Listener Feedback for June

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, June 30th. 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 for the month of June. We begin today with a handful of corrections.

Yes, we’ve got to set the record straight. The first one comes from the June 5th History Book. An item on Charles Spurgeon. Doctor Ed Read pointed out to us that Spurgeon suffered from bright's disease, b-r-i-g-h-t, bright’s disease. Not blight with an “L,” as we reported. Correction made in the transcript.

EICHER: Next, a June 15th story on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the PCA. In our promo at the start of the program we called it “the Presbyterian Church OF America” and it should have been “the Presbyterian Church IN America.” PCA elder B.L. Peters reminded us of the correct name, which many of us knew, because it’s the denomination of which the congregation in which I’m a member belongs. That one fell through the proverbial cracks. Sorry about that, fellow PCA people.

BROWN: Two corrections now from our June 20th story on elections in Spain. First of all, we identified Pedro Sanchez as “President” when he’s in fact the Prime Minister.

Additionally, we gave the wrong year for Francisco Franco’s death. He died in 1975.

EICHER: Now an oversight. In our June 16th Father’s Day commentary, we never identified Andrew Belz’s father by name. We simply said Andrew’s dad. Listener Bill MacDonald thought we should set the record straight, and we agree. Andrew Belz and WORLD’s founder Joel Belz are brothers, and their godly father was Max V. Belz.

BROWN: One final correction this morning—and we received a lot of mail pointing this out. In our June 15th story on the growing shortage of medical caregivers in nursing homes, we incorrectly lumped CNAs and registered nurses together. We referred to all of them as nurses. But listener Lizzie Kiesle sent us this:

LIZZIE KIESLE: Thank you for covering the nursing shortage in nursing homes. However, the information lacked clarity on terms. It is common but inaccurate to call many health professionals nurses. Your segment mentions the potential Connecticut law mandates that nurses should spend 4.1 hours with nursing home residents. The law actually includes both nurses and certified nursing assistants in that 4.1 hour requirement, certified nursing assistants or aides rather than actual nurses typically provide the majority of care to residents in nursing homes. And it is important to distinguish the difference again. Thank you so much for covering important topics like this one.

EICHER: Our thanks to all those who care for people in our nation’s nursing homes.

BROWN: A quick note of appreciation from one of our listeners about a recent History Book entry on the history of typewriters. Susan Jones from Indianapolis wrote us to say how much she loved that piece. Susan told us she’s blind and uses her typewriter almost every day. Because she can’t use a pen or pencil, that typewriter, she says, is indispensable for writing a quick note on a card or nice stationery. Susan, thank you for writing us, and for listening.

EICHER: One last email this morning from long-time subscriber and listener Allen Miller. He starts off expressing his appreciation of The World and Everything in It and the many spin offs. But he was particularly moved by the recent Effective Compassion season on the church and foster care.

His family listened to each episode, together as a family, and they shed many tears while listening. He said they hadn’t been WORLD donors, but the Effective Compassion season motivated them to give as a show of support.

BROWN: That’s great. What an encouragement!

EICHER: It is, and I think you’ll really appreciate this, too. I want to quote this part of the letter as he concludes, and here’s the big surprise: “we start our foster care training course next month.” How about that!

Well, I think that’s a great conclusion to our June Giving Drive. There’s still a little time left if you mean to make a gift to help us get a good start to our new fiscal year. So a gentle reminder to visit wng.org/donate.

BROWN: 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.

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