Listener Feedback: May 2025

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, May 23rd. 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. Up next, your listener feedback for the month of May.

First, a few corrections.

We had a little problem with numbers this week in our story about the donated jet from Qatar: we over-reported its value, by a single letter, but that single letter went quite a long way. We meant to say the actual estimated value is $400 million dollars, not billion.

Next, in this month’s WordPlay on the many strange plurals in the English language, and we made a mistake and flipped a few borrowed Latin singulars and plurals.

We quickly corrected the segment and reposted it online.

And one more correction today, on May 13th we mispronounced a Vietnamese surname in our story about the new Pope. The priest’s name from Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral is actually Ton “Win”, that’s spelled N-g-u-y-e-n, but pronounced “Win.” Remember the name.

BROWN: Longtime listener Eric Anderson had some kind words for us on the subject of corrections: In an email, he said I am comforted by this. He went on, We are thankfully resting in the grace that comes from God through faith. If all our faults were counted, who among us could stand?

EICHER: Amen. So we’ll stand corrected for our first voice message today from listener Amelia Nguyen. I bet you know how she spells her last name:

AMELIA NGUYEN: Hello WORLD Radio. Thank you for what you guys do. I just started listening a month or two ago and it makes my drive to work a little more interesting. I've really appreciated the couple of stories about the Vietnam War that you guys have done recently. My dad was born in Vietnam. So hearing these stories has been really cool. Keep up with the good work. Thanks guys.

BROWN: Glad you found us!

Our next comment is from Laura Laster.

LAURA LASTER: Hey World and Everything in It team I just want to commend you for the reporting from Leo Briceno on the Take it Down Act. It is fantastic to see WORLD … looking for ways that things can be redeemed and improved. And focusing on improvement of society through reporting on the Take It Down Act is just phenomenal. So thank you guys for all that you do.

EICHER: Listener John Piwetz lives in Kentucky. His comment is on last week's commentary by Erik Reed on a Biblical view of work.

JOHN PIWETZ: It was excellent and I agree with all that he said. I think that he could have even gone further to say that the problem of an unbiblical view of work is most often perpetrated by people in the church who tend to have this idea that “religious work” is more valuable than "secular work." I think that David Bahnsen also dealt with this point well in his book, Full Time Work and the Meaning of Life, which I thankfully became aware of through your podcast and listened to it recently and really appreciated what he had to say about the value of all work done well and productive endeavors. Thank you.

BROWN: And finally this morning, one of our favorite kinds of feedback when listeners hear something at “just the right time.” On May 7th we ran a story from Kim Henderson on caring for caregivers a very special day for this listener.

DUNCAN HOLMES: Hello this is Duncan Holmes from Fredericksburg, Texas. As I make this recording it's May 7th which would have been my dear wife Sharon 71st birthday. How appropriate that you did this program on aftercare giving… We were married 43 years and … I was the caregiver as best I could be though I felt like I could have done a heck of a lot more … when she died in October 2019 its been up and down … Anyway, thank you for sharing that today with us I appreciate you all very much and … you who are widows and widowers, always lean heavy on the Lord and on people at your church. Okay God bless.

Thanks Duncan. Glad our program encouraged you on your wife’s birthday.

EICHER: Before we go today, that comment reminds me to remind you once again about The Cordell Prize. It’s our writing competition for journalists between the ages of 18 and 29, it’s for those interested in reporting on the angle of faith and suffering.

We’re looking for published stories from the last year that highlight individuals overcoming adversity while remaining steadfast in their Christian faith. Publication can be from a student or local newspaper, or online publication.

The piece needs to be at least 2,000 words and written in AP style.

There are generous cash prizes for the top entries from $500 to $2,500.

BROWN: Cordell Prize submissions are due by May 30th. Visit wng.org/cordell for more information. We’ll have a link to that page in our transcript as well.

Thanks to everyone who wrote and called in this month we appreciate hearing from you. That’s this month’s Listener Feedback!

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