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12.13.24 Culture Friday, a review of The War of the Rohirrim, and the restoration of Notre Dame
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John Stonestreet
Good morning. John Stonestreet here. As we close out this year, I want to remind you about World's Year end Giving Drive. If World's work has been a meaningful part of your year and your Christian faith, I hope you'll consider making a gift. To support this great organization, just visit wng.org yearendgift that's wng.org yearendGift We've got lots to cover on Culture Friday today, so I'll talk to you again in about 10 minutes.
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Myrna Brown
Good morning. Yeah, we do have lots to cover. Jordan Ealy, Daniel Penney, Brian Thompson, Luigi Mangione. Who are the heroes? Who are the villains?
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Nick Eicher
We'll talk about it on Culture Friday. Also today, the reopening of Notre Dame and later, a new animated movie based on two and a half pages of Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings. By her hand, many great deeds were done. But do not look for tales of.
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John Stonestreet
Her in the old songs.
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Nick Eicher
World Arts and Culture editor Colin Garbarino has a review. And the music of Advent.
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Myrna Brown
It's Friday, December 13th. This is the world and everything in it from listener supported World Radio. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Nick Eicher
And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning.
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Myrna Brown
Up next, Mark Mellinger with today's news.
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Mark Mellinger
The Biden administration says there is renewed momentum for a ceasefire and hostage deal to end the war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza. White House national security spokesman John Kirby says if you're Hamas right now, the options aren't good.
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John Stonestreet
Your military capabilities have been all but decimated. Your main leader is gone.
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Mark Mellinger
National security adviser Jake Sullivan was in Israel Thursday making a last push for an end to the fighting. He says ISRA Israel's ceasefire in Lebanon with Hamas ally Hezbollah has caused Hamas to adapt its negotiating posture. And he's hopeful the US can broker a ceasefire in Gaza before President elect Donald Trump takes office.
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Nick Eicher
I wouldn't be here today if I.
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Jordan Ealy
Thought this thing was just waiting till after January 20. I am here today because I believe.
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Nick Eicher
Every day matters and we are going.
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Jordan Ealy
To use every day. We have to try to close the.
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Nick Eicher
Deal as soon as we possibly can.
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Mark Mellinger
Up next, Sullivan meets with Qatar and Egypt, two key co mediators in the cease fire. Meanwhile, the fighting in Gaza is not letting up. An Israeli airstrike in the central Gaza Strip killed at least 25 Palestinians and wounded dozens more Thursday. An American citizen held hostage in Syria for seven months is now free. Travis Timmerman says he crossed into Syria on a Christian pilgrimage and was imprisoned by Bashar al Assad's government. But this week, the rebel group that toppled Assad's oppressive regime freed him. Here's Timmerman describing his release and elements of his captivity to a reporter.
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Jordan Ealy
I was imprisoned in a cell by myself, and in the early morning of this Monday or the Monday of this week, they took a hammer and they.
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John Stonestreet
Broke my door down. Did you hear the voices of torture for other Syrians in the prisons?
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Jordan Ealy
Yes, I could hear the interrogations.
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Mark Mellinger
The rebels say they'll hand Timmerman over to US Authorities once his recovery is complete. They also confirmed their sear searching for Austin Tice, an American journalist who went missing in Syria 12 years ago. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pressing for more information about those unexplained drone sightings over New Jersey. The Pentagon has dismissed claims by New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew that the drones originated from a small Iranian vessel off the East Coast. But whatever their origin, Senator Richard Blumenthal says it's time for answers and swift action.
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John Stonestreet
We have no idea where these drones come from, owns them. We should be doing some very urgent intelligence analysis and take them out of the skies, especially if they're flying over airports or military bases.
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Mark Mellinger
New Jersey State Representative Dawn Fantasia says the first sightings began back on November 18th. Since then, she says there have been four to 180 reports a day. But the White House says none of them have been confirmed. A new report is shedding more light on what happened during the January 6 Capitol attacks. The report from the Justice Department's inspector general finds there were no undercover FBI agents at the Capitol at the time of the riot, but there were 26 paid federal informants in Washington that day, three of whom were there on assignment from the FBI. Republican Congresswoman Kat Camack says she wants to know why. She told Fox Businesses the Evening edit with Elizabeth McDonald.
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Elizabeth Warren
When we have Donald J. Trump back in office, we will actually get the answers that the American people deserve. Of what exactly the FBI knew, what their directives were and who issued them.
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Mark Mellinger
Some of Trump's supporters have suggested federal agents provoked the violence that day, but critics say the report's findings cast doubt on those claims. New York City Mayor Eric Adams met with the incoming Trump administration's border czar Tom Homan, Thursday. While they didn't get into deep talks about the president elect's mass deportation plans, Adams says, we have the same desire to go after those who are committing violent acts, repeated violent acts, among innocent New Yorkers and among migrants and asylum seekers.
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Jordan Ealy
That's what I heard from him.
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Mark Mellinger
And I was pleased to hear that.
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John Stonestreet
Because we share the same desire.
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Mark Mellinger
Adams says he still needs more details to determine to what degree the New York Police Department will support federal deportation efforts. Like many major cities, New York has been battling problems caused by a large influx of illegal immigrants. Adams says whether the Big Apple remains a sanctuary city is up to the city council. I'm Mark Mellinger. Straight ahead, John Stonestreet is standing by for Culture Friday. Plus, Colin Garbarino reviews a new animated film set in Middle Earth. This Is the World and Everything in it.
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Nick Eicher
It's Friday, 13th December 2024. Glad to have you along for today's edition of the World and Everything In It. Good morning. I'm Nick Eich.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. It's time for Culture Friday. And joining us now is John Stonestreet, president of the Colson center and host of the Break Point podcast. Good morning, John.
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John Stonestreet
Good morning.
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Myrna Brown
Well, John, for the first time, Muhammad is the most popular name for baby boys in England and Wales, overtaking Noah and Oliver. That's according to the UK Newspaper the Guardian. This data from the Office for National Statistics did find the influence of pop culture shaped some naming trends, but Muhammad's popularity topped charts in four regions of England. So, John, is this development concerning, I mean, is this how civilizations die?
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John Stonestreet
Well, we've seen these kind of stories before, so it's not the first time, at least regionally, that this has popped up. But this is not just a story about the growth of Islam in the UK it's something that we continue to hear a lot about from various corners and have for a while. It's also about just the declining birth rate. In other words, these numbers of boys names would not be nearly as significant if the overall number of children born were not declining and had been in steep decline. You know, we don't have a single nation in what would be called the Western world that is meeting replacement rate and have not for quite some time. And some are so far behind the rate that it's questionable whether they'll ever be able to recover. And so, you know, as a good friend of mine likes to say, this ain't magic, it's math. You know, this is just where the future lies. The future lies with the fertile now. The other part of the story, of course, is that the secular west typically fails to consider the significance of religious conviction and religious belief. When you presume that religion is nothing but a personal, private fantasy, which is the kind of the dominant modern to postmodern narrative about religion, then it's hard to really reckon with A group of people who take their religion this seriously, including seriously enough to order life around, like having babies. It's not just the number of children born in the UK that have an Islamic name. It's the number of children born in Islamic countries as compared to Western countries. All of these factors play in. And secularism is an infertile religion. It is a religion that lives for the now, not for the future. A religious worldview, one particularly that takes the creation mandate seriously is one that prizes fertility and actually sees the building of a religious culture, not just a personal, private religion with some buildings you can go to when you want. What babies are named are not the root of the problem. They're the expression of the problem. And the lack of fertility being one, and the inability of secularists to take religion seriously being the other.
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Myrna Brown
Okay, Jordan, Neely, John. Sad, sad story. This young man, after his mother was murdered by her abusive boyfriend and her body stuffed in a suitcase, a teenage Neely had to testify in court on his mother's behalf. I mean, talk about trauma. He's placed into foster care as an orphan, and from there began a decline fueled by homelessness, mental health issues, and multiple arrests. Now, this does not excuse his actions, but where was Jordan's absentee father, Andre Zachary, when his son needed him? Well, we know where he is now. Filing a lawsuit against Daniel Penney, seeking a payday. So question, John. Why won't the same voices claiming Penny is racist say something about Neely's father? I mean, isn't that just part of enabling this culture of fatherlessness?
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John Stonestreet
Yeah, I mean, I think it's a great question. It's a question that a lot of people aren't willing to ask. And it's because the dominant mood of the left is one of critical theory, basically, that this has to be explained in racial terms. And it certainly doesn't explain the thing that's universal to the human experience, and that is that we're born with moms and dads and children, no matter what the race is of the child who have moms and dads in the home, overwhelmingly outperform on almost every measurable category, children who are subjected to being orphaned or fatherless. And look, the system itself failed after that. You know, this progressive idea that we don't actually address mental illness, we don't actually address antisocial behavior, we don't actually call it that. It just escalated over and over and finally, you know, reached this point. And this example, this story is an example that this inability is not just with individuals. It's on a societal level, it's tragic.
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Nick Eicher
You know, John, I wonder about the Daniel Penny side of this case. I wonder. I really do. Even though he was acquitted here, I wonder whether the message sent is, just don't get involved. It's too costly. Yeah, of course, the jury heard all the evidence. The jury acquitted him. But consider the cost that he bore and the risk of jail that he took. But to hear him tell the story, he restrained Neely because clearly there were people on the train feeling threatened. Penny had the training. He knew how to handle himself. But really, again, I wonder whether this ordeal and others like it changes the equation.
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John Stonestreet
Well, you know, I keep thinking of the biblical narrative of woe to those who call right wrong and wrong right. And the Bible says that that's possible not only for individuals, but actually entire societies. Romans 1 certainly gives that implication. And I was thinking about that this week in light of this case and in light of C.S. lewis argument in mere Christianity for the existence of moral norms that are universal and knowable. You remember he uses this example where he says that some societies might fight for this, some societies might fight for that, but no society rewards someone from running away from the battle instead of running to it. Now, this is an example of us, right? I mean, here you have somebody running into the fight instead of running away from it, and he's called the bad guy. And you kind of think, well, Lewis example here falls apart now in early 21st century modern culture. I think it testifies to the truthfulness of the scripture that we actually can, when we're untethered from God, be untethered from reality itself. And so it is stunning that kind of a classic argument for the existence of universal morality can be shown to be incorrect in our context because we are that untethered to begin with.
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Nick Eicher
Do you think that Penny's a hero?
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John Stonestreet
You know, I don't know that I know all the details or anyone knows. I mean, I think we jump sides, you know, pretty quickly on this. I think he was willing to do a hard thing. I think he was willing to step in and protect. Did all of his actions pass muster? That I can't say. But the impulse to protect other people, yeah, that is the right thing. That is what civil society is really made of. It's not just made of the state acting on the state's behalf, but actually people taking personal responsibility, both for themselves and their neighbors. And that impulse was at least present in what Penny did. So I guess I don't have to think that he did everything right to Think he did the right thing in this situation. And in a fallen world, sometimes the right thing has tragic consequences. That's my best read on this without knowing all the details.
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Nick Eicher
So, John, before we go, I do want to take a look at a clear case of vigilantism. Assuming that the reporting turns out to be accurate, assuming that a trial establishes the facts. Talking about the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the news this week is the arrest of the prime suspect, Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer. But the response, John, my goodness. U.S. senator Elizabeth Warren, a sitting senator, saying on TV, on MSNBC, something to the effect of these rich CEOs. She said, they can only push people so far. Then people start to take matters into their own hands. It really sounded like a justification. And we had a piece in World Opinions this week saying it's not just the left, but some on the right saying things like this about how the elites had better watch their backs. Now, Senator Warren, to her credit, walked this back, but she said what she said. Something of the same we heard on Piers Morgan, former reporter for the Washington Post, Taylor Lorenz, saying she took joy from the killing. Joy. This is a little frightening.
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John Stonestreet
Well, look, I think when this story of the murder of the United Healthcare CEO is put together with the story of Jordan Neely and Daniel Penney, it is a striking critique on the fact that we are clearly untethered from reality. I thought that the most powerful media coverage this week, in addition to hearing someone like Taylor Lorenz actually say that seeing someone murdered brought her joy and that that is supposed to be an acceptable position.
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Nick Eicher
Well, of course she was fired from.
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John Stonestreet
Fox for saying she did get fired. I mean, you know, look, and I, my guess is this was kind of the last straw in a whole series of just upside down ways of saying things. But Scott Jennings on cnn, you know, basically said, I'm going to make this as simple as possible for you. Here's my chart. And he had good guy and bad guy. Good guy being Daniel Penny and bad guy being this murderer. And seeing that that actually is not the way a lot of people see it. And an underpinning of this, both for Taylor Lorentz, but also with this murderer, is the bankruptcy of education as a solution to our problems In a kind of a scientific and a post scientific age. There's this sense that, you know, ignorance is the real source of evil and education is the real magic. Now, education is a magic of which the world kind of hasn't seen in terms of lifting people out of poverty and so on. But make no mistake, the greatest thinkers on education from the very beginning have been really clear. Getting a great education or getting an elite education, as is in the case with this murderer, does not make you moral. Your moral problem is not ignorance. Your moral problem is deeper than that. Therefore, education does not fix your moral bankruptcy. It can actually worsen it. There's the classic line from DL Moody. If you take someone who steals railroad ties and you give them an education, you've taught them to steal the entire railroad the next time. And Luther said something really similar, is that it can basically make us just a whole lot better at being bad. And you think about what we know, which isn't much yet, but what we know about this shooter and the arrogance and the elitism by which this person knows better. And so therefore, I'm not subject to your laws. There's a whole tradition to this. Clarence Darrow, the attorney in the Scopes Monkey trial, made his name by defending two brothers who murdered their parents. And he got them off of the death penalty in 1920s by basically saying this is how they were educated. They read too much Friedrich Nietzsche. I mean, this is an astonishing sort of history that there is a fundamental flaw in modern education. The word education means to lead out of. That's educare, that kind of Latin root. So historically, education has been understood to mean to lead someone out of ignorance and into truth. But that assumes there is an objective truth. You get rid of the objective truth, then you're not leading. Education is not leading someone out of themselves, out of their ignorance. In fact, education today is leading someone further and further into themselves. Follow your heart. Turning ignorant students into activists and thinking that's what gives them an education. Well, this guy just thought he was the ultimate activist. Now, don't get me wrong, a whole lot of people go through that same education and never end up doing this. But the ideas that he embraced were consistent with what he had been taught. He just took it to the extreme. So I think we have an indictment here with these stories on both how we think about morality and how we think about education.
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Nick Eicher
Absolutely. But of course, nothing's been proven yet. We have to put alleged in front of killer. Don't get us in trouble here. He gets a trial still.
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John Stonestreet
No, that's a fair and sure. That's. That's. That's absolutely fair.
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Myrna Brown
All right. John Stonestreet is president of the Colson center and host of the Break Point Podcast. Thank you, John.
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John Stonestreet
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Myrna Brown
Today is Friday, December 13th. Thank you for turning to World Radio to help start your day. Good morning, I'm Myrna Brown.
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Nick Eicher
And I'm Nick Eicher. Next up on the world and everything in it, Moviegoers get the chance to return to Middle Earth this weekend. A new animated feature film based on one of J.R.R. tolkien's lesser known tales debuts in theaters. Here is Arts and Culture editor Colin Garbarino with a review of the Lord of the the War of Rohi.
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Jordan Ealy
A little more than 20 years ago, Warner Brothers New Line Cinema and Peter Jackson took J.R.R. tolkien's fantasy masterpiece the Lord of the Rings and adapted its 1200 pages into an epic trilogy that spanned nine hours and 18 minutes. A decade later, Jackson took the 300 or so pages of the Hobbit and created another trilogy that runs to almost eight hours. And of course, there are even longer versions of these trilogies if you can suffer through them. Then a couple of years ago, Amazon and New Line Cinema created a multi season series called the Rings of Power from a little over a hundred pages worth of appendices found in the back of Tolkien's the Return of the King. How many more hours of adaptation can be squeezed out of ever slimmer page counts? New Line is aiming to find out.
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John Stonestreet
All Middle Earth knows the tale of the War of the Ring, but there are older tales.
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Jordan Ealy
The studio's latest offering is the Lord of the the War of the Rohirrim, a two hour, ten minute animated movie based on a mere two and a half pages from one of Tolkien's appendices. This definitely sets a new record for runtime to page count ratio. The film is set on the plains of Rohan and It takes place 200 years before Jackson's movies. It purports to tell the story of Helm Hammerhand, the namesake of Helm's Deep, the fortress that played such a prominent role in the Two Towers. Helm might be king, but the real hero of the movie is his daughter Hera, a headstrong shieldmaiden with fiery red hair by her hand.
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Myrna Brown
Many great deeds were done, but do.
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John Stonestreet
Not look for tales of her in the old songs.
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Myrna Brown
There are none.
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Jordan Ealy
That voiceover at the film's beginning serves to warn you that most of what follows doesn't have much to do with what Tolkien wrote, so don't bother reading those two and a half pages. The action begins when an unsuitable suitor named Wulf asks for Hera's hand in marriage, but neither Helm nor his daughter seem inclined to grant his request.
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Myrna Brown
I have no thoughts of marriage at all. Our fathers speak as if I were not even in the room.
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Jordan Ealy
Wulf becomes an implacable enemy of the Rohirrim. He launches an attack, seeking revenge against Helm, Hera, and the rest of their family. The Rohirrim resists the onslaught before fleeing to Helm's Deep, where they must outlast a siege during a bitter winter that takes its toll on both sides.
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Nick Eicher
We will paint the dawn red with.
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John Stonestreet
The blood of our foes.
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Jordan Ealy
Even though this film is animated, it's not necessarily for kids. It's rated PG13 for strong violence, but perhaps the most curious aspect of the War of the Rohirrim is the studio's decision to render it using Japanese animation. Veteran anime director Kenji Kamiyama filmed the actors with motion capture and then used computer 3D renderings as the basis for his 2D hand draw scenes. It makes for some interesting imagery, but there's a visual dissonance between Kamiyama's Japanese style and the northern European culture of Tolkien's Rohirrim. While everyone else in the film is garbed in some medieval Ish garb, Hera runs around in an outfit that looks straight out of the futuristic anime Attack on Titan. So why would the studio want to make a Lord of the Rings anime? I suspect New Line's reasoning went something like this. Nerds like Tolkien and nerds like anime. Therefore nerds will love a Tolkien anime. I have my doubts as to whether this syllogism is sound.
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Myrna Brown
This is your plan? I never said it was a good one.
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Jordan Ealy
The movie attempts to tie the story to Jackson's original trilogy, but I can't imagine passing fans will be tempted to watch an anime about this obscure battle.
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John Stonestreet
Riders of the Bark Brothers of Rohan.
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Jordan Ealy
Arise, and Tolkien Die. Hards are likely to be offended by the script that takes excessive liberties with Helm's story. In Tolkien's two and a half pages, Helm's daughter doesn't even get a name. And she certainly isn't the hero. She's merely the spark that starts the war. Tolkien's story is a tragedy without a happy ending, but in this story, Hera saves the day because she's super awesome.
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Myrna Brown
I need you.
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Colin Garbarino
Rohan still needs you.
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Nick Eicher
No, Hera, they need you. You must lead them now.
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Jordan Ealy
When writers abandon Tolkien to supposedly improve the story, they usually come up with something much worse. Hera's adventure in this film feels entirely derivative. It's like a pastiche of Eowyn's story from the Return of the King, melded with various warrior princess cliches from other media. I don't think New Line really understands who its target audience is with this film, especially all those Tolkien fans who value fidelity over trendiness. I'm Colin Garbarino.
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Nick Eicher
Today is Friday, December 13th. Good morning. This is the world and everything in it from listener supported World Radio. I'm Nick Eicher.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Erna Brown. Up next, turning mourning into dancing, the Notre Dame could Cathedral is once again open to the public. World's Mary Muncie reports.
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Colin Garbarino
Last Saturday, Parisians filled the pews of the Notre Dame for the first time in more than five years. Parisian Mary Vaughn thought it was over for the iconic cathedral, but she says it's been reborn. Born more than five years ago on April 15, 2019, an evening mass was underway when an alarm began to sound during the service. The priests thought it was a false alarm, but the building manager evacuated the cathedral just in case. Twenty minutes later, a second alarm. This time there was no mistake. The roof was on fire. An hour and a half after that first alarm, onlookers gas as the spire collapsed into the sanctuary below. Two thirds of the roof was destroyed, but nearly all of the priceless art, religious artifacts and stained glass windows were saved. The restoration project required more than 2,000 skilled artisans not only to rebuild the roof and spire, but to repair damaged stonework, clean and retune 8000 organ pipes, and to recreate 1500 solid oak pews. The workers used traditional materials and techniques, though a handful of modern fire prevention and detection upgrades are part of the new design. AFP estimates the total restoration cost was nearly $740 million, most of which came from a handful of French billionaires. Last week, French President Emmanuel Mac Macron and thousands of contractors, tradesmen and their families got an inside peek at the restoration. Macron tearfully thanked them all. He says that they should never forget what they contributed to the project of the century. The nation is proud of them and appreciates their sacrifice. Then last weekend, the bells of the Notre Dame rang out across the city for the first time in five years. And on the rainy, cold Saturday, thousands of people gathered outside the cathedral. Erna Zip says it's magnificent and she's full of emotion. She's just happy. Ibrahim Hossein says seeing it again after five years is extraordinary. The two watched as the archbishop of Paris opened the doors. About 2,500 people entered for the first time since the fire, while the rest watched the ceremonies from screens outside. They all listened as the principal organist awoke the great organization. Then the Notre Dame choir chanted the office and a final blessing. Choir director Henry Chalet says they've been homeless for five and a half years. But choir member Cecilia Vargas says some good has come of it. She saw the French people work together to rebuild the cathedral. The church opened to the public on Sunday evening. El Zario Bandiera attended the first open mass. He says Notre Dame's restoration echoes our life in Christ, moving from death to life. Sometimes we fail, lie on the ground for a time, but then Christ lifts us up again, just like the cathedral. For world I'm Mary Muncie.
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Myrna Brown
Up next, the music of Advent.
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Nick Eicher
This Sunday marks Week three of Advent. For the last two weeks, Christians around the world have been preparing for and reflecting on the coming of Christ at the close of each Friday program this month, correspondent Bonnie Pritchett is guiding us through a selection of Advent songs and hymns.
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Myrna Brown
We're collecting them into a Spotify playlist and are keeping it updated throughout the season so you can find the music for your own. Enjoy. We've included the link to that in Today's transcript@wng.org Podcasts throughout the Old Testament.
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Elizabeth Warren
From Genesis to Malachi, God promises to send the Messiah. As the Hebrew scriptures draw to a close, the prophet Malachi addressed God's wayward people. Destruction awaits those who abandon God to those who fear his name. God had another message.
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John Stonestreet
You shall be my very own on the day that I cause you to be my special home. I shall spare you. As a man has compassion on his son. Who does?
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Elizabeth Warren
The husband and wife duo Vito and Monique Ayuto perform under the name the welcome Wagon. Their 2008 release but for you who Fear My Name highlights the messianic prophecies in Malachi chapters three and four.
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John Stonestreet
But for you, you fear my name.
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Jordan Ealy
Son of righteousness will rise.
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Elizabeth Warren
God's promises resonate in Malachi's short book, the sun of righteousness will rise. You will go out leaping like calves. And those promises echoed through 400 silent years of waiting. While the hymn O Come, O Come Emmanuel calls out on Israel's behalf, this choral ensemble of English, Arabic and Hebrew singers reminds us that through Israel's Messiah, the whole world will be blessed. Jewish and Arab Christians compose the Israel based Ministry One for Israel. The organization produced this album in 2023 called Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward Malachi, and Isaiah prophesied that God would send a messenger to prepare the way for Emmanuel's arrival. The band the Calendar Years tells the story of John the Baptist in this 2014 release called Herald in the Wilderness.
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John Stonestreet
Up the road sinking mountains raising plains for the path of God Prophet to the multitudes calling to repent in the way of righteousness unto Israel sent her.
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Jordan Ealy
Voice.
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John Stonestreet
In the wilderness.
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Elizabeth Warren
In his 1867 hymn, Pastor Henry Alford recounts John's calls for repentance and his declaration that Jesus is the Lamb of God. Alford also tells the price John paid for his faithfulness and suggests the wilderness of our world still needs heralds.
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John Stonestreet
Holy Jesus, when he heard, went apart to pray. Thus may we our lesson take from his saint today.
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Elizabeth Warren
For World I'm Bonnie Pritchett.
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John Stonestreet
In the shadow prepare ye the way of the Lord.
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Nick Eicher
All right, time now to say thank you to the team members who helped to put the program together this week. Mary Reichert, David Bonson, Emma Perley, Mary Muncie, Caleb Weldy, Amy Lewis, Joe Rigney, Leo Braceno, Carolina Lumeta, Oniza Adua, Leah Savas, Janie B. Cheney, Addie Offrence, Anna Johansson Brown, Emma Frere, Cal Thomas, John Stonestreet, Colin Garber and Bonnie Pritchett. Thanks also to our breaking news team, Kent Covington, Mark Mellinger, Lindy Langdon, Travis Kercher, Lauren Canterbury, Christina Grubb and Josh Schumacher. And thanks to the guys who stay up late to get the program to you early, Jonny Franklin and Carl Peets.
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Myrna Brown
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