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About the Theme of the Week
Each week on Colson Center.org, BreakPoint Radio and BreakPoint.org, WorldviewChurch.org and other channels we publish a great deal of new content around a vital theme. The Two-Minute Warning, Chuck Colson's weekly video commentary, is often (but not always) the cornerstone of the weekly theme.

Theme of the Week - Culture Coming Unraveled

The United States has become increasingly divided in many ways, but no divide has affected more people or caused more damage than the divide in culture between middle to upper-class and working class Americans. As Charles Murray argues in his new book, Coming Apart, this divide is something new. Fishtown2Income, he says, once meant nothing when it came to culture and values. America's poor and wealthy alike saw marriage, children and faith in the same light. Now, all that has changed. This week on BreakPoint, Chuck Colson, John Stonestreet, T. M. Moore and others address the deterioration of working class American values and families, and propose solutions rooted in the Christian worldview.

"Whatever Happened to Fishtown?" asks Chuck Colson in this week's Two Minute Warning. Referencing the two-town parable in Charles Murray's book, Coming Apart, Chuck talks about how values, not economics, are at the heart of the widening gap between the two Americas.

"Things Fall Apart," says T. M. Moore in Wednesday's Talking Points. "We are becoming what Arthur Schlesinger referred to as a “disunited society” in more ways than one. Ethnic tensions are heating up, but so are conflicts of class, politics, sexual orientation, and economic interests. In many ways it seems the country no longer possesses and integrating core of values, ideals, traditions, and aspirations."

In Wednesday's BreakPoint Commentary, Chuck calls on Christians to admit a fundamental truth: personal values and economics are inextricably linked. This, he says, is at the root of the cultural divide.

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