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The World and Everything In It
3.28.25 Creational truths, a new detective series, and feedback from listeners
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Myrna Brown
Good morning. Today on Culture Friday, a cultural shift to the right meets a church unready to lead.
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Nick Eicher
Also, just war thinking applied to deportation policy and the danger of outsourcing kids mental health to AI. John Stonestreet is standing by. Later.
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John Stonestreet
That wasn't a distraction.
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Colin Garberino
It was a murder.
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Kent Covington
But what if there's another one today?
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John Stonestreet
How often do people get murdered around here?
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Nick Eicher
Arts and Culture editor Colin Garberino reviews a quirky new murder mystery. And we'll end the day and the week with your listener feedback.
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Myrna Brown
It's Friday, March 28th. 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 Iker. Good morning.
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Myrna Brown
Up next, Ken Covington with today's news.
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Kent Covington
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says Moscow is slow walking Ukraine peace talks.
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John Stonestreet
President Trump has rightly called them out.
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Kent Covington
For dragging their feet.
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Nick Eicher
And we agreed here in Paris today.
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Myrna Brown
That it's clear the Russians are filibustering.
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Nick Eicher
They are playing games and they're playing for time.
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Colin Garberino
It is a classic from the Putin flavor.
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Kent Covington
Also during a summit in Paris on Thursday, France and Britain said they're prepared to send troops to Ukraine to defend an eventual peace deal with Russia. But they said a lot of other countries in Europe are not as anxious to take part in that effort. But French President Emmanuel Macron said Europe is united in the belief that Ukraine's army must be strong and well equipped for the day after the war ends. Allies at the summit also agreed that efforts to squeeze Russia's economy must continue. The Kremlin demanded an end to certain sanctions as part of a maritime Black Sea ceasefire agreement. Iran has sent an official response to President Trump in response to his recent letter to Tehran seeking to jumpstart talks over the country's nuclear program. World's Kristin Flavin has more.
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John Stonestreet
Iran sent the response through the government of Jordan, signaling a readiness to restart nuclear talks indirectly through a third party. The response came as Trump levied new sanctions on Iran as part of its maximum pressure campaign. It also came as the US Began moving bombers into the region ahead of a two month deadline President Trump had given Iran to come back to the bargaining table. Trump, during his first term in the White House pulled the plug on an Obama era nuclear deal that he said did nothing to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuke. For world I'm Kristin Flavin in Israel.
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Kent Covington
It's becoming an increasingly familiar sound. Air raid sirens blared over Jerusalem again yesterday as the Israeli military says it intercepted two missiles that Houthi rebels launched from Yemen. No casualties reported elsewhere in Jerusalem, thank.
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John Stonestreet
You for standing with Israel. Thank you for standing with the Jewish people.
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Nick Eicher
Thank you for standing with the forces of civilization against the forces of barbarism.
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Kent Covington
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu there addressing a group of European leaders in the holy city for a conference on anti Semitism. And in Gaza, militant groups are warning some Palestinians to stop protesting against Hamas or face punishment. In a statement, they threatened to treat those in Gaza speaking out against Hamas just like they treat Israelis. A 24 year old man from El Salvador faced a judge in Virginia on Thursday, but authorities say this was not just any illegal immigrant. They say Henri Josue Villatoro Santos is a top leader in the violent MS.13 gang. The FBI worked with the ATF ICE local and state police on the arrest FBI Director Kash Patel.
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John Stonestreet
This task force was stood up one month ago.
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Kent Covington
In one month, the brave men and women on this task force from state, local and federal Authorities have arrested 342 criminals in the state of Virginia alone. Authorities charged him with being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm, but that was expected to be only the first of many charges. And Las Vegas police have arrested a man in connection with the firebombing of a Tesla collision Center. He is 36 year old Paul Kim and he's now behind bars facing more than a dozen felony charges. Las Vegas Assistant Police Chief Dorie Coren said police were able to search his apartment and multiple vehicles connected to him. We were also able to collect a buccal swab for DNA to be able to compare that to the DNA that.
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John Stonestreet
We recovered from the scene.
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Kent Covington
A video of the attack showed a person dressed in black using Molotov cocktails to damage at least five Tesla vehicles with one of the unexploded devices left in a car. FBI Special Agent Spencer Evans there's nothing.
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Nick Eicher
Courageous or noble about firebombing private property and terrorizing your local community. The self righteous mob that's cheering you on today to commit acts of violence on their behalf will leave you high and dry and forget about you tomorrow.
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Kent Covington
A string of violent attacks against Tesla properties has coincided with protests against Tesla CEO Elon Musk over his work heading up the Department of Government Efficiency for President Trump. The White House has polled Congresswoman Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. That decision came after her confirmation had been stalled over concerns about the GOP's incredibly slim majority in the House. The President said in a social media post that it is, quote, essential that we maintain every Republican seat in Congress. GOP Senator John Cornyn weighed in yesterday. At least Stefanik should be congratulated by putting the greater good ahead of her personal ambition. Stefanik's nomination advanced out of committee in late January, but House Republicans razor thin margin kept her ultimate confirmation and a state of purgatory for the last several months. I'm Kent Covington. And straight ahead, John Stonestreet is standing by for CULTURE Friday. Plus your listener feedback for the month of March. This is the WORLD and Everything in it.
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Myrna Brown
It's Friday, 28th March. Glad to have you along for today's edition of the World and Everything in It. Good morning. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Nick Eicher
And I'm Nick Eicher. It's CULTURE Friday. Joining us now, John Stonestreet, the president of the Colson center and host of the Breakthrough. Always great to talk. John, good morning.
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John Stonestreet
Good morning.
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Nick Eicher
Well, John, a recent article by Andrew Walker has gotten quite a bit of traction on our website. He argues that while the culture seems to be shifting politically to the right, particularly among young people, evangelicalism simply is not prepared to meet that moment. It's a heady article. It's challenging, it's difficult to summarize, so I'll put a link to it in the transcript for the listener who wants to dive into it. But Walker's argument, as best I can summarize, is that we have emphasized grace for so long, we've forgotten to affirm creational truths, talking about things like moral order, authority, family, even the goodness of being male or female, and strictly speaking, male and female biologically. So here's the question for you, John. If the culture really is starting to rediscover some of these creational truths, why do you think the church seem so reluctant to affirm them?
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John Stonestreet
Well, it's a good question. I think that the idea that the culture is starting to rediscover creational truths might be a really optimistic way to say it. I think what we have seen instead is kind of seeing that the system's not working, so to speak, and the alternatives are actually worse. And, you know, I think there's maybe more a pragmatic realization than anything else. But to your question about why the church is hesitant to speak clearly about them is I think, you know, even in the framing from Andrew, which is a good framing about, you know, the relationship between nature and grace, these aren't theological categories that by and large the church even thinks with. The church really doesn't think, by and large, and I'm talking in Big generalities here with that kind of theological precision or that kind of theological aim. The church is largely pragmatic and the church is largely gnostic. So there's not a sense of the church having a Christian worldview, a Christian view of reality that aligns with the revealed truth of scripture. It has to do with, as Rosaria Butterfield said to my daughter recently in an interview, which she was very kind to do for my daughter, this is the remnants of Schleimacher, in which religious experience is what matters and Christian truth doesn't. Religious experience is what we're after, and we go after that in any way possible. And that's the limits then of what we can know to be true about Christianity. Now, of course, many people listening and even many who have bought into that framework wouldn't know who Schlommacher is. But this is the legacy of really bad theological ideas and that have taken root in our culture. And that's why I find it just so, somewhere between interesting to bizarre. To go back to a conversation we had not too long ago here on the program, when somebody comes out and really just thinks that the real thing that needs to be changed about Christianity is how much they talk about worldview, that just makes it so ridiculous to me because the thing that is missing in all of this is what we might call applied theology, the taking of what is true and thinking about the world through that lens. I don't think our problem is that we're talking about worldview too much. Maybe we're not talking about it precisely enough. But the bigger challenge is that we don't even think about faith in those terms. There's a whole side of muscle memory, theological muscle memory, that just doesn't exist. And then we wonder why, to throw out a good March Madness analogy, we keep missing our free throws at the end of the game.
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Nick Eicher
All right, John. Well, hey, I am utterly helpless on March Madness. You know, NHL playoff dreams for me are just so close to coming true for my hockey team. But I am going to look up that philosopher in the transcript. We'll put a link for the listener who wants to explore. Because I gotta be honest with you, I need to do the same thing. But I want to shift to something else, John, that we've been tracking here. The Trump administration's deportation of gang members believed to be part of a violent Venezuelan gang. The administration, as I think most people know, used a Founders era wartime law, the Alien Enemies act, to justify the removals. Even this week we had some reporting from our D.C. bureau Josh Schumacher telling us some are cheering the move, others are raising concerns about due process and evidence, especially when things like tattoos are being used as proof of gang affiliation. So here is what I'd like for you to wrestle with, John. Christians need to err on the side of mercy. But is that always the right instinct when we are dealing with people who reject law and order? How do we pursue justice that protects rights without going too far, without slipping, slipping into either harshness on the one extreme or into naivete on the other?
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John Stonestreet
They're not easy questions when the cat's already out of the proverbial bag. But I do think that there are some framings that we can bring to the table here. I mean, the first is, whose job is this? And there's a difference between the church's job and individual citizens job and the government's job. The church's job is to be a message of mercy. We certainly, we want our state to act mercifully where appropriate. But that's not the primary virtue by which the government is even supposed to or is able to act. And part of that is that the state struggles to be precise. I mean, we know that's true just from TSA security to fulfill a task that it actually rightly has, which is to protect its citizens. I find here that the just war way of thinking actually helps give us a little bit of precision here. So just war basically ask the question, is war ever justified? And then how should war be carried out in order to continue to be? Just the same thing can apply here is deportation or enforcement of borders themselves, is it ever justified? And I think the answer on every single level through the history of the world would be yes. And it is helpful when the government actually does that. It becomes a source of life and yes, even mercy to its own citizens. But then how it is done really matters. And that's where it gets quite difficult. And we're not dealing with the one size fits all with who were concerned about being in the country. So for example, the young man who was a Columbia student, right? The situation with him is different than the situation with these Venezuelan gang members. And it's pretty obvious, right? If you are a human being, you have a various level of rights that should be respected within the purview of the authority of a government. Then it's like if you're here legally or illegally extends the amount of rights, then additional rights, then you have, if you're here on a student visa, you have a certain degree of rights. If you're here in a worker's permit, you have a different degree of rights or a green card. And then if you're a citizen, you get them all right. And that's a legitimate way to carry this out. Now, is the government going to make mistakes when you're dealing with such an incredible vast problem? The answer is of course yes. They're going to make mistakes. Just like even in carrying out just war, when mistakes are made, it's a devastating sort of thing. When mistakes are made, people should be held accountable. When mistakes are made, then we should actually speak up and demand that our government do the right thing and do it in the right way. And we shouldn't expect them to be perfect and we shouldn't justify whatever they do as being perfect just because we like what they are doing right. We have to be able to call those balls and strikes. And I think that that framework hopefully can be helpful in looking at something as kind of alarming as violent Venezuelan gangs that clearly a do not have the protections of citizenship or legal status and then are breaking the law and there has to be a punishment that is just in order to be merciful and compassionate and just for the citizens that the government is actually tasked to protect.
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Myrna Brown
John the Wall Street Journal had a really troubling story about AI and mental health. It's about a new program being rolled out in nine districts where middle and high school students can turn to an AI chatbot named Sunny for mental health support. It's pitched as a kind of well being companion, but behind the scenes it's monitored not by trained professionals but by 20 somethings hired mainly for their relatability. So John, what's your take on this shift toward AI based therapy in schools and what does it say about what kids really need? I ask this reminded of the fact that your daughter was able to talk with someone as wise and as wonderful as Rosaria Butterfield. You know, a far cry from AI. Bet you're glad about that.
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John Stonestreet
Well, I am and she was very gracious on that front. Yes, and we are very grateful that she didn't have to contact Sonny instead. Look, I do think there is a role, particularly in healthcare and even in mental health care, for kind of triage work using technology. But the question is, is what is it able to do and what is it not able to do and where do we go from here? I don't know whether to be more alarmed by a AI chat bot talking to kids or that it's backed up by 20 somethings without any sort of professional training. I don't know what's worse at this point. You know, I guess the contrast here for me is living in the state of Colorado, which has incredible high rates of teen depression and teen suicidality and has for a long time. It hit a peak prior to Covid. So prior, before that pandemic, before the school lockdowns, there was an intervention program that was initiated in the schools of Colorado Springs, and it was so successful that it was featured in national mental health care conferences as a way to address the depression and suicidality rates among young people by bringing in adults who could just serve as kind of first responders. They would walk around the lunchroom, they would be approved volunteers. They would just look to talk to people, look for signs, you know, be trained at a particular level. And it was so successful in terms of what it prevented and how it curbed those numbers that it became something that was celebrated by mental health professional associations. And then, of course, Covid happened, and all the volunteers were sent home, and all the kids were sent home to be in front of their screens, and a lot of that progress was lost. But then the question was, where do you get these adults who would be willing to volunteer to go into back to high school? Well, I mean, what's the answer to that question? There's only one place in American society where you're going to find a critical mass of adults willing to care for the next generation. And it's what you've always found in history. Where there's a plague, you find the people that are running into the plague. And there's just one group, and that is Christians. In other words, the program that was nationally celebrated as curbing this crisis that was happening in Colorado Springs in the state of Colorado found volunteers from church. They went to church, and yes, suddenly religion was allowed back in public schools, because when you hit rock bottom, you look for all the resources that you can find. And it was real people, real Christians, stepping in the gap in a real way. So I would love for us to go back to that program. I would love to rely on that and for Christians to be willing to step up and to play that role and not outsource our responsibility to AI chatbots.
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Myrna Brown
You know, I meant to mention I'll link up that Wall Street Journal article as well as a piece of commentary on the topic on our site. You'll find all that and the ones you mentioned, Nick, in today's transcript. And at the same time, you know, we don't want to junk up the program by mentioning a bunch of web links, so let us know whether These are useful to you.
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Nick Eicher
John Stonestreet is president of the Colson Center. He's host of the Breakpoint podcast. And John, we'll see you again in a couple of weeks. We'll be talking with Katie McCoy, so safe travels, John. Thanks.
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John Stonestreet
Thank you both. Additional support comes from Letourneau University, the Christian Polytechnic University. More@LETU.edu.
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Nick Eicher
Today is Friday, March 28th. Thank you for turning to World Radio to help start your day Good. Good morning, I'm Nick Iger.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. Coming next on the World and everything in it, a new British mystery series making its way across the pond. Arts and culture editor Colin Gabbarino now on the show Lead Week.
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Colin Garberino
The novelist Dorothy Sayers, a friend of C.S. lewis, once said death in particular seems to provide the minds of the Anglo Saxon race with a greater fund of innocent amusement than any other subject. Of course, Sayers isn't saying we English speakers are morbid people who enjoy the pain and tragedy of real death. She's actually talking about a fondness for detective fiction. And arguably nobody does murder mystery better than the Brits.
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Nick Eicher
Bit awkward really. I think I might just have solved a murder.
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John Stonestreet
I'll call you back.
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Colin Garberino
You think you've what? The new series Ludwig is now streaming on Britbox. British sketch comedian David Mitchell plays John Taylor, a reclusive genius who publishes word games and logic puzz under the pen name Ludwig. But his solitary life is upended when he receives a phone call from his sister in law, Lucy.
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John Stonestreet
I need a favor. A big one. How big? Pretty big. It's going to involve you having to leave the house.
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Colin Garberino
John's twin brother James has vanished. He worked as a police detective in the city of Cambridge and Lucy thinks his disappearance must have something to do with a case he was working on. She needs John to impersonate his brother, walk into the police station and look for clues as to why James took off. But there's a problem. John gets distracted from the task at hand because he keeps getting called upon to solve crimes. That wasn't a distraction. It was a murder.
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John Stonestreet
What if there's another one today? How often do people get murdered around here?
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Colin Garberino
While John falls into a routine of acting like a real policeman, Lucy tries to keep him focused on finding his missing brother.
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John Stonestreet
John, you're not attending another crime scene.
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Nick Eicher
This time you say no.
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Colin Garberino
Tell them you're busy. But what if they counter that with busy doing what?
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John Stonestreet
Paperwork. Just use the phrase mountain of You've seen the crime shows? Gosh, it's practically their mantra.
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Colin Garberino
Ludwig comprises six episodes and the series follows a murder of the week formula. In each episode, John is presented with a case that requires him to exercise his puzzle solving skills. His co workers aren't totally oblivious to this change in detection technique from the guy they think of as James.
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Myrna Brown
I'm reliably informed you went slightly unorthodox on this one, DCI Taylor.
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John Stonestreet
Nonetheless, results speak for themselves, so I suppose congratulations are in order.
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Colin Garberino
This series fits easily into the cozy mystery genre. I haven't seen all the episodes yet, but so far there's little on screen violence and the language isn't objectionable. The characters are engaging and the writing is clever. However, Ludwig isn't really a whodunit because the show doesn't always give the audience enough clues to figure out the mystery for themselves. Instead, we get snippets of John using his powers of deduction to race through evidence that we're only partially acquainted with.
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Nick Eicher
We need to go back and talk to the team again, especially now we have a motive.
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John Stonestreet
A motive for what?
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Colin Garberino
Well, murder. Ludwig possesses that dry British wit that reliably turns mildly awkward moments into comedic gold. The supporting cast have their endearing moments, especially Garen Howell's portrayal of an easily impressed junior officer who's so excited to watch John work. But Mitchell's performance as the socially inept John anchors the show's comedy. He's a ball of anxiety who can barely manage to navigate a parking lot without mishap.
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John Stonestreet
I'm impersonating a police officer.
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Colin Garberino
Yes, but he's your brother.
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Nick Eicher
That's really not the legal loophole you think it is.
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Colin Garberino
As Dorothy Sayers noted, the murder mystery is arguably the most popular genre of entertainment in both Britain and America. But with new books, series and movies coming out all the time, it can be difficult to wade through all the options. If you're a fan of classic murder mystery TV shows like David Suchet's Poirot or Tony Shalhoub's Monk, then you should probably give Ludwig a try. It checks just about all the boxes for enjoyable family entertainment. The mysteries are inventive, the dialogue is amusing, and the cast is exceedingly likable. All that without indulging in the violence and language that seems to characterize most prestige tv. The murder mystery genre might feel overcrowded, but there's definitely room for this refreshingly funny show. I'm Colin Garberino.
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Myrna Brown
Today is Friday, March 28th. Good morning, 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 Iker Time now for listener feedback for the month of March. We begin today with a handful of corrections and clarifications all the way back to yesterday when we misidentified the waterway protected by the terms of the partial ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. We should have said that they covered the Black Sea.
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Myrna Brown
On March 25, we mistakenly identified the SS United States as the US Navy's largest and fastest ship. When it was built, it had never been called into duty and so remained a civil passenger vessel, and as such, it doesn't earn that naval distinction.
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Nick Eicher
A couple times in recent newscasts we have conflated the Dome of the Rock with the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Those two are distinct buildings. On March 10th in our history book, we covered the anniversary of the murder of abortionist David Gunn. In that story, we alluded to a statement by Don Treschman, though not by name.
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Myrna Brown
In doing so, we misidentified him as a leader with Operation Rescue when in fact he was with Rescue America. And we've noted the correction on our.
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Nick Eicher
Transcript and a number of listeners sent in feedback on that story. But here are a few comments from Danielle Versluis, who says she had a front row seat to the sit ins.
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Colin Garberino
The murder of David Gunn was a tragic event in the history of the pro life movement, not only because the murder of every human person is tragic, right? But because it provided fodder for pro abortion attacks on the integrity and ethics of the pro life movement as a whole. I am the daughter of a national leader in Operation Rescue, a former national leader in Operation Rescue, and all the leaders that I spoke to said that while there was intense debate in the 1990s about the question of justifiable homicide, Operation Rescue as an organization consistently and unequivocally condemned the murder of abortion doctors. I remember that myself being there in person, hearing the discussions, the debate amongst the leaders. I saw and heard from all the leaders regularly because my father was on the national staff and so there was a lot of debate about the justifiable homicide question. So they consistently condemned the murder of abortion doctors as an organization.
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Myrna Brown
Sticking with history book feedback, here's Abby Devon.
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John Stonestreet
But I wanted to say that the world history book on March 3rd about Franz Jagersteger was so inspiring. I especially loved how they had the actors read the letters between Franz and his wife.
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Nick Eicher
That really brought the story to life.
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John Stonestreet
And I would love to see more world history books in this format in the future.
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Colin Garberino
Thank you.
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Nick Eicher
Listener Matt Dewing recorded this message for us while exercising on his stationary Bike.
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John Stonestreet
Hey, Nick and David just finished listening to the Monday morning Money Beat. Wanted to send you a little encouragement.
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Nick Eicher
And say thank you. Can't believe it's been five years.
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John Stonestreet
I'm teaching an economics class for a.
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Nick Eicher
Dozen homeschoolers and their weekly assignment is to turn in a paper Just Reacting to the World and Everything in it segment. It's been great for them, it's been great for our family. I thank God for what you're doing. Hey. And I for you teaching the next generation about economics and. Hey, Myrna. It does kind of sound like he's going to be in good enough physical condition to stay at it for many years.
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Myrna Brown
I'll say.
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Nick Eicher
I feel like I need to sit down.
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Myrna Brown
This dude is the goat. Okay. All right. Allen Tonneson left us this recording after my story with musician Nate Moore.
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John Stonestreet
My wife and I have been praying and thinking about adopting and what struck me about that story, though there's a lot more I can relate to with Nate, is what Jesus speaks about with the mustard seed, the kingdom of God sprouting from the smallest seeds into a tree. And it was so encouraging as we think about adoption, to see a Christian family faithful in raising Nate and his impact that God has used not only on the church, but now, as he mentioned, on his brother, wanting the joy that he had is quite an encouragement to see just taking those faithful steps to follow God and what he's calling us to and see what he does. So thank you for the story. It was quite an encouragement to me and my family. Blessings.
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Myrna Brown
Thanks, Alan.
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Nick Eicher
A few more lighthearted comments as we end today. This first one comes from Matt Brown of Tucson, Arizona. Just wanted to get feedback on Colin Garborino's movie review of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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John Stonestreet
I told you I was cracking up.
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Nick Eicher
And I just said, you go, boy. These, you know, what they're doing to these old standard movies and themes is pretty tragic. And so it's just good to hear. Colin Garborito. Yeah, tearing it apart. And I love his verbiage and his descriptors.
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John Stonestreet
It was really good.
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Myrna Brown
You go, boy. Well, our last comment comes from Matthew Wagner, who got a real kick. Me too, I must say, out of one of our kickers.
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John Stonestreet
Thank you for making me laugh on.
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Nick Eicher
My drive home from school today. The piece on white top the llama, too legit to spit.
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John Stonestreet
Really?
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Kent Covington
I'm still smiling and laughing.
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Myrna Brown
Nick, I just wanna say thank you.
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Nick Eicher
I don't know the last time I laughed, listening to the world and everything.
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John Stonestreet
In it, but you made my day today, buddy.
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Nick Eicher
Thank you so much.
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John Stonestreet
I appreciate you guys and love y'all.
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Nick Eicher
All so very much.
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John Stonestreet
Bye.
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Colin Garberino
Bye.
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Nick Eicher
Oh, that's great. Hey, Myrna, what time is it?
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Myrna Brown
Hammer time.
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Nick Eicher
It's Hammer time. That one was a layup, and I have to say, hey, I finally came up with a March Madness metaphor.
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Myrna Brown
That's good there.
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Nick Eicher
Yeah, I think John's gonna be with that. If he's still listening, that is. Well, thank you to everyone who wrote and called in this month. It is good to hear from you, even when you disagree with some of our coverage. We are, of course, grateful that you take the time to share your thoughts with us.
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Myrna Brown
And if you have a comment to share, you can email editormg.org you can include an audio file attachment to your email, and we'll consider it for air. You can even phone it in at 202-709-9595. And that's this month's listener feedback.
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Nick Eicher
Okay, time now to say thank you to the team members who helped to put the program together this week. Mary Reichard, Carl Truman, Emma Eicher, Onize Adua, Jerry Boyer, Josh Schumacher, Carolina Lumeta, Kim Henderson, Addie Offrens, Mary Muncie, Lauren Dunn, David Bonson, Caleb Weldy, Cal Thomas, Lauren Canterbury, John Stonestreet and Colin Garbarino. Thanks also to our breaking news team, Kent Covington, Lindy Langdon, Steve Klosterman, Travis Kircher and Christina Grube. And thanks to the guys who stay up late to get the program to you early, Carl Peetz and Ben Jeiker.
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Myrna Brown
Harrison Waters is Washington producer. Senior producer Kristin Flavin is features editor, Paul Butler, executive producer, and Les Sillers, editor in chief. The World and Everything in it is a production of World Radio, where we bring you biblically objective journalism that informs, educates and inspires. The Bible says, restore us, O God. Let your face shine that we may saved verse three of Psalm 80. When you gather with your brothers and sisters in Christ this weekend, don't just attend a service together, but show up ready to share an encouraging and uplifting word. And Lord willing, we'll meet you right back here on Monday. Go now in grace and peace.