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7.31.26 Recent Islamist attacks, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and listener comments
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Myrna Brown
Good morning. Today on Culture Friday, Germany and the revealing language of outrage why Islamist attacks are treated differently based on the target.
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Nick Iker
And a classroom project aimed at young children shows the battle over gender ideology is not going anywhere. John Stonestreet is standing by. Also today, Marvel's most popular superhero returns for another adventure.
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John Stonestreet
I'm not just Peter Parker, I'm Spider Man.
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Nick Iker
World's Colin Garberino reviews brand new day and listener feedback for July.
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Myrna Brown
It's Friday, July 31st. This is the world and everything in it from listener supported World Radio. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Nick Iker
And I'm Nick Iker. Good morning.
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Myrna Brown
Up next, Kent Covington with today's news.
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Kent Covington
Iran fired back at two American allies on Thursday. An airstrike hit a building in Kuwait, killing a worker. And Jordan shot down five incoming missiles. The Iranian strikes come after US Forces carried out a two hour assault on Iran Wednesday night, which was in response to an earlier Iranian attack. U.S. ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker.
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John Stonestreet
President Trump continues to hold all the cards. Would love a diplomatic solution to this, but we are going to always be coming from a position of strength and any attempt to attack the United States is going to be met with overwhelming, overwhelming force.
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Kent Covington
Central Command says the US Hit dozens of Revolutionary Guard targets, including the coastal radars and missile batteries that Iran uses to control the Strait of Hormuz. The strait normally carries a fifth of the world's oil, but traffic there has slowed dramatically since Iran resumed its attacks on commercial ships. Drones also set fire to a gas ship at an Egyptian port and the fire spread to a second vessel. Nobody has claimed responsibility for that attack. Egypt is a US Ally. The acting US Attorney general will have to wait a little longer for Senate confirmation. As president. Trump considers punting until after the first of the year. World's Harrison Waters has more now from the nation's capital.
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Harrison Waters
Todd Blanche is hoping to have the acting label removed from his title, but the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed Thursday's scheduled meeting to vote on his nomination. Two Republicans on the panel, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas, continue to withhold support. They're demanding that the Justice Department confirm in writing that it will not revive a proposed $1.8 billion compensation fund for alleged victims of Biden era political targeting. The president on Thursday said he might withdraw Blanche's nomination until after Tillis and Cornyn are out of office. Cornyn was defeated in his GOP primary by a Trump backed rival and Tillis chose not to run for re election after Trump threatened to back an opponent. Their replacements will take their seats in January. Reporting for world, I'm Harrison Waters in Washington.
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Kent Covington
A Georgia judge handed down his sentence Thursday to a man who gave his son the gun that he later used in a deadly high school shooting. Barrow County Superior Court Judge Nicholas Prim told 55 year old Colin Gray, the
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Nick Iker
loss here is profound,
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Colin Garbarino
but I still
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John Stonestreet
have to distinguish your acts from the
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Nick Iker
malignant heart in the acts that Colt
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John Stonestreet
Gray committed upon the Appalachian School.
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Kent Covington
The judge sentenced his son, 16 year old Colt Gray, to life without parole. Two days earlier, Prem sentenced Colin Gray to 15 years behind bars even though prosecutors had requested 80.
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Nick Iker
He explained, it matters that you didn't intentionally commit a crime. It matters that you didn't plan an attack.
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Colin Garbarino
It matters that you didn't seek to harm anyone.
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Nick Iker
It matters that you didn't pull a trigger.
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Kent Covington
Colt Gray used the gun his father gave him as a Christmas gift to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachia High School in 2024. The US economy grew at a sluggish pace in the second quarter, with inflation still stubbornly elevated. World's Benjamin Eicher has that story.
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Colin Garbarino
The Commerce Department reports that economic growth cooled in the second quarter of this year. Real GDP grew at an annual rate of 1.5% from April through and that was lower than expected, dropping from 2.1% in the first quarter. But it's not because Americans weren't spending Consumer spending accelerated to 3.2% growth, up from 0.5% in quarter one. Some economists point to a surge in imports, particularly AI related technology. Economists will be watching whether this second quarter cooldown points to a broader trend. Meantime, the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits rose slightly by 9,000, while layoffs remain historically low. For World I'm Benjamin Eicher.
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Kent Covington
Spain has called in its military to help police its border with Morocco that after thousands of Moroccans crossed illegally Thursday into Ceuta, a small Spanish city on the North African coast, they walked and swam around a breakwater where the border fence meets the water. At least 18 people reportedly drowned. The city's government estimates 2 to 3,000 people made it into the city, though officials in Madrid will not confirm. A number city leaders in Ceuta blame a Spanish Supreme Court ruling this month. Officers can immediately turn back some fence climbers, but not people caught in the water. Spain also closed its border at Melilla after another mass entry attempt. I'm Ken Covington and coming up, John Stonestreet is standing by for Culture Friday. Plus your listener feedback for the month of July. This is the world and everything in It.
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Nick Iker
It's Friday, July 31, the last day of July. Summer is slipping away. Glad to have you along for today's edition of the World and everything in it. Good morning. I'm Nick Eicher.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. It's Culture Friday and joining us is John Stonestreet, president of the Colson center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. Morning, John.
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John Stonestreet
Good morning, John.
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Myrna Brown
We want to start with a story that has leaked over from the world of politics to the bigger world of culture. It's the Anthony Fauci story. You know, I think the Fauci story raises questions beyond politics or public health. This one gets at fame, ego, institutional trust. And what happens when a public official becomes kind of cultural symbol? What do you think this episode reveals, John, about the way we've thought of and treated scientific authority, especially during COVID 19. But not necessarily only during COVID Yeah,
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John Stonestreet
it was a remarkable thing to get kind of an inside look at the journals of Dr. Fauci. It was something else to just kind of go and decide not to address any of those things and consistently plead the Fifth. And of course, there's a lot of the questions around the legal maneuvering there since he's already been kind of pardoned. So what's he pleading the fifth about other than maybe the potential loss of credibility and celebrity status? Things that he clearly values and he clearly prizes above a lot of other things. But I think there's also other things to talk about. There's this sense I was listening to a radio program out of Denver that purportedly gives both sides on a political topics and that sort of thing. It's a really good morning show. I got a friend who is one of the co host on it and somebody was defending Fauci by continually coming back to the idea, well, we don't understand how science works. And that was really the mantra that enabled all of this sort of thing to go forward, which is that they know what they're doing. Right. That we can trust the scientists, we can certainly trust him. We can certainly trust the medical scientist. And as if these are people that are somehow impervious to the fall and they're impervious to ego and they're impervious to flattery. I remember years ago, Chuck Colson talking about Supreme Court justices who kind of oftentimes have that same sort of, or at least back then maybe not so much anymore, have that same sort of reputation of, you know, being kind of isolated in a cell where they cannot hear anybody from the outside. And they're just completely neutral and objective in their treatment of the law. And he said, you know what, they read newspapers too. They care what people say. And I think now that's more obviously true. But for some reason, when it came to somebody like Dr. Fauci, there was this sense that, you know, he's completely objective, that science itself is objective. That has been a myth of modern era for a long time. And you know, we, we say things like, well, the science says. And you remember how many of these specific outcomes of the COVID era were based on that sort of mantra. The science says, the science tells us this, the science tells us that. And what we found out is that what's true is science doesn't say anything. Scientists say things, and scientists are people. And scientists actually have opinions and emotions and biases and, and you know what? They're also infected by the fall and everything that comes along with that. And I think that this is a reminder, lest we somehow hold up a particular politician or a particular so called expert. And also I think too that this points to something that Hannah Arendt wrote about coming out of the Second World War, which is the amount of evil and injustice that's enabled just by bureaucracy. Right. I mean, just by paternalism, just by somebody saying, trust me, I'll tell you exactly how to be happy and fulfilled and hold your hand through it and do it in the name of compromising freedom, as if that's a necessary prerequisite to have the safety that is promised. And the modern state is paternalistic. And the modern state, by being paternalistic, enables an awful lot of injustice and that stuff, what's the word? Calcifies into real evil. So I think there's something here to be learned about the human person, and there's something here to be learned about the way that this state operates in the modern era.
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Myrna Brown
Right. You know, there is also another layer here, John. I'm thinking about Dr. Fauci's private journal. Now, typically these can be a place for confession, prayer, processing, even spiritual discipline. But when a public figure's private words become public evidence. Well, you know, I wonder how Christians might think about that.
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Nick Iker
Yeah, I think so too. And to put a finer point on it, you know, because we all deal in words and in a way, I was kind of horrified for the guy. We, you know, we publish a magazine and that goes through layers of editors. We've got news copy before it goes online. Layers of editors. This program, I think we're pretty careful. We try to be careful with the words we choose there's quite a lot of scripting, some extemporizing, but, you know, you, John, trade in words all the time. You're speaking extemporaneously a lot of the time. But after tons of preparation and thought and reading. Isn't it kind of terrifying though, the idea that your unguarded thoughts would just be out there on public display under pain of perjury too?
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John Stonestreet
You know, yeah, it is terrifying to think that, you know, I wouldn't want anyone to publish or read my journal into the records of a congressional hearing by any means. You could see that his concern there is for a carefully crafted public image and that that is one of the challenges of all of us right in an airbrushed age, that we want to have a carefully calculated public image and we can even deceive ourselves as if that's the real us. I think a lot about a line that Chuck Colson used to say in this era of Nixon maxing, you know, where President Nixon is, having a moment is just one of the things that Chuck said over and over and over, which is there's no limit to the human capacity for self rationalization. And even when you look at the Nixon question, a lot of people trying to rehab him. J.D. vance, for example, saying that this would have been a pretty short news cycle story and definitely would not have brought down the President and what he did wasn't that bad and things like that. Chuck didn't go there. Chuck believed that what they enabled was really bad, even if he also believed that the coverage of it and the treatment that they received was unfair, which it was. But at the same time, there's none of us that are above the fall. There's none of us that are unaffected. We want to carefully calculate our public image. We wouldn't want people to know our private thoughts. It is a terrifying thing for humans to hear the words which the psalmist meant to be comforting. No matter where you go, you are known. You go into the heavens, you're known, you go into the depths of the grave, you are known. You know, me and I remember reading that passage and discussing it with a group of college seniors once and said, how do you react to that? And the overwhelming response was, that's terrifying because we have these carefully calculated, protected images and the real us, we know it, we don't want other people to know it.
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Nick Iker
Well, John, radical change of topic here because this is a little bit of an older story, but I do want to draw a contrast between the way that Germany reacted to different instances of Islamist attacks inside the country. So what I'm talking about here is the description by German leaders of the Islamist attack on the Pride celebration outside Berlin recently, characterizing it as an assault on the country's way of life, its openness, its freedom, its liberal democracy, and language like that that we heard. It strongly contrasts, in my mind, anyway, with the time that Islamic terrorists targeted Germany's Christmas markets. At that time, officials defended public safety and social freedom, but they were very reluctant to describe those attacks as assaults on the country's Christian inheritance. So you've got modern Europe speaking very confidently about LGBTQ identity as part of its civilization and then struggle to speak with the same confidence about Christianity. Do you think that is simply a difference in political rhetoric, or is it just more evidence that Europe has replaced one understanding of what is sacred with another understanding of what is sacred?
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John Stonestreet
You know, the LGBTQ movement, particularly as it exists as part of the larger sexual revolution, is not just an issue of morality. It's an issue of identity. Not just individual identity, but corporate identity. Who is it that makes us who we are? And at the end of the day, there's a vision of this that says that we are who we self construct, and that's the most true thing about us. And anyone who doesn't acknowledge that change according to that framework, then, is a colonializer. It's an oppressor. It's an absolute absurd thing to watch. The reactions here to this attack on Pride parade, not only basically saying, I mean, that this is an attack on Berlin's way of life. I mean, it was kind of like when President Joe Biden said that the transgender community was the greatest contributor of something in American culture today or something. I mean, it was just the most bizarre, patently absurd, observably untrue thing that you could say about the state of democracy, unless it is that you're retrofitting some sort of ideology. And that's what's happening here. But it was interesting, too, that people that were posting, from government officials to some of the activists themselves, still then turning around and blaming the attacks on white straight men. And it was incredible. Even though Muslims did it. The idea was we can't blame anyone who is a person of color or another oppressed minority. And so that just kind of tells you then that our foundational understanding of identity has been replaced. Any sense that we are some kind of metaphysical creature responding to ultimate questions of life and meaning and making our own decisions and acting independently has been completely replaced. And with this idea that we are the group that we belong to and that we identify with and that those groups have moral value based on their perceived levels of oppression. I mean, next week's Brussels Pride Parade is featuring queers from Palestine or queer, sorry, queers for Palestine, because we know there's no queers from Palestine. It's absurd. It's disconnected from reality, and it is based fully on ideology. But that's the kind of creatures humans are. Humans don't see with their eyes. They see through them. They see through the lens not only of their eyes, but their ideological assumptions and biases and prejudices. And through that, they interpret. It's almost like worldview matters, which is. It's almost like we need a center for Christian worldview to help us think about these things, which is why the Colson center exists. No, I mean, look, there's story after story that just demonstrates how worldviews exist and how they not only serve as lenses, but they serve as blinders. And we don't take that as seriously as we should. Until you see something like this and say, this is unhinged. Because it is unhinged. But this isn't just a handful of people that are unhinged. This is a complete society that's unhinged. And there you go.
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Myrna Brown
Well, speaking of unhinged. Right. When kids return to school in Minnesota, something called My Gender Dolls could be waiting for them in the classroom. According to the New York Post, they were developed through the University of Minnesota, created with taxpayer dollars sanctioned by Governor Tim Walz. The idea is to use them to teach young children that gender is something they can define for themselves. The target age is reportedly 4 to 10 years old. So if you thought this issue was going away, think again.
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John Stonestreet
I mean, I don't know how much longer we're gonna give these kinds of activists access to our children. When you just see a systemic pattern of grooming, grooming for confusion, telling young people that they hate themselves. We know that it disproportionately affects young girls and pre adolescent girls at a level that is hard to fathom until you actually see the numbers. And you know what? I think Hasbro should turn around and sue the Minnesota school for corrupting what was a really great idea, which was Mr. Potato Head. This is the corruption of Mr. Potato Head at a profane level. Maybe we need Carl Truman after writing the Desecration of Man, to write the desecration of Mr. Potato Head. And because that's what's happening, I think
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Nick Iker
you should co write it with him, actually.
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Myrna Brown
Yeah, me too. For sure. John Stonestreet is President of the Colson center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. Thank you John.
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John Stonestreet
Thank you both.
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Kent Covington
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Nick Iker
Today is Friday, July 31st. Thank you for turning to world radio to help start your day. 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, Spider Man. In the midst of the pandemic lockdowns of 2021, no way home lured viewers back to movie theaters to resolve the previous film's cliffhanger. No Way home made almost $2 billion worldwide, making it far and away the big biggest hit of the pandemic years.
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Nick Iker
And of course, that movie had its own cliffhanger. And now, five years later, fans will get to find out what is next for the web slinger. Here is world's arts and culture editor, Colin Garbarino on the latest franchise offering.
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Colin Garbarino
Brand New Day begins four years after the events of the previous installment in the Spider man saga.
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Peter Parker
Hi, my name is Peter Parker.
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John Stonestreet
I have something for to tell you that's gonna sound crazy.
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Colin Garbarino
At the end of no Way Home, the world forgot that Peter Parker existed. Not even his girlfriend, MJ and his best friend Ned remember who he is. Peter has resigned himself to being alone while those he loves move on with their lives. I can't believe our first day at mit.
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John Stonestreet
Mj, Come on. Pretend like you're not the happiest you've ever been in your entire life.
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Colin Garbarino
I can't.
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John Stonestreet
I knew it.
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Colin Garbarino
Peter pours himself into the work of being Spider man, fighting crime and cleaning up the streets of New York. Despite his loneliness, he thinks he's satisfied with life. But everything comes crashing down. A new mysterious villain who has the ability to hijack the minds of other people shows up. MJ and Ned could be in danger. And Peter loses his sense of control as his body starts to undergo further mutations.
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John Stonestreet
I'm losing my mind.
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Colin Garbarino
Brand New Day Once stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker, a role that he's come to define as much as Robert Downey Jr. Did for iron Man. Zendaya and Jacob Batallen return to the roles of MJ and Ned. Some other faces from the Marvel Cinematic Universe make appearances. Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, AKA the Hulk, and Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle, the Punisher. There's a new guy behind the camera, though, director Destin Daniel Cretton, who manages to preserve many of the franchise's appealing aspects while adding some nice touches of his own.
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Myrna Brown
Dr.
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Ron Yeager
Banner.
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Nick Iker
No Ben.
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Colin Garbarino
On the whole, I think this movie is just as good as any of the others that came before it in the franchise. Spider man is quite possibly America's favorite superhero at the moment, and Holland plays him with the kind of innocence and vulnerability that's hard not to like. Even though Brand New Day contains plenty of spectacular action, Honestly, these are some of my favorite fight scenes in any Marvel movie. The film stays close to the ground. Peter isn't saving the world in this movie, he's saving people. This film leans into his identity as a friendly neighborhood Spider Man. I'm mj.
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John Stonestreet
I'm just a neighbor from across the hall.
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Colin Garbarino
Friendly neighbor. And even though Peter's friends no longer remember who he is, his interactions with MJ and Ned make up the emotional core of this movie. Fans who are more invested in Peter's relationships than his heroics won't be disappointed by Brand New Day.
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Nick Iker
The Spidey TR Tracker app says that
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John Stonestreet
Spider man is in the direct vicinity.
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Myrna Brown
Oh yeah, no way.
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Colin Garbarino
That's crazy. But this film feels a little more grown up than previous Spider man movies. Peter's biggest personal concern used to be whether he would get to sit next to his crush. Now he's dealing with loneliness and mental struggles. There's definitely some commentary about our atomized society here. The content is also a little more mature than the earlier movies. Most of this comes from the inclusion of Frank Castle. He's a hard headed vigilante, not a superhero, and he tends to use more PG13 language than we get in the average Marvel movie. But Frank provides the story with an interesting contrast to Peter. Frank is more interested in exacting vengeance than saving the world, and he believes every problem can be solved with a gun. Peter respects Frank as a person, but he thinks putting a bullet in the bad guys is the easy way out. This film doubles down on the theme of redemption in the third movie, where Peter realizes a hero should try to save everyone, not just the innocent. It's a surprisingly Christian attitude. After all, while we were sinners, Christ died for us. Another nice thing about this movie is that knowing about all the other Marvel films isn't strictly necessary. Watching the other Tom Holland Spider man movies is all you need to enjoy this one. That said, however, Brand New Day seems to point to what's coming up in the broader Marvel Cinematic Universe. And for the first time in a long time, I felt like maybe the MCU was getting back on track. But whether or not it does, these Spider man movies have been highlights of the mcu, and Brand New Day will definitely shake off some of the superhero fatigue we've all been feeling lately.
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Peter Parker
Because I'm not just Peter Parker, I'm Spider Man.
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Colin Garbarino
And I'm Colin Garberino.
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Myrna Brown
Good morning. This is the World and everything in it from listener supported World Radio. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Nick Iker
And I'm Nick Iker. Time now for listener feedback for the month of July. Ron Yeager from St. Charles, Illinois had something to say after we talked with John Stonestreet about how many conversations these days become political, even when they didn't necessarily start that way.
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Ron Yeager
I could not help but think that the word politics has, like so many other words, has morphed into a new PC dimension that dehumanizes and neuters the deep dive into the moral and virtuous topic into a superficial intellectual level, thereby moving it away from a moral and virtuous foundation for our analysis. The result of this moving to a different sphere is very dangerous by oversimplifying it to a how do we or how should we live? In essence, moving the topic out of a perceived worldview issue, the left gains ground by making it purely a political versus a moral or virtuous discussion. The result is to reduce the topic to a humanism issue. Leaving God's perspective on the sidelines is to discern in darkness versus in light. Our response when these topics are raised, I would suggest, is to raise the perspective of what are the moral and virtuous perspectives that should guide our thoughts.
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Myrna Brown
Victor Chen contacted us after hearing Lauren Smith's story about naloxone, the drug that can stop overdoses. The segment ended by drawing a parallel about the value of saving individual lives, using an old story about starfish.
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Colin Garbarino
I recalled sharing the same story with a co worker when I worked at a secondary insurance company, matching provider addresses at the beginning of every month. The backlog felt overwhelming, and clearing a single line hardly seemed to make a dent. Yet each line we cleared often meant that provider would receive payment for services already rendered. Like the starfish returned to the ocean, each line may have seemed insignificant on its own, but it made all the difference to the provider it affected.
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Nick Iker
Becky Wade from Colorado had a connection to two of our stories last month.
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I
This month you had two specific items that touched me very personally. First, you reported on the bison rancher and his love for the bison and I just have to agree with him wholeheartedly. My husband and I also ranch bison in northern Colorado and they are magnificent creatures and just blow my mind with the creativity from God when he made those animals. And then secondly, you had another item about men and abortion and that is also something that just really speaks to me. I work for my local pregnancy resource center and we have recently been discussing how to better serve men who have been affected by abortion and I was just really moved by your reporting on that as well. Thank you so much for all that you do and the amazing quality of your work.
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Myrna Brown
And Dan Clement from Apex, North Carolina had this to say about our history book segment about early American Days of Prayer and what it says about the role of religion in the founding of the country. He wanted to see what happens if you flip the questions Playing out a scenario of a nation founded on atheism.
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Peter Parker
I find myself much more interested in the question, should every nation be a Christian nation? My answer is yes. Jesus said, go make disciples of all the nations. Now of course, many people would reply, I don't want to follow the God of Christianity and we must not of course force Christianity upon them, but we must pray and evangelize all nations. America truly has been blessed by having had a rich Christian history, and I'm grateful for that. But on the eternal scheme of things, a nation's orientation at founding is as meaningless as an individual's orientation at founding. I was born a pagan and Yahweh's happy for me to stay that way. No, the Lord is not wishing for any to perish, but all to come to repentance. I'm not suggesting that we ignore the question of orientation at founding. It has real impact on a temporal level. But I think that as evangelical Christians who know that becoming a follower of Christ would be a blessing for any and all, regardless of how they view that prospect at the moment, it is important that we ask additional questions and then move forward actively to help all nations experience the blessings of belief in Christ.
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Nick Iker
And finally, we have received a lot of feedback from weekend listeners. We've had some terrific programs for you, covering everything from America at 250 to two powerful double take episodes on the courage of those who have spoken out against transgender surgeries and other interventions. Tomorrow we'll have Mary Reichard's full interview with pro life activist Ryan Bomberger, from which you heard an excerpt on Tuesday. In the Larger Conversation, he talks about this so many times.
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John Stonestreet
People look at a situation say, I could never go through that. I could never do that. I could never endure that. But yet that's how God makes us. We are overcomers. We're not undercomers.
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Kent Covington
We are overcomers.
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John Stonestreet
And for those who aren't connected with God, I can imagine how much harder it is to actually believe that because, you know, you're not believing. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
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Myrna Brown
And we'll be eager to hear from you about that episode, too. And that's this month's listener feedback.
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Nick Iker
All right. Time now to name the team who helped out with this week's programs. Mary Reichard, David Bonson, Lauren Canterbury, Bethel McGrew, Abigail Johnson, Hunter Baker, William Fleeson, Janie B. Cheney, Lauren Smith, Cal Thomas, John Stonestreet and Colin Garbarino. Thanks also to our breaking news crew, Kent Covington, Steve Klosterman, Travis Kercher, Daniel Devine and Christina Grube. And thanks to our tech production team, Ben Jeicher, Carl Peetz and Josh Gagne. Harrison Waters is Washington producer. Kristin Flavin is features editor. Emma Eicher is assistant producer. Lindsay Mast is producer. I'm executive producer Nick Eicher.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. 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 one thing. Have I asked of the Lord that what will I seek after that? I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple? Verse 4 of Psalm 27. Well, as you head to the house of the Lord this weekend, may the preaching be faithful to the word. May the fellowship be warm and the praise genuine. And we'll meet you right back here on Monday. Go now in grace and peace.