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Challenges in the Buffalo Shooting Narratives

The Point by Colson Center ·

2022/05/23

Last Saturday, the country was left grappling with another reminder of human depravity. An 18-year-old gunman entered a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, killing 10 and injuring three more. The victims, who were predominantly black, included Heyward Patterson, a local church deacon; Pearl Young, a retired school teacher; and Aaron Salter, a retired police officer. Mass shootings are too familiar, but no less overwhelming: friends and family in agony, communities left to pick up the pieces,

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Abortion is Worldview Issue

The Point by Colson Center ·

2022/05/18

“Religion, not gender,” the Economist reports, “is the best predictor of views on abortion.” The editors write: Shocked by a draft Supreme Court opinion that would allow states to ban abortion…. some [activists] hope that women enraged by the loss of Roe v Wade will vote en masse for Democrats in November. But, they argue, that hope is misplaced. Whereas the gap between men and women on abortion restrictions is just 6%, religion—combined with race—accounts for a 65% difference. Among both men

01:01

The Opportunity for Christian Education

The Point by Colson Center ·

2021/09/28

According to the U.S. Department of Education, since the start of the pandemic, more than 1.5 million students have left traditional public schooling. Many parents are realizing, some for the first time, that students aren’t learning what their parents thought they were learning. As one former college professor noted, if you haven’t been in education in the past three years, it’s almost unrecognizable to what you experienced growing up. This has led to incredible growth in the number of home

01:12

Imaging God on Zoom

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2021/09/27

According to Wired magazine, “Eighteen months of using front-facing cameras has distorted our self-image.” It’s what health experts are calling “Zoom Dysmorphia.” We’re spending so much time looking at ourselves through cameras, it’s crushing our self-esteem. Doctors have seen this effect for a long time. Feelings of distress and self-focus rise when people spend too much time looking in the mirror, even people who don’t have a diagnosed body image problem. A safe conclusion is that as humans, we

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China Bans Video Games for Minors

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2021/09/24

Recently, Chinese authorities announced that minors can only play video games for three hours a week, and not on school days. Of course, this kind of thing would never happen in the West, for all kinds of reasons, not least of which is our worship of individual autonomy. We can’t even pass real restrictions on known dangers like violent pornography and Instagram. In a communist vision, on the other hand, individuals and their freedom are dispensable. After all, video games are really

01:01

Learning Loss From Covid-19

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2021/09/23

While some studies conclude that “students made little or no progress while learning from home,” the effects of school shutdowns vary depending on additional factors: socio-economic status, the type of distance learning, and especially the involvement of parents. Though it’s mostly bad news, there is a marked silver lining. For example, one teenager told the New York Times, “… Although living through COVID has been really hard … I am so incredibly lucky to say that I probably gained more than I

01:01

Marijuana Harms

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2021/09/22

According to Dr. Eric Voth in a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “There exists clear medical evidence of increased psychiatric difficulties with marijuana use, including violence, psychosis, schizophrenia, manic episodes, worsening depression and suicide.” These effects are particularly harmful for youth. Of course, when it comes to public policy, the cat is largely out of the bag, and probably isn’t going back in. One thing, however, is becoming more and more clear with each study,

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Jeff Bezos and the Quest for Immortality

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2021/09/21

The world’s richest person, Jeff Bezos, is reportedly spending a lot of money on immortality. According to MIT’s Technology Review, the Amazon founder has invested heavily in experimental genetic research to reverse the process of aging. It’s just a new twist on an old story. Sixteenth-century conquistadors sought the fountain of youth. For Indiana Jones, it was the Holy Grail. For 21st century tech gurus, it’s the science of epigenetics, driven by a worldview of transhumanism. People have always

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Love Thy 15-Minute Neighborhood

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2021/09/20

For years, urban innovators have dreamt of “15-minute neighborhoods,” where people have everything they need within a short walk. The pandemic is making the employment side of that possible for many. In Britain, for example, 24 percent of workers say they want to work from home permanently. One of the things that makes the 15-minute neighborhood concept so appealing to many is that many people feel a lack of neighbors. Although they do have neighbors, roughly one-in-four Americans under age 30 say

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The Immune System as a Worldview Strategy

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2021/09/17

Philipp Dettmer has an amazing YouTube video about the immune system, one of the most complex systems in the human body. The key to how this vast network of specialized cells survives infections is found in the antibodies: the proteins this system creates after the body has been attacked. In other words, immunity comes through challenge. That’s why it’s important that our immune systems get stronger, which involves being exposed to a wide range of attacks. The lesson for Christian parents is

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For God so Loved the Cosmos

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2021/09/16

When NASA astronaut Mike Massimino first looked at Earth from outer space, he asked, “How can something so beautiful be tolerated by human eyes?" We’ve been sending people past Earth’s atmosphere for just over 60 years now. Every single time, the reaction has been awe. Astronauts call this sensation the “overview effect.” Something within the human heart reacts to the beauty, size, and overall scope of Creation with a sense of awe. The fact that God made us to respond that way out to tell us

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Teens Are Developing TikTok Tics

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2021/09/15

Pediatricians in multiple countries are reporting skyrocketing numbers of young girls over the past year with facial or verbal tics similar to Tourette’s Syndrome. These patients have one thing in common: they spend a lot of time on social media. Neurologists in Canada have concluded these girls aren’t suffering from actual tics, but from “functional tic-like behaviors.” They aren’t faking it. This is what’s called a “mass sociogenic illness.” It’s a reverse-placebo effect. You watch someone with a

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What The Greeks Knew About the Unborn

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2021/09/14

The new heartbeat law in Texas forbids abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, when a fetal heartbeat is detectable. Opponents denounce the law as extreme and arbitrary, pointing out that some women don’t even know they’re pregnant by six weeks. But as Marvin Olasky writes at WORLD, the six-week boundary, while not protecting life from conception, does have very ancient roots. Hippocrates, the Greek physician whose followers gave us the Hippocratic oath, recognized six-week-old pre-born babies

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When Parents Aren't Enough

The Point by Colson Center ·

2021/09/13

According to a recent article in the Atlantic, a growing number of parents wish they’d never had kids. Citing surveys of parents from America, Germany, and Poland, the article points to various reasons for the regret, but Polish researcher Konrad Piotrowski says that the overriding cause is feelings of inadequacy. Or, as a researcher from Belgium put it, “They don’t want to be a parent, because they are not able to be the perfect parent.” Parenting on social media is one source of that pressure,

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Legged Whales Don't Stand Up

The Point by Colson Center ·

2021/09/10

When reading headlines about evolution, look for actual evidence, not just the interpretation of that evidence. Case-in-point: a recent BBC story proclaimed a discovery in Egypt of a so-called “whale with legs,” dated 43 million years old. Phiomicetus anubis is hailed as Africa’s first “legged whale,” and is similar to other so-called “legged whales” from Asia. As the story goes, these preceded fully-aquatic whales. What the article neglects to mention is that paleontologists commonly accept that

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Does Everyone Have a Sixth Sense?

The Point by Colson Center ·

2021/09/09

Researchers in Japan have discovered that humans can develop a “sixth sense.” Hooked to specialized audio receivers, blindfolded people were able to reliably determine whether objects were moving or stationary, even in a completely dark environment. How? By echolocation. You know, like bats. When deprived of input, the human brain adapts to interpret certain audio signals as visual input. If nothing else, this is pretty cool, and sheds light on how those who lose, or are born without, one sense

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Men Are Not Be Mothers

The Point by Colson Center ·

2021/09/08

Last week, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tweeted a picture of him and his partner lying in a hospital bed holding two newborns. “We are delighted to welcome Penelope Rose and Joseph August to our family,” he wrote. The picture is a metaphor. After all, neither of these men carried a child or went through labor and delivery. A woman did. They didn’t need a hospital bed. She did. But she’s missing… from the photo and the larger picture. As Katy Faust of Them Before Us observed, if created

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Eugenics is Alive and Well

The Point by Colson Center ·

2021/09/07

Last week, Richard Hanania, president of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology and contributor for Newsweek tweeted this: “If red states ban abortion we could see a world where they have five times as many children with Down Syndrome. [They] could be outliers in the whole developed world. There are already negative stereotypes of Americans in these states, one can imagine it getting much more extreme.” The implication is clear: we should abort children with Down Syndrome, lest our

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The God Who Labored

The Point by Colson Center ·

2021/09/06

I trust you’re having a good day off with friends and family. But before you fire up the grill one last time for the summer, please reflect with me on how Chuck Colson described the dignity of work. Years ago on BreakPoint, Chuck said that “Christians have a special reason to celebrate Labor Day, which honors the fundamental dignity of workers, because we worship a God Who labored to make the world, Who created human beings in His image to be workers. When God made Adam and Eve, He gave them work to

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US Paralympic Volleyball Team Points to Christ

The Point by Colson Center ·

2021/09/02

The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team has made it to the gold medal match in the past three Paralympics, winning their first-ever gold in 2016. In a recent interview with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, many members of Team USA pointed to Christ being at the center of their success. For example, Kaleo Kanahele Maclay, a setter for the team, said, “…my relationship with Jesus grounds me...I am praying that people can see God through me at the Games.” And middle blocker Nicky Nieves

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