Listener Feedback

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: Today is Friday, April 28th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Paul Butler.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Up next, listener feedback for the month April. We begin today with a handful of corrections:

EICHER: During April 4th’s Classic Book of the Month we featured Andrew Murray’s book on humility. During the interview our guest said this:

CURLES: The famous line from Lewis is ‘Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.’

That prompted listener William O'Flaherty to write in. O’Flaherty is a C.S. Lewis expert. In fact he’s published a whole book of quotes misattributed to Lewis, and this is one of them. O’Flaherty says this on his website:

This sounds like a Lewis quote, but it’s not. Some cite it as coming from Mere Christianity, but it is not actually found there…it appears to come from Rick Warren’s book: The Purpose Driven Life. So credit him, not Lewis.

Here’s what Lewis did write about humility in Mere Christianity:

“It is better to forget about yourself altogether.”

Good advice from C.S. Lewis, and a helpful correction from William O’Flaherty. Thank you.

BUTLER: Next, during my April 10th History Book segment on the anniversary of the Boston marathon bombing, I played a newscast clip from WQAD. I then referred to it as a Boston television station, but Brian Edwards of Dracut, Massachusetts, sent me a detailed list of all the local stations—pointing out that WQAD is not from Beantown. After doing a little digging, I found out it hails from my neck of the woods—Moline, IL. We have removed the reference from our program transcript.

EICHER: Next, to one of our newscast items: Andrew and Betty Harpur from Glensdale, Pennsylvania, sent in this reminder: Ireland and Northern Ireland are two different countries. When we reported on President Biden’s visit to Belfast during our April 11th program we said he was in Ireland instead of Northern Ireland. We should have caught that before airing the story.

BUTLER: One more correction this morning, in last week’s History Book on the life and ministry of missionary pioneer George Verwer, I said that he stepped down from leading Operation Mobilization in 2013. It was in fact, 2003. We have updated the story and transcript.

EICHER: Now to some feedback on recent segments. Sophia Elliot lives on the West Coast and she left us this voicemail after Cal Thomas highlighted the failed state of California in a recent commentary.

SOPHIA ELLIOTT: I fully appreciate all of his comments. We are in trouble. But even while it’s easy to criticize our state I really would covet the prayers and remembrances of other believers. We really want to be bright lights. And I ask that you would pray that we would be bold witnesses in the places that God has placed us, that we would be quick to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that we would not get discouraged in where we live even as it’s hard to be a Conservative voter. Please pray that we remain steadfast, and that we would put our hope and trust in God alone for the future of our state and our country. Thank you very much.

Thanks Sophia. Cal’s criticism of California is of those who govern it. We are all grateful for the testimony of the millions of Christians around the world that live in difficult places and under ungodly officials. Thank you for the reminder to pray for all who bring the light of the gospel in the everyday circumstances of life.

BUTLER: And finally this morning, we end with this voicemail from Tim Cox:

TIM COX: Long time listener and I just love how WORLD is diversifying its podcast portfolio. And thank you especially for Les Sillars’ Doubletake podcast and the Singletake episode that released on April 1st. I think every listener should listen to this and just how it reveals the evil of euthanasia in Canada. And how in the home of this elderly woman, Joanne, her helper was enabling this physician assisted suicide request. Thank you for revealing this. What starts in Canada won't necessarily stay in Canada. So we need to be alert and aware of what is happening in the medical community. So thank you again for your work. God bless.

Good news Tim, Les and his team are back this weekend with another Singletake episode. Not quite as serious, but just as hard-hitting, as we feature the harrowing story of a skydiver whose parachute fails. Also this weekend, the second episode of Effective Compassion, Season 4—this time highlighting “open adoption.”

EICHER: Well that’s it for this month’s Listener Feedback. Thanks to everyone who wrote and called in. 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 and send those along as well. We’ve included instructions on how to do that on our website: wng.org/podcasts. Or you can phone in your feedback. Our listener line is ‪(202) 709-9595.

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