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12.15.25 Culture Friday on the cultural stories of the year, the music of Italian flutist Gian-Luca Petrucci, and Listener Feedback
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Good morning. John Stonestreet here from the Colson Center. Every single week on Culture Friday, we try to do something that is increasingly rare, to slow down long enough to look at our culture and understand what is happening without losing our minds, not just what the people are arguing about in this time and place, but what those arguments reveal about who we are, about what is true about the moral order that God put in the universe that's bigger than the headlines. And that kind of conversation does not happen by accident. It takes time, it takes care, and it takes a commitment to thinking with a Christian worldview. If you value that kind of clarity and you want to see these kind of conversations continue, please support the work of World. You can learn more by going to wng.orgdonate that's wng.orgdonate and thanks for listening, for standing with us as we try to make sense of this crazy culture.
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Good morning Today on Culture Friday, a culture year in review.
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And our country's major debates have always.
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Centered on how we could best as.
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A people, please, God.
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Is Vice President Vance right about that? John Stonestreet standing by to talk about it. Also today, world music critic Arsenio Ortezza introduces the timely work of an Italian classical musician and listener feedback.
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It's Friday, December 26th. This is the world and in it from listener supported World Radio, I'm Lindsay Mast.
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And I'm Nick Icker. Good morning.
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Up next, Kent Covington with today's news.
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Millions of Americans living in the mid Atlantic and northeastern regions of the US Are bracing for an intense winter storm to hit this weekend. Brian Hurley with the National Weather Service.
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Looks like it's going to be moving in for a lot of areas in earnest by the afternoon hours on Friday and then continuing Friday night and really starting to pull out daybreak. If not maybe by mid morning on Saturday.
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Forecasters say the storm could bring a mix of heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain, making travel difficult during a busy holiday weekend. Drivers are being urged to slow down or avoid travel altogether if conditions worsen. And utilities are also watching closely as ice buildup and strong winds could lead to power outages in some areas. Hurley also provided an update on severe weather in California. He said on Christmas Day that intense rain was no longer falling.
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The bad news is there's other areas of moisture coming through ahead of another front. The good news is it doesn't seem to be as intense as what we saw on Christmas Eve.
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Even so, parts of Southern California remain on edge after days of heavy rain, soaked hillsides and burn scar areas Emergency crews have already carried out. Numerous water rescues and flood watches remain in place along the coast, including Malibu, and evacuation orders are still active near recent wildfire zones in Orange county. More than 100,000 customers statewide lost electricity at the height of the storm. China is again warning of military action against Taiwan and criticizing Japan, raising tensions in the Indo Pacific. World's Kristen Flavin has more.
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Beijing says it prefers peaceful reunification with Taiwan, but made clear that force remains an option. China's Defense Ministry spokesman, Zhang Xiaogang, said Beijing would never promise to renounce the use of force and warned the military is ready to act. The remarks come as China watches closer US And Japanese military cooperation, including recent joint drills. Xiaogang also accused Japan of a dangerous tendency towards a militarist revival and said China would respond to any provocation. For WORLD I'm Kristen Flavin.
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In Ukraine, cries of Christ is born and let us glorify him rang out in Kyiv as roughly a thousand Ukrainians gathered yesterday to celebrate Christmas. President sang carol and carried brightly decorated Christmas stars. One participant said today is Christmas and she intended to celebrate it, adding that it's time to revive old traditions. Ukrainians said this particular celebration was part of an old Russian Christmas custom suppressed during the Soviet days. But a familiar sound interrupted that celebration. Air raid sirens sounded as a Russian drone flew near the capital. In a separate incident, one person was killed and eight others injured in a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Chernaev. King Charles iii, in a Christmas message, urged people to choose kindness and unity at a time of war, political tension and social division. Speaking from Westminster Abbey, the king said christ's example shines as a light for the world today.
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Of course, the greatest pilgrimage of all is the journey we celebrate today, the story of the one who came down.
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To earth from heaven, whose shelter was.
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A stable and who shared his life with the poor and lowly.
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His address aired as fighting continues in Ukraine, and the broadcast ended with a Ukrainian choir singing a carol, a quiet nod to the ongoing conflict. Earlier in the day, the king and the royal family walked to church at Sandringham and greeted crowds. I'm Kent Cuffington. And straight ahead, look back at the biggest cultural stories of the year with John Stonestreet plus, your listener feedback. This is the world and everything in it.
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It's Friday, December 26th. Glad to have you along for today's edition of the World and Everything in It. Good morning. I'm Lindsay Mast.
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And I'm Nick Iker. It's Culture Friday. Joining us now, John Stonestreet the president of the Colson center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. John, good morning.
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Good morning.
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Well, this is the last Friday before the end of the year, if you can believe it. So I thought we ought to take a look back and try to wrap things up into nice little packages, little boxes, maybe put some wrapping paper on it and have a day after Christmas opening here. But I think we certainly saw some really radical changes in 2025, and you can't not attribute that to a national election, I don't think. I do think in the early months, you know, I remember talking, talking with you about the vibe shift, you know, on everything from transgenderism to wokeness, or as you put it, the critical theory mood. Would that be the big takeaway for this year, 2025, culturally? And do you think at this point there's kind of a backlash to the backlash going on? How do you see it?
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I think it's the big takeaway. And I also think it's the big question as we come to the end of the 2020, what is the state of the vibe shift? And I think from the very beginning, the question was, is the vibe shift a turnaround? Bad ideas like transgenderism and the critical theory mood that permeated so much of culture and dominated so much, or was it just a detachment from those things? And we were still kind of looking for the truth to ground our feet in, culturally speaking? And I think it's more uncertain now. I mean, we heard, for example, at the beginning of the year about the return of interest in church and young people going back to church. And even at Easter, you know, we talked about record numbers of baptisms in places like France and other Western nations, a quiet revival. Then you had the catalyst of Charlie Kirk's assassination and funeral. And now we're seeing numbers, and the numbers are really uncertain. Ryan Burge, who I look to a lot for some of these numbers, says, really what the numbers are. More young women are going away, but not that many young men are coming into the church. And I think young men and young women going opposite directions is one of those uncertainties and headlines that's part of the vibe shift. But I also know that from my own church and from a number of denominational meetings that I was able to speak at this year, there's more young men there than there were a year ago or two years ago. So it's hard to make sense of this math. And I think there's a lot more details to come in. And of course, near the end of the year, we have seen the rise also of an alternate view of masculinity. That's not good. Right? That's either groiper or groiper adjacent and a groiper apologist. And we're really at an interesting time. We're certainly not headed off the woke oak cliff, which seemed inevitable just a year or two ago. Those things seem to have changed. But it's, I think it's far from clear what ideology is going to save the day. Maybe a way to put this is I sense a lot more buyers regret for previous bad ideas than I do. Kind of let's rebuild around, you know, things that are true and good. I do think it's an incredible opportunity, especially for the church, though.
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Well, John, we do culture and not politics so much. But there is a lot of political positioning going on, lots of infighting. You've described some of it. But Vice President J.D. vance really put his marker out this week. He delivered a major speech and that speech's core thesis came out mid address. He said that Americans are hungry for identity, maybe hungry for something to build on like what you just said. But he argued that Christianity, not race, not gender, not ideology, but Christianity, has historically provided the nation's shared moral language.
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The only thing that has truly served as an anchor of the United States of America is that we have been, and by the grace of God, we always will be, a Christian nation.
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He insists the US Is a Christian nation in creed. He talked about the erosion of Christianity from public life and that with that retreat we've seen moral confusion and social decay and even violence. Do you agree with how JD Vance set that out? Would you edit that speech in any way? What do you think?
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Well, I think he had some very important things to say, including the historic source of the United States on a cultural and civilizational level, which has been Christianity. And because Christianity is true, those associations, those reliances are going to bring about good things. And when you separate from those things and try to get the animation of a culture or the life of a culture from some other source, it's just not going to happen. I mean, this is the language of the prophets. You know, why go to those things that won't satisfy when you have these things that will satisfy that are really right in front of you? I do think, though, that the conflation of Christianity and America is a complicated thing. The Bible on one hand talks about Christians being people, not Christians being nation. And on the other hand, it talks about all nations learning to obey Christ in the Great Commission. And so for those who Say, well, we shouldn't talk about America that way. The Bible talks about every nation in the world eventually coming and bowing the knee and those that are in it. And so these are complicated things I think to work out. The thing also that I think is going to have to be an important distinction is that if we are going to understand, for example, the moral framework from Christianity, then we have to take seriously the fact that right and wrong is not drawn in between groups of people. It's drawn as sultanates instead, right down the middle of every human heart. So to say rightly that trying to get our moral framework from the progressive left has been an absolute disaster for America is obviously true. It's also going to be a disaster if we try to get that same moral framework from the political right as the political right, as opposed to from letting Christianity engage the political side. I mean, we already have examples from the political right of lines being drawn in completely the wrong places between groups of people. And that's why we have now an anti Semitism on the right and an anti Semitism on the left. And both of those things are completely unacceptable and they're based on a wrong framework about what is right and wrong and where the moral understanding of nation's gonna come from. So I think he's right in the analysis. I think as we're playing this out, we still have a lot of correcting to do on this and whatever framework we're going to apply when it comes to our public lives, when it comes to our public morality, when it comes to our national creed and our national identity, and I don't think we're there yet.
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You know, John, another speech from the TPUSA event that made big news dealt with a culture question that has been looming large late this year and that's been about Islam and Western cult, specifically in terms of Christianity, of course. So much news coming out of Nigeria over the last few months. But closer to home, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard warned that Islamist ideology is the greatest near and long term threat to American freedom and security. Have a listen.
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The bottom line is this. When we talk about the threat of.
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Islamism, this political ideology, there is no.
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Such thing as individual freedom or liberty.
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As Charlie said over and over again.
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It is fundamentally incompatible with our nation's foundation of freedom. And at its core, when we understand that our freedom comes from God and no one else, we understand the seriousness of this Islamist ideology threat because it.
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Means they deny that God is the.
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One who has bestowed this right to freedom in every One of us.
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Now, we ran a story earlier this week from one of the Muslim majority cities Gabbard mentioned in her speech. Dearborn, Michigan. The culture there has changed as the electorate there has changed. Calls to prayer being broadcast, prayer mats in the stairwell at a local public university. And the culture has certainly made evangelism look different there as well. We encountered Christians in Dearborn who were hesitant to talk about it on the record. They wanted their voices or their identities disguised. So, John, what do you make of the director's comments? Is this as big of a threat as she says?
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Every bit is big and even bigger. Not because we're at immediate threat that the rest of the nation will become like Dearborn, but it should alarm every American that there is such a clear departure from anything historical that you can trace in terms of the kind of nation we are, the kind of people we are, to something like this where you have people actually afraid to identify who they are in their religious belief and their religious convictions out loud. I mean, you know, what is this? The uk? I mean, that's what's happened there. And we see the departure over there as being a real departure from kind of the nation that it historically was. But, you know, listen, Gabbard is really reminding us here of something much bigger. And when you talk about civilizational level forces at the end of the Cold War, there were two basic competing explanations for what the world was going to look like now that communism was dead. One was the end of history thesis, which is basically, democracy has won and will never go back. That sounds so quaint now, doesn't it? The other was the clash of civilizations thesis, which is we had come out of a time where the primary clashes in the world were between nation states. And now we were entering a time where the primary clashes were civilizational. And the most important clash civilizationally, Samuel Huntington wrote, was between Islam and the west. And that these civilizational clashes would sometimes be not just between nation states, but between regions. That's where the fault lines were and at times within nations. So you would have conflicts within nations, like, for example, we've seen in Nigeria. Huntington also predicted that the civilizational clashes between Islam and the west would be the hottest of all of them. There would be others, but it would be the hottest one. And that Islam would eventually win because of the birth rate, because of the cultural momentum, and also because of being true believers. The idea of deeply being committed to a way of life and a future idea. Many of the great sociologists in history have talked about the difference between a civilization building for the future and a civilization that was trapped and seeking the immediate gratification of the moment. And if you look at both high levels of debt in the west and the very low birth rates, which of course children represent a vote for the future, then you have a civilization that certainly looks like it's focused on the moment and not focused on the future. And the ones that are focused on the future, at least according to Peter Sorokin and Joseph Unwin and some of the other old dudes that wrote about this, they tend to win. So this was the larger analysis. And of course 911 happened and the years after 9 11. And Samuel Huntington sounded like a genius because he seemed to get it right. And then something else happened, you know, the last couple years. But it certainly seems to have emerged in 2025. And if there's a story in my mind that rivals the vibe shift story, and where are we on the vibe shift? It is the resurgence of the clash of civilizations, because we've seen that in the United States, we've certainly seen that in Nigeria, and we've seen that in other parts of the world as well. And I think that is going to be a growing thing. So I think Tulsi Gabbard is right on that point. To her credit, she has been paying attention for a long time. I know this even as far back as the COVID year was able to participate with her on a webinar on the issue of Nigerian persecution. And that was 2020. Oh, and by the way, what was the worst year of Islamic persecution of Christians in Nigeria? 2025. So we've been on an upward trajectory in the wrong direction since then. So I appreciate her bringing that up. It's kind of like we forgot about this and now it's front and center on our attention, or at least it should be.
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John Stonestreet is president of the Colson Center. He's host of the Breakpoint Podcast. John, it's been a great 2025. We'll see you in 26.
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Today is Friday, December 26th. Thank you for turning to World Radio to help start your day. Good morning, I'm Nick Iger.
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And I'm Lindsay Mast. Coming next on the World and everything in it, a master flutist opens the archives. Gianluca Petrucci is professor emeritus of flute at Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Music in Rome. His latest album is a recording of a concert that he performed 15 years ago. World's music critic Arsenio Ortezza asked him about the program and why he waited so long to release it.
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The COVID of the latest album by the Italian flutist Gianluca Petrucci is a striking reproduction of Kandinsky's page painting the Blue Rider. Also striking is the album's title, The Other Twentieth Century, 1903-1986 in classical music, album titles are often merely descriptive. To encounter a title with a thesis is rare. When I reached out to Petrucci, he was grateful for my interest but insisted on communicating via email. I can't have a conversation on zoom, he wrote, because I don't speak speak fluent English. I said okay, because half a loaf is better than none and because Petrucci's thesis and his music deserve to be discussed. This is Pasakaye, the album's opening piece. It's a composition by the French conductor and composer Rene Baton. Passecaye is the French version of the Italian word passicalia, which means something like to walk down the street. Musically, the piece has clear ties to the lyricism of the Romantic era, although it was composed in 1924. Petrucci contends that although the musical avant garde got most of the attention in the 20th century and therefore dominated the narrative, there were strong cross currents that never got their due and deserve a fresh assessment. In the other 20th century's liner notes, Petrucci writes, today, critics, musicologists and instrumentalists have finally realized that working alongside the new music and the avant garde, composers of great stature had upheld a tradition that was capable of being more than just self referential. When I asked him who these just self referential composers were, Petrucci was wouldn't name names, but it's likely that the music he was referring to was the 12 tone compositions that were all the rage near the beginning of the 20th century, The minimalism that was all the rage near the end of the 20th century, and the indeterminacy of John Cage and his followers, who were all the rage in between. The dozen pieces on the other 20th century are organized more or less chronologically, and with the possible exception of Ernst Kranich's 1954 Composition Suite for Flute and Piano, Opus 147, they provide stark contrast to 12 tone, indeterminate and minimalistic sounds. Several, like this pastoral 1934 piece by Francis Poulain, are by well known composers. Many, however, like this diatonic 1970 piece by the Hungarian composer Ferencz Farkas, are by composers who, in the US at least, are not exactly household names. Petrucci and Pisa also perform a composition by Samuel Barber. But whether the pieces are by famous or obscure composers, and whether they were composed near the beginning or the end of the 20th century, they share a lyrical quality that connects them to the music of earlier centuries. And because of that connection, they challenge the simplistic idea that the real musical Heroes of the 20th century were the rebels. I asked Petrucci why it's important to be aware of this counternarrative. He said, the real problem is the lack of sharing of learnings. Performers have emerged who specialize only in a certain type of avant garde music, while others reject some of the technical achievements developed during the heyday of what was called new music. Paradoxically, he continued, just as the composers of new music set aside composers associated with other historical idioms, many of the achievements of new music are now being forgotten. Ultimately, no one should ever set aside anything without understanding, experimenting and evaluating. Every choice is valid to the extent that it is based on full knowledge of the facts. Perhaps no piece on the other 20th century illustrates what what Petrucci means better than Kranich's aforementioned Suite for Flute and Piano. Cranach himself was known for atonality, the 12 tone technique, serialism, and even aleatoric or chance based music. But his full knowledge of the facts enabled him also to write music with detectable roots in what came before. As for why Petrucci waited so long to release the other 20th century, he said, I felt the time was finally ripe for a reinterpretation of a certain 20th century musical era. The achievements of avant garde music failed to produce a stable structure. The pursuit of novelty essentially replaced the pursuit of a message comprehensible to the public, not just to insiders. There's certainly nothing incomprehensible about Jean Michel Demas's Caetera di Vertissimo. It was composed in 1986. But it sounds as if it could have been composed one or even 200 years before. And it will no doubt sound as delightful another 100 years from now. Perhaps that's what Petrucci's the other 20th century does best. It reminds us that the 20th century produced lots of timeless music. And it's never too late to discover the timeless. I'm Arsenio Ortezza.
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Find finally, today we end the week with your listener feedback. We start today with a clarification and A correction on December 15, we covered the historic flooding across the Northwest. We quoted Washington Governor Bob Ferguson saying the state had not faced flooding like this before. True, from a meteorological standpoint, several major rivers did set new records this month.
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But listener John Kirk wrote to add some important local context. In parts of Whatcom county, residents faced very similar flooding just four years ago, and some are still waiting for repairs from that disaster. Our listener says many locals are frustrated, feeling that when floods keep coming, the question is not just how severe they are, but whether enough has been done.
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To prepare A quick correction from our December 17th program. While celebrating the 405th anniversary of the Mayflower's arrival, we inadvertently bent the space time continuum. We mistakenly said a quote from President Calvin Coolidge came from the 100th anniversary of the landing.
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Now, of course, if you're doing your math at home, and if that were true, Silent Cal would have been delivering speeches in the year 1720 or roughly 150 years before he was even born. Now what we meant to say was that his comments were from 100 years ago. So we regret this little 200 year bend in the time space continuum, but we are happy to report the President was a mere 48 years old at the time, not a centuries old time traveler. That would have been news. Now on to some listener feedback from the present. We begin with this voicemail from Monte Ledford, who lives in Aberdeen, Idaho.
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Your story about German Village, Ohio and the pressure on Germans in that First World War was not uncommon in our small farm community. The German speaking Mennonite pastor was pressured into leaving town in 1920 in spite of the fact that Mennonites were pacifists and the war was over.
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In wartime, passions run high and can.
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Incite people to make neighbors into enemies and to do things they may later regret. Thanks for the story and the reminder.
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Next. Farmer Carl Palmberg sent us this message after Todd Vishen's story about the latest bailout program for American farmers.
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I live in northwest Iowa and I listen to the world and everything in it, usually while I'm checking my cows or grinding feed for my cows. And I just wanted to make the comment that I feel like government intervention in our agricultural system has created kind of a false economy. I think the government's support, direct support for our large commodities has taken away the ingenuity and creativity of farmers to come up with other crops other than the big commodities to raise. Anyway, I enjoy listening to World thank you for everything that you do and I look forward to the next episode.
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And Nick Matt Brown from Tucson, Arizona called and left us this message expressing his gratitude for your recent conversation with Os Guinness.
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Just such words of profound wisdom and what we need to hear, letting God be God. And it's a, it's a sobering reminder to me when I get panicked and think, oh my goodness, we have Putin and China and we have Ukraine, we have Israel, we have Palestinians and we have persecution and God is so God and I so appreciate for sound words of wisdom and for those kinds of interviews that bring us back to what is really fundamental. Thanks so much.
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Well, last week we put out a call for listeners to leave feedback on their favorite segments of the year and we have a few of those to highlight today. First, this voicemail from Brittany who lives in Loveland, Colorado.
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I'm just thinking about the segment that.
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George Grant did on JRR Tolkien and Middle Earth.
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I just love that piece. He's so clever with his wordplay and it's so fun to hear him reviewing some of Tolkien brilliant language. You've also done a couple other segments on book related or bookish things that I've really enjoyed. You had an interview with Jefferson Fisher, the next conversation author. Yeah, I read his book. He has a lot of really helpful, simple tools to help with effective communication that I've already used. You had a segment also, or maybe it was just a quick review of the Redeemed Reader publication that Jenny B. Cheney and and a couple other vows published recently. I look at the regime drainer frequently to look at book reviews before I have my kids read them and I would never have known that they had published a book unless I heard it from you guys. So I'm so appreciative of that. I also really appreciated just your full coverage of the Israeli conflict even I think recently you interviewed a Palestinian Christian. So I just, I feel like it's a very balanced view of the conflict and gives a lot of perspectives that I don't think I would have gotten anywhere else. So, so grateful for all you do.
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Marvin Fisher from Millersburg, Pennsylvania has a few segments he's particularly fond of as well.
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I just wanted to give a special shout out to Onise Odua for the work she does on the weekly segment world tour. Definitely one of my favorite segments of.
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The weekly cycle and pray that her and her family stay safe with all the unrest and violence against Christians that currently going on in Nigeria. And also wanted to say great job on the musical interludes between segments. I really enjoy those. Keep up the great work you all are doing. I just pray that God can bless each one that hears every daily podcast and just wanted to say thanks again.
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For all that you're doing.
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One more piece of feedback today, this time from Jason Woodard from Southwest Michigan.
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I've been listening since the podcast was once a week, so for many years it's my daily routine. I wanted to call and just say thank you for even doing these shows on the holidays. I don't think that's something I've ever heard anybody show appreciation for, but I know many listeners do appreciate that. The fact that you guys still produce the shows on the holidays and we get to have that as our daily routine. Even on those days we get to.
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Have the day off.
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So thank you for all your hard work. Thank you for the show. God bless.
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Thank you, Jason, so much for your kind words. We have a very dedicated team to make this program happen and we've shared your gratitude with them all.
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Well, that's listener feedback for the month of December. Thanks so much to everyone who called. If you would like to comment on a recent segment, you can send us an email or a recorded message to editor. You can also phone it in. 202-709-9595. All right, time now to name the crew who contributed to this week's Mary Reichert, Jenny Ruff, David Bonson, Travis Kercher, Juliana Chan Erickson, Todd Vishen, Lauren Smith, Hunter Baker, Jenny Lynn Schmidt, Emma Eicher, Janie B. Cheney, Myrna Brown, Peter Mead, John Stonestreet and Arsenio Ortezza. Thanks also to our breaking news team, Kent Covington, Steve Klosterman, Daniel Devine and Christina Grube. And thanks to the Twilight Techs, the Moonlight Maestros, the overnight outfitters making those evening edits to serve the program up each weekday bright and early. Benj Eicher and Carl Peetz this week with additional help from Johnny Franklin. Harrison Waters is Washington producer, Kristin Flavin is features editor, Paul Butler is executive producer. I'm Nick Eicher.
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And I'm Lindsay Mast. If you enjoy this podcast, help a friend find it too. Send a link to a favorite story or the whole podcast right from your app. One click helps a friend start the way you do and helps make the program grow. The world and everything in it comes to you from World Radio. World's mission is biblically objective journalism that informs, educates and inspires. The Bible says the Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call on Him. In truth, he fulfills the desire of those who fear him. He also hears their cry and saves them. Verses 17 through 19 of Psalm 145 as you head into the weekend, we hope you'll gather with God's people on the Lord's Day. Find a good church, be strengthened by the Word, and encourage one another in Christ. And Lord willing, we'll be right back here Monday morning. Go now in grace and peace.
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