Listener Feedback

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, March 31st. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Up next, Listener Feedback. We begin today with some corrections. A few listeners wrote in to point out a mis-identified song that we included at the end of this month’s Ask the Editor. Listener Jonathan Howard lives in Atlanta and sent us this message:

HOWARD: I am so grateful for this podcast and the reliable source of news from a Biblical worldview. On Friday March 3rd, you closed the podcast and introduced the cover of the song “Create in Me a Clean Heart” as arranged by Terry Talbot. Terry Talbot does have an arrangement of that song, but it's actually with slightly different lyrics and then a different musical arrangement. The particular arrangement that was covered on the podcast is the arrangement by Keith Green.

Thanks Jonathan. Both are good songs, and we did confuse the two.

The next correction comes from Mikeala Skelton from Hickory, North Carolina. She caught a factual error in our recent kicker about the Harry Potter toy owl stuck under the couch.

MIKEALA SKELTON: At the end of the story, Nick, says, "This is more of an Errol the owl thing, not a Hedwig the owl thing. It would never happen to him." If by him, he was referring to Hedwig, I just wanna clarify that Hedwig is a girl. I just wanted to call and make that correction. I really enjoy the podcast. Have an awesome day, week, month, year.

EICHER: Hey, I’m just a Muggle, so I did consult with an expert on Hedwig and Errol. What I neglected to fact-check was the sex of the creatures, and so that’s on me, Mikaela, obviously. Thanks for letting us know! And I hope you have an awesome day, week, month, year too!

While we’re talking about corrections, we just wanted to take a moment and identify an editing decision we didn’t make.

Last month we ran a three-part series on Baby Boxes and Safe Haven laws. Both sides of the debate had criticisms of each other—most of which is fair, and a matter of opinion.

But the mistake we made was airing a criticism that was an assertion of fact that one party had failed businesses. Upon review, we were not able to confirm the assertion made by one of the guests.

Judging businesses was beyond the scope of our story, and so we should have simply edited that criticism out. And we regret that we didn’t.

We’ve removed the reference from the piece.

BROWN: Alright, more comments from listeners: First, Duncan Homes from Fredericksburg, Texas, sent us this message after our recent Culture Friday segment on the Anglican church and its support of same-sex marriage.

DUNCAN HOLMES: Although I'm a member of and faithfully attend a church of another affiliation. I was a baptized and confirmed Episcopalian in an earlier time. Sadly, I didn't hear much gospel preaching or Bible teaching in the churches that I attended back then. So having observed the goings on in the Episcopal Church in the USA for some time, it comes as no surprise as to what's happening with the Church of England. And it's sad and outrageous. The only thing I can say is this from the Book of Common Prayer, Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy. Lord have mercy on us.

Moving now to Whitney Williams’ profile of a Bible smuggler. We got this email from a long-time listener:

He’s an Air Force pilot who was in North Korea two times, five nights in total. He says he did his daily Bible study with his English/Korean New Testament. He read aloud every morning in front of what he assumed was a two-way mirror. And at the end of his second trip, he gave the Bible to his handler. He went on to tell us that when he was on deployment to Turkey. He brought along 25 Turkish Bibles from American Bible Society. He ended this way:

I pray that God has used those Bibles for His Kingdom!

Well, amen, and we do, too!

EICHER: We received this email yesterday after our extended conversation with Kim Henderson and Lauren Canterberry who were in Nashville covering the aftermath of the shooting at the Christian school. This note is by Nathan Van Dyken, Luverne, Minnesota, and I’ll read a portion:

In a situation where the devil would love to see despair and despondency, you brought hope and solace. My prayers will continue to be with your team and World News Group as you seek to shine a light in the dark and still-darkening world.

Well, certainly pray for our reporters. Some of the things you see when you go out on a story stick with you, profoundly. It’s difficult work.

BROWN: And before we go this morning, just a quick heads up for a weekend listening opportunity from WORLD Radio. Les Sillars and the Doubletake team are hard at work on season two which will be ready in July. But over the next few months, Les will be occasionally presenting what he’s calling a “Singletake.” Here’s how he describes it:

LES SILLARS: Doubletake stories are usually 40 to 50 minutes long and they often involve a number of sources and people. A Singletake is a shorter story told by just one person. Usually about 20 minutes. Mostly you'll hear the person telling the story or questions from the reporter and sometimes we'll jump in with narration to provide some context. The stories themselves are ideas. We came across as we were working on season two of Doubletake, somebody would tell us about some amazing thing that happened to them, but it just didn't seem like it would work for a full episode. But these are definitely Doubletake level stories. When we pick stories for the show, we're looking for interesting people encountering big ideas and these stories. They fit. We plan to release four Singletakes between now and the start of season 2—one a month. We hope you'll check them out and that you'll follow Doubletake on your favorite podcast app.

So be sure to listen tomorrow to an incredible story of a Canadian woman who had two days to save her mother’s life.

EICHER: Well that’s it for this month’s Listener Feedback. Thanks to everyone who wrote and called. If you have comments to share with us you can send them to editor@wng.org. And if you’re writing, why not take a moment and record your comments on your phone’s voice memo app and send that along as well?

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