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The Point by Colson Center

May 31, 2021

It's good to remember. If we don't, we risk our character.

G. K. Chesterton said that gratitude is the queen of the virtues. Today of all days we should remember this. Realizing we owe a debt to those who sacrificed for our good encourages us to live for the good of future generations ourselves.

In his classic book,...


May 28, 2021

At the recent Wilberforce Weekend, Dr. Ryan Anderson offered a succinct but sound statement about the Christian view of the body:

"No one is born in the wrong body, because you are not 'in' a body. You are a body."

Interestingly, when a colleague tweeted out this line, it was met with astonishment and opposition in the...


May 27, 2021

In a recent radio interview, atheist Richard Dawkins was asked about a tweet in which he suggested that pregnant women should abort babies with Down syndrome in order to decrease the world’s suffering.

Even using his utilitarian calculus, which determines moral value and worth based on a thing’s usefulness, Dawkins...


May 26, 2021

Last week, Shopify Ceo Tobias Lutke sent an email to all of his employees to draw clear lines between work and family. He discouraged the notion that Shopify functions as a family. He wrote, “Shopify, like any other for-profit company, he wrote, is not a family. The very idea is preposterous ... The dangers...


May 25, 2021

According to Britain’s The Daily Mail, a Cambridge University chaplain recently found himself in an accidental religious service. It was supposed to be a lecture on bullying and diversity, but instead the speaker led the staff in loudly chanting, “Smash heteronormativity!”

According to the article, the event was...