The World and Everything in It: August 1, 2025

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

A Christian monk is jailed for praying, a viral video captures lawlessness in Cincinnati, and teens turn to artificial intelligence for companionship.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: That and more is just ahead on Culture Friday with Katie McCoy.

Also, reviewer Joseph Holmes says The Bad Guys 2 brings laughs and a lesson about doing what’s right.

WOLF: Alright, here we go. First time for everything, right?

And greeting one another with a holy…hug?

BROWN: It’s Friday, August 1st. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

MAST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. Good morning!

BROWN: Up next, the news with Mark Mellinger.

MARK MELLINGER, NEWS ANCHOR: Witkoff visits Israel, surveys situation in Gaza » White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee are surveying food distribution in Gaza firsthand today.

This comes as the humanitarian situation there worsens. Desperate people in Gaza are fighting over airdropped and truck-delivered food, leading to injuries and deaths.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said there is no starvation, but President Trump breaks with him on that, saying he’s seen pictures of starving children in Gaza.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt:

LEAVITT: President Trump is a humanitarian with a big heart, and that’s why he sent Special Envoy Witkoff to the region in an effort to save lives and end this crisis.

The White House says Witkoff and Huckabee will brief the president after they survey the food distribution, and then work to finalize a plan to deliver more aid.

Witkoff and Huckabee discussed the situation with Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders Thursday in a meeting the White House calls “very productive.”

Canada to recognize Palestinian state » Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says his country is planning to join France and the UK in formally recognizing a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September.

It is widely seen as a latest push against Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli effort is aimed at eliminating the Hamas terror group.

But Carney said Canada’s recognition comes with conditions, including:

CARNEY: To hold general elections in 2026 in which Hamas can play no part, and to demilitarize the Palestinian state.

Canada says Palestinians must also recognize Israel and renounce terrorism.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced earlier this month that his country would become the first major Western power to recognize a Palestinian state. The UK followed with a similar announcement this week.

The U.S. says those announcements will only embolden Hamas.

New Trump tariffs taking effect » U.S. trading partners spent Thursday scrambling to make deals and avoid higher tariffs. The White House’s increased tariffs on most countries that haven’t cut a deal are set to take effect in 7 days, under an order the president signed Thursday evening.

The Trump Administration did announce last-minute deals with several countries, and negotiated into the night with Canada. The president says the U.S. is being taken advantage of by its northern neighbor.

TRUMP: They have to pay a fair rate, that’s all. It’s very simple.

One country that won’t be facing higher tariffs yet is Mexico. Its rates stay at 25 percent for now.

Trump had a call with Mexico’s president Thursday, and afterward announced a new 90-day negotiating period between the two countries.

Kyiv strikes kill at least 13 » August 8th. The White House confirms that’s the date President Trump has set for Russia to reach a ceasefire with Ukraine or face increased sanctions.

State Department spokesman Tommy Piggott:

PIGGOTT: We have tried in good faith to approach these discussions to encourage both parties to come to the table. We have seen that happen… But also the fact is, the president said, we need to see action, not words.

Russian missile and drone strikes killed at least 13 people in Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv, Thursday, and left more than 130 hurt.

At least 14 of the injured were children. The Associated Press reports that’s the most children injured in a single attack on Kyiv since the start of the war.

Funeral for fallen NYPD officer » It was a sea of blue in New York City, as fellow officers honored the life of NYPD officer Didarul Islam, who died during a gunman’s shooting rampage in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper this week.

During Islam’s funeral in the Bronx, he was promoted to the rank of Detective First Grade. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch:

TISCH: His watch may be over, but his impact will never be. And if there is any grace to be found in this grief, it is knowing that the light that he carried did not go out. It just moved forward, and it shines within the family that he worked so hard to build.

Islam was 36. He was remembered as a shining example of the best of the NYPD and a loving father.

He leaves behind a pregnant wife and two sons.

Kamala Harris book release » Former vice president Kamala Harris is ready to tell the story of her 2024 presidential run. She’ll do that in a new book out September 23rd called 107 Days, the length of her historically short, losing campaign after Joe Biden dropped out.

HARRIS: I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on those days -talking with my team, my family, my friends- and pulling my thoughts together; in essence, writing a journal that is this book.

That’s Harris making the announcement about the new book over social media.

Earlier this week, the former vice president announced she will not be running for California governor next year. She hasn’t commented on the possibility of making another presidential run in 2028.

I'm Mark Mellinger.

Straight ahead: Culture Friday with Katie McCoy. Plus, a review of Dreamworks’ latest animated film about when bad guys turn good.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Friday, August 1st. Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. It’s Culture Friday and joining us now is author and speaker Katie McCoy. Good morning, Katie.

Katie, let’s start with what happened last weekend in Cincinnati.

A violent brawl with multiple participants: videos show a crowd milling about in the early hours of the morning. There was some inciting incident, and it devolved into several people punching and kicking one man, a woman getting knocked to the ground, seemingly unconscious for a time… It’s hard to watch, and I don’t recommend you do. But here’s my question: there were multiple people who took videos and you can see bystanders… but the police chief says just one person–one–called police. So are we standing at the intersection of lawlessness and voyeurism here–and if so how did we get here?

KATIE MCCOY: This was horrific. It was one of those stories that when it came up on the news, I could barely watch it. Just staggering, the brutality in the violence and what you said, the lawlessness. It reminded me of a couple of things, and I think they're both a commentary on our culture today. First of all, if you read through the book of Judges, start to finish, you see a correlation between godliness and violence, the more that that nation spiraled into ungodliness, into wickedness. You saw widespread violence, and not only violence, but callousness towards violence, callousness towards the value of a human life, of a vulnerable human being, and it was on display in that horrific story. And as you said, people videoing it, just how almost heartless do you have to be? Because lawlessness is increased, the love of many will grow cold. And the way Pastor John Piper explains that he says lawlessness is deep hostility to authority, especially God's authority, I think that's exactly what we saw in this horrific story. It is a complete disregard, not only for God's authority and the value of human life, but then, consequently, we don't value God's authority. Why would we value the government's authority and refrain from breaking criminal or civil laws as well?

BROWN: Well Katie, moving now to another astonishing story this week, we reported on WORLD Radio the story of the Christian Monk who was jailed for silently praying outside of a Michigan abortion facility that bars quote, “annoying” public behavior.

Now, we have talked on this program before about Christians in other parts of the world being treated like this. And now this very thing is happening on American soil.

Katie, what is more disturbing to you: that this kind of persecution has found its way here, or that very few people are talking about it?

MCCOY: First, hats off to The World and Everything In It podcast for reporting on this, because you're exactly right. There is so much apathy related to these stories, if they are reported at all. You know Myrna, one of the things that I find frustrating is so many in mainstream culture will say, you know, this is henny penny stuff. Look, the sky is not falling. Religious freedom is stronger than ever, and we're nowhere near, say, the United Kingdom and or Finland, or a nation like that. And thank God, we're not but what we need to remember is that liberty is eroded gradually. Thomas Jefferson said the natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground and this is what our founding fathers sought to protect us from with our Constitution, with our Bill of Rights.

So when we see stories like this. It is a progression. It's the proverbial frog in the pot. I think about the Kroger employees who were fired because they refused to wear a pride pin. Now they were eventually reinstated, but they still lost their jobs. I think about the foster parents in the Northeast who were blacklisted because they would not affirm LGBTQ doctrine. These are small things that, as a composite whole, are trending in a direction. Now, thank the Lord for organizations like advocates for Faith and Freedom, First Liberty, the Alliance Defending Freedom, representing their cases. Thus far, I think we can reasonably hope, if not expect, the court to uphold this man's religious liberty. But you know, that's on the other side of protracted litigation, attorneys fees, not to mention the personal toll that it can have. And you know, Myrna, I cannot help but juxtapose this story of a praying, silent monk with the panic, and I mean panic expressed by some media outlets after CBS announced that Stephen Colbert's late night talk show would not be renewed next spring. News anchors, pundits, they were lamenting it as… and I kid you not…. the demise of our democracy. You know, never mind that he lost the network $40 million a year. It must be because there's this corporate chilling effect on people who are antagonistic towards the president. That's apparently the only thing that can explain it. Never mind that no one was jailed for exercising a civil liberty. Never mind that there are plenty of other anti-Trump comedians and pundits, but it speaks to the way that many news outlets on both sides whip up frenzy when it fits their narrative. But here's a simple Christian monk whose First Amendment freedom was violated, and we don't even give it air time.

BROWN: Quick follow-up to that Katie… I used the word persecution in describing what’s happening in Michigan. Is it fair to call it persecution? Is that too strong?

MCCOY: That's a good question. I mean, to be jailed for praying silently. No, that's not too strong. That's absolutely appropriate. And God willing, it will be quickly overturned. His reputation will be restored, and whatever legal means were used against him will also be corrected.

MAST: Katie, you just got back from a weekend with college students at the Impact 360 Institute. If you don’t mind I’d like you to reflect on that experience in light of a disturbing report about Teens and AI. Key findings: more than 70% of teens have used AI companions at least once and 3 out of 10 use it for relationships. How is embracing this technology in this way impacting young people?

MCCOY: Well, all of our students connected at Impact 360 Institute are just so sharp. They've got the light on. They're asking deep, worldview oriented questions, and they're interested in these topics, like artificial intelligence and how it's going to affect the future. Our Surgeon General, a few years ago, sounded the alarm, saying that the teen mental health crisis was directly connected to social media and smartphone use. Here's a very simple concept, that when you hear it, you're going to think, Oh, well, that makes sense, no kidding, but we actually have people researching it to verify it. Eye contact. Eye contact improves mood and emotional connectedness in the parent child relationship. Emotional connectedness helps form and shape our sense of self, our individual and our group identity. When you have a teen on a phone, and let me just be really honest, Lindsay, I'm on my phone way too much, you miss those opportunities for eye contact, for emotional connectedness, and from that sense of community and connectedness, and that is what we are missing in our culture. You'd think that after the COVID pandemic, we would have recognized we need to fix this, but I'm afraid we've only gotten worse.

MAST: And of course, there’s a younger generation coming up behind them. It seems more people are starting to see the wisdom in delaying kids' access to smart phones and social media. I’m thinking of the Wait Until 8th movement, in which families at schools pledge to hold out on giving access to kids. Eighth grade is certainly better than 6th or 5th or 4th, but given what you just said–is that enough?

MCCOY: Well, I'm not a parent, so I tell people, I can serve parents by going down the rabbit hole of research and presenting to them what I found. I do think it's a great step to not only do that wait till eighth grade, but with this program, the pledge, it seems like it's almost a community involvement of parents and families pledging together, which I would think also helps for let's say that that eighth grade teen, or that seventh grade teen feeling left out like she's the only one in her class without an iPhone, it helps build a little more community behind it and and not feel isolated for the the children whose parents won't let them have a smartphone.

I'll tell you what though, Lindsay, there is a reason that Silicon Valley execs do not let their children have smartphones. They know what it is doing. They know how addictive it is. And so the Wait Until 8th, they give some great suggestions on things like phones and watches that can only call and text. They're not connected to the internet.

But sounds like it's a great step. Maybe it's one of several steps. Maybe people wait until, let's say, 15 or 16, and then they can help their child set reasonable boundaries when they're using technology. Of course, that means that adults like us have to find some reasonable boundaries as well. So maybe we all kind of need to do some kind of wait till fill in the blank.

BROWN: You may be on to something Katie, before we let you go, I’d like to get your take on the new Planned Parenthood campaign. They’re calling it Bros for Repro. As I was reading up on it, one commentator had this observation: Planned Parenthood knows the “bro-choice” campaign can thrive in a void. That void is the silence of the church.

MCCOY: Absolutely right, and one of the things that we see happening, trending in our culture today, is young men coming back to the church, young men taking up what we would call conservative or traditional values. It's going to be fascinating to see how Gen Z young men approach conversations like abortion. You know, when I think about this silly, absurd campaign, it feels like they're kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel for some PR and marketing. But they also had one of these legislators, these state legislators, saying abortion support was almost a religious value for him. He said real love honors choice. One of the many expressions in our culture of how love is not love. Love is not something that you get to make up whatever definition it is, love is willing the good of the other person and as Gen Z grows and comes into their full adulthood begins to be thinking about these cultural questions and what they are going to do with the culture that they've inherited, I'm fascinated to see how something like this would land with them. Because real men honor women. Real men honor. The way God created women to nurture new life. Real men protect women from harm, including the harm of abortion. And we still are learning what some of those harms are, in part, because, once again, media suppresses it according to their narrative. And then finally, real men take responsibility for the vulnerable, both the unborn in the womb and the mother, who might feel trapped alone or believe abortion is going to solve her problems and have no effect on her afterwards. So I would imagine this is going to come and go, hopefully rather quickly.

MAST: Well, Katie, it’s been fun hanging with you this month!

MCCOY: It has! Three in a row. Let's do it again.

BROWN: Until next time, Author and speaker Katie McCoy, Thank you!

MCCOY: Thank you both.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Friday, August 1st.

Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Lindsay Mast.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: a movie for all ages.

DreamWorks' latest animated film, The Bad Guys 2 is out starting today. Reviewer Joseph Holmes discusses how the film balances being entertaining for kids and adults, as well as the film’s positive messages.

JOSEPH HOLMES: All family films have a tricky balancing act to pull off, worthy of a movie heist. They have to be entertaining for kids and adults. And they need to be good—or at least safe—for the kids. Happily, the film The Bad Guys 2 manages to hit most of these marks with flying colors. It's a funny, heartfelt, well-animated heist movie. And it’s a movie with a conscience that handles some deep topics about how hard it is to stay on the straight and narrow—but how worth it that is.

KITTY: One last job. Whatcha say?

MR. WOLF: [Laughs] What do we say? Well, no, is the short answer. We’re flattered, but the thing is–

MR. SHARK: We’re good now.

MR. PIRANHA: Yeah. We don’t steal stuff anymore.

MR. WOLF: So yeah, if you could just untie us, we’ll let ourselves out and we can just call it a noche, okay?

KITTY: (laughs)

[Nervous laughter]

KITTY: Not exactly asking.

In the new action-packed chapter about a crackerjack crew of animal outlaws, our newly reformed Bad Guys are trying very, very hard to be good. They instead find themselves hijacked into a high-stakes, globe-trotting heist masterminded by a new team of criminals they never saw coming: the Bad Girls.

On an entertainment level, you know The Bad Guys 2 is going to work within its first moments. The jokes fly a mile a minute, silly enough for kids to enjoy but smart enough for adults to appreciate. The heists are thrilling and give each character a chance to shine. The combination of 3D and 2D animation is gorgeous, exploding with energy and expression. And the film doesn’t rush through its more serious moments, allowing the characters and themes to have weight.

MR. WOLF: Alright, here we go. First time for everything, right? [Screams]

Even better, the film’s positive messages are deeper and more insightful than standard family fare. Having made the decision to stop a life of crime in the last film, Mr. Wolf and the Bad Guys team are forced to wrestle with the difficulties of continuing to stay on the straight and narrow path even when it’s hard. The film spends a lot of time contrasting how much fun and how much success they had being criminals, with the dull life, full of rejection and disrespect, they face as law-abiding citizens. The film allows its viewers to sit in this reality and empathize with the former criminals as they get tempted back into their old lives. But then celebrates them for resisting that temptation.

This is something the scriptures talk about extensively also. “Why do the wicked prosper?” while good people so often suffer is a common question the biblical authors struggle with. And the Bible also warns that the enemy will come to try to take advantage of our suffering to tempt us toward evil . By telling a story that acknowledges this reality, The Bad Guys 2 reminds us that suffering for doing good isn’t a sign that we shouldn’t be good, but that we should persevere through suffering anyway.

DIANE: You know, I’m very hands-on. Especially when someone tries to frame my friends. I know everything. The Maguffinite, the magnet.

KITTY: You talked to Marmalade.

DIANE: Actually, he did most of the talking. I’m more of an action girl.

The film isn’t perfect. Some of the situations are a bit contrived to move the plot forward. And when the movie tries to land its message about why the good path is better than the bad path, it comes off as a tad trite. Mr. Wolf says that doing what’s right gets you respect and doing what’s wrong gets you fear, and the difference is that respect is earned. But the film never develops that idea.

The film also isn’t entirely unobjectionable. Characters engage in innuendo in multiple instances, played for laughs—sometimes when flirting with another character, which also once leads to a sloppy makeout session, also played for laughs, and sometimes when talking to or about luxury items like cars. Rude humor includes a running gag where a character passes gas when nervous, which actually becomes a major part of the third act.

SNAKE: Lockpicking is like romance. You’ve got to start gentle, playful, work your way into its little cold heart, until all those defenses melt away.

SUSAN: Oh, sounds kind of fun.

[Snake and Susan laugh]

MR. PIRANHA: Are we still talking about the lock?

In an age of the internet where everyone’s entertainment is individualized by algorithms, movies that everyone can watch together are harder than ever to come by. The fact that The Bad Guys 2 is able to provide a service like that, which brings people together, is worth celebrating.

I’m Joseph Holmes.

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MAST: And finally this week, a humorous look at a common cultural challenge facing many of us within our local churches, the hug. Here’s WORLD columnist Lynn Vincent with a few of her executive editor friends.

LYNN VINCENT: WORLD editor-in-chief Les Sillars grew up attending Christian & Missionary Alliance churches in Alberta, Canada. When he traveled south in 1990 to attend Dallas Theological Seminary, he noticed that many of his stateside evangelical friends and classmates often greeted each other with a hug.

He remembers thinking:

LES SILLARS: What’s with all the hugging? It’s weird! I don’t want to do it.

That admission left me wondering if theological distinctions affect a person's approach to church-based hugging. Between Calvinists and other evangelicals, one difference is often immediately obvious. That is, avoidance of—or extreme ­discomfort with—the Standard Evangelical Side Hug, or “SESH”…

That’s a term I just made up, and in case you’re wondering, it doesn’t appear anywhere in Scripture.

I’ve done some digging into the topic. I learned that the anti-SESH phenomenon is pervasive among Reformed Christians but not limited to them. For example, WORLD executive news editor Lynde Langdon is Lutheran and married to a Lutheran pastor. I asked her if Lutherans hug:

LYNDE LANGDON: No. They definitely do not hug. Only in very dire circumstances…

Lutherans, like Calvinists, tend to be more staid, descended as they are from sober German and Scandinavian stock. In fact, Lynde said:

LYNDE LANGDON: They don’t show emotion physically. If a Lutheran raised his hands in worship, it would mean that Jesus is probably coming back.

Properly executed, a SESH is actually less invasive than the early Christian practice of the “holy kiss.” In making so bold a statement, I pause here to explain proper SESH protocol. I don’t think it’s ever been written down, so you might want to take notes.

When executing a SESH, the hugger should:

Step 1: Approach the huggee sideways, facing in the same direction.

Step 2: Place one arm across the huggee’s back, no lower than the shoulder blades.

Step 3: Place the hand of the hugging arm on the huggee’s opposite shoulder.

And finally…

Step 4: Administer three brief shoulder-pats.

That’s “Pat-pat-pat” for PLA-TON-IC.

Together, the apostles Paul and Peter mention the holy kiss five times in the New Testament: in Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, 1 Thessalonians, and 1 Peter. While the holy kiss usually occurred between members of the same sex, the early Christian apologist Tertullian seemed to regard it as both relational and liturgical, regardless of gender.

He wrote this about Christian fellowship:

ED PHILLIPS: We are united in mind and soul. We do not hesitate to share our earthly goods. All is common among us—except our wives. We call each other ‘brother’ and ‘sister,’ and the kiss of peace seals our prayers.

But history shows Tertullian was in the minority, and gradually, the holy kiss fell out of use. Then somewhere along the way—probably during the Jesus Movement—evangelicals became a very huggy culture. And that was the culture Les Sillars encountered in Texas.

Now the prevalence of the standard evangelical side hug causes deep consternation for some of my dear Calvinist friends, such as WORLD Digital executive editor Tim Lamer. Tim wants nothing…

TIM LAMER: Nope.

…whatsoever…

LAMER: No thank you.

…to do with the SESH.

LAMER: I’d rather not.

The Tims of the Church are in tricky waters, navigating between their ethics and offending overeager Baptists and “nondenoms” who insist on hugging.

Since the Church is shot through with hug-zealots, I feel like I should mention a couple of evasive maneuvers. One tactic is to take refuge behind some physical object, such as a church pew. But danger lurks: If the hugger is undeterred, you could wind up trapped. A small child can serve as a human shield, but that might encourage the hugger even more.

Therefore, I heartily endorse what I am calling the Gandalfian Arm Thrust. One day in Washington, D.C., I ran into a prominent Calvinist scholar whom I knew but hadn’t seen for a while. Since I was saved in California, the ancestral land of touchy-feely Jesus People, I moved in to express my joy at seeing him with a chaste and friendly hug.

But with speed that seemed supernatural, the scholar thrust out his arm and blocked my way as powerfully as if he were thrusting down Gandalf’s staff:

LOTR MOVIE CLIP: “You! Shall Not! Pass!”

We shook hands instead.

Still, some SESH’ers will find a way to hug you no matter what. If that happens, you can always [pause] “do as the Romans do.” That’s the advice Ambrose reportedly gave Augustine regarding which day to fast “when in Rome.”

That’s the route Les Sillars chose. He didn’t like all the hugging, but he eventually got used to it.

LES SILLARS: I can do it now… if I have to.

For WORLD, I’m Lynn Vincent.

LOTR MOVIE CLIP: “Fly you fools!”

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: All right, it’s time to name the team who helped make it happen this week:

Hunter Baker, David Bahnsen, Maria Baer, Lauren Canterberry, Nick Eicher, Joseph Holmes, Jenny Lind Schmitt, Katie McCoy, Carolina Lumetta, Arsenio Orteza, Mary Reichard, Cal Thomas, Lynn Vincent, Emma Eicher, and Caleb Welde.

Thanks also to our breaking news team: Kent Covington, Mark Mellinger, Travis Kircher, Christina Grube, Steve Kloosterman, and Lynde Langdon.

And thanks to the Moonlight Maestros. Benj Eicher and Carl Peetz with assistance this week from Johnny Franklin.

Paul Butler is executive producer.

Harrison Watters is Washington producer, Kristen Flavin is features editor, and Les Sillars is our editor-in-chief. I’m Lindsay Mast.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

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