The World and Everything in It: April 26, 2024

PREROLL: The World and Everything in It is made possible by listeners like us. My name is Tina Tomlinson. I live in the beautiful Pocono mountains of northeast Pennsylvania where I work in behavioral health. I hope you enjoy today's program.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning! Today on Culture Friday: campus chaos, abortion laws return to the Supreme Court, sex-discrimination rules get a redefinition, and theological advice from artificial intelligence.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Lots to talk about when John Stonestreet gets here in a few minutes.

Later on WORLD arts and culture editor Collin Garbarino on a new biopic telling the story of some big names in Christian music.

HELEN: It’s a miracle. It’s like some kind of sign that we’re supposed to be here.

And Listener Feedback for April.

BROWN: It’s Friday, April 26th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

BROWN: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news

SOUND: [Tank]

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Israel-Rafah-Hamas » Israeli tanks rolling near the border with Gaza ahead of a planned ground operation in the city of Rafah.

Israeli Defense Forces — or IDF — aren’t saying exactly when that will happen only that it will be soon.

Government spokesman David Mencer:

MENCER: The war cabinet meets right now to discuss how to destroy the last vestiges, the last quarter of Hamas’ battalions in Rafah.

The prime minister says Rafah is the last remaining Hamas stronghold, and Mencer says the terror group can feel the walls closing in on them.

MENCER: They’re feeling the pressure, and what a surprise, they’re starting to make pseudo-conciliatory remarks. We’re not going to fall for it. I don’t think anyone in the world would fall for it.

Hamas says it’s willing to agree to a 5-year truce to lay down arms and convert into a political party. There is one massive catch. Israel would have to recognize an independent Palestinian state and revert to pre-1967 borders.

But Israel says the war will end only one way with the complete destruction of Hamas.

Israeli hostages » Meantime, dozens of Israeli families continue clinging to fading hopes of reuniting with loved ones that Hamas took hostage during its October attack. One of those family members spoke out on Thursday:

FAMILY MEMBER:  Another milestone that happened today is that 17 of the 25 countries that have citizens who are being held hostage in Gaza signed a joint statement demanding their immediate release.

The United States was one of those 17 countries.

Hamas this week released video footage of an Israeli-American hostage, 23-year-old Hersh Goldberg-Polin. A reporter asked President Biden at the White House …

REPORTER: Have you seen that video of the hostage?
BIDEN: I haven't, but I know about it. I haven’t physically seen it.
REPORTER: Have you verified that it’s real, Mr. President?

The FBI’s hostage recovery unit is analyzing the footage.

Houthi attack » Yemen’s Houthi Rebels have carried out yet another attack against a civilian cargo ship. WORLD’s Mark Mellinger has more.

AUDIO: [Houthi military spokesman in Arabic]

MARK MELLINGER: A spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi rebels claims responsibility for the latest attack in the Gulf of Aden Thursday.

The Houthis have terrorized key shipping lanes in the Middle East for months in solidarity with Hamas amid the war in Gaza.

The British military says the captain aboard the MSC Darwin heard a loud bang and splash, then saw smoke rising from the sea, but no one was hurt.

The attack comes a day after a British warship shot down a Houthi missile targeting a U.S.-owned and operated vessel.

Houthi attacks had decreased in recent weeks as the U.S. speculated the Iran-backed rebels were running low on weapons.

For WORLD, I’m Mark Mellinger.

SCOTUS/Trump immunity arguments » Should former President Trump — and future presidents — be immune from prosecution for decisions made while in office?

That’s the question before the U.S. Supreme Court. And in arguments Thursday, Trump’s lawyers made their case. Attorney D. John Sauer:

SAUER: Prosecuting the president for his official acts is an innovation with no foothold in history or tradition and incompatible with our constitutional structure.

He argued that if presidents have to govern under fear that they may be prosecuted by political opponents when they leave office, it will—his words—“distort the president's decision making … “when bold and fearless action is most needed.”

But Justice Elena Kagen said the framers gave us a president, not a king.

KAGEN: They didn't provide immunity to the president and, you know, not so surprising. They were reacting against a monarch who claims to be above the law. Wasn't the whole point that the president was not a monarch and the president was not supposed to be above the law?

Many court observers said Chief Justice John Roberts was among at least five members of the court Thursday who appeared likely to reject Trump’s immunity claim.

But the former president's attorneys say they remain optimistic.

Trump in NY court / gag order » Meantime, in New York City prosecutors in the state’s so-called hush money case against Trump accused the former president of violating a gag order in the case four more times in the past week alone. The judge is already considering a motion to hold him in contempt of court for 10 alleged violations.

TRUMP: They have taken my constitutional right away with a gag order. That’s all it is. It’s election interference. This whole thing is election interference.

And former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified Thursday that he bought up stories on Trump’s behalf that were potentially damaging to his first presidential campaign to keep them from being published.

Trump maintains he has done absolutely nothing wrong.

Economic growth slowed » Trump also reacted to disappointing economic news.

The Commerce Department says the economy slowed sharply last quarter to a 1.6% annual pace in the face of high interest rates. That is exactly half the 3-point-2 percent growth rate of the previous quarter.

Trump said of the economy under Biden …

TRUMP: It’s heading south. It’s gonna get worse. The numbers are very bad. This is ‘Bidenomics.’ It’s catching up with him.

But some analysts say the news isn’t all bad.

PNC Financial Services Chief Economist Gus Faucher said Thursday:

GUS FAUCHER: This is what the Fed wants to see: the growth slowing to a more sustainable pace.

The Federal Reserve is still trying to curb rising prices. Inflation also came in much hotter than expected early this year.

Haiti PM resigns, transitional government takes over » Haiti has opened a new political chapter that the Haitian people hope can’t possibly be any worse than the last one.

A transitional council is now in charge of picking a new prime minister and laying the groundwork for an eventual presidential election.

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby:

KIRBY: We join the international community in commending all Haitian participants in their process to establish a transitional presidential council.

Kirby said the US ambassador to Haiti was on hand for a swearing in ceremony on Thursday.

Haiti’s government has been in a yearslong state of upheaval. And violent gangs have filled the power vacuum, overrunning police and security forces.

I’m Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: Culture Friday with John Stonestreet. Plus, your Listener Feedback.

This is The World and Everything in It.

NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s Friday the 26th of April, 2024.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown

It’s time for Culture Friday, and joining us now is John Stonestreet. He’s president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast.

Morning, John!

JOHN STONESTREET: Good morning.

BROWN: Well, John, with the takeover of college campuses—in particular I’m thinking of Columbia University. This elite, Ivy League school producing our future leaders. This is kind of an early warning, it seems!

But I was really struck by the visit this week of House Speaker Mike Johnson to the campus. He met with Jewish students, he gave a reporter Q&A … all within earshot of the protesters. Some of them tried to shout him down, insult him, use very foul language in his presence … and I thought he embodied very well the proverb that says, “a gentle answer turns away wrath.”

STONESTREET: I think he set a good example on how to actually courageously stand for truth and, and not do everything you can to appease the mob, which is obviously the problem at Columbia University and a lot of other schools where these protests showed up over the past week, which is its own topic. But the philosophy of education has for a while now—particularly higher education—been to create activists, not thinkers, to actually create people who will protest, not people who are able to actually think and speak across the lines of disagreement that are so deep in our culture. And it's a pretty radically different view of education than what has historically been known.

I mean, the word education comes from educare, which means "to lead out of." Historically, that meant ignorance, like people, students don't know. I don't know, I've worked with college freshmen. They need to be led out of their ignorance. But so much of education recently has been to lead them out, in other words, to pull out of them, you know, whatever inherently good is inside them, as if young people have some sort of morally superior view, just by sake of being young, and being a protester, and, you know, getting the categories of oppression, right.

I think there's at least a little bit of this story from these protests, where people are realizing the monsters that have been created with this really wrong view of what it means to educate and what educational institutions are all about. And that's overdue.

EICHER: Yeah, it seems that way. Well, John, another big week at the Supreme Court, another abortion case. The question presented is whether Medicare rules have the power to override robust state protections for the unborn. This case is out of Idaho, where unborn children are protected in law at all stages. Idaho allows abortion only in medical emergencies where the life of the mother is in danger.

The Biden administration contends hospitals that accept Medicare regardless of state law must carry out abortions when a mother’s health is at risk. Effectively, a nationwide “health” exception if this stands. The state of Idaho replies that the federal demand would turn hospitals into, its words, “abortion enclaves.”

What do you say about that?

STONESTREET: Well, I think the meaning of words are always at stake when it comes to anything having to do with abortion. And this is a really important example of that. You know, what do we mean by "healthcare?" What do we mean by "reproductive rights"? What do we mean by "exceptions"? And you know, all of that sort of stuff is at play. And it really kind of goes to show that anyone who thought and I, it seemed to be this is what, you know, the former president was arguing in his Truth Social post a few weeks ago about abortion is that, you know, everyone's happy, you know, that it's back to the states where it belongs. And, you know, that's kind of a way of saying that the Supreme Court now with the Dobbs decision has settled the matter. And that's not true.

It's no more true that this issue has been settled, even on a legal level, even on a certainly not a moral level. But even in terms of what belongs to the States versus what the federal government has the purview to determine, that's not settled. Dobbs no more settled the abortion debate than Roe did, and they're going to be settled over the meaning of words. You know, whether abortion and abortion services are healthcare, which of course as pro-lifers, we would say absolutely not. And, you know, health exceptions are famous when it comes, especially to abortion rights to be big enough for Mack trucks to drive through them.

So this sort of clarity of language is going to be really difficult to achieve. And you know, I was listening just a few minutes ago to the oral arguments and you're just, you know, you talk about, we're using the same vocabulary but not the same dictionary. That is a pretty, I think, capable way of explaining the abortion debate in America right now on the two sides. We just don't mean the same thing by the same words.

EICHER: And John, speaking of that, you know, same words, different meanings: I want to talk about the new rule on Title IX from the Biden administration this week. Title IX, if you don’t know, relates to sex-discrimination in education. Of course, what’s happening this week is redefining Title IX as an expansion of LGBT rights, especially “T.”

Our colleague Mary Reichard interviewed a constitutional scholar this week on the program, Ilya Shapiro. I’d like to listen to what he had to say about the effect of tightening Title IX sexual harassment rules, which on the face of it, you think, that’s good. But I hadn’t heard this perspective. Have a listen.

ILYA SHAPIRO: It rolls back the Trump-era protections for those who are accused of sexual harassment or misconduct, in this context, expanding the definition of what sexual harassment might be. So if you use the wrong pronouns, all of a sudden, you might be investigated under these rules, in kind of a Kafka-esque way where you’re denied a lawyer, you can’t confront whoever is accusing you or even see the full evidence against you. This obviously would have the effect of chilling speech and discussion of students, faculty, all the way from kindergarten through higher education.

EICHER: What do you say, John, on this Title IX change?

STONESTREET: Well, I think this analysis is exactly right, and a lot of times what happens with these “clarifications” that different administrations and these departments within these administrations do to create a whole new set of rules determined by unelected officials, I mean, there's a whole lot to be talked about here. So a feature of Trump's clarifications was to soften the kind of presumption of guilt on accusations of sexual harassment. Well, now this new document not only rolls that back, but it broadens the definition of sexual harassment and brings in these new categories.

By the way, the entire interpretive framework here of Title IX by the Biden administration, in this case, actually never refers to biological sex at all. Biological sex is not even a category to be considered anymore, at least according to the letter of the law. It's all about sexual characteristics, sexual behaviors, sexual stereotypes, and things like that. So that that is, of course, at the root of what we're dealing with here, which is Title IX, which was designed to protect women, now actually leaves women more vulnerable than they actually were before Title IX was put into place, because now someone with ill intent going into a locker room, a private space, to steal an opportunity, a scholarship, or something like it can do it as long as they self-identify as a woman. And there needs to be no sort of clarification on what a woman means. So what we're seeing here is this pendulum effect that goes from one administration to the next administration.

And it's so interesting to me. I've been thinking a lot about this kind of who should I vote for in the fall, and this framework that often gets applied here. I think what happened with Title IX is proof that we need a new framework. The framework we tend to use is should I vote for the lesser of two evils. But that assumes way too much power for a particular person. Now that person whoever is elected president, becomes an example for the world. And it can certainly serve to coarsen rhetoric and all kinds of things that happens in our political discourse. But the fact of the matter is on the ground, at least in America, the vote is not about a particular person. It's about a whole platform. It's about a whole party's commitment to certain aspects of their platform, which we have seen in very real time with this particular administration. And this whole group of unelected people that come along with the president, and staff up these departments and create these rules. And every time the pendulum swings on these rules, in all these departments, it goes further than it was the previous time. In other words, there's momentum being picked up.

So I just want to appeal to a different framework, I think we got to stop talking about what it means to vote for the lesser of two evils. And in a very real sense, we need to start talking about oh, this phrase to a former colleague of mine, Kevin Bywater at Summit Ministries that we need to talk about what it means to lessen evil with our vote. And we're seeing very in very real ways that it's really not even about the two candidates anymore. It's about everything that goes along with them, with the party platforms, and these true believers that end up coming in and staffing these positions and can make a real difference in real dollars and real people's lives.

BROWN: Have you heard about this? A tech company is releasing a Catholic Apologetics Chatbot.

The reaction on social media is pretty strong against it. One person made the point that "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us," and so we need flesh and blood spiritual counselors.

What do you think of the promise of having a spiritual guide who can answer any question, any time?

And why are Christians in the tech space so fascinated with AI chatbots?

STONESTREET: I saw that story, and I wondered if it was a real story or not a real story. But I assume we, we're going to need to deal with this more and more in the days ahead. Look, all of this reflects, kind of, what these sorts of programs which really pull off of a specified set of content. What set of content is it pulling off of? You know, a chatbot, priest or counselor that pulls off of the actual teachings of the Catholic Church and the Theology of the Body and even the recent statement Humanitas Dignitas, or however you say that in Latin—and I should know that my daughters take Latin, but I never did.

That's going to be way better counseling than what the church in Germany is getting right now with bishops who are actually abandoning the basics of doctrine and truth. So if you're asking me to choose between those that are actually ignoring clear Christian teaching, and if this actual service and AI just pulls off of a set of content, if it's pulling off of the right content, it's going to be better, because you know, "In the beginning was the Word," that exists before the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

Now, look, I don't think this is a good idea. I don't think that even if you get it to pull off of the right bag of content that it's going to actually be the sort of counseling, you know, at least in terms of what we need for some of the deeper problems that humans in the human condition individuals face. But I think the question is, what is being asked of this program, and I think that's a really important thing to realize upfront.

The only proof I think is necessary is what happened after the Golden State Warriors lost the play-in game for the NBA Playoffs a few weeks ago. And Klay Thompson, I think, went 0 for 9. And they were talking about how many bricks he threw up and an AI article writer pulled off of that, and then wrote an article about how Klay Thompson had vandalized the arena by throwing too many bricks at it.

So you know, that just tells you that there's still limits to AI and what it can do and even if it pulls off of accurate content, there's a good bit of human interpretation it may not be able to land on.

BROWN: Well, John Stonestreet is president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. Thanks so much, John.

STONESTREET: Thank you both

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, April 26th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day. Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: a new bio-pic arrives in theaters today that tells the origin story of some beloved names in Christian music.

Here’s arts and culture editor Collin Garbarino to tell us about Unsung Hero.

COLLIN GARBARINO: Maybe you’ve heard the song “Unsung Hero” by brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone, who go by For King & Country. The song was inspired by the sacrifices their parents made, and the new movie with the same name fleshes out their story as well as how their older sister became the Christian music star Rebecca St. James.

HELEN: It’s a miracle. It’s like some kind of sign that we’re supposed to be here.

The film begins in 1990 in Australia where David Smallbone, played in the movie by his son Joel, has a successful business working as a concert promoter for Christian musicians. David and his wife Helen, played by Daisy Betts, have six kids, and a seventh on the way. Life is good for David and Helen. He’s an optimist with big dreams that require big risks. Helen is the grounded one.

LUKE: Do you have a dream, Mum?

HELEN: My dream has always been to have a great big family.

David’s dreams come crashing down when his ambition outstrips his readiness. His biggest tour flops in the midst of Australia’s recession, bringing financial ruin to his family.

DAVID: I’m going to lose everything.

ART: Man, I wish I could help you. You signed the contract, brother.

The 40-year-old David decides to uproot Helen and the kids and move to Nashville, hoping that he might be able to piece together another career in Christian music. Helen isn’t sure about the idea, but she’s willing to follow her husband as he pursues his latest big dream.

DAVID: And it’s Nashville. It’s where the industry is.

HELEN: It’s where one industry is.

DAVID: It’s the only one I know.

America might be the land of opportunity, but the opportunities don’t come quickly for the Smallbones. They don’t have any money, and the kids sleep on the floor of their rented house because David and Helen can’t afford to buy furniture.

Unsung Hero certainly doesn’t glamorize the Christian music industry. Things get a little cutthroat and business is business. David thought his connections in Christian music would help him find work in the industry, but too many people let him down or break their promises.

HELEN: I agreed to two years. And come what may, I am not going to be another person that breaks a promise to you.

Unsung Hero is rated PG, and even though the Smallbones go through some tough times, it’s a family friendly movie. Fans of For King & Country or Rebecca St. James will definitely enjoy seeing the family dynamic that helped shape them.

The production values, script, and cinematography won’t win any awards, but they certainly get the job done. Some parts of this faith-based movie are a little melodramatic. And the scene in which Helen announces it’s time to go to the hospital because the baby’s coming follows a tired cliche. But on the whole, Unsung Hero proves to be a pretty solid Christian film that avoids many of the traps of the faith-based genre.

Too many Christian films follow the same worn-out story arc. Someone has a crisis of faith. They get in trouble. There’s an answer to prayer. And faith gets restored.

HELEN: And we need to pray… everyday… for everything that we need.

Unsung Hero tells a more authentic story. The Smallbone family has plenty of struggles, but they never question their faith. They don’t need a miracle to believe. Instead, we see a beautiful story of a family pulling together and trusting God to meet their needs. When the local church steps in to help, we think the problems have been solved. But it just leads to the movie’s real crisis.

David struggles with accepting generosity from his fellow Christians. He used to be a successful businessman, and being on the receiving end of charity hurts his pride. He feels like he’s letting his family down because he’s not able to provide for them like a husband and father should. This conflict within David’s heart has the ring of authenticity to it, and the movie doesn’t take cheap shortcuts on his journey to humility.

DAVID: I want to do something that matters. This is it. This is my last chance.

Of course, the family doesn’t stay in humble dependence on others. David and Helen’s economic challenges provide the movie’s conflict. But much of the plot revolves around their oldest daughter Rebecca getting her first recording contract.

The movie plays a little fast and loose with Rebecca St James’s story. It’s not until after the family gets to America and is living in poverty that Rebecca’s parents are surprised to find out she can sing. In reality, David and Helen knew their oldest daughter had musical potential before they made the move to Nashville. At the age of twelve, while still in Australia, the real Rebecca had already opened for Carman and recorded an independent album.

Really though, this movie is all about Helen’s stalwart faith in her God and her family. The filmmakers have definitely fulfilled their goal of paying honor to an unsung hero.

I’m Collin Garbarino.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday April 26th. 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: listener feedback for the month of April. We begin with corrections:

On April 16th, of course we talked about tax deductions in a tongue-in-cheek way. And it was probably too soon after the ordeal of April 15th to be lighthearted on that subject. But we need to clarify on the question of deductibility of moving expenses. There are exceptions, but for average Americans, moving expenses are not tax deductible. I checked with our CEO. He is a certified public accountant, so I think we’re good now. 

BROWN: And with that here’s some additional information from a regular listener who is a Systems Analyst with the Illinois Student Assistance Commission. That’s an organization that relies on data from FAFSA applications.

In our reporting of April 17th we mentioned that many applications are two months later than usual. But according to our listener’s experience, it’s worse. He told us that with 3 in 10 applications containing data errors, his office is just now getting some of the re-processed applications. So that means many applications are more than 6-months late, and that affects a lot of people.

EICHER: Well next, April 17th, Washington Wednesday, we should have noted in our report that Nancy Mace is a U.S. representative from South Carolina’s first congressional district.

And now, a clarification from a listener in Park Rapids, Minnesota.

JOSHUA: My name is Joshua. Really appreciated your story on the Wladensians. Bringing out some forgotten heroes of the faith that have suffered. And I don’t want to be critical at all. But I wonder if the use of the word Protestant isn’t quite as they were not protesting the Catholic Church. They seem to be separate from it. I think the term Evangelical is good, but I would I would push back against the use of the word Protestant. Thanks for all you do.

BROWN: Exactly right, they were not a part of the Reformation. They predated it. And that’s why we purposely avoided the “protestant” label … though the featured historian did describe them as: “sort of the first Protestants.”

But they were persecuted by the Catholic Church, and early protestants held an affinity for the Wal-densians.

EICHER: Next this short voicemail:

STELLA: My name is Mary Stella. I listen to Midlothian, Virginia. My comment is more Lindsay Mast.

Your wish is my command! Lindsay is excellent and a great addition to our team since she came through World Journalism Institute midcareer a couple of years ago. Over the last several weeks, I’ve had my hands full with special projects and budget planning for next fiscal year, and so I’m glad not only for Lindsay’s willingness to jump in and co-host, but to do it at such a high level that she connects with you in that way. More Lindsay, you bet.

And finally, this encouraging word from listener Shelley Brinlee:

She writes:

SHELLEY: Last year around this time my mom was in the hospital in CICU. On a Friday, Myrna had shared that her dad was in a similar situation and had prayed at the end about her dad and the whole situation. It hit so close to home that I was in tears in the kitchen listening and praying along. The following Thursday my mom passed away, welcomed to heaven by her Lord and Savior.

I appreciate the weekly admonition to worship with fellow believers, and the willingness of WORLD staff to share from their own lives. God is clearly using you to help us navigate this world, while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus. Thank you for your faithfulness to His call.

BROWN: Shelley, thank you. Your words mean so much. All this week I have been reading my prayer journal from one year ago, meditating on God’s goodness and all the love and prayers from sweet friends and listeners like you.

Thanks to everyone who wrote and called in this month. We’re so thankful that you listen, and take the time to provide thoughtful feedback.

EICHER: If you have comments to share with us you can send them to editor@wng.org. And if you’re writing, would you consider reading your comment and making an audio file attachment? You can do that or you can phone it in at 202-709-9595.

And that’s this month’s Listener Feedback!

NICK EICHER, HOST: Well, now it’s time to thank the team who helped to put the program together this week:

Mary Reichard, David Bahnsen, Caleb Welde, Daniel Darling, Leo Briceno, Carolina Lumetta, Onize Ohikere, Amy Lewis, Bethel McGrew, Mary Muncy, Kim Henderson, Cal Thomas, John Stonestreet, and Collin Garbarino.

Special thanks to our breaking news team: Lynde Langdon, Steve Kloosterman, Kent Covington, Mark Mellinger, Travis Kircher, Lauren Canterberry, Christina Grube, and Josh Schumacher.

Thanks also to our breaking news interns: Tobin Jacobson, Johanna Huebscher, and Alex Carmenaty.

And the guys who stay up late to get the program to you early: Johnny Franklin and Carl Peetz.

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Our Senior producer is Kristen Flavin and Paul Butler is Executive producer.

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