The World and Everything in It: December 11, 2025

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

Lawmakers debate what to do about the Affordable Care Act with another deadline looming.

SHELTON: We're now just getting our Republican versions of Obamacare.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Also the festive German Christmas markets must now focus on security. What steps are being taken?

And how Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol shaped Christmas.

FORBES: Generosity becomes the theme that people can embrace.

And WORLD commentator Cal Thomas on raising taxes.

REICHARD: It’s Thursday, December 11th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

BROWN: And I’m Myrna Brown. Good morning!

REICHARD: Now news with Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: US seizes Venezuelan oil tanker » President Trump says U.S. forces have seized a large oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. He told White House reporters that it’s one of the largest ever taken by American forces, and that the U.S. intends to keep its cargo.

TRUMP:  You see the result, and I guess they probably have, uh, released the pictures by now or pretty soon. Uh, you'll discuss that with the appropriate people later on, but, uh, no. It was seized for a very good reason.

The Coast Guard led the operation with support from the Navy. It’s the latest move in Washington’s effort to tighten pressure on Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, who faces narcoterrorism charges in the U.S.

U.S. officials say the action is part of a broader push to disrupt illegal oil shipments and suspected trafficking routes tied to the Maduro regime.

The seizure comes a day after U.S. fighter jets flew over the Gulf of Venezuela — one of their closest passes to the country in recent years.

Fed announcement » The Federal Reserve has cut its key interest rate for the third time in a row.

Chairman Jerome Powell announced another quarter-point cut. But he also said the Fed will not be in a hurry to cut rates again anytime soon.

POWELL:  Risks to inflation are tilted to the upside and risks to employment, to the downside. A challenging situation. There is no risk-free path for policy as we navigate this tension between our employment and inflation goals.

Considering potential impacts on inflation and employment, Federal Reserve members remain somewhat divided on what to do from here.

Powell said the Fed is now close to a “neutral” setting — a level that doesn’t slow the economy but doesn’t boost it either.

The benchmark rate now sits at its lowest level in nearly three years, around 3.6%. Lower rates can ease borrowing costs over time for mortgages, car loans, and credit cards.

Gold card » President Trump says his new “gold card” immigration program is now open. A website began taking applications Wednesday as the White House rolled out the plan.

TRUMP:  It's somewhat like a green card, but with big advantages over a green card.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explained some of those advantages for companies who invest $2 million dollars to bring in a foreign worker.

LUTNICK:  They can then have an employee, uh, full betting, the best vetting the government has ever done. $15,000 vetting to make sure these people absolutely qualified to be an American, absolutely qualified. And then the company can keep them here and they have a path to citizenship.

An individual can get a gold card for $1 million dollars.

The program replaces the older EB-5 investor visa. The administration argues the updated version will help the U.S. attract skilled talent while bringing new revenue into the Treasury.

Critics question dropping job-creation requirements found in the previous system.

Ukraine latest » Also on Wednesday, President Trump said it's time for Ukrainian citizens to go to the polls.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's five-year term expired in May of last year, but elections haven't been held due to the martial law imposed during the war.

TRUMP: People are asking this question, when do they have an election? Are they going to have an election or are they going to just keep it going like this?

Zelenskyy says that he's happy to hold an election in a matter of months if the United States and European allies can provide security for voters to go to the polls.

ZELENSKYY: In Ukrainian

He says he spoke with Ukraine's parliament and asked lawmakers to review any legal issues involved with holding an election amid martial law.

All of this comes as Zelenskyy says Ukraine is finalizing its changes to a U.S.-backed peace proposal to end the Russia Ukraine war. He has said Ukraine will not agree to any proposal that cedes land to Russia. Trump, meanwhile, says Zelenskyy must be realistic.

California National Guard ruling » A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to end its deployment of California National Guard troops in Los Angeles and return control to the state. WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher reports:

BENJAMIN EICHER: U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco issued the ruling, granting a preliminary injunction. But he also put that on hold until Monday to allow time for a possible appeal, and the Trump administration does plan to file one.

President Trump activated more than 4,000 Guard members in June without Gov. Gavin Newsom’s approval. Trump said the move was needed to support federal officers during sometimes-violent protests.

Judge Breyer said the administration overreached and that local law enforcement has been handling demonstrations for months.

For WORLD, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: congress considers what to do about subsidies and the affordable care act. Plus, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, and holiday tradition.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Thursday the 11th of December.

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

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

First up on The World and Everything in It: competing plans for healthcare in this country.

The Senate votes today on two competing plans about extra Obamacare subsidies that end this year. Democrats want to extend the subsidies for three more years, keeping COVID-era benefits in place.

BROWN: Republicans want to let the subsidies end, and use the same money for a new plan that still sends money to Obamacare recipients.

WORLD reporter Carolina Lumetta has the story.

CAROLINA LUMETTA: With only a few weeks left in the year, Senate Republicans have proposed a variety of options for dealing with rising premiums…five of them to be exact.

SUSAN COLLINS: I think there’s a limit to what we can do in this first year.

Senator Susan Collins of Maine and Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno filed a bill that would extend the expiring subsidies for two years. Their bill also includes reforms to add a minimum $25 monthly payment and a promise to phase out the subsidies for the highest earners. Then, on Tuesday, the junior Ohio Senator Jon Husted filed a similar bill that has slightly different reforms… and would add Hyde Amendment protections to keep insurance plans from funding abortions.

HUSTED: There are a dozen small steps or even moderately successful steps that we can take to reduce the overall cost of health care in this country.

Kansas Senator Roger Marshall also has a plan to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies by a year, along with yet more reforms. Florida Senator Rick Scott suggested setting up “Trump Health Freedom Accounts” instead of extending the subsidies.

But the plan that has the backing of Majority Leader John Thune is the one that’s a nonstarter for Democrats.

THUNE: I can't say 100% but I think for the most part I would argue we are united behind the Crapo-Cassidy proposal which as I said uh in terms of its emphasis is about patients not insurance companies and about lowering premiums not increasing them and about getting a better return for the federal taxpayer.

The proposal, filed by Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Mike Crapo of Idaho, would redirect the subsidy funds to individual health savings accounts. Here’s Senator Cassidy.

CASSIDY: Under our plan, they can choose the less expensive bronze plan. … So we have lower cost premiums and money for out-of-pocket expenses off the bat. That is more affordable. That is a better plan.

The monthly subsidy could not be put toward the premiums but can be used for other healthcare expenses that insurance doesn’t cover. It also includes language to apply the Hyde Amendment to ACA plans.

But many senators, including Republicans, want to buy time for more substantive changes later. North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis, says now is not the time for overhauling American healthcare policy.

TILLIS: You could argue whether or not the subsidy should have ever been passed, but they are what they are, and people are relying on them. It makes more sense to extend it and bend the curb in the out years.

Although most Senate Democrats have said they’re open to discussing reforms to enhanced subsidies, they insist on extending the program. Democratic Vermont Senator Peter Welch told me it would be fastest for Democrats to give Republicans a few reforms while ensuring subsidies are extended. But it depends on the reforms Republicans insist on.

WELCH: So we can extend them as long as what we're talking about is maybe an income cap or a modest co-pay. But if you're introducing a whole new concept, transforming it to HSAs, that's a fierce policy debate. And it's a proposal that has no prospect of passage in the next two weeks.

But why the political urgency? According to recent Gallup polling, the majority of Americans generally approve of Obamacare. And other polling found the vast majority of Obamacare enrollees, including Republicans, want Congress to keep their subsidies intact. That leaves Republican lawmakers caught between subsidizing a program they hate or taking the blame in a midterm election year for higher premium costs.

SHELTON: There's a lot of concern that all these promises for cutting spending, for rolling back government overreach and excess that began with DOGE and went into the shutdown have kind of died.

John Shelton is the policy director at Advancing American Freedom, a think tank founded by former Vice President Mike Pence.

SHELTON: We're now just getting our Republican versions of Obamacare.

He says that even the Crapo-Cassidy bill is built on the assumption that lawmakers should continue subsidizing a program that doesn’t work.

SHELTON: If premium costs continue to go up, then more government spending will always be justified. And so as a conservative, I just think that's not right. That's not what government is supposed to do. It’s supposed to get out of the way. We don’t have a responsibility to endlessly subsidize a system that’s broken.

Since its initial passage in 2010, Obamacare coverage fees have climbed nearly 130%, according to data from the Paragon Health Institute. The enhanced subsidies passed during the Biden administration amount to a small portion of the overall subsidies available to enrollees. Paragon President Brian Blase spoke to me after he testified at a Senate Finance Committee hearing last month.

BLASÉ: 94% of enrollees would receive subsidies next year and they would cover the vast majority of the cost of the premium. So I think it's essential that Congress stops throwing… good money after bad and allows the enhanced subsidies to expire, and then there’s a host of reforms that Congress should consider.

Most other reforms would take too long to apply to next year’s Obamacare plans, and possibly even Cassidy’s bill. After Thune decided to bring that one up for a vote, Moreno took his version out of consideration. But he reminded reporters in the Senate basement that even 53 Republicans aren’t enough to pass a plan..

MORENO: We're going to focus, hyper-focus on the Cassidy-Crapo plan. Make sure we get that across the finish line. And then it's going to be, as you know, you got to report accurately. We do need 60 votes. So we've got to get some Democrats to support it.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Carolina Lumetta in Washington.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Up next: Protecting Christmas cheer.

Since 2014, there have been seven major terrorist attacks on Christmas markets across Europe. Several included jihadists ramming cars into crowds and booths, others were carried out by people with mental illness.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: For this year’s Christmas markets, Europeans are trying to balance safety and comfort, and protect their budgets. WORLD’s Mary Muncy has the story.

MARY MUNCY: This year’s Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany has all of its usual charm, but there’s an uneasiness as the memory of last year’s terrorist attack lurks in the shadows.

DW NEWS : A car has plowed into a crowded Christmas market here in Germany.

One of this year’s vendors is Vladislav Karkishko. He works in a leather goods booth. He wasn’t at the market during last year’s attack, but he had to walk by it to get home shortly after it happened.

VLADISLAV KARKISHKO: It was like smell of blood here, like it was so, so terrifying.

He lifts a shaking hand.

KARKISHKO: Yeah, it's like terrifying.

A Saudi Arabian refugee is accused of driving a van into the market crowd at full speed…killing six and wounding more than 300. His trial started in November.

SOUND: [CHRISTMAS MARKET]

The Magdeburg Christmas market is in the middle of town, in a quaint square mostly surrounded by buildings covered in lights. Because of last year’s attack, the market organizers have erected concrete barriers anywhere a car could fit through, and the police presence is much more obvious than before.

Ibrahim Eshanov works with Karkishko.

IBRAHIM ESHANOV: Even if you want to control it, you can't control it for 100% you know, there is always a risk, but I see that they are doing good job.

Over the last few weeks, rumors have been swirling online about mass cancellations of Christmas markets. Social media posts declare that ‘Christmas is cancelled’ in Germany. But at this point, the sensational headlines haven’t matched reality.

On the opening day of the Magdeburg market, Eshanov and Karkishko both got texts from friends telling them to check the news, claiming the market was cancelled. They decided to keep driving, and discovered that the market was actually open.

A few stalls away, Maya Manecke says she saw similar articles.

MAYA MANECKE: I saw, like, a news article, and it was posted on Instagram, and then I, like, scrolled through the comments, and like, every single comment was like, ‘oh, like, all these Islamists are gonna take our Christmas away.’

The German Showmen’s Association is a professional organization for the country’s fairground industry—which includes Christmas markets. They work with more than 3,200 markets across the country. Recently they reported in a German paper they’ve only seen a few cancellations. And at least one of those has reopened since publication.

But the costs of securing the markets in Germany are going up.

STEFFEN RIETZCHEL: Within the last 10 years, we already invested up to 1.3 million euro in excess protection elements.

Steffen Rietzchel helps plan the security for the Dresden Christmas markets. There are six around the city, and they cover a combined 46,000 square meters—or about the size of six and a half American football fields. He confirms that this year’s security costs are significantly higher.

RIETZCHEL: After the terror attack which took part in Magdeburg last year, we invested alone this year, another 1.7 million euro in protection elements.

Some of that money is spent on things like concrete and steel barriers that they won’t have to buy again, but additional surveillance and personnel costs are recurring. He says it’s just the new reality of doing business, and that budget line is likely to keep growing.

RIETZCHEL: Beside the investment cost, It's at least 10% of the total costs of this market.

Right now, it’s unclear who should step up to pay for the increased security. The state, the city, the market…or some combination of the three, but it is clear that people expect the markets to happen.

180 miles away at the Nuremberg Christmas market, the security measures are more subtle. The market is in the old part of the city where driving is already restricted so they have obvious barriers in just a few places, So far Europeans and tourists seem to feel safe enough to return to the annual holiday tradition.

HARALD STREBEL: We expected not more than last year, but there have been more people on the first day than the Christmas market in the year before.

Harald Strebel helps plan security for this market, it’s one of the biggest in Germany and attracts millions of people throughout the season. He says one of his top priorities is to keep visitors safe, without drawing too much attention to the increased protection.

STREBEL: So there are policemen in civil clothes a lot. You can only see the barriers. You can see the police standing there, the police car. But we try to make it a little bit so that the tourists shall not see that they are safe, because they shall concentrate on the market.

Back at the Magdeburg market, the security measures are very visible, but so far it doesn’t seem to be offputting for shoppers. Vendors report that sales were strong during the first week of the market, even if many of them are new—replacing vendors that didn’t want to return after last year.

In the leather booth, Karkishko says it’s sad they have to see so much police presence at something that’s supposed to be warm and inviting, but he feels it’s worth it to keep the tradition alive.

KARKISHKO: Only God knows when we…will die. You can work on Christmas, you can work on in markets, and something can just fall on your head…risk is everywhere.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Mary Muncy in Magdeburg, Germany.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: The toughest of the tough land in Louisiana’s Angola Prison.

But thanks to a ministry called God Behind Bars, a daddy-daughter dance came together over Thanksgiving. Twenty-nine incarcerated fathers and more than three dozen girls came to meet their dads.

DAD 1: I haven’t seen my daughter since she was 6 months old. So she’s 17 now.

The men stood a little taller as they waited in donated suits holding flowers before dinner with their daughters.

DAD 2: I felt professional! I might need a box of tissue, I might cry here.

The dads gave Bibles to their girls.

DAD 3: I want her to start off by reading Philippians 4:13 because I believe she can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens us.

An evening to remember!

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And a taste of redemption.

It’s The WORLD and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Thursday, December 11th.

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: A Christmas Carol.

Charles Dickens’ story is one of the most well- known Christmas classic.

This novella—written in 1843—has inspired countless retellings, spoofs, and spin-offs. The Internet Movie Database alone lists over 200 different films and TV episodes with the Scrooge theme.

MICKEY MOUSE: Oh, ah, good morning Mr. Scrooge!

Everyone from Mickey Mouse…

CAST: There goes Mr. Humbug, there goes Mr. Grim!

To the Muppets…

CAST: If they gave a prize for being mean, the winner would be him!

…has their own version of the story.

REICHARD: But, while most people know exactly where “Bah-humbug” came from…fewer know the story behind it—or the role A Christmas Carol played in making our Christmas celebrations what they are now.

Here’s WORLD’s Grace Snell with that story.

BELLE: Oh, it’s the parade!

IRVING: Yes, it’s the smallest parade!

GRACE SNELL: A lone pickup rolls into sight in Skaneateles, New York. It’s pulling a single float topped with a small brass band.

SOUND: [Band playing Jingle Bells]

This is the town’s much-heralded World’s Smallest Christmas Parade—kickoff to the annual Dickens Christmas festival.

SOUND: [Jingle Bells playing, bystander clapping along…]

CONSTABLE: Oh, my! How lovely. How short!

It’s a bitterly cold and blustery day. But that hasn’t stopped a crowd from gathering—including a whole cast of Christmas Carol characters decked out in Victorian finery. Mr. Fezziwig, Belle, Bob Cratchit, and Tiny Tim, to name a few.

CROWD: Clapping and cheering…

And, leading the way, is the man of the hour.

GREENE: Nice to see you all! Thanks for joining us. I’m the world renowned author Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens—played by the show’s producing director Jim Greene.

GREENE: Mayhaps you’ve read some of my stories? It was the best of times…

CROWD: It was the worst of times!

Dickens was a literary sensation in his own time—renowned for novels like A Tale of Two Cities and Oliver Twist. But his name is forever tied to Christmas because of one small book: A Christmas Carol.

GREENE: Now ladies and gentlemen, we are so excited to be here. Her majesty has asked me to work on a new Christmas story…

Few other stories have such a firm grasp on the popular Christmas imagination. It’s still warming hearts and sparking new interpretations almost 200 years later. But this little story also played an outsized role in reviving Christmas celebrations across England…bringing them roaring back after over a century of decline.

FORBES: Most of us, when we hear that Christmas Carol story, we think, ‘Oh, that’s how Christmas was back in Dickens time.’

That’s Bruce Forbes—a holiday historian and author of Christmas: A Candid History. He says A Christmas Carol wasn’t a portrait of Victorian Christmas at the time.

FORBES: He is writing this story to bring back Christmas to what he thought it was a century or more ago…

CAROLERS: Singing outside Sherwood Inn…

Old Christmas traditions aren’t always well-documented. But, from what we do know, early English celebrations were a wild thing—a mashup of winter revelries and religious rites.

FORBES: You just have had a lot of festivities kissing under the mistletoe and you have parties…

Then, in the 1600s, English Puritans tried to stamp out Christmas celebrations, based on two main objections.

FORBES: Number one, it’s not early Christianity, so we’re not called to do it. And number two, ‘Is there too much wild partying?’

Parliament even went as far as banning Christmas in 1647.

FORBES: At some points, they would send town criers around on Christmas Eve, crying, ‘No Christmas, no Christmas!”

And it largely worked. Some people still went to Christmas services over the following decades. But Christmas wasn’t the same cultural phenomenon anymore.

FORBES: For a century or more, Christmas remains diminished.

A survey of stories from The London Times between 1790 and 1836 shows just how much Christmas had fallen out of favor.

FORBES: In 20 years of those, nothing is said about Christmas. In the other 25, it’s mentioned only briefly, and it’s kind of with the sense of, ‘That’s something some people used to do a long time ago.’

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in just six weeks. He published it a few days before Christmas, on December 19th, 1843.

The public reaction was instant.

FORBES: It just sells out, and it’s just this amazing success. And it quickly gets reprinted, reprinted over and over again in the few years following.

The story quickly became a best-seller in America, too. In 1868, Dickens sailed to the United States to perform dramatic readings of his books, including A Christmas Carol.

FORBES: It’s like he’s a rock star. One hundred fifty people wait overnight to get tickets in Boston. The tickets sell out.

A Christmas Carol expressed Dickens’ deep concern for the poor in his country. The story of Ebeneezer Scrooge’s transformation grabbed hold of the public mind and added a new layer of meaning to the holiday—one which laid the groundwork for widespread Christmas celebrations—even among those who don’t believe Christ came as a baby in a manger.

FORBES: Generosity becomes the theme that people can embrace, whether they’re Christian or not, or very religious or not. Generosity is a beautiful thing, and it’s, I think, Dickens’ Christmas Carol’s greatest contribution. It shifts what Christmas becomes.

For others, A Christmas Carol is a story pointing back to the true Giver of all good gifts, and the best gift of all: His Son.

All these years later, Charles Dickens’ story is still very much alive and well. And on the streets of Skaneateles, the Dickens Christmas festival is in full swing.

CROWD: We wish you a Merry Christmas! We wish you a Merry Christmas! We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Grace Snell in Skaneateles, New York.

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.

Policies always have consequences. Some are good. Some are not. What looks like a good idea can unleash a whole bunch of unintended consequences.

WORLD commentator Cal Thomas says policies that raise taxes are a perfect example.

CAL THOMAS: The phrase about turning off the lights when one leaves someplace appears to have originated with two real estate agents in Seattle. It was 1971 and Boeing was laying off employees during an economic downturn. It was meant to be humorous, though the unemployed probably didn’t see it that way.

During the Arab oil boycott in 1973, Houston newspapers invoked the phrase as they sought to lure people from the North, which was suffering from high unemployment, fuel shortages and economic stagnation. Newspaper ads told of job openings with good salaries and benefits.

Now come the folks at Unleash Prosperity who have resurrected a form of the phrase. The group is a nonpartisan group focused on “educating policy makers and the public about government policies proven to maximize economic growth” They’ve placed billboard ads along major thoroughfares that say respectively: “New Jersey isn’t moving up. Families are moving out.” And “New Yorkers aren’t moving up. They’re moving out.” That would be to places like Texas and Florida where there are no state income taxes and life is perceived to be safer and less expensive.

Stephen Moore is co-founder of Unleash Prosperity and a former senior Trump economic adviser. He writes that the two states have lost a combined two and a half million residents. As shocking as that may be, those numbers pale in comparison to the financial impact of the population shift. Unleash Prosperity reports that “New York has lost roughly $111 billion dollars in income and New Jersey has lost $31 billion.” And that’s what leads them to say: “these states must change or the last person in the state will have to turn off the lights.”

A study published last year in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy was billed as “the first-ever systematic analysis of 110 years of state income tax implementation throughout the United States.” It highlighted the consequences when taxpayers leave high tax states for states with lower or no state income taxes. The analysis looks at pre-World War II and post-World War II personal income tax impacts.

The state-level tax policies from 1900 to 2010 examined in the paper reveal that income tax adopting states increased revenue per capita by 12 percent to 17 percent. But those increases did not correspond to increases in total revenues for the government in monetary terms. This is because the introduction of state income taxes in the post-World War II era led to out-migration by wealthy Americans.

One of the study’s coauthors writes: “Personal income tax means a tax upon labor income.” It was a scheme to redistribute wealth. He goes on to say: “The idea was to provide services to poorer parts of the population and reduce inequality between low-income and high-income residents.”

Unfortunately, those who raise taxes fail to take human nature into account. People who have the resources also have the option of moving to more economically friendly locations. And many have. But like a Vietnam anti-war song says: “We’re waist deep in the big muddy and the big fool says to push on.” In this case it’s not an unpopular war, but debt and taxes, because most Democrat-run cities and states can’t live within the means they are given.

As a result, more people in New York City, New Jersey and other states with high taxes have their fingers on the light switch and their car engine is running.

I’m Cal Thomas.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Tomorrow: John Stonestreet will be here for Culture Friday. Also, Collin Garbarino reviews the award-winning true crime documentary: “The Perfect Neighbor.” And, our next reflection on the incarnation for Advent. 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: “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.” —Hebrews 10:23-25

Go now in grace and peace.

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