___ Dr. Dacher Keltner, a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, released a book earlier this year with a bombshell piece of advice: Go outside! Recently, Dr. Keltner spoke to The New York Time s about the book, entitled Awe: The New Science...
Jul 06, 2023•5 min
On this special edition of Breakpoint , John Stonestreet interviews Paul Fitzpatrick, President of 1792 Exchange. They discuss freedom of religion and enterprise and moving "woke" corporations back to neutral. For more resources on how to live like a Christian in this cultural moment, visit https://breakpoint.org/ . _ 1792 Exchange is a non-profit organization whose mission is to develop policy and resources to protect and equip non-profits, small businesses and philanthropy from "woke" corporat...
Jul 05, 2023•35 min
A Harvard Business Review article once advised: "Forget PowerPoint and statistics, to involve people at the deepest level you need to tell stories." Those hoping to defend innocent life should take note. A few weeks ago, a powerful story went viral on social media . A young father holding his infant daughter posted a confession, "God please forgive me: see the beautiful soul I wanted to abort." Of course, there are millions who have gone forward with that terrible choice and who know the full re...
Jul 05, 2023•1 min
New from the Colson Center! Interested in the What Would You Say? video project? Subscribe to be notified when new videos are released at whatwouldyousay.org/subscribe. Watch the latest release and explore the full on-demand library! __ In 1792, a group of New York bankers gathered by a famous tree on Wall Street and signed the landmark " Buttonwood Agreement ." Against a backdrop of speculation and deceit, the document signaled a return to openness, fair dealing, and integrity among New York's ...
Jul 05, 2023•5 min
Can a Christian be patriotic? Years ago on Breakpoint, Chuck Colson pointed out how Americans used to openly embrace the Christian traditions and values that shaped our Republic. In that culture, it was easy for a Christian to be a patriot. Perhaps too easy. Vibrant, biblical faith could degenerate into a civil religion where the country's wellbeing and the expansion of God's Kingdom were synonymous. But today, many Americans have rejected the religious values that informed our society. Where al...
Jul 04, 2023•1 min
New from the Colson Center! Interested in the What Would You Say? video project? Subscribe to be notified when new videos are released at whatwouldyousay.org/subscribe. Watch the latest release and explore the full on-demand library! -- The year before he died, Chuck Colson delivered a Breakpoint commentary on the July Fourth holiday in which he reflected on our national identity. Specifically, he recognized that the only way to ground the ideals found in the Declaration of Independence, "that a...
Jul 04, 2023•4 min
This June, the 2023 Special Olympics World Games were held in Berlin, Germany . Some 7,000 athletes from 170 countries took part in the annual celebration of people with disabilities, people often dehumanized and marginalized. The Special Olympics were founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver , sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. She was inspired by her sister Rosemary , who lived with intellectual disabilities her entire life. Shriver started the first special Olympics in 1962 as a summer camp i...
Jul 03, 2023•1 min
New from the Colson Center! Interested in the What Would You Say? video project? Subscribe to be notified when new videos are released at whatwouldyousay.org/subscribe. Watch the latest release and explore the full on-demand library! _ On Friday, the Supreme Court delivered a smashing victory for free speech. Lorie Smith is the founder of 303 Creative, a graphic design company that, among other services, creates custom websites for weddings. Concerned that a Colorado law would force her to desig...
Jul 03, 2023•5 min
John Stonestreet takes a first look at the new decision from the U.S. Supreme Court siding with 303 Creative in Colorado. The mainstream media says Christians and Muslims are competing for followers in Africa. — Recommendations — What Would You Say?: Is the Bible Still Relevant? To Be a Woman: The Confusion Over Female Identity and How Christians Can Respond by Dr. Katie J McCoy Section 1 - 303 Creative SCOTUS Ruling 303 Creative v. Elenis Section 2 - The Competition for Believers in Africa is T...
Jun 30, 2023•57 min
For a moment last week, Russia seemed headed for a coup or even civil war . After months of complaining about mistreatment by Moscow, the Wagner mercenary group marched on the capital. Then came dueling speeches by Wagner's leader and Russia's president, elites fleeing en masse, and an armored column outside the city. Then suddenly, it stopped. Each side stood down. Even now, days later, it is not clear what exactly happened or what will happen next. The whole bizarre scene offers important less...
Jun 30, 2023•1 min
Recently, a school district near Salt Lake City, Utah removed the Bible from elementary and middle school libraries. Though it quickly reversed course and returned it to the library shelves, the original decision was made in response to a complaint that the Bible contains pornographic content, and that certain parts are too "violent or vulgar" for young children. Meanwhile, school districts across the country require LGBT content, much of it grossly explicit, in elementary school classrooms as w...
Jun 30, 2023•4 min
This week is the anniversary of two dark and pivotal cases in U.S. Supreme Court history. In June 2013, the high court ruled in United States v. Windsor that the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 violated Due Process. This essentially made the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges judgment, which redefined millennia of law on marriage, inevitable. Justice Anthony Kennedy unwittingly defined our chaotic age in the majority opinion for Obergefell when he declared , "The Constitution promises liberty to all with...
Jun 29, 2023•1 min
Few subjects seem less political than math. There is little room for subjective judgment because its truths are universal. No matter what you look like or where you're from or how you feel about it, two plus two will always equal four, and the area of a circle will always be π r². Math is so objective, in fact, some scientists have theorized that prime numbers could offer the basis of communication with supposed intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos. However, even if aliens know that math has...
Jun 29, 2023•5 min
Earlier this week, the pro-abortion group NARAL tweeted in tribute of the Supreme Court decision that mandated "same-sex marriage" on all of America: "Eight years ago, Obergefell v. Hodges recognized the right to same-sex marriage. But the fight to start or grow our families—however and whenever we want—continues." "Same-sex marriage" was sold with the claim that with birth control and abortion, modern marriage had been divorced from procreation in any meaningful sense. "Love is love," the line ...
Jun 28, 2023•1 min
Recently, the East African nation of Uganda passed a law that will increase criminal punishments for homosexual acts. Same-sex activity was already illegal in Uganda, as it is in several other African nations, and Ugandans convicted under the law already faced life in prison. Under this new law, people convicted of attempting to engage in homosexual behavior could face 10 years behind bars. Those convicted of "aggravated homosexuality," defined as sexual abuse of a child or knowingly spreading H...
Jun 28, 2023•6 min
Recently, Illinois lawmakers voted to withhold funding from public libraries if they removed sexually explicit books, and officials in Virginia voted to withhold funding for libraries until they dealt with the sexually explicit books in the kids' and teens' sections. Amid the library wars, new graduate of the Colson Fellows program Ashley Borrego decided to give her neighborhood a better kind of library. This fall, the Cornerstone Living Library will open inside Cornerstone Bible Church in Lilbu...
Jun 27, 2023•1 min
What does music mean? Most people today, without realizing it or giving much of a second thought, think of music and art along the lines of 18th-century philosopher David Hume , who wrote: Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible of beauty. Beauty, in other words, is in the eye of the beholder, and nothing more. Therefore, Hume cont...
Jun 27, 2023•5 min
In a fumbled attempt to be more "inclusive" during "pride month," Johns Hopkins University announced updates to its glossary of LGBT terms. Particularly controversial was a new definition of "lesbian," as a "non-man attracted to non-men ." The definition, avoiding the term "woman" altogether and centering on "men," appalled even members of the queer community. One lesbian called it "progressive misogyny." It's another example of transgender ideology leading to the erasure of women. However, L, G...
Jun 26, 2023•1 min
According to political scientist Ryan Burge , the group of people in American society most likely to be highly engaged in political action are not evangelicals, as we've been led to believe. They are in fact atheists. "Let me put it plainly," Burge wrote, "atheists are the most politically active group in American politics today, and the Democrats (and some Republicans) ignore them at their own peril." In a slew of indicators—from actions as simple as putting up a yard sign, to the more proactiv...
Jun 26, 2023•5 min
The Colson Fellows program is a lasting legacy of Chuck Colson following God's voice. It's been one year since the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v Wade . What's the result? — Recommendations — Colson Center National Conference Online Megan Phelps-Roper on Armchair Expert Section 1 - Chuck Colson's Legacy "Christianity Does Not Stop With Salvation: That's Only the Beginning …" Breakpoint Section 2 - The One-Year Anniversary of Dobbs "Fewer Abortions Post- Dobbs " Breakpoint Section 3 - Arche...
Jun 23, 2023•49 min
According to the British paper The Guardian , a U.K. woman recently pled guilty to taking an abortion pill later than the 10-week limit allowed by law. She lied to online doctors, claiming to be less than 10 weeks along when she really thought she was more like 28 weeks. It turns out she was wrong about that too. In fact, she was close to 32 weeks pregnant, nearly full term, and had searched online for the legal consequences of seeking late-term abortion. As we approach the first anniversary of ...
Jun 23, 2023•1 min
A year ago, after 49 years of Roe v. Wad e straitjacketing legislatures and courts into a draconian pro-abortion regime, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the infamous 1973 ruling . In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health the court returned power to the states to determine abortion policy. Pro-life groups have rightly celebrated this fruit of decades of labor, encouraged that their efforts were not in vain. They can also be confident that their work to serve mothers and children will no longer be ham...
Jun 23, 2023•5 min
Recently, a high school graduate from South Carolina, Lydia Owens , shared her testimony in her graduation speech. She encouraged her classmates that no matter their accomplishments or failures, their value comes from being made in the image of God. Lydia described losing her mom, who had been her greatest inspiration, just two years earlier. "When everything else in my life felt uncertain, the only person that I could depend on to stay the same was Jesus," Lydia said. Lydia told her classmates ...
Jun 22, 2023•1 min
Sir Isaac Newton, in a letter written in 1675 to fellow scientist Robert Hooke, wrote, " If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants ." Chuck Colson was one of those giants for many of us, and it is our privilege to steward his legacy at the Colson Center. In fact, Chuck believed that his most important legacy, more than any of the organizations he founded or the many books he authored, would be people. That's why he started what he called the Centurions Program, somethi...
Jun 22, 2023•5 min
Just in time for "pride" month, the Associated Press (AP) joined the ranks of activist organizations telling Americans to embrace transgenderism. Recent updates to AP's style guide insist that reporters use individuals' "preferred" pronouns, avoid terms like "biological sex" and "both sexes," call sex "assigned at birth," and refer to controversial surgical and chemical "transition" interventions as "gender-affirming care." The AP justifies the new rules, claiming to follow the science. However,...
Jun 21, 2023•1 min
New from the Colson Center! Interested in the What Would You Say? video project? Subscribe to be notified when new videos are released at whatwouldyousay.org/subscribe. Watch the latest release and explore the full on-demand library! _______ While activists in the U.S. seek to eliminate any restrictions to so-called "gender-affirming" interventions for minors, a number of European countries are adding safeguards around or backing off altogether from these controversial procedures. Following Euro...
Jun 21, 2023•5 min
Last year, after a gunman opened fire in a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, killing five and injuring 19, vandals graffitied the property of Focus on the Family, accusing them of being responsible for the horrific crime. The shooting was actually carried out by someone who identified as LGBT and had visited the nightclub with his mom. A few days later, on the steps of the Supreme Court, members of the Christian legal advocacy group, Alliance Defending Freedom, were met by protestors who called...
Jun 20, 2023•1 min
New evidence, reports Nathan Steinmeyer of the Biblical Archaeology Society , is confirming the biblical description of the kingdom of Judah as it existed in King David's time. This is significant, according to Steinmeyer, because "[d]espite King David's prominence in the Hebrew Bible, little archaeological evidence has been directly linked to the early years of the Kingdom of Judah." Because of this apparent discrepancy between the archeological record and the biblical description of the region...
Jun 20, 2023•5 min
