The World and Everything in It: August 5, 2024

PREROLL: The World and Everything in It is made possible by listeners like us. My name is David Wells. I'm a worship pastor living in Columbia, Missouri. I hope you enjoy today's program.

JENNY ROUGH, HOST: Good morning!

Language matters in the courtroom…but who keeps track of the definitions … and decides whether they belong in a dictionary?

GARNER: And there was a trademark dispute about what qualifies as a Boston Cream Pie. I don't think that belongs in Black's Law Dictionary.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: That’s ahead on Legal Docket.

Also, the Monday Moneybeat…Market turbulence after a lower-than-expected jobs report… we’ll talk about what it means.

And the WORLD History Book. A town comes together to help victims of a terrible plane crash.

LINDBLADE: I still say it was Sioux City's best day, because we did everything right.

ROUGH: It’s Monday, August 5th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Jenny Rough.

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

ROUGH: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS REPORTER: Hurricane » Hurricane Debby is lashing Florida this morning … after intensifying rapidly over the Gulf of Mexico. National Hurricane Center Director Michael Brennan … said while this is not a major hurricane on paper, the danger is very real for Florida’s Big Bend region and beyond.

BRENNAN: Life threatening storm surge inundation as well as hurricane force winds. Then we're going to see longer term, a potentially catastrophic flooding event

Much of the state is under flood watches or warnings. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis:

DESANTIS:  It is going to move very slowly across northern Florida and southeast Georgia. It is gonna drop a lot of rain across, many parts of the state, but certainly, uh, the northern part of the state.

He added that ground across much of the region is already saturated, which makes serious flooding more likely. But the storm’s impacts reach beyond Florida … into Georgia and much of the southeast. 

Israel-Iran » Tensions in the Middle East are boiling over. WORLD’s Paul Butler has more.

PB: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is already in a “multi-front war” with Iran and its proxies … and it’s ready for whatever comes next.

And the United States and allies are preparing to defend Israel from an expected attack from Iran.

Tensions have soared after nearly 10 months of war in Gaza… and the recent killings of a senior Hezbollah commander and Hamas’ top political leader.

Iran has vowed to exact revenge against Israel.

While the U.S. says it’s prepared to defend the Jewish state … the White House says it’s also doing everything possible to try and deescalate the situation.

For WORLD Radio, I’m Paul Butler.

Secret Service failure » The fallout continues from the Secret Service failure that almost led to Donald Trump’s assassination last month at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Republican Congressman Mike Waltz is calling on the Secret Service to hand over some of its protection duties to another government agency.

WALTZ:  They certainly shouldn't be in charge of security details right now as we speak. Site leads advances. I mean, it's all still going on despite these obvious gross errors.

Acting Secret Service Director Robert Rowe called the incident a “mission failure,” and vowed to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

Presidential politics » The former president, meantime, is not slowing down on the campaign trail. He jabbed Vice President Kamala Harris over the weekend in Atlanta.

TRUMP:  Harris has the most ultra left wing agenda of any presidential candidate ever in history. There's never been anybody like this. She is considered more left wing than crazy Bernie Sanders. Look at her.

Trump has been hitting the presumptive Democratic White House nominee especially hard on the border crisis. But Democratic Senator Chris Murphy countered…

MURPHY:  Kamala Harris has always been for border security. And the fact of the matter is, this campaign is going to involve an enormously important contrast between the Biden Harris administration

Murphy said the Biden-Harris administration pushed for a bipartisan bill to address the border crisis earlier this year. And he said pressure from Donald Trump killed the legislation.

Most Republicans said the Senate border bill in question was not sufficient … and could have made the problem worse. 

Ukraine F-16s » Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky unveiled his country’s new F-16 fighter jets over the weekend.

Zelenskyy spoke while standing in front of two American-made F-16s … recently provided by Western allies.

He said the planes will boost the country’s war effort against the invading Russian military 

Crowds Pack Theaters for ‘The Firing Squad’ Movie Opening » This weekend crowds in the thousands packed the independent Christian movie ‘The Firing Squad' with sold-out shows in many theaters across the nation.

SOUND (Firing Squad trailer): Peter Lowe, the one-time drug dealer turned pastor, will be executed at 12 midnight local time.

The film is based on the true story of three Christian prisoners who face execution in a third world country… and lead the entire prison camp to faith in Christ.

But limited showings have caused a quiet uproar among patrons. One woman drove 100 miles to see the movie as there were no showings of the film near her home.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: Collecting and defining words... on this week's Legal Docket.

Plus, the Monday Moneybeat.

This is The World and Everything in It.

LEGAL DOCKET

JENNY ROUGH, HOST: It’s Monday the 5th of August.

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

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

Time now for Legal Docket. Almost all Supreme Court cases have one thing in common.

ROUGH: They do. We’ll give you a hint with this quote from the late Justice Antonin Scalia. It comes from one of his written dissents in a case called PGA Tour versus Casey Martin. He wrote, “We justices must confront what is indeed an awesome responsibility. It has been rendered the solemn duty of the Supreme Court of the United States … to decide, what is golf.”

MAST: What is golf? Well, of course golf isn’t what Supreme Court cases have in common. Rather … it’s words … their definitions and meanings. Jenny, today you’ve got a story about a man who has devoted his life to defining legal terms.

JENNY ROUGH, LEGAL CORRESPONDENT: Acquittal. Declaratory judgment. Felony. Interrogatories. Magistrate. Remand. Venue.

The law is full of legal jargon!

Terms like those … and many more … are compiled in Black’s Law Dictionary. It’s the most widely cited legal text in the world. And I tracked down the man behind the book.

BRYAN GARNER: Black’s Law Dictionary is full of terms of art that have special meanings to lawyers.

Bryan Garner is a lexicographer. He studies words and is the author of Black’s, originally named after legal scholar Henry Campbell Black, who compiled the early editions. As Legal Docket segments often highlight … Supreme Court cases commonly boil down to dueling definitions.

But Garner says just because a word is argued in a lawsuit … even at the heart of it … doesn’t automatically make it a legal term. For example, Boston Cream Pie.

GARNER: And there was a trademark dispute about what qualifies as a Boston Cream Pie. I don't think that belongs in Black's Law Dictionary.

Neither does the word burrito. Or sandwich.

GARNER: Even though there was a famous dispute about whether a burrito qualifies as a sandwich up in Massachusetts.

A contract dispute between Panera and Qdoba over selling sandwiches in a shopping center.

GARNER: Does that make it a legal term? I would say no. …  My view is it has to be a legal term or a law-related term. The mere fact that it’s been the subject of litigation? No.

So how does someone become the editor-in-chief of one of the most referenced legal books? Well, it all started with a much younger Bryan Garner. He first fell in love with language as a boy. He suspects it’s genetic. His father and grandfather loved language, too.

GARNER: My grandfather was a state Supreme Court Justice down in Austin on the Texas Supreme Court. … When I was just three or four years old, I couldn't reach the table. And he used this big Webster's Second new international dictionary, which is a huge dictionary as my booster seat. That dictionary ended up becoming one of my favorites.

Webster’s Second is also a favorite of many textualist judges.

By the time Garner was in grade school he moved from sitting on dictionaries to reading them. And he knew more about grammar than some of his teachers!

GARNER: A student teacher, who was going for her certification asked for a contraction … “Can anybody name a contraction?” And so the other kids were saying won't, and shouldn't, and couldn't, and wouldn't. … And my hand shot in the air. And I said, “Shan't.” And she said, “No, that's not a word.”

Shall not. Shan’t. S-h-a-n apostrophe t. When the class broke for recess, Garner looked in the dictionary. More than anything, he had an intellectual curiosity.

GARNER: And I took the dictionary over to her. … It is a word, look, it's a word. And she refused to look at it. And said, “No, I don't care what the dictionary says. I’m not looking at that. It’s not a word.”

That piqued his interest even more. What counts as a word? What doesn’t?

Then … girls came along. 

GARNER: When I was 15 years old, a girl that I much admired made an offhand comment.

As they talked, Garner used the word facetious.

GARNER: She said, “You know, you have a really big vocabulary.” And that comment changed my entire life. I thought, well, if that is a strength, then maybe I should build on it.

One winter, he went on a ski trip with his friends. Along with a hat and gloves, he packed a binge-worthy book. 

GARNER: This book was one of the most fascinating books I had ever held in my hands. … The first day of the ski trip, I didn't leave the ski lodge. I stayed in the lodge and just drank hot chocolate and read Eric Partridge's Usage and Abusage and I could not put it down.

Usage and Abusage talks about problematic words and expressions. Like the difference between overlay and overlie … overlook and look over … overflowed and overflown.

GARNER: Wait. Should it be this? Or should it be that? … This was very much a closet interest, by the way. This is not something you openly talk about with your friends.

It led to his life’s work. He went to law school There, he became captivated by legal language.

GARNER: But my first week in law school, I was so fascinated by the legal terminology and all the cases, the old cases we were reading that had a lot of Elizabethan terms. Burden spelled burthen. B u r t h e n. For example, in 19th century judicial opinions using an Elizabethan variant spelling of burden. …  Doth. D-o-t-h, as late as the 1980s, the Supreme Court of Mississippi was using d-o-t-h instead of does.

In the 1990s, the then-editors of Black’s Law Dictionary asked if Garner would help them redraft it. He’s been doing so ever since. Garner’s offices are in Dallas, Texas. He has a team of four lawyers and one paralegal.

And he says in their line of work, it’s much harder to define short, common words than long, infrequent words.

GARNER: The easiest words in a dictionary to define are the rarest, because a rare word has only one meaning, typically.

Like the word “exculpatory:” meaning free from blame or accusation. A one-line definition in Black’s.

GARNER: But words that are on everyone's lips that people use all the time typically have many meanings and functions.

Much harder to define. Like the word “damages” … that one has five pages of entries. It goes on and on and on!

Many legal terms consist of Latin phrases. Pro bono … for the good. Habeas corpus … show me the body. But Garner says he’s a proponent of avoiding Latin-isms. He prefers plain ol’ English. 

GARNER: Now some people would say, well, Bryan, aren't you a hypocrite? You say you're a plain English guy. But you have added hundreds and hundreds of Latinisms into Black’s.

True.

GARNER: And the reason is, I think anybody reading a historical legal text, who wants to know the meaning of a word, ought to be able to find out what it means.

In addition to his office team, Garner relies on a panel of about 30 academics … law professors to help review terms in particular areas of practice. For example, a contracts professor to review the specialized terms in contract law.

He also works with a church history specialist. Because a lot of legal language ties into medieval ecclesiastical terms. He says that’s because our law interprets text from a lot of old statutes. And statutes don’t become defunct. Once a statute is in effect, it stays that way unless it’s abrogated or repealed.

But new language is just as important. Garner says when people find out he’s the editor of Black’s, they love to introduce him to their favorite terms. A public defender once asked Garner if he’d heard of the SODDI defense. S-O-D-D-I.

GARNER: And I said, “The what?” The SODDI defense. It’s a term we use all the time. … He said, “Well, it means the ‘some other dude did it defense’.” Criminal defense lawyers use it. The Some Other Dude Did It defense, the SODDI defense.

Garner did some research and verified published instances of it. Enough to justify an entry in Black’s.

So how does he go about defining a term? He starts with court decisions.

GARNER: Looking at probably dozens of decisions by federal appellate courts and state appellate courts. Lots and lots of decisions. Reading them contextually.

Also, legislative definitions. Maybe a treatise or two. But he doesn’t limit himself to the law. He might look to anthropology textbooks … or sociology … to understand how other fields define a word. Once he gathered all the raw material, he’ll then compose the most authoritative definition.

And he tries his best to be a faithful, omniscient narrator. Meaning, he doesn’t show bias. For example, take the terms textualism and consequentialism. Two different judicial philosophies. Personally, he prefers textualism. He thinks consequentialism is a bad way of deciding cases.

GARNER: But I’m not going to express any kind of disapproval, or even have a hint of it in my definitions.

You might be wondering: How many terms total does Black’s Law Dictionary contain? An easy question, but no easy answer! Because one entry can have multiple definitions. 

GARNER: If you go to how many definitions, well, there could be, in some terms, 8, 9, 10 definitions because there are different senses of a word, like equity.

Black’s has about 58,000 entries … but 100,000 definitions! Most professionals use an abridged version.

A love of words fuels life-long learning. That’s why Garner encourages people to read dictionaries … legal ones, standard ones, any ones! Because the war of words doesn’t only happen in courthouses. It happens in our daily lives.

GARNER: I think it is a bad idea to think you’re going to pick up the meaning of words by osmosis.

Instead? Anytime you read—

GARNER: Keep track of the words that you don't know precisely what they mean.

And look them up.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It:

The Monday Moneybeat.

JENNY ROUGH, HOST: Time now to talk business, markets, and the economy … with financial analyst and adviser David Bahnsen …

MAST: He’s head of the wealth management firm The Bahnsen Group and he’s here now.

David, good morning!

DAVID BAHNSEN, GUEST: Well good morning. Good to be with you.

MAST: So there was a lot going on last week. Let's start with the stock market. On Friday, it tumbled after the jobs report came out showing that hiring was much weaker than it has been. Just 114,000 jobs added, much fewer than had been expected, and then unemployment also rose to the highest level since 2021 how ominous is this report?

BAHNSEN: Well, I don't think that ominous is the word I would use, but I do think that there's a number of reports out there that, with this one factored in, start to provide some early fodder for elements of economic slowdown. But let's start with what you asked about regarding the stock market. It's really important to note that the market had been down by the same amount on Thursday, and even worse in the NASDAQ, and that's all before the jobs report. And so this is something we're talking about a lot lately, that with valuations like you've had in some of these big cap tech names, you don't need a bad jobs report. You don't need bad economic data to drop hundreds of points, because these things have been very overvalued. And really, Friday did kind of catch everything. But, you know, the NASDAQ had been down over the last three weeks, 2,000 points. It's now down over 10% in three weeks, and a lot of other things were up in the market. So I want to be careful to avoid making the stock market story and the economy story one in the same.

I think, I think that there's some different things going on there and and yet, the jobs report on two different levels was concerning. 114,000 jobs is below expectation. This comes off of another jobs report the month prior that have been soft, but then the unemployment rate itself ticking up to 4.3%. You, you just have a number of reasons to believe that the lag effect of tighter monetary policy may be having an impact into the real economy.

MAST: David, I'm no economist, other than being a home economist, but I've noticed that these reports often get revised, and many times it seems like it's for the worse. So why the revisions afterward? And what does that mean about what we know in real time?

BAHNSEN: Well, over longer periods of time, the revisions tend to not be for the worse or better, they tend to even out over a long period of time. There have been more that were revised downwards than upwards as of late, but that we're talking about, I think it's something like seven of the last 11 reports, so it's not an overwhelming majority, but nevertheless, that's a sort of necessary evil in data collection, because these are moving parts. There's complicated elements to surveys, and there are seasonality factors that make it tricky. I can't predict if these numbers will get revised downward or upward, but I don't read a lot into that, to be honest. I think we take the data as it comes, and then we look for verifying data, and that's why the ADP report, the weekly jobless claims, we have a number of different ways to measure the labor market, besides the monthly BLS report.

MAST: Turning to the Fed, it met last week and did not cut interest rates, but there was talk of the potential for multiple cuts in the future. That was before the jobs report and the market turbulence on Friday. Can you explain what the meeting means, both for now and then if cuts do come?

BAHNSEN: Well, cuts are certainly coming and and so it's completely, totally priced in at this point. There's a 100% chance of a cut in September. In the actual financial market, real futures transactions, about 78% is implied probability of a quarter point cut in September. But then that means that there's a 22% chance of a half a point rate cut. I would imagine they'll stick with just a quarter point. I think this Fed tends to be more measured. But then we get to December, and now you're talking about a very, very good chance of a by then, that there will been three cuts. And so the odds of softer rate policy coming are very, very high.

The big question mark, really, for markets will be 2025, what the Fed will do going into next year. And this is where there's a lot of confusion in the way people think about financial markets is they think, Oh, well, higher rates is bad and lower rates is good. But most of the time, when the Fed begins cutting rates, the markets don't like it. And you say, Well, why wouldn't the Fed like lower rates? Well, they surely do. But the reason that rates are being cut is the issue. There's something to do with economic softness, maybe like what we saw in the jobs report on Friday, for example. And so if the Fed is cutting rates and playing catch up to a weaker economy, that could be weighing on corporate profits, and the market wouldn't like that.

So all that to say for listeners, the Fed is going to be cutting rates by end of the year, and they're going to be cutting rates next year, the question will be if they're playing catch up, or if they are reasonably ahead of the curve, and listeners don't know the answer to that. I don't know the answer to that. And you know who else doesn't know the answer to that? The Fed.

MAST: A two-parter here for Defining Terms, David. You wrote in WORLD Opinions recently about a Parallel Economy and the arguments for and against it. Could you first, define what a parallel economy is and then walk us through your thoughts on whether it's a good idea to pursue it?

BAHNSEN: Well, I think that defining a parallel economy is sort of part of my critique is that I don't think it actually exists. But what those who use the term are referring to is some version of a substitute economy, an insular economy, where a particular group would decide that they want to as much as possible, try to limit economic activity to people of their, you know, kind of niche. In the context we're talking about, over the last several years, Christians trying to have a parallel economy where they're only transacting with other Christians or or conservatives trying to only transact conservatives, stay clear of all the woke stuff, or cancel culture stuff, or some of the various hot topic cultural issues that surfaced out of 2020 for example, there's been other examples of versions of parallel economy in the past that didn't involve a faith niche or a political cultural niche.

For example, certain African American communities have talked about trying to create a parallel economy to support fell other black owned businesses, things like that. So that's what one means by the term. But again, my critique comes from the fact that it not only is something that I don't believe is necessary or advisable, it isn't possible, and it isn't even remotely possible. It isn't like, well, we could get 95% of our transactions done just with other believers. And so we could be only buying Christian coffee and Christian chicken and Christian eggs and and we would be free of, you know, supporting non-Christians in commerce, because in the interconnectedness of our modern economy, our supply chain, there we should be so grateful that Jesus said to us to be in the world, but not of it, because being in the world necessarily involves so many millions of ways in which our economic activity is touching others, and the transactions that we're doing or touching, transactions that others are doing, that simply couldn't be parallelized.

And so the point I made in the article for world is that this is the reality of the economy, and it's a good thing that God, by His grace, bestowed upon us out of the fall, out of the Garden of Eden in this concept of original sin, I believe there is an antithesis between those who are of the Lord and those who are not. And yet God, to preserve us, to help us flourish, allowed that even those who are not of the Lord, can do good heart surgeries, can make good dinner, can create and innovate as as part of God's creation, as part of God's mankind contribute to the economy. And so there is a sense in which this notion of common grace is so important, and I don't think we need to fear it. I don't think we need to flee from it. And that's what I mean in terms of the parallel economy that it not only doesn't really exist, it doesn't need to.

MAST: Okay, David Bahnsen is founder, managing partner and chief investment officer of the Bahnsen Group. You can check out David's latest book, Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life at fulltimebook.com Have a great week, David!

BAHNSEN: Thanks so much. Great to be with you.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Monday, August 5th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Lindsay Mast.

JENNY ROUGH, HOST: And I’m Jenny Rough. Up next the WORLD History Book. This summer marks 35 years since a deadly commercial plane crash in Northwest Iowa. WORLD Journalism Institute graduate Sarah Pugsley brings us the remarkable story.

SARAH PUGSLEY: It was July 19, 1989, on a Wednesday. George Lindblade was at work in his print store, G.R. Lindblade Ink, in Sioux City, Iowa.

LINDBLADE: Well, the day started just like any other day in Sioux City, Iowa, but uh yeah, it went downhill quickly from there when Al Haynes called in and said “Hello Sioux City tower.”

HAYNES: This is United 232. We’re declaring an emergency here…

Al Haynes, a United Airlines captain, was piloting a DC-10, a large airliner.

HAYNES: Request landing at the next suitable airport…

The plane was carrying nearly 300 people from Denver to Philadelphia, with a stop in Chicago. At 3:16 pm, a cracked fan blade caused the tail-mounted engine to explode, and the plane’s hydraulic fluid started leaking. Haynes radioed air traffic control.

HAYNES: We have no hydraulic fluid which means that we have no elevator control, uh, almost none and very little aileron control. I have serious doubts about making the airport.

The plane was about a half hour away from the Sioux City airport.

On the ground, Lindblade got a call from the city clerk’s office. Lindblade had worked in forensic and technical photography for some time. He also had his pilot’s license.

LINDBLADE: They said, “Can a DC three land at the Sioux City Airport?” I said, “Yeah, It can land there.” But I said, “I don't know about taking off and it depends on how much weight’s on it. Why?”

And they said, “Well, we got one, it's headed this way. And he lost an engine.” 

People scramble to prepare for the plane to land: firefighters, union workers, EMTs. Air traffic control gave their thumbs up.

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: Ok United 232 heavy, the winds currently 3-6-0 at 1-1. 360 at 11. You’re clear to land on any runway.

HAYNES: Haha. You wanna be particular and make it a runway, huh?

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL: Sir we’re getting the equipment off the runway and you can line-up for that one.

HAYNES: Ok.

The plane makes its final descent.

SOUND FROM THE COCKPIT: Back, Al! Left throttle! Left, left, left, left, left, left, left…left, left, left!

GWPS SIREN: Woop Woop. “Pull up.” Woop woop. “Pull up.”

Silence.

It’s almost a normal landing. The wheels touch down as they are meant to. But the plane comes down hard, causing the right wing and tail to break. The body of the plane slides down the runway. The nose pitches forwards, bouncing along the ground. It flips in the air, hits the ground again, and breaks into sections. It’s on fire. More than 110 people died in the crash. Miraculously, more than half of the passengers on Flight 232, including Captain Al Haynes, survived the flight…but most needed immediate medical attention.

Dr. Kelly Pomerenke was still in his first residency. When his pager went off, he was called into the emergency room at St. Luke’s Hospital.

POMERENKE: I remember that when I, when I got to the emergency room nobody was there yet and I remember there was a little bit of lag…we may have had a half an hour. And then patients started coming in slowly. It was kind of an eerie feeling, sitting there not knowing exactly what you were going to see… 

Dr. Pomerenke was assigned to treat the “walking injured.”

POMERENKE: Once you get involved with the motions, you kind of settle down, you focus and do your job. It just kind of happened naturally actually.

Of the many patients he treated, one couple is particularly memorable.

POMERENKE: I had an older couple that actually I think were having some trouble breathing from smoke inhalation. And I remember them telling me that they crashed they got up out of their seats took their seatbelts off, walked to the ambulance, and while they were walking to the ambulance came across their luggage…Picked up their luggage and came to the hospital, and I remember in the emergency room they had their luggage right with them.

Most of Dr. Pomerenke’s patients injuries were from smoke inhalation, shock, and broken bones. More serious cases were either sent to another hospital or to the burn unit.

POMERENKE: Kids being there without parents and, and being separated from families or waiting for family members to fly in? And just kind of being alone?...So yeah, you remember the pain that those people must have went through.

The response from Sioux City residents and first responders became headline news. Volunteers from all around the country also showed up to do what they could. Once again, photographer George Lindblade:

LINDBLADE: I still say it was Sioux city's best day, because we did everything right. Everybody put their best foot forward. There was absolutely the most incredible feeling that the people had towards the victims as well as their families that were coming in. And so it was absolutely no stone that they didn't turn over to help…

But 35 years after the crash, Lindblade says their sacrifice has come at a cost.

LINDBLADE: It took a heavy, heavy toll on a lot of them. I mean, there were a lot of marriage breakups over the thing. There were a couple suicides, there was some people who resigned from their jobs as firefighters and policemen and other things. They just couldn't deal with it, and as one Undertaker put it, he says when you have 100 of them piled up, he says that's something different.

The Mid America Museum of Aviation and Transportation in Sioux City, Iowa, has a permanent exhibit commemorating United Airlines Flight 232. It’s situated on Runway 22…the same runway where Captain Al Haynes and his crew managed to land the plane. Many survivors and family members gather each year to remember the bravery and sacrifice of so many, and honor the lives of those lost.

That’s this week’s WORLD History Book. I’m Sarah Pugsley.

JENNY ROUGH, HOST: Tomorrow: What we know about last week’s prisoner swap between Russia and the US.

And, we’ll talk about the effort to block the Biden administration’s new Title IX rules.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Jenny Rough.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

The World and Everything in It comes to you from WORLD Radio.

WORLD’s mission is biblically objective journalism that informs, educates, and inspires.

The Bible records:

And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, according to the directions of David king of Israel.

And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord,

“For he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.”

And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.

Ezra 3 :9-10. 

Go now in grace and peace.

WORLD Radio transcripts are created on a rush deadline. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary. The authoritative record of WORLD Radio programming is the audio record.