Listener Feedback

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, July 1st. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Time now for Listener Feedback—starting today with a correction. A handful of you wrote in after Cal Thomas’s June 2nd commentary attributed the Third Law of Thermodynamics to Isaac Newton.

Listener Eric Lehmkuhl put it this way:

Isaac Newton was an amazingly intelligent man, but thermodynamics was not his specialty. Cal Thomas was referring to Newton's laws of motion. He may have confused thermodynamics with dynamics! Easy to do.

BROWN: Another correction now. Emily Whitten recommended Whose Body? By Dorothy L. Sayers for our June Classic Book of the Month. But in her review, Emily didn’t include the “L” in Sayers’ name. That prompted this note from Kerry Mumford Montgomery, and I’ll read it to you:

Dorothy Leigh Sayers wanted the L always used…No one would leave out the S in C. S. Lewis. Why drop the L in Dorothy L. Sayers? Let's honor her wishes and the standard use of her name for decades.

Moving on to other feedback. Jesse from Tampa Bay recorded this message after Monday’s History Book:

JESSE: While I generally appreciate WORLD’s approach of understated prose for overstated facts—the choice of the word “curtail” to characterize China's actions toward the people of Hong Kong in the past decade...I can only consider inaccurate and worthy of correction. China's actions are clearly intended to eliminate the people's freedom and ability to dissent. And the choice of the word curtail simply doesn't fit the proverbial bill. Thank you for what you do.

Well, thanks for listening and you know on reflection, I think we all agree with that.

EICHER: Yes, alright. Well, after Amy Lewis’s recent profile of the Australian musical group Sons of Korah, Retired US Navy Chaplain Don Belanus wrote in thanking us for the story. But he was surprised we “neglected to reference that Reformed Christians have been singing the Psalms for generations.” He added:

I appreciate the music of the Sons of Korah, but I would also submit that setting Psalms to music for congregational singing—a task of a very different order—is very difficult indeed and at least as valuable! Thank you for your ongoing good work.

BROWN: Next, Paul Gable from Edmond, Oklahoma, recorded this response to our June 8th program:

GABLE: Good job by WORLD for airing Mary Reichard’s interview with former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb. That was really interesting, and so much better than listening to one more politician or public policy theorist drone on about what needs to be done regarding gun safety. Thanks to the team at World for your efforts at finding people who don't always get to be heard, but, like Brandon Webb, can add valuable insights to what's going on in the news. Keep up the good work.

EICHER: However, not everyone shares Paul’s perspective. Jason Blosser from Arizona wrote:

The problem is broken families and mental health, not restrictions on my “shall not be infringed” Second Amendment rights.

The so-called “common ground” argument on your podcast historically means Republicans caving to Democrats.

BROWN: Another segment that received a lot of feedback was our Washington Wednesday guest a few weeks ago on the January 6th committee.

Jared Meyer had this to say:

I had to stop what I was doing to write and say THANK YOU! The discussion was fair, honest, and did a good job of summarizing the hearings so far without straying into the sensationalism or denialism common to either side of the political divide on this.

EICHER: Listener Hank Scholz, however, disagreed. He says:

We are very disappointed about your one-sided reporting on June 15, 2022, concerning the Jan. 6 kangaroo court. There are thousands of hours of interviews and videos that prove the lie the committee is perpetuating. Just report all the facts.

BROWN: Linda Berg listens to the program from Woodbury, Minnesota and she recorded this message for us after Kim Henderson’s two stories on scammers who take advantage of seniors:

BERG: My 87 year old dad was nearly a victim of scammers. But my dad and our whole family are wanting to tell everyone we know about this to prevent others from falling victim. I imagined so many elderly that are scammed are embarrassed they won't tell others about this. Thank you for making people aware of these crimes. I'm hoping with greater awareness and with banks, maybe postal workers like Kim Henderson's dad's case, will be on the lookout and maybe these scammers will stop doing this. And I look forward to reading the article in the next issue of WORLD Magazine. Thanks.

We’ll include links in today’s transcript to Kim’s stories—from both the podcast and the magazine.

EICHER: And finally today, Zac from Atlanta wrote in with this question:

Dear World team,

When will another episode of Lawless [be ready]? … Thanks, really enjoying the series!

Glad to hear that Zac. Well good news! We released Episode 6 yesterday on the Lawless feed and will post it here to this channel Saturday morning.

BROWN: If you haven’t listened to any of the past episodes, they’re available anywhere you get your podcasts, or you can listen to them online at: wng.org/podcasts

Lynn Vincent and the team are hard at work on the final few episodes of season one. You won’t want to miss them!

Thanks to everyone who wrote in this month.

EICHER: Finally, a word of appreciation. Our Spring Giving Drive is done and thanks to you, we succeeded in reaching the goal. We’re so excited about the new Fiscal Year ahead. It’s listener support, of course, that keeps us going every day and allows us to start new projects like the one that began this very morning. We’re working with Faith Radio and Moody Radio to supply broadcast news to their stations’ audiences. Those good folks came to us with this opportunity and I think it’s a recognition of the quality work Kent Covington and his team do, powered by the work of our breaking news team led by Lynde Langdon. Again, your support is what allows us to serve even more people with sound journalism grounded in facts and biblical truth.

BROWN: … and that’s this week’s listener feedback.

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