Listener Feedback: March 2025

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, March 28th. 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 for the month of March. We start today with a handful of corrections and clarifications.

BROWN: Yesterday, we misidentified the waterway protected by the terms of the partial ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. We should have said they covered the Black Sea.

EICHER: On March 25th we mistakenly identified the SS United States as the US Navy’s largest and fastest ship when it was built. It had never been called into duty, and so remained a civilian passenger vessel—and as such, it doesn’t earn that naval distinction.

BROWN: A couple times in recent newscasts we have conflated the Dome of the Rock with the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The two are distinct buildings.

EICHER: On March 10^th, in our History Book we covered the anniversary of the murder of abortionist David Gunn. In that story we alluded to a statement by Don Treshman—though not by name. In doing so we misidentified him as a leader with Operation Rescue, when in fact he was with Rescue America. We have noted the correction on our transcript.

BROWN: A number of listeners sent in feedback on that story, but here are a few comments from Danielle Versluys, who says she had a front row seat to the sit-ins.

DANIELLE VERSLUYS: The murder of David Gunn was a tragic event in the history of the pro life movement, not only because the murder of every human person is tragic, right, but because it provided fodder for pro-abortion attacks on the integrity and ethics of the pro-life movement as a whole. I am the daughter of a national leader in Operation Rescue, a former national leader in Operation Rescue. And all the leaders that I spoke to said that while there was intense debate in the debate in the 1990s about the question of justifiable homicide, Operation Rescue as an organization, consistently and unequivocally condemned the murder of abortion doctors. I remember that myself being there in person, hearing the discussions, the debate amongst the leaders. I saw and heard from all the leaders regularly, because my father was on the national staff. So they consistently condemned the murder of abortion doctors as an organization.

BROWN: Sticking with History Book feedback. Here’s Abby DeVaughn.

ABBY DEVAUGHN: I wanted to say that the WORLD History Book about Franz Jagerstatter was so inspiring. I especially loved how they had the actors read the letters between Franz and his wife. That really brought the story to life. And I would love to see more world history books in this format in the future. Thank you.

EICHER: Listener Mat Dewing recorded this message for us while exercising on his stationary bike:

MAT DEWING: Hey, Nick and David. Just finished listening to the Monday morning Moneybeat. I wanted to send you a little encouragement and say thank you. I can't believe it's been five years. I'm teaching an economics class for a dozen homeschoolers and their weekly assignment is to turn in a paper just reacting to The World and Everything in It segment. It's been great for them. It's been great for our family. I thank God for what you're doing.

EICHER: And I for you, teaching the next generation about economics, and it sounds like you’ll be in good-enough physical health to stay at it for many years!

BROWN: Alan Tonissen left us this recording after my story with musician Nate Moore:

ALAN TONISSEN: My wife and I have been praying and thinking about adopting and what struck me about that story, though there's a lot more I can relate to with Nate, is what Jesus speaks about with the mustard seed, the kingdom of God sprouting from the smallest seeds into a tree and it was so encouraging as we think about adoption to see a Christian family faithful in raising Nate and his impact that God has used not only on the church but now as he mentioned on his brother wanting the joy that he had is quite an encouragement to see just taking those faithful steps to follow God and what he's calling us to and see what he does. So thank you for the story. It was quite an encouragement to me and my family. Blessings.

BROWN: Thanks Alan.

EICHER: A few more light-hearted comments as we end today. The first comes from Matt Brown of Tucson, Arizona:

MATT BROWN: Just wanted to give feedback on Collin Garbarino’s review of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. I was cracking up and I just said you go boy, you know what they're doing to these old standard movies and themes is pretty pretty tragic. And so it's just good to hear Collin tear it apart and I love his descriptors and I was really good.

BROWN: Our last comment comes from Mathew Wagoner, who got a real kick out of one of our kickers:

MATTHEW WAGONER: Thank you for making me laugh on my drive home from school today. The piece on White Top the Llama: “too legit to spit” – I'm still smiling and laughing. Nick, I just want to say thank you. I don't know the last time I laughed listening to The World and Everything in It, but you made my day today, buddy. Thank you so much. I appreciate you guys and love you all so very much, bye-bye.

EICHER: What time is it?

BROWN: Hammer-time!

EICHER: That one was a layup. And, Myrna, I finally came up with a March Madness metaphor. I think Stonestreet will be pleased.

If he’s still listening: well, thanks to everyone who wrote and called in this month. It’s good to hear from you, even when you disagree with some of our coverage. We’re grateful you take the time to share your thoughts with us.

BROWN: If you have a comment to share you can email editor@wng.org. You can include an audio file attachment to your email and we’ll consider it for air. You can even phone it in at 202-709-9595.

And that’s this month’s Listener Feedback!

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