The World and Everything in It: August 7, 2026

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

Young men increasingly say they feel like failures, alone and powerless. What does it reveal about our culture?

MARY REICHARD, HOST: That’s ahead on Culture Friday with John Stonestreet.

Then, the cast of The Chosen opens up to Bear Grylls about faith, fear, and finding purpose.

AUDIO:  Where does this love of challenge come from?

And George Grant traces the surprising roots of a posh word in this month’s Wordplay.

BROWN: It’s Friday, August 7th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

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

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

AUDIO: Mr chairman, on the vote of those present, the yeas are 8, the nays are 5. On the vote by proxy, and for the record only, the yeas are 0 and the nays are 2. And the motion is agreed to.

Committee Chairman Rand Paul said prior to that vote:

PAUL: We are voting on whether a witness who has received the benefit of a sweeping federal pardon can be ordered by this committee to answer questions and then defy that order without consequence

Fauci was the nation’s top infectious disease doctor before and during the COVID pandemic. Sen. Paul subpoenaed him to appear at a hearing last week to provide answers. He did appear but did not cooperate.

Republicans say that because former President Joe Biden gave him a preemptive pardon, Fauci was in no danger of prosecution, and therefore had no right to provide only one answer to every question — more than 100 times.

FAUCI: On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

Democrats, though, argued that he was within his rights to do so.

Chairman Rand Paul is bypassing the typical step of sending the contempt resolution to the full Senate, where Democrats would likely filibuster. He is instead sending the contempt referral directly to the Department of Justice. It’s now up to the DOJ whether to prosecute.

Iran » Iran says it is in the final stage of drafting an agreement with Oman to allow commercial traffic to use specific routes through the Strait of Hormuz.

If Tehran and Oman complete that agreement, the White House says the US and Iran could then begin nuclear talks.

President Trump is optimistic, but Democrats on Capitol Hill not so much. Sen. Chris Murphy says he sees a clear pattern.

MURPHY:  Trump says a deal is about to happen. Don't worry, the war is about to be over. There's n- no deal

Vice President JD Vance answered critics, saying it’s a complicated process.

VANCE:  Number one, the Iranians are extraordinarily difficult people. Number two, they have a fractured system. So there are people within their system who want the war to be over. There are also people within their system who are crazy radicals who want the war to continue

Meantime, in Yemen, the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels reportedly attacked government forces in two provinces, killing at least 30 troops.

The attacks mark a major escalation since a truce in 2022 largely halted fighting. The civil war pits the Houthis against a Saudi-led coalition allied with Yemen's globally recognized government.

Gaza troops » Two African nations are stepping up to help keep the peace in the post-war Gaza Strip. WORLD's Mary Muncy reports.

MARY MUNCY: Authorities in Uganda won approval from parliament Thursday to deploy troops to Gaza.

That will be part of an international force proposed by President Trump's Board of Peace to secure the territory in the aftermath of Israel's war with the terror group Hamas.

Morocco has also pledged troops for the mission.

Meanwhile Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is clarifying an announcement out of Washington.

The Trump administration said that Israel and Hamas had reached a deal that calls for Hamas to disarm while Israel halts its strikes and begins withdrawing from much of Gaza.

But Netanyahu said this week that Hamas has to completely disarm first before any Israeli withdrawal can begin.

For WORLD, I'm Mary Muncy.

Ebola health workers protest » The World Health Organization says Congo's Ebola outbreak is spreading faster than health workers can track it. In some places, cases are doubling.

It is the fastest growing Ebola outbreak ever. It has infected more than 4,000 people and killed more than eighteen hundred.

The U.S. has put more than half a billion dollars into the response.

But in the province with nine out of ten cases, health workers walked off the job Thursday. They say the government hasn't paid them since the outbreak was declared in May. Nurses treating Ebola patients are among them.

Spokane wildfires » In eastern Washington, crews are still battling three major wildfires. WORLD’s Emma Eicher reports now from Spokane.

EMMA EICHER: The flames have forced at least 65,000 people to evacuate. And more than 850 homes and other structures have already burned to the ground.

Level 3 ‘Go Now’ evacuation orders remain in place in northwest Spokane as fire crews battle the flames.

I spoke with one resident, Chloe Roets, who told me that her family of eight had to leave their home in north Spokane on Saturday.

CHLOE ROETS: There were police officers driving around the neighborhood with megaphones, telling people to leave now. And so we just kind of hightailed it out of there as quickly as we could.

As they were driving away, Chloe saw the first house catch fire through the car window.

Most of the neighborhood burned down. Here’s Roets’s mother, Molly:

MOLLY ROETS: I'm just like looking for meaning in this and direction from the Lord. … People are in shock, and they're just walking around and kind of in a daze.

Conditions are expected to worsen today as westerly winds and summer heat kick up.

For WORLD, I’m Emma Eicher in Spokane, Washington.

I'm Kent Covington.

Coming up, Collin Garbarino reviews a new documentary that lets audiences tag along as Girl Scouts make their annual cookie sales. Plus, George Grant traces the journey of a reclaimed word on Wordplay.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Friday the 7th of August.

You’re listening to WORLD Radio and we’re so glad to have you along today. Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown.

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

It's Culture Friday. And joining us now is John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint Podcast. Good morning, John.

JOHN STONESTREET: Good morning.

MARY REICHARD: Well, let's start with something really easy: the morality of taxation. So I live in Missouri, and we voted this week on the ballot, Amendment 5 to get rid of the income tax, the state income tax. That measure did fail. We don't have to get into the weeds of it.

I'm more interested in your take on what a Christian friend told me just before I went to vote, and here's the gist of what he said. It's immoral for Christians to shift the burden of funding state government to the poor via sales taxes. What are your thoughts?

STONESTREET: Well, the Bible doesn't give us tax policy and and this is where I always kind of cringe a little bit as a champion of Christian worldview to hear someone said, This is the Christian worldview of this and this is the Christian worldview of that, or even the biblical worldview of this or that, when the Bible doesn't actually speak to tax rates and things like that. I think the question here is something more fundamental, which is what does the Bible say about the poor and what does the Bible say about our responsibility for the poor? And of course, in the context in which these scriptures were being written that address these questions, there was no impulse to care for the poor more widely. As Eric Metaxas has put it on more than a few occasions. It's a big improvement that we no longer argue about whether to help the poor, we argue about how best to help the poor. The other thing that complicates that is that when the Bible is talking about poverty and the poor, it's talking about for the most part a different category of individuals than we are today.

You can think about poverty in two ways. Number one is there's abject poverty, that is the inability to acquire resources or food in order to survive. And then there's relative poverty, which can still be really, really hard, but that is more of kind of how we approach deciding the difference between the rich and the poor. We come up with an income level and we draw a line, and anyone below that income line, based on the number of people in their household or the number of kids that they have, are therefore poor. But the poor in America still by and large have air conditioning, access to transportation and and cell phones. that doesn't mean that they don't have it harder than others. It doesn't mean that their poverty is not real and it's not a challenge. But the Bible's dealing far more with our responsibility to actually help people.

And I don't think we should outsource the willingness to help people to the state. That is not something that the Bible endorses any more than it does, adding additional burdens to the poor via taxes. So there's a lot of different things that the Bible says about these things. and translating them into policy today when you're talking about maybe not apples and oranges, but at least apples and apricots. We gotta be able to make some translations here that are I think important.

BROWN: Well John, former Sixty Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley is back in the news. Remember earlier this year he was ousted from the program after clashing with newsroom leadership headed by Barry Weiss, the editor in chief of CBS News. He's got a new gig, journalist in residence at Columbia Journalism School. In this part-time role, he'll give lectures and help students hone their investigative reporting skills. As I think about Pelley standing before aspiring, perhaps impressionable student journalists this fall, I can't help but think about something I heard Cal Thomas say when this story first broke in the spring. In an interview, Pelly was asked to respond to a question posed by BarI Weiss. Why do you think the country thinks you're biased? Pelly couldn't answer the question and even said he was shocked by it, despite Gallup polls that have for decades revealed a decline in the public's confidence in the news media. And Cal pointed that out and it makes me think, is this the blind leading the blind? I mean this is our profession. I'm nervous.

STONESTREET: Well, I do think there's some encouraging and redemptive things that we've seen in the wider world of the news media in recent decades. You know, disruptions from the traditional power centers, the growth of non-traditional news and media sources, all of that is kind of balancing the playing field, I think. But you know, in light of this, I think about something that Chuck Colson used to say over and over.

In his experience it was political power, but he was also just really aware of the idea of having kind of unchecked influence and you start believing in reading your own press and things like that. And he would say there's just no limit to the human capacity for self-rationalization. And we have an amazing ability to have blind spots when it serves our best interest to have those blind spots.

I think it also points to something else about the human condition, which is good motives aren't enough.I just I never let my kids get away with saying, you know, I didn't mean to, or I meant to do something else, you know, before they broke the windshield on a car that we were just about to sell. Not that that's a true story or anything, it might be. So my point is good intention is important when it comes to moral analysis, but it's not enough. You can have noble intentions and just be completely unaware that you are self-rationalizing your own arrogance or your own desire for power. We have a capacity, especially the powerful, to make a difference in the lives of others. And we may think we're doing everything right. Since I quoted Chuck Colson, you know, he went to prison of course for Watergate related charges. And it's fascinating when you hear how he intended going into the White House to never be corrupted. I remember him describing this on more than one occasion, that he would give away all the gifts that would come into the White House for him. He would take him down to his administrative assistants or other people and he broke off all relationships that he thought might compromise his integrity. And he would talk about this and he'd say, you know, I was committed. I was so committed to never be compromised in the White House. I was so committed that I went to prison for it. You know, there's just this ability to miss things and have moral blind spots and I think that's the best spin I can put on this one.

REICHARD: Well, speaking of the human condition, see what I did there. The new report out from the Institute for Family Studies, America's Demoralized Men. It's a two-part project, the latest findings released this week. Part one was about exploring what young men say about becoming an adult. The second installment is what we want to call your attention to, John. Four of ten young men are demoralized, meaning they're isolated, they feel like a failure, they lack power.

Four out of ten have two or fewer close friends. Electronic media is very high. Four of ten say they watch porn every day. IFC's Bray Wilcox says you just cannot understand this cultural moment unless you reckon with those findings. So John, what do you think?

STONESTREET: Well, I listen to almost everything Brad Wilcox has to say and the Institute for Family Studies, the work that they're doing right now is just absolutely essential to understand the cultural moment. And he's absolutely right, particularly about the state of young men. Because what it points to is not just a moral crisis. I think that's something that we want to oftentimes reduce the massive changes that we've seen over the last couple decades to, is a change. Change in morality, but there's something way more fundamental, and that is a catastrophic loss of identity and a catastrophic loss of meaning that has inflicted so many. And that has come on basically on the coattails of two big shifts. One is a shift that is ideological. This is the shift from modernism to postmodernism, with the faith and the trust that we were supposed to have in human reason and rationality and the institutions of power. have all been unmasked as institutions of bias and prejudice. And we're skeptical of reason, not least of which because of what we saw come out of science and medicine in the 20th century. That's the narrative of the shift to what some people have called the postmodern So that's a big philosophical way of talking about it. If you want to look at what that has done existentially, and this existential shift and crisis of meaning, then you gotta read Frederick Nietzsche's parable, The Madman, which is basically the natural consequences when you give up on God. How that impacts a society and how that impacts individuals in a society. Because a belief in God's not just a belief in God, it's a belief in everything else. It's a fixed reference point outside of ourselves that can help us establish meaning and purpose and identity. And so what we've had is not just this philosophical mood, but we've had the compromise of so many institutions that tended to reinforce who we are, our sense of who we are, and our sense of what we're supposed to be about. Now, it's one thing to point out that there were injustices in the past, that there were problems with how we understood our identity or how we thought meaning could be acquired in the past. It's another thing, though, to rob a generation of any resource whatsoever to establish replacements. And there haven't been really any replacements offered in place of the things that have been stolen. There's not another institution that can really establish and pass on identity and meaning from one generation to the next, like the family. There's not a substitute for it. And what we've tried to do is maybe get kids. kids, you know, addicted to porn and video games and and sports gambling a as a way of being distracted. But distraction's not the same thing as meaning. And I think we're seeing this on an epidemic level, a widespread level so I agree completely. You cannot understand the cultural moment unless you understand the crisis facing young men.

BROWN: Well John, you mentioned earlier Chuck Colson and we cannot let you go without talking about fifty years of prison fellowship, the largest prison ministry in the world, the nonprofit that of course Chuck Colson started fifty years ago, Sunday, this Sunday, August 9th, but it was back in 1976. So I'm wondering, John, as you think about, as you look over the decades, how has prison fellowship changed recidivism culture, you know, how we think as Christians about people who have, you know, done some bad things perhaps and spent time in prison.

STONESTREET: Yeah, well listen, it is a wonderful story because it is first of all a story that reflects Chuck's own story. People will ask me, you know, what did you think of Chuck Colson? You know, what I always saw is that he was one of those truly redeemed guys, right? I don't think he ever got over the fact that Jesus loves him and that Jesus saved him. And that just shaped his life. It shaped the fact that he cared for everyone. Second, as part of that, he really did believe in this idea of human dignity. And he believed in it in two senses. He believed in it personally. I mean, I can't tell you how many people that I've met who just would stop Chuck in an airport and Chuck would just talk to them or saw him in a Costco or, you know, he had they wrote a book and they got a letter out of nowhere from Chuck Colson saying, hey, I appreciated what you said in your book on pages eight, ten, and fourteen. He just had this ability to to believe this about people and he believed it about those who were incarcerated. And he understood that those who were in prison would most likely get out of prison. And the question is, how are we going to have that same sort of redemption and renewal become the feature of their story as opposed to let's take people who are antisocial, put them in a small, you know, closed space with a whole bunch of other people who are as or more antisocial and expect them magically poof to be better, you know, six to eight months later. I mean, it obviously doesn't work. And what he did is he believed that Christianity was true. He believed that what the Bible said about the possibility of renewal and redemption was true. And he believed that if it were true, then that had to shape and reshape how we thought about crime and how we thought about justice. By and large, the government tends to see crime as between two parties, basically a criminal who offends the state. And so the state pays back the criminal, and that's supposed to take care of it. The problem with that is is is is that there's not just two parties that are involved. There's four parties that are involved. There is the victim.

There is the perpetrator, there's the wider community that has trust broken when a crime is committed, and then there's the state. And each of them have a relationship. And the Bible describes the work of Christ, not just, but not least, of which as reconciliation, the putting back together of relationships. And Chuck understood that.

And that's just an example of thinking about crime and justice in terms of the relationships that God created us to have, the relationships that have been broken by sin, and how to restore those relationships in Jesus Christ. So he thought differently about it. And that was what really what informed prison fellowship from the beginning, continues to inform their incredible work in the prisons, with families and children of those who are dealing with prison, and also with ideas of justice that affect public policy And issues at the state and federal level. So happy anniversary to our friends over at Prison Fellowship. It is a wonderful part of Chuck's legacy and as I see it, it was his commitment to Christian worldview put into action that we've seen over these decades.

REICHARD: John StoneStreet is president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. Thanks so much, John.

STONESTREET: Thank you both.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Friday, August 7th.

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

Good morning. I’m Mary Reichard.

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

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: cookies and canyons.

WORLD Magazine’s arts and culture editor Collin Garbarino takes a look at some family-friendly unscripted entertainment coming out this weekend.

COLLIN GARBARINO: Debuting in theaters today is Cookie Queens, a documentary about the joys and trials of Girl Scout cookie season.

OLIVE: Does everybody remember all the different types of Girl Scout cookies?

Each year, the Girls Scouts of America sell 800 million dollars worth of cookies in just six short weeks. Cookie Queens shows viewers how those girls in their cute vests get the job done.

OLIVE: And you should upsell as much as you can. Does everyone know what upselling means?

The documentary follows four girls from different parts of the country ranging in age from five to twelve. Each sets her own goal for how many boxes she wants to sell. The youngest scout plans to sell 55 boxes. Some of the older girls hope to sell thousands.

Moving palettes of cookies requires more than just ringing the neighbor’s doorbell. Some girls leverage social media.

OLIVE: My website is me want cookies dot com. Argh! Cookie Monster!

The girls featured in the documentary all have their different reasons for selling cookies. One wants to earn enough money to go to camp since her parents can’t afford to send her. Another is working toward a trip to Europe with her troop. Another seems to have her identity and sense of self worth wrapped up in how many boxes of cookies she can sell each year.

And the film explores the question of whether the pressure to sell comes from the girls themselves or from their parents.

OLIVE’S MOM: You think you could ever sell 8,000 cookies again?

OLIVE: Noooo.

OLIVE’S MOM: How much work do you think you would have to put into it?

OLIVE: A lot. [laughing]

OLIVE’S MOM: You would [laughing]

This G-rated documentary keeps the tone upbeat, but it hints at some of the darker aspects of cookie selling. The girls and parents are exhausted. And the local troop doesn’t get much of a cut from the sales, even though they take on the financial risk when ordering inventory.

But on the whole, Cookie Queens is a charming documentary that explains how one of America’s most beloved yearly rituals takes place.

And some of the girls really do pull at your heart strings as they pull at your wallet.

ARA: Hello! Would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies?

LADY: Maybe a little bit later. Thank you.

ARA: OK. [pause] Have a nice day! She said maybe later, so let’s just wait for her to come back a little.

ARA’S DAD: OK.

ARA: Let’s just wait.

But maybe you have more of a hunger for adventure than a taste for cookies.

BEAR GRYLLS: I’m Bear Grylls. Expeditions and adventure are my life. And my faith in Christ has been a guiding light throughout it all.

The Chosen in the Wild debuts on Amazon’s Prime Video this coming Monday.

The series is hosted by everyone’s favorite survivalist Bear Grylls, and this time he’s bringing folks from The Chosen TV series on cross country adventures.

LUKE DIMYAN: Bear asked me to come out here and meet him. Usually, um, when I get weird invitations to meet someone into the open desert I don’t normally say yes.

That’s Luke Dimyan who plays Judas in The Chosen. Other episodes feature the actors who play Jesus, Matthew, Andrew, and Mary Magdalene, along with the show’s creator Dallas Jenkins.

Grylls sticks with the formula he perfected with his series Running Wild with Bear Grylls. He takes a notable actor or actress and tests the boundaries of their comfort zone by making them trek across an inhospitable, yet beautiful, bit of countryside. In this series, Grylls and his guests visit various American wildernesses from Utah’s Castle Valley, to New York’s Adirondacks.

LUKE DIMYAN: How do you say no to Bear Grylls. Trick question. You don’t.

The Chosen in the Wild is like an interview show that takes place while the guests climb over and around obstacles. As Grylls and his guests trek through the wilderness, Grylls asks them about their lives, their faith, and their relationship to The Chosen. The audience gets to know them. Gets to see their personalities. And there are definitely some touching moments as they share their stories.

BEAR GRYLLS: Where does this love of challenge come from?

DIMYAN: I think it comes from a feeling of not being good enough.

However, sometimes when the actors talk about the motivations of the biblical characters they portray they can get a little speculative. Also, the moments in which Grylls offers his guests supposedly spontaneous survival tips feel a little staged. And even though the show is rated TV-G, there’s some bathroom talk in the first episode that might leave some viewers cringing.

Even so, for fans of Bear Grylls or fans of The Chosen—and I know there’s a lot of overlap in those groups—The Chosen in the Wild will be worth watching. Where else can you see some of the most beautiful parts of God’s creation while listening to people talk about their faith journeys as they inspire us to test our physical limits?

LUKE DIMYAN: Run wild with Bear Grylls, they said. It’ll be fine, they said.

I’m Collin Garbarino.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Coming up next: Wordplay!

Some words take surprising journeys. They begin as ordinary terms, become an insult, then find a new and respectable life.

WORLD Commentator George Grant traces the winding history of one highfalutin’ example.

GEORGE GRANT: This past week I have heard the slang term boujee more times than I care to enumerate—and it has gotten me thinking. The word is often used to describe someone or something that is hoity-toity: opulent, lavish, or ostentatious. Usually, it is pejorative, but sometimes it can simply mean fancy. It is abbreviated from the French term bourgeois, which is in turn derived from the root word bourg, meaning a walled market town. As early as the 13th century, the bourgeoisie were simply the people who lived and worked within a town’s walls. Because they were usually more prosperous that the peasants who worked the nearby countryside farms, townspeople comprised the earliest beginnings of an economic class, between rich and poor.

By the 17th century, the noun bourgeoisie had morphed into the adjective, bourgeois, meaning the manners and pretentions of this emergent middle-class, taking on a new, more critical connotation. In 1670, for instance, the French playwright Moliere wrote a musical comedy, The Bourgeois Gentleman, which satirized the vulgar naivete of the social climbers who put on airs in an effort to fit in with the upper-crust.

By the 19th century, the term had been ideologically weaponized. In 1848, Karl Marx published his Communist Manifesto. Though he was anything but a clear economic or political theorist, he was undoubtedly a brilliant propagandist. His use of jargon, colloquialisms, and catch-phrases, as well as his repurposing of foreign loan-words was often masterful. He used bourgeoisie to describe the capitalist ruling class who owned the means of production while bourgeois was the worldview that they used to reinforce habits of consumerism, materialism, and mercantilism.

In the first few decades of the 20th century, the Industrial Workers of the World, or as they were popularly known, the “Wobblies,” coined bushwa as a clipped and mispronounced slang word for bourgeois. They added to the word a new derisive meaning of nonsense, hogwash, or malarkey. This picturesque word was eventually coopted for popular pulp fiction, particularly in the genre of hard-boiled detective novels. A character in the 1921 tale, Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos, quipped “Looks to me like it’s all bushwa.” And in 1960, Ross Macdonald’s The Galton Case, contains the line, “If you’re a detective, what was all that bushwa about Hollywood and Sunset Boulevard?”

By the 1970s the term had morphed again, passing over into the common vernacular. Gladys Knight and the Pips recorded their disco hit Bourgie, Bourgie, describing a dandy “from across the tracks” who flaunts new-found lucre with flashy designer clothes and a shiny muscle car. The word soon became a part of the common vernacular of hip-hop and rap culture. And now with the advent of its resurgent use in 21st century social media, boujee has come full circle, taking on a definition even Moliere might recognize: playfully throwing shade on the hip and chic, the trendy and cool, the posh and swanky.

As author Terry Pratchett has quipped, “Ironically, in language as in fashion, what goes around comes around—and all too often in spades.” How boujee is that?

I’m George Grant

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Now it’s time to name the crew who helped with this week’s programs:

David Bahnsen, Bekah Bernhardt, Daniel Suhr, Amy Lewis, Arsenio Orteza, Cal Thomas, Hunter Baker, Abigail Johnson, Mary Muncy, John Stonestreet, Collin Garbarino and George Grant.

Thanks also to our breaking news crew: Kent Covington, Steve Kloosterman, Travis Kircher, Daniel Devine, and Christina Grube.

And thanks to the technical production team: Benj Eicher, Carl Peetz and Josh Goniea.

Harrison Watters is Washington producer, Kristen Flavin is features editor, Emma Eicher is assistant producer, Lindsay Mast is producer, and Nick Eicher is executive producer.

I’m Mary Reichard.

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

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The Bible says: 

I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together! Verses 1-3 of Psalm 34.

A reminder now to go to a Bible-believing, truth-telling church this weekend. Lift someone’s burdens and let someone help carry yours.

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

Go now in grace and peace.

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