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LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. 

I’m Lindsay Mast.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. 

Time now for Listener Feedback for the Month of May!

Laura Devine from Tacoma, Washington, wrote in about Myrna Brown’s May 14th story on the year-long project of a recently graduated Colson Fellow.

LAURA DEVINE: I was so convicted and inspired by Chris Smith and how she wanted to work with young women in her church, and she did not give up when it was a little hard getting connected. I personally was neither persistent nor faithful when God called me to do something very similar. So, thank you so much for sharing the story. It was something I really needed to hear.

MAST: Nathan Howell from Amarillo, Texas, heard Mary Reichard’s interview with JP DeGance and had a different perspective on the topic of the church’s support for marriage.

NATHAN HOWELL: I liked how the story focused on how many divorces can be prevented through the church's involvement. This is good in actively fighting the culture of divorce. If a marriage is really worth saving, then even those outside of any marriage should help their friends to fight for it. 

But I confess that I feel forgotten in all these discussions. 

I got divorced over 10 years ago by no choice of my own. I tried to stay married to my wife in all the ways I knew how through two years of trying. 

So I just wanted to say that there are many people like me who know that our lives are not forever stained by divorce, yet it does not seem that there are many in the church who acknowledge this, at least not openly... I would simply like more people to understand and to care for the divorced around them, to hope for their satisfaction in life, following Jesus the best way we know how, from a place of brokenness.

EICHER: Sarah Driesse shares a personal connection to the Milton Hershey History Book we aired May 11th.

SARAH DRIESSE: My great grandfather was a lead farmer on one of his farms, and then both of my grandparents, as teenagers, worked on Milton Hershey farms, and all of them would have known him well, and met him. 

Of course, since I was born 40 years after he died, I never met him, but he is very much a part of my family history. So, I wanted to share that...

Most people know about Hershey Park, but they don't know the man that made it. And he and his wife, not being able to have children themselves, dedicated their life to doing good to orphans. And then their legacy, all their inheritance, went to bettering the lives of disadvantaged children. So he's a wonderful man to highlight, and thank you for doing that.

MAST: Finally, just one of many messages we received after Myrna Brown’s interview with Iranian-American pastor and author David Nasser. It aired the last Saturday in April, so it came in after Listener Feedback last month, but we think it’s worth sharing. 

Here’s Neal Cummings from Rexford, NY, who captures the gist of the feedback we got:

NEAL CUMMINGS: Myrna, I have to tell you that was one of the best interviews I think you've ever done, perhaps even your magnum opus. 

Thank you so much for your diligence and your way of interviewing, and thanks to God for David Nasser in being a great person to interview. And thank the Lord for the way He redeemed David, and the way David and his family have been changed by the grace, mercy, and power of God. 

Thank you so much for your faithfulness, Myrna. Always appreciate listening to you.

EICHER: And that’s Listener Feedback for the month of May.

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