The World and Everything in It: August 6, 2026

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

A doctor working on the Ebola crisis works to fight the disease and the suspicion around it.

SEBUSHISHE: They need to know who we are, why we are there.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And, a migrant crisis unfolds in Europe.

Also, pregnancy resource centers fight for the right to say “abortion is reversible.”

And, later: marking a milestone. We’ll go back to where this show started:

SLIFE: So we didn’t have money to produce it. We didn’t have stations to distribute it. We didn’t know what we were going to do.

To celebrate how far we’ve come.

BROWN: It’s Thursday, August 6th, the 15th anniversary of The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

REICHARD: And I’m Mary Reichard. Good morning!

BROWN: Now here’s the news with Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Iran latest » No breakthrough Wednesday on a temporary peace deal with Iran. President Trump had said an agreement could come as early as yesterday or today.

The Trump administration has been encouraged by progress at the bargaining table to potentially fully reopen the Strait or Hormuz and open talks about Iran’s nuclear program. And President Trump told backers in Las Vegas:

TRUMP:  I'd rather make a deal because I don't wanna kill people.

He has maintained that a massive US strike originally planned for this past weekend is on hold. But he says it could still happen if the talks falter again.

The president also talked up the US economy and highlighted tax cuts in Nevada.

TRUMP: The stock market has set 74 all-time highs just since our short time since we’ve been back.

He touted the no tax on tips provision he signed into law last year, as well as new foreign investments in the US.

Ukraine latest » Meanwhile in Ukraine:

SOUND: Firefighters in Kyiv

Firefighters in Kyiv battled blazes on Wednesday after Russian forces launched a massive air attack. WORLD’s Travis Kircher reports:

SOUND: Body removal

TRAVIS KIRCHER: Officials say at least 17 people were killed. Crews could be seen moving eight bodies near a railway platform.

And Ukraine reportedly failed to shoot down any of the incoming missiles. That strengthened Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's calls for more U.S. manufactured Patriot missile interceptors.

The topic came up later on Wednesday as Zelenskyy hosted British Defense Secretary Wes Streeting in Kyiv.

ZELENSKYY: Welcome

STREETING: So nice to see you!

ZELENSKYY: Nice to see you too, sir!

Zelenskyy telling the defense secretary the need for more interceptors is only growing as Russia doubles down on its attacks.

ZELENSKYY: They don't want to stop. And I think that they want to continue and increase escalation using the ballistic missiles

Streeting said he planned to meet with officials in Kyiv about offering more British help.

For WORLD, I’m Travis Kircher.

Al-Sayed wins MI » The Democratic party has taken a hard left turn in Michigan, where Abdul El-Sayed has defeated Congresswoman Haley Stevens in a Senate primary race.

The state largely finished counting votes on Wednesday with El-Sayed squeaking out a win by roughly 1 percentage point.

He now faces Republican Mike Rogers, a former congressman.

EL-SAYED:  Mike Rogers is a guy who, believe it or not, went back to Florida so he could lick every single boot Donald Trump owns to beg for his endorsement

Democrats aligned with the party's far left won two Michigan House primaries too. Rogers is calling it a takeover by the Democratic Socialists of America—or DSA.

ROGERS: And the DSA candidates in the state, uh, in two different congressional races look like they're pulling it off as well. The Democrat Party is lost to this hardcore socialist attitude

El-Sayed says he's not a socialist, but he does have the backing of the socialist wing of his party, and many of his policies are aligned.

Spokane update » Firefighters have started boxing in three wildfires near Spokane, Washington, but seven hundred buildings are already gone.

All three were at zero containment for four days. Calm weather helped crews get two of the blazes to 13 percent Wednesday.

And investigators believe someone started at least one of the fires on purpose.

Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels:

NOWELS: We took 37-year-old Aaron Farinacci, a convicted felon, into custody on a single charge of arson in the first degree.

He served about ten years in Arizona for manslaughter.

Court documents say Farinacci denies starting the fire and denies being near it.

But three people in a car said they saw the suspect near where the fire started Saturday. A deputy stopped him more than a mile away, then let him go.

AUDIO: All three of us positively identified that as the individual we saw standing in the area the fire started approximately ten minutes, you know, five to ten minutes before the fire was noticed.

Farinacci had been questioned in connection with two previous fires but never charged.

Vance anti-fraud » Vice President JD Vance and members of the White House task force on fraud met with lawmakers on Wednesday with some requests.

Vance pressured for new rules calling for states to share benefits data with the federal government.

VANCE: We need to know where your tax dollars are going. And if the state of California or the state of New York isn't going to tell us, we need Congress to force them to tell us…

He also asked the dozen or so Republicans in the room for tougher penalties for convicted fraudsters.

Back in June, the House passed a dozen anti-fraud measures, including one authorizing deportations for illegal immigrants that defraud Medicaid. It’s now up to the Senate to move the ball forward. But Republicans lack the votes to pass them without Democrat support.

Democrats in Congress have largely written off Republicans’ war on fraud as justification to cut spending.

I'm Kent Covington.

Coming up, border tightening in Europe after a mass migrant crossing into Spanish territory. Plus, going back to the beginning of the show as we celebrate 15 years on the air.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Thursday the 6th of August.

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

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

First up: inside an Ebola treatment center.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading faster than any before it.

In less than three months, almost 4,000 people have been infected, and about 1,700 have died. By comparison, West Africa’s biggest outbreak before now took eight months to reach 1,000 deaths.

REICHARD: Now Canadian officials have approved clinical trials of a vaccine targeting the Bundibugyo (boon-dee-BOO-joh) strain of the Ebola virus…the second experimental Ebola vaccine to reach that stage.

But even if the trials succeed, an approved vaccine or effective treatment could still be years away.

WORLD’s Mary Muncy talked to a doctor on the front lines.

MARY MUNCY: Congo native Abdou Sebushishe is a senior health advisor with the International Medical Corps. A few weeks ago, he admitted a father to the Ebola treatment center he runs in Eastern Congo.

SEBUSHISHE: He was really sick, critically ill. So he was not able to move by himself.

Two days later, his 11-year-old daughter came to the center with a fever.

Sebushishe went to see her—completely hidden behind his personal protective equipment.

SEBUSHISHE: I brought in some toys…. I start asking… "What do you want to eat next?” She told me. Then I asked her, "Do you have any specific demand?” She told me, "I need to see my dad.”

Sebushishe spent 30 minutes trying to explain why she couldn’t. She had only a suspected case of Ebola… while her father’s case was confirmed.

Sebushishe asked if she had a message for her father. She responded in Swahili:

SEBUSHISHE: “I'm here and I'm feeling abandoned.” The way she said it, it literally say “I'm okay, but” you know “I miss-I miss him.”

Sebushishe relayed the message.

SEBUSHISHE: He was bleeding in the in his mouth, but he struggled to remove whatever blood was there, and asked me, "I want my daughter.” That's the only word he he really was able to say.

Sebushishe started working on the outbreak mid-May. By that point, Bundibugyo had already been spreading for months because healthcare workers had been testing for a different strain.

Sebushishe says it was important to gather local doctors and construction workers to build Ebola treatment centers, or ETCs.

SEBUSHISHE: They need to know who we are, why we are there.

Some communities are suspicious of the doctors coming in at all. With so many suffering from hunger and malaria, why is this different?

SEBUSHISHE: We explain to them that we understand the issue, but that is way beyond our level. But this specific disease, we are trying to stop it to become an issue on top of many other issues they have.

Locals have attacked ETCs across the country because they’re worried that their relatives aren’t being treated well. He says that’s common during Ebola outbreaks because doctors have to isolate patients and if a patient dies, a trained team has to bury them.

SEBUSHISHE: Malicious people, use that to spread rumors that you know the doctors in those isolation unit, they do remove kidneys and certain organs of patients.

To combat this, facilities have visitor centers with windows so families can see what doctors are doing.

Ebola starts with a fever, just like malaria and typhoid fever. So, people often wait to go to the hospital… If they go at all. Some people think that because there’s no targeted “treatment” the hospital can’t help.

SEBUSHISHE: But doctors have ways to provide supportive treatment.

Things like fluids, electrolytes, and controlling a fever.

In the beginning, they received mostly critical patients… one day in June Sebushishe was already dressed in protective gear waiting for two patients to arrive. They both died en route.

SEBUSHISHE: Some of those days, yeah, you wonder really, will I still keep seeing people dying around me? You know, when you see also the distress of their families around the deceased.

On those days, he tries to focus on the people he’s helped.

A few hours after the 11-year-old girl came to his center, she tested negative for Ebola, but positive for malaria. They took her to the visitor center so she could see her father.

SEBUSHISHE: They could just put their both their hands on the window. They cannot touch physically, but at least through the glass.

She told her father that she loved him. Her father cried. They then moved her to a different facility.

Within a week, both father and daughter recovered, and the father was able to take what they call the “happy shower”---the final shower to disinfect a patient before they can hug their loved ones.

SEBUSHISHE: You can see the joy of everyone when we are discharging a patient. Everyone, the patient, the family is happy to reunite with their with their relative, but we are more happy because we are seeing at least someone that you know we we we can discharge happily, reunite, give hope again to live one more day.

The Congo outbreak is showing no signs of slowing down. But every time someone walks out of his clinic, Sebushishe says it’s one more person who can tell people that care is available.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Mary Muncy.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: a surge of migrants into Spanish territory.

Last week, more than 70,000 migrants entered Ceuta, Spain from neighboring Morocco. The port city of roughly 83,000 sits on the North African coast of Morocco, and has been under Spanish rule since the 16th century.

MYRNA BROWN: Video of the crossing quickly went viral online. World leaders responded in press conferences and social media posts as Spanish authorities worked to take control of the border.

WORLD’s Emma Eicher has the story.

EMMA EICHER: Last Thursday, thousands of migrants climbed barbed wire border fences and then swam or boated into Ceuta, Spain.

AUDIO: Men shouting, running

Some who made the crossing from Morocco were families and women, but the majority were young men aged 18-30.

Locals recorded migrants breaking into businesses while police attempted to stop them.

AUDIO: Commotion

Ceuta residents closed restaurants and stores for the weekend. The city’s migrant accommodation center has only 500 beds, and it quickly filled beyond capacity.

Jose, who lives in Ceuta, spoke to Firstpost News last Friday night:

JOSE: It’s a disgrace, honestly. The only solution I see is for Spain to do what Donald Trump does and start deporting people. Above all, it has to deploy the navy at the border to stop anyone from getting through.

That same news outlet spoke with two migrants about why they crossed the border:

MIGRANTS: Because we don’t have a good life in Morocco. And we don’t have good medicine and it’s a bad life in Morocco. That’s why we swim to here.

As the footage went viral, European leaders responded.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reintroduced border checks with Spain for one month. That applies to travelers arriving by sea and air. French President Emmanuel Macron also ordered increased security at the Spain-France border.

Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in:

TRUMP: I saw Spain and I watched the catastrophe that took place. It looks like an invasion of a country. What that is is weak law, bad management, but very liberal law. Nobody’s seen anything like it.

Spain sent troops to Ceuta to restore order after the city requested help. Spanish authorities have reported that at least 72 people died during the crossing.

On Sunday, a citizen journalist—called The Nowhere Photographer on X—recorded migrant men camping in a Ceuta cemetery.

ADRIAN: All the migrants here are all just chilling out in the graves, next to the graves in the cemetery.

While the Moroccan government officially claimed it played no part in the event, some have doubts.

HANKINSON: People who watch Spanish-Moroccan relations believe that the Moroccan government was sending a signal. They're not happy with Spain's cozying up to Algeria about energy deals.

Simon Hankinson is a Senior Research Fellow in the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation.

HANKINSON: There's no way that you could have 60,000 guys all show up just at one moment without the Moroccan government being you know fully aware and complicit or at least not willing to stop them.

Others have said Islamist actors are currently seeking to destabilize the government of Morocco. Migrants in Ceuta said they saw social media posts encouraging them to cross the border.

Hankinson says recent government actions in Spain have incentivized these illegal border crossings.

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is politically left-wing and a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party. He assumed office in 2018.

HANKINSON: The Spanish government under Sanchez has always been pretty much in favor of mass migration. All they want to do-it's a bit like the Biden administration-they they didn't want to stop it. They just wanted to make it lawful, humane, legal, easier.

Earlier this year, Sánchez gave amnesty to illegal immigrants who arrived before January 1st, had at least five months of residence in Spain, and no criminal record. Immigrants who met this criteria could apply for temporary residence and work permits.

HANKINSON: It ended up being 1.2 million people who applied. I don't know how many they're ultimately going to give asylum to, but in theory, these people could all, once they become Spanish citizens, they can move freely around the Schengen zone, and we know nothing about them. So I think that concerns other European countries in the European Union.

Additionally, a July Supreme Court order held that migrants arriving by sea could not be deported without due process.

Sanchez said that ruling led to misinformation about how immigration is handled, and called the Ceuta crossings “a violation of Spain’s territorial integrity.”

On Tuesday, the European Union called for an urgent meeting with E.U. interior ministers. By then, Spain reported most migrants had either left Ceuta voluntarily or were escorted out by the Spanish military.

Hankinson says political opposition to mass migration is gaining supporters throughout Europe.

HANKINSON: The majority in most countries wants to preserve their national identity, whatever it is. They don't want to be taken over by a different culture. They want people to assimilate to them, as opposed to them having to assimilate to somebody else.

On August 1st, Spain constructed a 1600 foot sea barrier in Ceuta to deter future migrants from crossing the border.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Emma Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next: reversing abortion.

Testimony has wrapped up in California in a case that could determine if pro-life organizations can say chemical abortion is reversible. That decision could have far-reaching effects.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued Heartbeat International and a pregnancy center network called RealOptions, saying they falsely advertise what is known as abortion pill reversal.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: The process uses the hormone progesterone after a woman has taken the first round in a two-drug chemical abortion regimen.

Bonta in a press release said the six weeks of testimony strengthened the state’s case, showing abortion pill reversal is unproven and lacks scientific backing.

REICHARD: Peter Breen of Thomas More Society represents the pro-life organizations. He says the state didn’t identify a single woman who claimed she was deceived.

BREEN: There were no victims. There was no evidence of a crime….Abortion pill reversal has been going on in California for about fifteen years, and they could not find a single person willing to step forward and say, I was unhappy with my abortion pill reversal experience. I was somehow deceived or lied to. So that was a massive, massive hole in the attorney general's case.

BROWN: The state argues that Heartbeat International’s claims about the safety of abortion pill reversal have not yet been adequately proven. It’is seeking a permanent order restricting what the pro-life organizations can say about abortion pill reversal. It’s also seeking civil penalties that could exceed 20 million dollars.

BREEN: He he is seeking a gag order so that we would not be able to say that abortion pill reversal is safe and effective, which would essentially cause us to stop having to speak about it at all.

Breen says this raises broader First Amendment concerns because the speech here is offered by nonprofit ministries rather than commercial drug manufacturers.

BREEN: This is speech about abortion…they're doing it all for free as a charitable endeavor. There's no monetary motive in terms of that speech…abortion is still the number one most contentious issue in the country, has been for fifty years, and you're doing it in a way that you have no financial motive. The Constitution…puts that at the highest rung of protected First Amendment speech.

REICHARD: Although the ruling will directly affect the pro-life organizations in California, Breen says its influence could extend beyond the state.

BREEN: They are the hub for abortion pill reversal nationwide. And of course…there's a copycat suit in New York. Letitia James, the attorney general of New York, brought a case against Heartbeat, which we're also defending out there. And there are other Blue State Attorneys General which would bring copycat cases. So really this is a ruling that even though limited to California, it would have nationwide implications.

BROWN: Both sides must file post-trial briefs before closing argument on September 17, after which Judge Patrick McKinney is expected to rule before the end of the year.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: David Cifaldi’s recent hiking trip with friends in Montana took a bit of a wrong turn.

CIFALDI: Just had a really unfortunate slip and fall, and I remember rolling over, and this kind of realization of like something's not right here.

He had impaled himself on his 44-inch trekking pole.

But no panic for Cifaldi–the wound care nurse assessed the situation: there was little blood or pain, and the pole wasn’t moving. It had missed any vital organs–– just a flesh wound-- so the group hiked out for help.

CIFALDI: More than 8 hours later, he finally got to the ER where he works… this time as a patient. Sounds like a guy who really knows when to walk it off.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Thursday, August 6th.

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

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

Coming next on The WORLD And Everything in it: 15 years!

Fifteen years ago today, our first program aired on the Salem Radio Network.

I’ve been here for a lot of those years. It’s been a wild ride! My first story was back in November 2011, about the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor. I’d been a WORLD Magazine fan for decades—I have a big fat folder of columns from Janie B. Cheaney and Andree Seu Peterson to prove it, so a dream come true to work here.

BROWN: I love telling my WORLD origin story, too because it’s how many of you started listening as well, it’s the same story. My pastor loved the program, he told my husband about it and my husband told me.

So, this morning we’re taking some extra time to look back and celebrate what God has done.

The story starts long before the show aired. It was the Fall of 1990. Joel Belz, had just launched the fledgling WORLD Magazine four years earlier. Belz needed help running it. But the 27-year-old he was eyeing for the job, had another platform in mind.

NICK EICHER: I met Joel to pitch my radio idea to him. The thought was if WORLD Magazine were a radio program, what would it sound like?

Nick Eicher says Belz liked the idea, but the timing wasn’t right. So, Eicher joined the magazine staff in Asheville, North Carolina and found a mentor in Belz.

NICK EICHER: You know, very much a father figure. He was a huge influence in my life.

But he never gave up on his radio dream.

REICHARD: Joseph Slife was working for a radio ministry in Gainesville, Georgia. He was also a World Magazine reader.

JOSEPH SLIFE: Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was some audio version of that?

Slife and Eicher met in 2006 to compare notes.

JOSEPH SLIFE: So we didn’t have money to produce it. We didn’t have stations to distribute it. We didn’t know what we were going to do. So we just left it as, well, that was a great idea, but it’s not going to happen.

BROWN: But in 2011, Slife got a call.

JOSEPH SLIFE: And he said I feel like the dog that has been chasing after the car for a long time and I finally caught it. But now I don’t know what to do with it.

It was Eicher.

JOSEPH SLIFE: And I said, what are you talking about? He said Salem Radio, they would like to give us time on their network.

NICK EICHER: And they agreed if we could produce a pilot program that was sufficient, then they would let us do it.

Slife had reservations. He already had a full-time job in Georgia.

JOSEPH SLIFE: But Nick said how about if we do a pilot program for them to run on Memorial Day weekend in 2011.

PILOT PROGRAM: Memorial Day 2011. A day of remembrance for those who died in defense of their country.

REICHARD: Salem Radio executives liked what they heard and wanted more a radio program every weekend. So, Eicher and Slife worked for three months and cranked out:

FIRST PROGRAM: From WORLD Magazine this is the debut of The WORLD and Everything In It…

The program debuted on August 6, 2011.

JOSEPH SLIFE: I said to Nick, I’ve come across the verse in the scriptures that I think gives us the title for this program.

Psalm 89:11. You have made the world and everything in it.

JOSEPH SLIFE:. So I said to Nick, this is a program title that gives us very broad rails to run on. Because God made the world and everything in it, we can talk about just about anything.

And they did, every weekend.

VARIOUS PROGRAMS MONTAGE: It’s the WORLD and Everything In It. I’m Joseph Slife. I’m Nick Eicher. One of every four books sold in America today….the answer turns on whether a state’s constitution permits public funds to go directly to schools…One word that’s been very prominent in the national vocabulary these past few days is fear, as evidenced by the Stock Market’s plunge…

World Radio now had two full-time employees, Slife and Eicher. But that’s a slim staff for producing a two-hour program every week.

NICK EICHER: I would go in on a Thursday and work until I just couldn’t function. And then I would lie down on that couch and sleep for a couple of hours. We would just crash through it to get it done because we had a noon deadline. We had to nail it. We couldn’t miss. So, we didn’t.

BROWN: Slife says the experience taught them how to live and work as faith-filled realists.

JOSEPH SLIFE: In other words, you want to rely on God. You don’t want something to be a project of oh, yeah, I can pull this off myself. On the other hand you don’t want to be delusional about it, so you have to keep touching base regularly with the Lord and say, Lord are we on the right track with this thing? Are we doing the right thing? Would you please send us the people we need?

In 2012, the tiny team doubled in size, adding a sound technician, a reporter and a newsdesk. Christina Darnell and later Kent Covington:

CHRISTINA DARNELL: So I think my technical label at that point was field producer. I just did a little bit of everything.

KENT COVINGTON: I was the writer, anchor, producer, editor and everything of the newscast. That’s the way it was back then. Wearing six or seven hats and doing whatever needed to be done.

REICHARD: A change in technology also gave the program a boost.

JOSEPH SLIFE: In the summer of 2012, Apple made a major change. The day I saw that come down, I said this is the game changer.

A new update allowed listeners to download an audio program to their phones. That meant no more plugins, no more syncing and no need to rely on radio stations for distribution. The WORLD And Everything In It quickly moved from a weekend to a daily podcast.

FIRST DAILY PROGRAM: From World News Group this is the debut of the weekday edition of the WORLD and Everything In It. Good Morning I’m Nick Eicher. It’s Monday, May 6th 2013….

The show gained technicians like Carl Peetz, Johnny Franklin and Benj Eicher. And more voices as WORLD Magazine writers became part-time podcasters. Mindy Belz, Marvin Olasky, Andrée Seu Petersen, Janie B. Cheaney, and Joel Belz.

MAGAZINE WRITERS MONTAGE: Whatever people in the Muslim world may have thought of President Obama, they now are faced with someone who has not stood by his word…The bitterness was enormous. There was more discrimination against blacks. They were free, but still held down in so many ways…She brainstorms talking points for her upcoming women’s Bible study lecture on Epehsians….The damning indictment is that the book teaches readers how to implement Shaeffer’s idea that a Biblical worldview should suffuse every aspect of one’s life….Outsiders may not know it, but our own kids know when we’re pretending. From my dad I learned the importance of honesty in such matters.

And then there was the music.

JOSEPH SLIFE: Every radio program or TV program needs to have some kind of musical theme and so when we started we didn’t have a theme that was our own. And it occurred to me one day, given the program title and given the emphasis of WORLD generally about the earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof. And He’s the Lord of the world and everything in it, we should have a theme music that evoked it.

MUSIC: This is My Father’s World

JOSEPH SLIFE: Well, there’s a great hymn of the church called, This is My Father’s World. And so we hired a fellow named John Campbell. He did multiple iterations using this tune which is actually called Terra Beata.

Curating the music for the podcast was one of Slife’s most significant contributions. It was also one of his last.

JOSEPH SLIFE: So it was time to hand that off to somebody else and I’m grateful that other people stepped in

BROWN: Kristen Flavin is the features editor.

KRISTEN FLAVIN: Just watching how it has remained the same program but just takes on different flavors based on who’s in charge. It’s been a very cool position to be in to have experienced like working with Joseph and working with J.C. and Leigh…

…two of WORLD’s managing editors….

…and working with Paul and now working with Lindsay and just the way that brings about a different flavor of the team.

Paul Butler is WORLD’s training director, but before that he spent a number of years as the producer and executive producer of the podcast. He says he’s always been grateful for the men, women, and families who listen faithfully.

PAUL BUTLER: We have a special audience that’s loyal, that’s engaged and frankly part of the refinement process of our staff. Of providing feedback, of what works, but also feedback on things that didn’t land well with them. One of the things I’ve always appreciated at WORLD is how our leadership views our audience with a high regard, with great affection and I would even argue with Christ-like love.

It’s a love Nick Eicher says is rooted in scripture. Romans 12: Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

NICK EICHER: There was a problem with Christians being conformed to the world because of the pervasive influences in society. I say that we have the same challenge. Because the world is being explained to us by people who don’t have the first idea what life is about. Obviously we’re not scripture. But we are an influence and we can interpret the world and that’s what we do as journalists. We interpret the world one story at a time.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Harrison Watters in Washington [7/30/2026]

I’m Mary Muncy in Magdeburg, Germany[12/11/2025]

Emma Eicher in Pullman, Washington [07/30/2026]

Lauren Smyth in Jackson, Michigan [07/09/2026]

I’m Travis Kircher in Jerusalem [05/07/26]

I’m Kim Henderson in Little Bahala, Mississippi [05/19/2026]

I’m Onize Oduah in Abuja, Nigeria [05/20/26]

Jenny Rough in Badlands National Park [09/09/2025]

I’m Grace Snell in Black River, New York [06/26/2025]

I’m Lindsay Mast at Historic Grayson Stadium in Savannah, Georgia [09/10/2025]

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Tomorrow: John Stonestreet will be here for Culture Friday.

And, a review of the adventure docuseries on Prime— coming this weekend: The Chosen in the Wild with Bear Grylls.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Mary Reichard.

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

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 says:

By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host. He gathers the waters of the sea as a heap; he puts the deeps in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him! For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm. Verses 6–9 of Psalm 33.

Go now in grace and peace.

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