The World and Everything in It: August 29, 2025

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

The Minneapolis Catholic school shooting, media framing of “thoughts and prayers,” and the redemption that comes when truth overcomes lies.

NICK EICHER, HOST: That’s ahead on Culture Friday with John Stonestreet.

And fifty years later, the movie Jaws still keeps audiences on edge.

CLIP: I don’t want him on the ocean! He’s not on the ocean, he’s in a boat! He’s not going to go in the water. I don’t think he’ll ever go in the water again after what happened yesterday.

And your Listener Feedback for the month of August.

BROWN: It’s Friday, August 29th. 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, Mark Mellinger with today’s news.

MARK MELLINGER, NEWS ANCHOR: Minnesota shooting latest » Parents of the two students killed in this week’s shooting during a time of prayer at a Catholic school Mass in Minneapolis are giving the nation windows into their grief.

This is Jesse Merkel, who lost his 8-year-old son Fletcher when the gunman opened fire Wednesday.

MERKEL: We will never be allowed to hold him, talk to him, play with him and watch him grow into the wonderful young man he was on the path to becoming.

He says Fletcher loved his family along with fishing, cooking, and sports.

The other victim who died was Harper Moyski, a 10-year-old. Her parents describe her as bright and joyful, and say words cannot capture the depth of their pain.

15 other children between the ages of 6 and 15 were hurt in the shooting, along with three worshipers in their 80s. Police do expect most of those remaining victims to survive.

Investigators say the shooter, who also killed himself, expressed hate toward almost every group imaginable. They also say he was obsessed with the idea of killing children and had a deranged fascination with mass killings.

John Stonestreet will have in-depth analysis in the wake of this tragedy in just a few minutes, on Culture Friday.

Trump administration okays $825 million arms sale to Ukraine » The Trump Administration has green-lighted its first major sale of new weapons to Ukraine.

Under the deal, Ukraine will pay $825 million dollars for more than 3,300 extended range attack missiles. The U.S. could deliver those missiles this year.

This comes as Russia intensifies its assault on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, where an aerial attack Thursday left 21 people dead, including four children.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, interpreted through a translator, says it’s proof Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s words are meaningless.

ZELENSKYY: In Washington, we heard that Putin is supposedly ready to end the war, to meet at the leadership level, and resolve key issues. But he chooses ballistics instead of any real steps towards peace.

Zelenskyy also calls Thursday’s bombardment a strike against President Trump and other global players trying to bring Putin to the negotiating table.

Britain says the latest attack has sabotaged peace efforts.

Putin, Kim Jong-Un to attend China’s military parade » A military parade in China next week is set to double as a display of dictatorial unity.

The stated purpose of the parade in Tiananmen Square is to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

But China is raising eyebrows by announcing North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and Russia’s Vladimir Putin will be in attendance, both at the top of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s guest list. The three nations, all U.S. adversaries, have spent the past few years forging closer ties with one another.

Though China was a crucial partner of the Allied powers in World War II, leaders from major Western nations are not on Xi’s guest list.

CDC interim director appointed » Deputy Health and Human Services Secretary Jim O’Neill will serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.

President Trump fired CDC Director Susan Monarez Wednesday. The White House says she wasn’t aligned with the president’s mission and refused to resign.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt..

LEAVITT: It was President Trump who was overwhelmingly reelected on November 5th. This woman has never received a vote in her life, and the president has the authority to fire those who are not aligned with his mission.

Monarez is still fighting to keep her job. Her lawyers say she was targeted because she stood up for science.

SOUND: [CHEERING]

Supporters cheered as several other top officials who resigned in solidarity with Monarez left CDC Headquarters in Atlanta Thursday.

DOE says Denver schools all-gender bathrooms violate Title IX » The Trump administration says one school district in Colorado's failure to protect private spaces for girls is unconstitutional. WORLD's Travis Kircher has more.

TRAVIS KIRCHER: The Department of Education found that a Denver Public Schools bathroom policy violates Title IX of the U.S. Constitution.

Title IX is of course the provision prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded education programs.

The announcement comes after the school system converted girls' restrooms to what the district calls "all gender" facilities. That means both male and female students can use the same multi-stall restroom...as long as the facility lines up with their so-called gender identity.

In a statement, Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor says the district is free to endorse a self-defeating gender ideology...if that's it wants. But he said it can't do that if it expects to receive federal funds.

The school district has yet to respond to the decision.

For WORLD, I'm Travis Kircher.

Hundreds of Texas school systems will use Bible-infused curriculum » More than 300 school districts and charter schools in Texas are adopting a new curriculum that uses the Bible as part of its lessons.

The state-developed reading lessons became the focus of national attention last year because of their extensive references to the Bible and Christianity.

Texas Tribune Reporter Jaden Edison tells KVUE some districts with large numbers of economically disadvantaged students are adopting the program for financial reasons.

EDISON: With this curriculum comes a $60 dollar per student incentive… that districts otherwise may not be able to get… You know, those that have kind of a high financial need… they adopted the materials not necessarily for the religious components, but for some of that financial relief.

The Texas Tribune reports the number of districts and charter schools planning to use the new curriculum comes to about a quarter of all Texas public school systems.

I’m Mark Mellinger.

Straight ahead: John Stonestreet is standing by for Culture Friday. Plus, the 50th anniversary of a shark story that changed summer movies.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Friday, August 29th. Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. It’s Culture Friday and John Stonestreet joins us. He’s president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint Podcast. Good morning, John!

JOHN STONESTREET: Good morning.

EICHER: John, on Wednesday morning in Minneapolis, a gunman opened fire during Mass at Annunciation Catholic School. Sadly, tragically, two children were killed, and eighteen others were wounded, most of whom were students. We have to bear in mind that, whether injured or not, those who were present are likely scarred for life.

Authorities report that the shooter, a 23-year-old male who identified as a transgender woman, left behind a video manifesto filled with anti-Catholic rage, anti-Semitism, hatred for the president. No significant criminal record, but clear signs of mental instability. He’d steeped himself in violence and gender ideology.

What stands out now is the way this tragedy is being portrayed in the media across the country and what it reveals about a deeper detachment from truth and reality. The way the media frame stories like this significantly influences public perception, and can shape worldview. What are you observing at this early stage?

STONESTREET: The media coverage here is very different on a couple levels. The Nashville shooting, it was like there was no information to be had about who the shooter was, what the shooter’s motivation was, that the shooter was very anti-religious, and also identified as a transgender, born a woman identifying a man. And so almost immediately, way, way, way more was known about Robin Westman than was ever known about the shooter in Nashville.

Interesting also was the willingness of at least a handful more media outlets to identify the shooter as trans, whereas there were plenty of progressive outlets still using pronouns and still downplaying that fact. Others seemed to suggest that it was important to notice these things, because it suggested, first of all, the fact that this isn’t the only time that this has happened. It’s probably too early to call it a trend, but there certainly is a level of anger and violence by some in the transgender community, and that was not only illustrated by the actions, but by some of the images that came out of the videos.

This shooter wrote on weapons and ammunition things like “6 million were not enough,” statements of anti-Semitism, statements against Donald Trump, statements against God and religion, and certainly a worship and love of death. But you know, at the end of the day, we have been told now by so many people, including many of these same media outlets that are still willing to use pronouns and call a man a woman, as in this case, that this is not a mental illness, but actually is someone being his or her own true self.

And that has obviously never been the case, but it’s also never been more obvious that it’s not the case. To detach from reality on something so obvious and then pretend like that won’t have any sort of comorbidity or connection to other mental illness or to anger or another way to disconnect from reality, it was always nonsensical. Now we have another example of people who paid the price.

It’s also interesting, and I think it needs to be said, that disconnecting from reality and disconnecting from God are directly related. Romans 1 says this in very clear terms, and we see it in reality at a time like this—not to mention that that then is accompanied by things like violence and irrational hatred to children who are praying in a mass.

EICHER: The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, has had more than his share of national attention — first during the George Floyd crisis, and now this. Maybe emotion got the better of him, but something he said after the shooting struck a chord in certain corners of the media. Here’s what lit the match:

FREY: These were Minneapolis families. These were American families, and the amount of pain that they are suffering right now is extraordinary. Don't just say this is about “thoughts and prayers” right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.

Former White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki — now hosting on MSNBC— she had the mayor on her show. Psaki loved the positioning.

PSAKI: We're sort of grateful to you for saying it stopped tweeting things like “thoughts and prayers,” which I felt the same way.

Anchor Ali Velshi then brought in one of the most liberal members of Congress, Maxwell Frost of Florida, to double-down even harder — though at least he censored himself in the retelling.

VELSHI: You expressed a sentiment very far from “thoughts and prayers.” You said these children were probably praying when they were shot to death at Catholic school. Don't give us your effing “thoughts and prayers.” You, like my friend Jen Psaki, have had it with the “thoughts and prayers.”

FROST: Yeah, man, thanks for having me on we've had it with the “thoughts and prayers” for years, for decades.

So, John, we hear it again: “thoughts and prayers aren’t enough.” That’s become almost the default refrain after tragedies like this. How do you respond?

STONESTREET: Well, I mean, think of the irony of that statement: “Thoughts and prayers aren’t enough, but gun laws are.” I mean, look, gun laws have proven not to be enough. We know that because Minneapolis is one of the most heavily regulated cities when it comes to gun ownership in America, and it didn’t stop this.

We shouldn’t expect God to act on our behalf, but we should expect politicians to be able to fix this problem. I mean, listen, if that’s not the political illusion, I don’t know what is. None of that makes any sense, and all of it is a way of just ignoring what is obviously in front of us, and that is young people in America are not okay, especially young men. And not always exclusively young men, but especially young men like in this case.

We’ve known this for a long time. We’ve known this in terms of educational outcomes. We’ve known this in terms of motivation. We’ve known this in terms of people just detaching from the reality of who they are—not to mention the reality of morality, not to mention hating other people, not to mention obvious comorbidities when it comes to mental illnesses and other kinds of psychological breaks. I mean, all of this is like right out in front of us, right? It’s just clear.

The fact that there was a much higher percentage of gun ownership in the past and much lower rates of these kinds of mass incidents. In other words, the problem is us. The problem is the kind of people that we are cultivating. And if you see someone with such a definitive break from reality, like someone who struggles with who they are even though their body is telling them clearly who they are, we ought not be too surprised that there are going to be other breaks of reality.

I’m not saying that all trans people are murderers. It doesn’t always happen that way. But there is a clear and obvious break from reality, so we shouldn’t be surprised when other things happen. But it’s such selective outrage on behalf of the Minneapolis mayor and others to say that this is somehow the fault of those who want to pray at a time like this. I mean, what a silly thing to say.

BROWN: John, I did get to view your Truth Rising documentary we talked about a couple of weeks ago. It’ll be released a week from today. So timely. Because the one thing that absolutely jumps out at me—in light of this horrible story in Minneapolis—is the journey of Chloe Cole.

Here’s a young girl swept up in transgender ideology, pushed into hormones and even surgery before she was old enough to drive.

What her story shows … and it’s told so well in the documentary … is the deep pain and despair that come with believing a lie … and then the hope she found when Christians loved her and pointed her to Christ. How does her journey help us understand what’s really at stake here?

STONESTREET: I think that’s such an interesting context for us, having just told that story of Chloe in the Truth Rising film. And here’s someone who was likewise deceived, who believed one of the most destructive ideas of our lifetimes, and then had the courage to say, “I was wrong.” Had the courage to say that truth does not lie with some sort of inner knowledge that I have that’s disconnected from the real world.

And then she came to that truth about herself, and that truth about herself ultimately pointed her to God, who is the source of truth. And so she has this epic line in our film: “It is not my truth or your truth. Jesus is the truth.” And that’s something more true. That’s something deeper than she would have said when she started her activism against the ideology that led to her losing two healthy breasts and made her a perpetual patient under the care of these doctors.

How different is that and the peace that she now exhibits and has found versus the torture that not only Robin Westman clearly felt but also then inflicted on others. And it just demonstrates to me both that a detachment from God is a detachment from reality, and once you detach from reality, you further detach from reality.

But also that redemption is possible and that renewal is possible, and that reattachment to what is true, particularly what’s true about who we are, is also possible. And that’s the task of the church. I mean, clearly our political officials are going to completely lose perspective on this and whatever pet cause they want to endorse and miss the real crisis that has overwhelmed young people today.

So who has the answer? Who can point to what’s true? Who can help people reattach to what is true about who they are? This is the task of God’s people right now. I mean, if George Orwell said, which I think he did, in Age of Deception, “Telling the truth is a revolutionary act,” Christians are to be revolutionaries in this sense. And not just some of us—all of us.

Because people rubbed shoulders with Robin Westman prior to this decision, and we don’t know who the next one is going to be. God forbid there are any more. But what is our task? To tell the truth to those who have been deceived. We’ve been told it’s intolerant. We’ve been told to do that is hateful. But then stories like this happen, you realize no—to do that is good, to do that is kind, to do that is loving, to do that is gracious, to do that is the calling of God’s people today.

BROWN: John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast, thanks, John.

STONESTREET: Thank you both.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, August 29th.

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

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: the film that ruined the ocean for 11-year-old Nick.

You know, some movies fade with time. Others do not. They still give you chills half a century later.

WORLD movie reviewer Max Belz takes us back to the summer of 1975.

MAX BELZ: 50 summers ago Steven Spielberg’s Jaws hit theaters. Movie historians now regard it as the first summer blockbuster: It was suspenseful, action-packed, and audiences could watch it over and over.

Let me start by saying that this is a horror movie, not appropriate for young children. There are some gory scenes and bad language. In 1975 it was rated PG, but today it would likely get an R rating. With that caution stated, why does it merit recognition?

Simply, Jaws made Steven Spielberg a household name.

In this story, the sleepy New England town of Amity relies on summertime tourism to boost its local economy. But a shark starts attacking swimmers, specifically young people.

As the shark claims more lives, the townspeople turn on the police chief Martin Brody, played by Roy Scheider, who represents the red-blooded, small-town American.

MRS. KINTER: You knew it was dangerous but you let people go swimming anyway. You knew all those things.

A kind of madness descends on this quaint town. To solve the problem, Brody teams up with marine biologist Matt Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfuss at his high-strung best.

HOOPER: When I was 12 years old my father got me this boat and I went fishing off of Cape Cod and I hooked a scup and as I was reeling it in I hooked a four and a half foot baby thresher shark who proceeded to eat my boat. He ate my oar, hooks. and my seat cushions. He turned an inboard into an outboard. Scared me to death and I swam back to shore. When I was on the beach I turned around and I saw my boat being taken apart. Ever since then, I have been studying sharks and that’s why I’m gonna go to the institute tomorrow and tell them that you still have a shark problem here.

Brody and Hopper are at loggerheads with the mayor about what to do, so they join a wizened fisherman named Quint to track and kill the awful fish.

HOOPER: That’s it, good-bye. I’m not going to waste my time arguing with the man who’s lining up to be hot lunch.

One of the movie’s striking features is Spielberg’s skill with the camera: It absorbs action and gesture, even in sequences that would be easy to miss.

In an early scene, the city council corners the police chief on a ferry to pressure him into not closing the beaches, despite the terror of the ravenous shark.

VAUGHN: I'm only trying to say that Amity is a summer town. We need summer dollars. If the people can't swim here they'll be glad to swim at the beaches of Cape Cod, Hampton, Long Island.

The camera holds on the conversation while the horizon slides around behind the ferry. Rather than having the characters move, the background moves, providing a mesmerizing visual effect.

Spielberg, like other great filmmakers, was inspired by John Ford. Ford told Spielberg that the young man would succeed if he placed the horizon near the top or the bottom of the camera frame rather than right in the middle. Spielberg’s visual instincts to place individuals against the blue sky or the chop of the water heighten the action in Jaws.

MARTIN: You’re going to need a bigger boat.

The second half of the movie is shot with high drama on the open seas. This part of the story recalls Moby-Dick: the half-crazy sea captain sacrificing everything to catch a menacing sea creature. The maniacal search for a fish brings The Old Man and the Sea to mind as well.

ELLEN: Martin, it’s his birthday tomorrow.

MARTIN: I don’t want him on the ocean.

ELLEN: He’s not on the ocean, he’s in a boat. He’s not going to go in the water. I don’t think he’ll ever go in the water again after what happened yesterday.

You’d think that the confines of a small boat in a big ocean would be visually limiting, but Spielberg’s camera soaks up the action above and below the water line, finding new angles as the characters crawl around their boat in a panic.

QUINT: You know the thing about a shark, he's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. 

One shot before the final encounter with the shark shows Quint on the prow of the boat with only a yellow buoy streaking along the surface of the blue water.

Just before the movie’s climax, Spielberg works in a moving speech. Quint reveals that he was among the few men to survive the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, leaving most of its sailors to die from the elements or to be eaten by sharks.

QUINT: Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know, you know that when you're in the water, chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail.

Spielberg’s camera packs in drama and action. The composition of the scenes and the movement of characters in relationship to their environment keep the story in perpetual motion. Here’s fellow movie director Francis Ford Coppola on Spielberg:

COPPOLA: Steven always was a creature of the studio and his thinking and his methodology went that direction and he became a master of it. He was very fortunate that the kind of movie he really had a sense for was also the kind of movie the audience had a sense for.

Spielberg went on to become one of the greatest filmmakers of all time with the Indiana Jones movies and Jurassic Park. But he’s also created moving historical epics like Schindler’s List. His penchant for emotionally moving, action-filled movies struck a chord with audiences in 1975, and his camera in Jaws still keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.

I’m Max Belz.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, August 29th. 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. Time now for Listener Feedback for August. We’ll start with corrections.

In our August 22nd obituary for Dr. James Dobson we misstated the year he started the James Dobson Family Institute. The correct year is 2010.

EICHER: A couple pronunciation notes, in a July 30th story we mispronounced the name of the FDA commissioner. It is Marty Makary.

BROWN: And in my August 21st story about a cancer survivor using art therapy, I fumbled a Japanese artform, listener Carol Baker helped us out:

CAROL BAKER: Pronounced "gyo taku", "gyo" for fish and "taku" for stone impression. I understand the pronunciation in the story was a local pronunciation, but just in order to clear things up…Thank you so much for all you do. Your stories are truly inspiring.

EICHER: Well, I’ve got one too, Myrna. A physician got in touch to straighten me out on the correct pronunciation of fentanyl: fenta-nill, not fenten-all, like alcohol. It’s fenta-nill.

EICHER: And one more this morning … this is kind of funny. Remember your dialogue with Mary about all the new slang in the Cambridge dictionary?

KEITH RUSSELL: Hello, my name is Keith Russell. [LAUGHING] I'm calling from Superior, Wisconsin. I was listening this morning to Mary Reichard try to pronounce some of the new words added to the dictionary. It is pronounced “skibbity”…just got to speed it up a little bit there. And I only know that because I teach middle school and high school and have heard that word way too many times over the past years…but I love the show. Love what you guys do. Thanks for making me laugh this morning.

BROWN: And back at ya! Well said!

EICHER: Well, now on to some tougher feedback. Robert Mineo in Brooklyn, New York, thought our August 19th discussion on the war in Ukraine didn’t go far enough.

ROBERT MINEO: I am calling because this morning I heard George Barros speak, and I just couldn't get that piece out of my head, because the gentleman was dour and negative, the way he came across. The fact that he would seemingly present that the best thing to do is to let Russia and Ukraine continue to fight—and that at some point Russia will run out of soldiers—seems crazy to me.

BROWN: We also heard from Rachel Wilson, who wrote in about our take on the American Eagle blue jeans ad. She said she agreed with our cultural critique—but wished we would have leaned more on Scripture, pointing to 1st Peter 3 and Proverbs 31 for a fuller, more Biblical view of beauty.

EICHER: Well, this month marked the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Trial … Jenny Rough reporting that one for us. Susan Kamphuis from Kalamazoo, Michigan sent this:

SUSAN KAMPHUIS: I thought it was a great segment. I come from a family that has had a passion for creation science for many years, but many of the arguments that you guys had in this segment were presented in a really beautiful new way to me that I really appreciated. I just wanted to thank you for covering the history of this trial and the science that was connected to it. This was a really wonderful piece.

BROWN: We also heard from Nathan Howell in Amarillo, Texas, about our “tech exit” conversation with Claire Morrell:

NATHAN HOWELL: I do see the way that screens affect children as being something which is gaining steam…In the story today…she clearly talked about the need to do digital detox and other beneficial activities to get kids less damaged by screens.

But I saw that almost lurking in the background there's problems for adults as well … I would love to know more about what is being done to address adult problems.

Thank you for the work on all of this and I look forward to hearing more about ways to follow Christ in a world that has been so transformed by screens.

All right, we’ll stay on it.

EICHER: Next an extended comment from Brenda Davis in Antioch, California. An appreciation of the life and ministry of Dr. Dobson.

BRENDA DAVIS: Dr. James Dobson, for me, was a warrior, and he provided a lifeline. I began tuning into his radio show in the early 1980s, every morning, and it became a 10 o 'clock thing for me. A show I even structured my morning around. My toddlers knew that Focus on the Family was Mom's show, and they knew to play quietly, or at least leave the kitchen so Mom can listen to Dr. Dobson.

He was my cheerleader on the radio. He gave me so much encouragement as a mom reminding me I was a working mom, not just a stay-at-home mom, and I was valuable to God, and I was the best adult for my children.

He added so much to my degrees in education for child development and early childhood education, and now I was at home, raising my own kids. He gave me some strong advice to hug my kids after discipline or affirm correction, and to kiss them every night before bedtime, and to pray with them after discipline, and to keep praying for them, for they were more precious to God than to me. …

He actually helped get me involved in political action and learn who my congresspeople were. And write them letters and make phone calls about family bills in the House and Senate. I still do that.

He helped me be a loving mom who discovered I had the most important job on the planet. I love the clip you shared by Shirley Dobson that now her husband is with his Savior Jesus.

Praise the Lord for the work he has accomplished and what a gifted man he was. And now he's receiving a great reward. Thank you, WORLD.

And before we go, one more: Katherine Lipscomb sent in this recording of her two-year-old, Gregory:

KATERINE LIPSCOBROWN: Gregory, what did she say? Grace and…peas?

Katherine says young Gregory especially loves hearing Myrna’s closing words. As he hears it, though, he hears grace and peas, not quite the Biblical shalom we were going for. But when he eats his peas, that’ll probably bring some peace at home.

One note before we go: The WORLD Stage event in Houston, if you didn’t hear about it on Monday. If you’re near enough to the Houston area, join us for our very first WORLD Stage event, Monday, September 15th. David Bahnsen will speak on themes from his book Full Time: Work and the Meaning of Life, followed by Q&A and a chance to meet him and the WORLD team.

It’s at First Baptist Houston, downtown. There’s no charge, but space is limited and it is filling up fast. Reserve your spot today at WNG.org/TheWORLDStage.

BROWN: If you’d like to comment on a recent segment, send us an email or a recorded message to: editor@wng.org. You can also phone it in: 202-709-9595

And that’s Listener Feedback for August!

NICK EICHER, HOST: All right, it’s time to name the team who helped make things happen this week:

Max Belz, Kim Henderson, Addie Offereins, Cal Thomas, Denny Burk, Jenny Rough, Mary Reichard, Hunter Baker, Elisa Palumbo, Emma Eicher, Daniel Darling, John Stonestreet, Mary Muncy, David Bahnsen, and Lindsay Mast.

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

And thanks to the Moonlight Maestros: Benj Eicher and Carl Peetz …

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 Nick Eicher.

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

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Here we are at the end of another week! Be sure to go to a Bible-believing church this weekend and give praise to the Lord. Encourage others, and let others encourage you.

And Lord willing, we’ll be right back here on Monday.

Go now in grace and peace.

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