The World and Everything in It: February 23, 2024

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning! Alabama’s Supreme Court rules that frozen embryos are children, but does it pose new problems for pro-lifers? 

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: That and more is ahead on Culture Friday. Also, going the distance for new friends in the faith-based film, Ordinary Angels. 

SHARON: Someone’s gotta do something, Rose. Someone’s gotta fight for her… and if it’s me, then it’s me.

And Listener Feedback for February.

BROWN: It’s Friday, February 23rd. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

MAST: And I’m Lindsay Mast filling in for Nick Eicher on assignment. Good morning!

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

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Navalny's mother » President Biden is set to announce new sanctions against Moscow today over the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Nalvany. On Thursday, the president met with Navalny’s wife and daughter in California.

BIDEN: To state the obvious, he was a man of incredible courage, and it’s amazing how his wife and daughter are emulating that.

NAVALNAYA: [Speaking Russian]

Hours earlier, Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya said she was finally able to see her son’s body almost a week after his death at an Arctic penal colony.

NAVALNAYA: [Speaking Russian]

But she said the Russian government will not release his remains to his family. She added that authorities were pressuring her to agree to hold a funeral for her son in secret, and that if she did not agree, “they will do something to the body of my son."

For years, Alexei Navalny had galvanized mass protests against Vladimir Putin and won popularity with a series of investigations into state corruption.

Zelenskyy interview » This weekend will mark 2 years exactly since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And in an interview last night, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Fox News:

ZELENSKYY: We are asking now to support — this price is less than it will be in the future.

He said if Ukraine falls, it’s only a matter of time before Vladimir Putin looks to expand into NATO territory. And if that happens …

ZELENSKYY: They will pay much more, much more.

A group of House lawmakers is working to drum up support for a bill that would fund military aid to Ukraine and other allies.

Biden border exec order » That bill would also call on President Biden to reinstall the Trump-era remain in Mexico policy for asylum seekers at the border.

And while it’s unclear if the president is open to that, he is now reportedly considering an executive order that would suspend the legal right of anyone who crosses the border to seek asylum.

Texas Republican Congressman Tony Gonzales called the news encouraging, but said he hopes the president will go further …

GONZALES: Deport those people who do not qualify for asylum. You do that by surging immigration judges to the border and giving ICE the resources they need for these repatriation flights. You also raise the credible fear standards. These are things the president can do today, and I hope they do it.

Polls suggest the border crisis is the president’s biggest political liability. A new Monmouth University poll this week shows three out of four Americans disapprove of his handling of the border.

Lunar lander touches down » For the first time in a half century, the U.S. has returned to the moon.

AUDIO: What we can confirm without a doubt is that our equipment is on the surface of the moon and we are transmitting.

That was the moment when engineers received the official call last night after a few tense minutes of waiting.

A private robot spacecraft built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines blasted off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center last week en route to the south pole of the moon.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson described the voyage as …

NELSON: A new adventure in science, innovation, and American leadership in space.

It’s the first time ever that a private company has landed on the moon.

The Odysseus lunar lander is packing a half-dozen NASA experiments. But the exact state of the lander was not immediately clear, and it remains to be seen whether Odysseus can complete all of its objectives.

Houthis update » Iran-backed Houthi rebels continue to ramp up attacks on commercial ships in waters around Yemen.

Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh …

SINGH: We have certainly seen in the past 48 - 72 hours an increase in attacks from the Houthis, more consistency.

The Houthis have claimed responsibility for multiple new missile strikes against ships in a critical commercial shipping lane through the Gulf of Aden.

One strike set a British-owned ship on fire again demonstrating their ability to launch assaults despite facing U.S.-led airstrikes targeting their forces.

West Bank shooting » Top Israeli officials are calling for more roadblocks around Palestinian communities in the West Bank after gunmen opened fire near a highway checkpoint Thursday. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin has more.

KRISTEN FLAVIN: Three Palestinian gunmen killed one Israeli man and injured at least five others. Israeli security forces killed two of the gunmen and apprehended the third.

BEN-GVIR: [Speaking Hebrew]

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says the right to life for Jewish residents is more important than the freedom of movement for Palestinians. He has pushed for officials to supply Israelis in the territory with more guns.

The Hamas terrorist group reportedly issued a statement praising the shooting as a response to Israeli actions in Gaza and the West Bank.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

Cell service disruption » AT&T says a software update outage caused its massive outage of cellular service on Thursday.

Millions of AT&T mobile customers nationwide were unable to make phone calls, text or access the Internet for much of the day.

Even some 911 call centers were affected by the outage.

That initially sent federal authorities scrambling to determine whether a cyber attack had knocked the network offline.

I’m Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: Culture Friday with John Stonestreet. Plus, your listener feedback.

This is The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: It’s Friday the 23rd of February, 2024.

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

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

It’s time for Culture Friday, and joining us now is John Stonestreet. He’s president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast.

Morning, John!

JOHN STONESTREET: Good morning.

BROWN: Well, a tremendous ruling in my state John. In an eight to one decision, the Alabama State Supreme Court has basically declared that a person’s a person…no matter how small.

Here are the details of the case: three couples who produced embryos with the help of IVF technology, stored them in Mobile. Someone with no authorization walks into the area where the frozen embryos are stored and inadvertently destroys them. The couples sued and the lower courts ruled the embryos were not covered as children.

Now the high court in Alabama declared that IVF embryos are legally defined as children under the state’s law and constitution and deserve protection, regardless of developmental stage or physical location, whether in a womb or in a freezer.

Why is this a game-changer John for those who are for life and those who are not?

STONESTREET: Well, I may not be quite as optimistic about this decision as you are, Myrna, it’s going to be a surprise. I’m, you know, obviously thankful that the court has been clear that embryos are children. And that is a huge step forward. And it creates a conflict. It’s the same kind of conflict that’s created by a, for example, a double homicide law where a woman who is expecting a child is killed and the child is killed, then the person who is responsible can be charged with two murders, not one. And yet, of course, we know that in many states that have that, the woman could be driving to an abortion clinic at that time, not be killed, and you know, there’s no murder involved whatsoever, at least in the state’s eyes there. And this is a conflict, it’s a conflict in the law. It’s a conflict of understanding. So think about what’s happened here. The court has ruled that these individuals who are responsible for the destruction of these embryos are responsible for the destruction of them and that they’re understood to be children. Do you see the conflict?

For example, we would never let anyone freeze a two-year-old or a one-year-old. In other words, if the individuals responsible for destroying the embryo are guilty, what do you do with the doctors, the medical technologies, and the people who now are responsible for the best estimates are somewhere around 1 million of these embryos, which are now ruled children that are now in freezers? And, you know, in most states, had the parents decided to have them destroyed or, you know, donate them for medical experimentation, things that we would never allow to take place in the case of children, are they guilty now as well?

Look, this has to be resolved, and it has to be resolved in the sense that if the Alabama State Supreme Court decision stands, and of course, look, it’s only applicable to Alabama, this is not, you know, being applied anywhere else in the United States, and this is probably going to create some sort of conflict that the Supreme Court is going to have to kind of weigh in on and if they are, and if we say yes, embryos are children, then the fact that a million embryos are in freezers, that’s as unacceptable as destroying them. Call a freezer what you want; a confined area where someone is deprived of the full rights of their life, that sounds like a prison camp to me. You know, in other words, if we do the math right—now, don’t get me wrong, this is better than before. Don’t get me wrong. When the inconsistencies are exposed in the law, that is actually a good thing. But we got a big issue here that this Supreme Court decision or this state supreme court decision is exposing and revealing.

So I’m glad that they did it, I think it’s it’s a good next step. I don’t think they could have gone further at least, you know, given the case and where it is right now. But there’s a real problem if you’re saying this is a child, and then therefore these individuals that destroyed it are guilty, you’ve got to do something with the ones who put them in the freezer in the first place. And that is a real challenge right there.

BROWN: It ain’t over.

STONESTREET: It ain’t over.

MAST: Well John, another story that ain’t over comes from the Archdiocese of New York after a funeral at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, the landmark Catholic church in Manhattan. Last Thursday, it hosted the funeral of a well-known transgender activist and self-identified atheist who went by the name Cecilia Gentili. The New York Times reported around a thousand people attended—many in drag. There were some pretty provocative statements made by those who spoke. Some that aren’t suitable for this broadcast, but here’s what one of the participants said in prayer.

AUDIO: Lord, hear our prayer. And may Cecilia’s community be loved and received and be seen by each other and have access to life affirming healthcare and God’s protection with secure housing. We pray to our Lord Jesus Christ who is full of love! Lord, hear our prayer. 

Afterward, the pastor of Saint Patrick’s, Enrique Salvo, released a statement that said, “The cathedral only knew that family and friends were requesting a funeral Mass for a Catholic, and had no idea our welcome and prayer would be degraded in such a sacrilegious and deceptive way.”

So John, we don’t know how the organizers of the funeral were able to get past church leaders without raising red flags, but what does this story say to you about the need for Christian discernment in issues of sexuality?

STONESTREET: Well, I wish I knew more of the details and so on. And I just don’t. And I don’t want to just immediately dismiss out of hand. Yes, they did know, and they’re trying to, you know, kind of cover what became a disaster, in terms of a conflict with Catholic doctrine. Maybe that is the case, I think that’s the most charitable read, I just don’t know enough to bring any clarity.

But what it actually does, I think, point to is that this is an example of just how unclear issues of sexuality and marriage are in a church that at least up until this Pope had an awful lot of clarity on these issues, clarity that many Protestant denominations, you know, looked at and said, “We need that kind of clarity.” When you think about John Paul II’s theology of the body and the work that was done, particularly by American Catholic, you know, resource providers to really articulate what that meant in terms of marriage, and in terms of artificial reproductive technologies, and in terms of what it means to be human, male and female. I mean, all these things are there. Roman Catholic thought leaders here that have really led the way in so many important aspects. And then from the Vatican, you have this thing that was issued about blessing same sex unions. You have the left side of the Catholic leadership using that confusion as a means to justify what they wanted to do, which was to all but bless sex unions. Of course, we already are seeing that in places like Germany as well. And this sort of chaos, you know, there may be a legitimate explanation, to some degree, why this got so out of hand in a hurry.

But I don’t think there’s an explanation that doesn’t bring into at least at some level, you know, that old saying, you know, “When it’s misty in the pulpit, it’s foggy in the pew.” And I think there is a lack of clarity on this on a leadership level. And I think, too, I mean, we talked about this several weeks ago on a Culture Friday segment, about the connection between what the Pope Francis had said about this blessing and Andy Stanley and the tendency that there is by many wanting to separate theology from pastoral practice. Well, look, this is an absolute example why you can’t do that. There is no separation from theology and pastoral practice. It’s not pastoral unless it’s theologically sound. If it’s not theologically sound, it’s not pastorally helpful. It might be pastorally damnable. That’s what happens when you’re talking about matters of ultimate importance, matters of life and death, matters of God and morality and eternity. You can’t just, you know, ground pastoral practice and niceness, or in the phrase of the day, “radical inclusivity.” When you reduce the gospel down to that, when you reduce what Jesus did down to, “radical inclusivity,” and that’s all it’s grounded in, well, here’s another surprising direction that it can go.

I did not have this on my bingo card even for St. Patrick’s. So you know, I appreciate them being more clear on the tail end of this. And articulating “No, this is not what we’re for.” But that you got to have that sort of clarity upfront, and I think it solves probably more problems in the end.

BROWN: John, as we reported on WORLD Radio News, the U.S. House is forming a task force on artificial intelligence. This bi-partisan group will be exploring legislation to keep us on the cutting edge of AI, while guarding against its potential dangers.

I wonder if this initiative is, as they say, a day late and a dollar short.

Reason I ask is because of the emergence of what’s called companion bots. They come with special features: voice calls, picture exchanges and an emotional connection.

Users pick their own avatar, and you might guess what comes next, sexual fantasies played out. Some use these so-called companion bots to help cope with loneliness which as we’ve talked about before is the latest public health epidemic.

So many red flags John: The idea of virtual characters providing unconditional acceptance, the claims to help with mental health and the threat of AI relationships replacing human relationships.

What do you see as the biggest threat and is a bi-partisan task force equipped to take it on?

STONESTREET: Well, I think the state has to step in into some matters, and this would be one of those. But it’s got to step in and force, I think, tech companies to be responsible for what they’re unleashing. There has to be some sort of, you know, regulation that’s brought in. I know that many of our conservative friends whenever they hear government regulation, you know, have a seizure, and I might be one of them. I’m against almost all government regulation, but there is a role for the state. And that role increases, the less people are able to govern themselves. It 's what Chuck Colson said, “It’s the conscience or the constable.”

So if we have a group of people who aren’t good at relationships, who can’t manifest relationships, and are looking for relationships thoroughly 100% on their own terms, that’s going to drive the market demand for this sort of thing. And AI is going to meet it. This isn’t new. Sherry Turkle predicted this back in 2011, in her book Alone Together, that this would be the future decision. In other words, we’re decades in to being catechized, you know, against kind of a level of personal connection and personal responsibility, and particularly in our deepest relationships, and things like marriage, and romance and sexuality have become kind of matters of self fulfillment, not matters of commitment to others. And that’s just a recipe for, well, you can feed that demand in different sorts of ways, you know.

So, I do think that actually, the biggest threat that AI poses is not AI. I think the biggest threat is actually what might be called a pre-existing condition, and it’s represented in this public health epidemic of loneliness. We, if you think about this, we have more means of being connected than any generation could have ever imagined in the history of the world. And we’re alone. In other words, that’s not the fault of the technologies, that’s the fault of, you know, the breakdown of the family, the absence of dads, the increasing lack of commitment to one another, you know, the the inward turn that Carl Truman talks about, looking further and further and further inside for meaning and purpose, rather than our connectivity outside of ourselves with God and others.

So, I think that’s probably the most important thing that parents, for example, in preparing their kids for this brave new world can do. And I owe that thought, by the way, to a friend, a new friend who works in this area. You know, he’s got some vested interest in it and I said, well, but he’s also really clear eyed on the threats. And I said, “Well, what are you doing? What’s the most important thing that you’re doing for your kids?” And he said, “I’m teaching them how to have good relationships.”

And I think, you know, I know that sounds pretty basic, or as my, you know, my good friend back from Tennessee would say, “It ain’t rocket surgery.” You know, it’s just doing what Jesus told us to do, it’s the greatest commandment which is love God, and the second one, love others. That’s going to take on some real, tangible benefit. And it’s going to be really necessary to not, you know, kind of lose our souls in the midst of all this.

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

STONESTREET: Thank you both.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, February 23rd. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

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

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: small acts of kindness on the big screen. The new faith-based movie Ordinary Angels tells the true story of one person’s quest to help someone in need. Here’s WORLD movie reviewer Bob Brown to talk about it.

BOB BROWN: Comic book heroes can cloak their super powers beneath a shabby suit. But real-life heroes can’t shed their ordinary frailties by entering a phone booth. When they act courageously, it’s often in spite of their weaknesses. The new film Ordinary Angels is based on the memoir of the same name by Sharon Stevens Evans. It tells the true story of one such hero.

SHARON: Alright, you know the drill. One, two, three, go!

She’s an alcoholic single mother who rallies the people of Louisville, Kentucky to save a dying girl.

As the film opens, we’re introduced to Ed Schmitt, played by Alan Ritchson, star of the Reacher TV series.

THERESA: Doc says we need a name to sign her out and don’t say Ed. We’re not naming our daughter Ed.

ED: I said Ed Jr. [Laughter]

Ed’s wife is dying and without her, he'll be left to raise his two young daughters with help from his mother. But Ed’s problems aren’t over. His three-year-old daughter Michelle has an incurable health condition that will kill her if she doesn’t get a liver transplant.

ED: Bottom line, doc.

DOCTOR: Without a liver, I believe she has a year. Maybe less.

Enter Sharon, played by Hilary Swank. One day while Sharon's buying a six-pack of beer, she reads about the Schmitts in the newspaper. She tells her best friend Rose that she feels inspired to raise money for Michelle’s expensive procedure. Rose warns her that her exuberance is indicative of addiction, but Sharon’s not the type to take no for an answer.

SHARON: Someone’s gotta do something, Rose. Someone’s gotta fight for her, and if it’s me then it’s me. And if that’s addict behavior, then, hey, I guess I am an addict. 

As the Schmitts’ medical bills pile up, Sharon becomes the family’s champion in the community. She also inserts herself into Ed’s and the girls’ lives, leaving viewers to wonder if she’ll be the next Mrs. Schmitt. But her busyness only masks her substance abuse, estrangement from her grown son, and self-loathing.

SHARON: I have this voice in my head. Every day it tells me I’m no good, not worth loving, not worth nothing. And drinking is the only thing that makes the voice go away. 

Swank delivers a convincing performance as a woman riding an emotional roller coaster between bravery and brokenness. But the film’s focus on Sharon nearly pushes Ed’s steadfast devotion to his family into the background. And in what should be the climax, but feels almost like an afterthought, the film’s final ten minutes portray the incredible day dozens of people helped Michelle get to the airport during a blizzard when a donor’s liver finally became available.

SHARON: [Phone rings] I need you to do this as fast as you can. It’s a 2-hour flight, then a 45-minute drive to the hospital. 30 minutes for prep. That gives us a little over 2 hours to get to the airport. We miss that deadline, we lose the liver, we lose Michelle.

The real-life Michelle got the transplant, and lived for 27 more years before dying at the age of 30.

The film also depicts how a crisis can unsettle one’s faith. Ed had stopped going to church, and he can’t tell his daughter Michelle for certain that her mother is in heaven. His mother tells him to hold on.

BARBARA: Son, don’t lose your faith over this…

ED: My faith? You know how many prayer lists Theresa was on? And now they got Michelle on all those same lists. A lot of good faith is doing me.

Ordinary Angels is from the same studio that produced Jesus Revolution, and though it’s a faith-based movie, it offers limited spiritual insight. Jesus’ name is never mentioned, and there’s no acknowledgement of our gravest frailty—our sin. Instead, the film suggests a person’s greatest need, as Sharon says, is “to find meaning and purpose outside ourselves.” There’s a certain element of truth to this statement, but Christians will understand that the meaning and purpose outside ourselves must be rooted in Jesus Christ rather than just doing good deeds.

I’m Bob Brown.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Friday, February 23rd. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Lindsay Mast.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Up next, listener feedback for the month of February. You sent lots of email this month, and as usual we can’t include everything that comes in. But we’re grateful for all of it, and we do read it all.

So let’s begin with corrections.

MAST: February 8th we reported on Iran’s proxy war against America and misidentified the initialism IRGC.

IRGC stands for Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

BROWN: February 12th, History book, the murder of Medgar Evers in 1963.

We were wrong about the details of the case against Evers’s killer, Byron De La Beckwith. The prosecution ended with a mistrial which then allowed a retrial 30 years later in which he was tried and convicted. We’ve corrected the segment and transcript to reflect that.

MAST: One more correction, our closing scripture reading on the 19th of February from Luke chapter 10: Jesus’ conversation with the rich young ruler. We ended up flipping the order of who was addressing whom—putting the ruler’s words into Jesus’ mouth and vice-versa.

BROWN: Now for some listener feedback. Scott Bahr of Livonia, Michigan, appreciated our coverage of former President Donald Trump’s recent case before the Supreme Court:

BAHR: Legal Docket has long been one of my favorite segments of the program each week and your segment on the Trump eligibility issues in Colorado on February 12th really exemplifies what makes this segment so great. The detail, the intermingling of the recordings from the Supreme Court, arguments with the explanations, just really well laid out. Thanks so much for keeping us all informed and teaching us a lot about the Supreme Court and the process. Well done.

BROWN: Fred Anson of Lake Forest, California agrees. He wrote in with this encouragement:

“Biblical AND objective just as you promise in your Mission Statement tagline. THIS is why we listen to WORLD first.”

MAST: Next, something new this month. Listener Marjorie Kraus wrote about the audio postcard from one of our grads from WJI Europe about her visit to an Italian fishing village. She says it was refreshing to get a glimpse into a very different culture. And she hopes to hear more features like it in the future.

BROWN: Speaking of new voices, Lindsay, we got some feedback calling for a response. “Tell us more about this new voice! This Lindsay Mast, she’s great! But who is she?!”

Well, I think you’re great and I know who you are. And I think one thing listeners ought to know is that Lindsay is working with our team on a new weekend edition of The World and Everything in It. We’re hoping to release it sometime this fall.

But Lindsay, tell a little more about yourself.

MAST: Well, I went through the World Journalism Institute mid career course last Spring and started working for WORLD this past summer on one of our kids news products, but moved over to radio in January, and am really looking forward to the weekend program. I do have a TV background, but I came to the podcast as a fan of it first and foremost—I found it while looking for Christ-honoring news for myself. So to get to work on it in this capacity is really exciting for me. I don’t take being trusted to deliver news and information lightly, and I look forward to developing a relationship with you as listeners. And I really can’t wait to share with you everything that we’re working on to make a great place for you to land on the weekends.

BROWN: Well, it’s not too late to say: “welcome aboard!”

MAST: Thank you! One more bit of listener feedback this morning. Jason Woodard from Battle Creek, Michigan, has been listening since the very beginning:

WOODARD: I listened on February 16th to John Stonestreet’s Culture Friday—one of my favorite sections every week—and he talked about the love of animals, or maybe the excessive love of animals. That absolutely needs to be said especially to those of us in the church. Really appreciate how he said it. As always he’s very careful about how he says things, but the way that animals are elevated above humans sometimes in our culture and I see that even at times inside of the church. And it’s a problem. And I appreciate him saying it and I want to let him know that and let you guys know that. Thank you for having him on there each week and for all the other work that you do.

MAST: Thanks to everyone who wrote and called in this month. We’re so thankful that you listen, and take the time to provide thoughtful feedback.

BROWN: If you have comments to share with us you can send them to editor@wng.org. And if you’re writing, would you consider reading your comment and making an audio file attachment? You can do that or you can phone it in at 202-709-9595.

And that’s this month’s Listener Feedback!

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Well, now it’s time to thank the team who helped to put the program together this week.

Mary Reichard, Nick Eicher, David Bahnsen, Emma Perley, Will Inboden, Lillian Hamman, Amy Lewis, Brad Littlejohn, Carolina Lumetta, Onize Ohikere, Grace Snell, Janie B. Cheaney, Mary Muncy, Kim Henderson, Cal Thomas, John Stonestreet, and Bob Brown.

Special thanks to our breaking news team: Lynde Langdon, Steve Kloosterman, Kent Covington, Travis Kircher, Lauren Canterberry, Christina Grube, and Josh Schumacher.

Thanks also to our breaking news interns…Tobin Jacobson, Johanna Huebscher, and Alex Carmenaty.

And the guys who stay up late to get the program to you early: Johnny Franklin and Carl Peetz.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Our producer is Harrison Watters.

Our Senior producer is Kristen Flavin, and Paul Butler is Executive producer.

Additional production assistance from Benj Eicher, Lillian Hamman, Emily Whitten, and Bekah McCallum.

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