The World and Everything in It: February 27, 2026

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

California Governor Gavin Newsom and the joke that did not land.

NEWSOM: I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy.

NICK EICHER, HOST: That, and what gotcha moments like it reveal. John Stonestreet standing by for Culture Friday.

Also today, two filmmakers explain how the image of a fallen redwood helped them to tell the story of the cross.

SPEARS: And I was like, I have one more thing to show you. And so I showed him this new idea, and got to that image, and he just flipped out.

And Listener Feedback for February.

REICHARD: It’s Friday, February 27th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

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

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: U.S.-Ukraine meeting » In Ukraine:

ZELENSKYY: [Speaking Ukrainian]

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the next round of peace talks with Russia will likely be held in Abu Dhabi early next month.

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and unofficial envoy Jared Kushner met with Ukrainian officials on Thursday. Those talks focused on post-war reconstruction for Ukraine.

Witkoff says he's hoping for good news in the coming weeks.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that only the United States can make a peace deal happen.

RUBIO: The United Nations isn't gonna do it. France isn't gonna do it. The EU isn't gonna do it. The Russians won't even speak to them.

Meanwhile, more of the same in Ukraine:

SOUND: [Zaporizhzhia attack]

authorities say at least 10 people were injured yesterday after another overnight Russian airstrike on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia.

U.S.-Iran negotiations » In Geneva, American and Iranian negotiators wrapped up indirect talks on Thursday without a deal.

WORLD’s Harrison Watters has more.

HARRISON WATTERS: Negotiators from the Sultanate of Oman shuttled back and forth between American and Iranian diplomats…trying to bring both sides to agreement on issues like sanctions relief and uranium enrichment.

ARAGHCHI [Farsi]: I can say that we made good progress after several hours of intensive negotiation.

WATTERS: Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told state media there was good progress after several hours of intense negotiation…but did not specify.

Ahead of the talks, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he wasn’t expecting much to change.

RUBIO: Iran refuses, refuses to talk about the ballistic missiles, to us or to anyone. And that's a big problem.

WATTERS: Meanwhile, a second U.S. carrier strike group will soon reach the coast of Israel, putting additional pressure on Iran.

Another round of talks between nuclear technicians is scheduled for Monday in Vienna.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Harrison Watters.

Clinton testimony » Former President Bill Clinton will testify behind closed doors to lawmakers today about ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Former State Secretary Hillary Clinton testified before the House Oversight committee on Thursday.

Neither are accused of wrongdoing.

Hillary Clinton testified that she has no information about Epstein’s crimes and doesn’t recall meeting him.

But Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says he’s not convinced.

COMER: That's funny, because Epstein was in the White House 16 times while Bill Clinton was president, and then Bill Clinton flew on his plane 27 times post presidency, as well as Ghislaine Maxwell was at a front row seat at Chelsea Clinton's wedding.

The testimony was videotaped, but it remains unclear if that footage will be made public.

Minnesota fraud » Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is blasting the Trump administration over its the announcement that it is halting more than a quarter of a billion dollars in Medicaid funding to the state.

Vice President JD Vance said the freeze will be enforced until Minnesota takes “takes its obligations seriously” when it comes to fighting fraud. And Vance again said on Thursday:

VANCE:  That is a scandal, and it's something that Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats promoted with their open border, encouraged it and funded it.

That comes after alleged fraudulent business practices by some Somali immigrants in the state.

But the Democratic governor called the move—his words part of an … “illegal and unprecedented … retribution campaign” by the Trump administration.

WALZ: Did you hear in there what specific steps they were going to take to stop the fraud or what the specific fraud they were talking about? They're using it as a general term in this, and they're not serious.

Walz also argues hundreds of thousands of people in Minnesota will lose access to healthcare because of this action.

But administration officials say it will not have a major short-term impact, and that funds will be released as the state steps up anti-fraud measures.

Judge rejects block on White House ballroom project » A federal judge has rejected a request to block construction of a new White House ballroom. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin has that story.

KRISTEN FLAVIN: U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that a preservation group was unlikely to succeed on the merits of its bid to halt President Trump’s construction project.

The new ballroom is being built where the now-demolished East Wing of the White House once stood.

The group wanted the court to put a hold on the project until it undergoes multiple independent reviews and wins approval from Congress.

Trump proceeded with the project before seeking input from a pair of federal review panels. One has approved the project. The second is holding a meeting in March.

The White House says the $400 million dollar project is being funded by private donations rather than taxpayer dollars.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: John Stonestreet is here for Culture Friday. Plus, a gospel-centered animated feature that’s up for an Academy Award.

This is The World and Everything in It.

NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s Friday, February 27th. Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Nick Eicher.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. Joining us now is John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center. Good morning, John.

JOHN STONESTREET: Good morning.

BROWN: Well, John, Colorado is considering a bill, SB 26-097, that would make it the second state in the country, along with Nevada to legalize the world’s oldest profession.

Now, John, you live in Colorado. You’ve seen weed legalized, doctor-assisted suicide embraced, and now, instead of calling prostitution prostitution, lawmakers want to rename it “adult commercial sexual activity” and then make it legal.

Does it feel as icky as it sounds? I mean, just a descent into the, as the Bible says, the miry bog, the pit of destruction?

STONESTREET: There should be the new, you know, nomenclatures that we substitute for these states. If they’re going to substitute adult commercial sexual activity for prostitution, we should do the pit of destruction for Colorado.

We’ve been on a roll, you know. And it’s funny, as I travel around, usually people from California are always like, well, at least you’re not California. I was like, there are so many ways that I wish I was California.

Colorado has been on a direct trajectory. The four lawmakers who proposed this legislation in Colorado to legalize prostitution are millennials. It’s like clockwork, honestly, that we’re seeing this more and more and more. And the way that this is argued in justice terms, despite all the evidence to the contrary — the evidence that legalizing prostitution actually increases the trafficking of human beings, that it actually leads to other destructive behaviors, and that it specifically has negative implications for children, for the protection of children — none of that gets in the way.

And what’s happened now is that these folks tend to go unchecked in the Colorado legislature. And so they can basically throw out things that are absurd, that are insane, that are not good, and call it good, that are not just, and call it just.

And frankly, the story of what happened to Colorado is not that we became more progressive. It was that the Libertarians were actually used by the progressives to create a legislative supermajority in a sense that really cannot be reined in or stopped.

And of course, it’s all based on the ideas of the sexual revolution.

So yeah, listen, we’re not in the ballpark of most other states anymore. And the reason is, we’ve embraced a vision — a vision of life in the world, a vision that was sold in the name of libertarian freedom but requires the state as a nanny to basically create and protect our ability to have no one ever tell us anything that we do is ever wrong.

EICHER: I don’t think I’ve misunderstood libertarian philosophy, but it seems that this is a confusion of libertinism with libertarianism.

When you expand libertinism, you get bigger government, you just do. You have to have more government because of all the social destruction that follows.

STONESTREET: You have to for two reasons.

Number one is that you still have a moral citizenry, or some aspect of a moral citizenry, that doesn’t want this kind of thing. And so you have to have a state that actually then tramples on their rights.

This is the same thing that happened with same-sex marriage. It happened before we had same-sex marriage. In the case of Jack Phillips, here’s somebody that just didn’t want to participate. And so you have to have a big state that actually enforces his participation.

But you’re right on the other side of things too. And we’ve absolutely seen that in terms of the legalization of marijuana, that there’s a lot of buyer’s remorse of police officers, of educational professionals, of city leaders, because it’s let so many other things out of the bag. And you have to have a big state back it up.

Because if you think that freedom has no boundaries, if you think that personal choice to do whatever you want, no matter what community you’re a citizen of, should be a guarantee of the state, that is the way to have a more intrusive, invasive, and bigger state.

The Libertarians were used in this whole process. And I moved here right when this was starting. I’ve seen the whole thing happen. And it’s just another thing to add to the legalization of pot, the legalization of Doctor Death, and the legalization of magic mushrooms.

I mean, we can go down the protection of drag shows for kids. We can go down the line.

BROWN: You started your response to this question talking about California. So let’s go there for just a second.

California Governor Gavin Newsom and his flub. Let’s listen to a little of what he had to say while on stage with Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens.

NEWSOM: I'm not, you know, I'm not trying to impress you. I'm just trying to impress upon you. I'm like you. I'm no better than you. You know, I'm a 960 SAT guy. And you know, and I'm not trying to offend anyone, you know, trying to act all there if you got 940 i But literally a 960 SAT guy, I cannot. You've never seen me read a speech because I cannot read a speech.

Rapper-songwriter Nicki Minaj’s response is classic. Let me just read a little of what she posted on X:

“His way of bonding with black people is to tell them how stupid he is and that he can’t read.”

And then she goes on.

“Do you want to know the craziest part of this footage that will haunt him forever? He’s literally slowing his speech down and talking in a sporadic cadence.”

She ends by saying, “He’s not just saying it. He didn’t misspeak. He believes it.”

To me, John, it sounds like a mashup of identity politics and critical theory. What do you think?

STONESTREET: Yeah, look, I think that I’m weary and wary of the games that happen on both the left and the right to catch each other in racist speak.

Obviously, there was the whole thing recently with the President and the meme that was posted to the True Social account. And at the same time, a meme that historically is just horrible and unjustifiable — and how it got there and all that, there’s all kinds of stories.

And you have the left that immediately wants us to think the worst of that. And then you have the right that immediately wants us to think the worst of this.

The problem here is not just whether he misspoke and it was a statement taken out of context, and in the larger context it looks better. But there is the tyranny of low expectations, as Thomas Sowell put it, that inflicts the left and the way that the left understands poverty, the way that the left understands class struggle. It’s in the water of the left.

And it’s not just in policies where we want to do handouts instead of hand-ups. It goes back in the water of embracing a Darwinian understanding of the human person, because it’s based on a fundamental understanding of the human person that’s disconnected from the image of God. And so it just gets in the water.

I think now, you know, what did Newsom mean? There’s just so many examples of this, of people trying to be cool. I chalk this more up, you know, to the nerd who shows up on the football team and he’s like, I don’t always get good grades. I’m thinking of that one line from The Sandlot, you know, where he’s like, I gotta be once.

Trying to be cool, and it just doesn’t land.

I don’t know what his intentions were. Nicki Minaj has her right to read this. But there is a history of what Thomas Sowell called the tyranny of low expectations, and it’s rooted in a bad anthropology, and it pops up.

I don’t want to justify one on the altar of the other or play gotcha on either side. But it is important to know that history, because it’s a history that has been reflected in these events.

Even more tragically, it’s a history that is reflected in the history of Planned Parenthood, which of course has had a direct impact on black communities in a horrific way. And the numbers there, in my mind, are unjustifiable no matter what worldview you have.

EICHER: Let’s keep talking about gotcha moments, because sometimes they’re illustrative.

It’s as though on the night of the State of the Union, President Trump sent his people out to the House floor and laid out rakes all over the Democratic side—and said, hey guys, don’t step on these rakes.

And to spite him, they proceeded to step on every available rake.

STONESTREET: It’s a pretty good analogy.

EICHER: Glad you liked that.

But here’s the story I’m talking about: the president introduced Sage Blair and her mother and told the story of how this kid, at age 14, was treated by the school district as a boy, hiding it from the parents, not allowing them to regain custody until just an enormous fight.

It has a happy ending. Sage is now a student at Liberty University, got a full free ride, living as God intended as a girl.

The president said, “Surely we can all agree no state should be allowed to do this. We must ban it immediately.”

Translated into politics. Don’t step on this rake. Honor this family.

But when not one single Democrat stood up in agreement with a very sensible proposition, he said, “These people are crazy. They are crazy.”

Did you have the same kind of response?

STONESTREET: This was the most moving part of the State of the Union address by far.

There were a lot of gotcha moments where the President did pretty well. It’s a remarkable thing to see truth win. But this was a remarkable moment to see such wonderful personal redemption, up-close and personal reconciliation between this woman and her mother. Justice on a national stage where the truth is told when she had been lied to.

The fact that she’s a student at Liberty University right now — what a wonderful story of what God can do to someone whose life is broken.

That’s what I want to highlight in all this.

I appreciate the President doing this. I appreciate the clarity of here’s where the parties stand on this, in case anyone is still wondering. And I’ll get to that in a second.

But I just want to celebrate the fact that God can restore and redeem and renew lives.

I don’t want to get over this, because we were told — we were told — just a few years ago that this didn’t exist. And anyone who spoke out against this whole transgender ideology was accused of stupid things like erasing trans people.

And what really happened was we were told that, oh no, there was no one being forced. There was no one being talked into this. This wasn’t happening to minors.

Except that it was.

And we knew it was. And we have the insurance data now, curated to actually prove it. And we have yet another story.

And there are many others. There’s the Chloe Coles of the world and others who also are wonderful stories of redemption. And now these are individuals that have a life returned to them.

And I also want to celebrate their moms in particular. Yes, their dads too. But man, there were a lot of moms that went along with it.

Thankfully, everybody right now is admitting they’re wrong.

Vanderbilt, this past week — the center of the whole issue with Matt Walsh, remember that, and the Tennessee legislature — Vanderbilt’s out. Not only with minors, but also with adults. They’re just not going to do it anymore.

And that’s just the latest.

We could talk about HHS. We could talk about Tavistock. We could talk about all kinds of different examples of this.

So the unraveling is going to be interesting. And there’s going to be moments for us to smile and to say, I told you so.

But man, please, let’s not forget these young women, especially those who have found restoration and redemption in Christ. And as Christians, we should point to that and celebrate that and hold those folks up and thank the Lord for His grace.

BROWN: All right: John Stonestreet is president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast.

Excited to see you next week, John, at our staff retreat.

EICHER: Location top secret.

BROWN: So next Culture Friday is in person. Can’t wait to see you!

STONESTREET: I’m looking forward to seeing both of you as well. Thanks.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, February 27th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

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

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: the story behind a story.

There’s a new film with an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film. And before that, it caught a lot of attention while making the rounds at film festivals around the country last year.

It’s a beautiful, silent film called Forevergreen, animated to look like a wood carved world, and it tells an allegorical story of an orphaned bear cub who meets and finds a home with a fatherly pine tree. The bear develops a desire for trash, which ultimately leads him into danger.

It’s a story about redemption, hope, and our need for a savior.

EICHER: And it’s one that began in the mind of director Nathan Englehardt.

He said it started as an adaptation of a classic Christian folk tale called The Tale of the Three Trees. Englehardt eventually asked friend—and fellow director—Jeremy Spears to help him figure it out. Jeremy’s a story guy.

WORLD recently spoke with the directors of Forevergreen and learned how the story came together.

The first voice is Jeremy’s

JEREMY SPEARS: So I took what he had been, he had been working on for a couple of years, and I went off for about two weeks and just researched trees. And I was looking at all the things that had already been done, trying to see if there's something that maybe we've missed. And pulled it all apart and then reassembled it again. And I put it on a board, a storyboard we call it, and I just pinned everything up. But in that process, I have a pretty long history of going to the Sequoia redwoods. We live here in California. So I have a lot of memories of kind of walking across these 100 foot long or longer trees that have fallen in the forest. And I came across this image of one of those trees falling across a divide, and there was a waterfall behind it. And it literally was this kind of lightning bolt moment. And I just thought, my goodness, I see what this could be. That giant fallen tree could be representative of what Christ did for us, and that there could be this character who the tree does that for that could give it the path of escape from fire. And it was based on a Bible tract image that has two sides to it. It's like a divide. And then the cross of Christ is in between and it bridges the divide. So there's this really simple Bible tract image that we've seen before, and it was that. And I was like, how cool would that be to pitch this to Nathan as just an alternate idea. And again, it was completely, yeah, it was just like, a whole different thing.

So I actually went down—it was the day before I was going to pitch him this—I went down to his office and I walk in his door and on his desk is this image. So, the next day, he's up in my office, I'm pitching these ideas, and he liked the first one. He was like, okay, that's cool. Those are some nice ideas. And I was like, I have one more thing to show you. And so I showed him this new idea, and I got to that image, and he just flipped out. And he said that he had been having a conversation the week before with a co-worker, and he was explaining his faith, and he was trying to explain it in an easy enough way. And he goes, Oh, here, let me just draw it. And so he drew this drawing.

NATHAN ENGLEHARDT: Yeah, I was witnessing to the guy, and he said, why the cross? Like he was understanding what, why did the cross have to be? And that's where I made that image, where the sin that divides you, and then the bridge, and he was like, Oh, it was just like something that clicked for him pretty quickly, and then had a great conversation after that. But I think what was so like confirming about this situation was that. I was really struggling at that moment about whether we should even, you know, have films or stories that depict Jesus. Maybe this sounds silly to some people, but I had never really thought about that, should we have God's Word in allegory or in fantasy? You know, these are just things that I was wrestling with, and it got to the point where I was like, “Lord, even if you give Jeremy a completely different idea, just let me know that it's from you.” You know what I mean? And so when I had written this, drew that down, it was also a way of just confirming in our hearts that this was the new direction, and that we should go for it 100%. It's something only God can confirm. And so I ran up on that little story sketch, because he didn't have the vertical line. It was just the bridge. And I quickly drew in the vertical line for the cross part. And then it was like, that was it. That was sealed right there.

SPEARS: And, you know, Nathan and I, we kind of geek out about this, the fact that we can have a creative endeavor like this and and we can talk about the creator, you know, so that's what we're doing right now. It's like we've created a thing that’s now a discussion point. It's a thing that we can kind of begin with, and then who knows where this will go?

EICHER: We’ll put a link to the film in the program transcript. And we’ll release much more of our discussion of Forevergreen on our podcast feed tomorrow. The directors will talk a bit of shop about how the film was made, and much more about how the process bolstered their faith.

Additionally, musician Josh Garrels will talk about how he came to be part of the project. It’s a great discussion and we hope you’ll listen.

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

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

Finally today, we end the week with your Listener Feedback for the month of February.

We’ll start with a couple of corrections. In our February 11th newscast we mispronounced the name for followers of a branch of Islam, the Shiite branch, and in the same program we mispronounced the name of the luxury auction house “Sotheby’s.” Now, I’ll add those two things pale in comparison to a mistake I made recording a really great commentary by Hunter Baker on how gambling has taken over professional sports. He was recording remotely and I neglected to ensure his external mic was plugged in … and so the entire thing was recorded using a decent but not broadcast quality laptop microphone. I already apologized to Hunter and now I do to you.

Moving on to feedback and speaking of Hunter Baker, listener Sam Arora sent a voice memo noting how the Dobbs decision has changed pro-life conversations for presidential candidates.

SAM ARORA: In his February 18 opinion segment, Hunter Baker said that he could argue that there was a pro life litmus test among Republicans running for president. While Donald Trump ran for the Republican nomination as pro life in 2016 when he ran in 2024 he said abortion law should be left to the states, and reshaped his party's platform in that way. What Dr. Baker said may once have been true for the Republican Party, but it doesn't seem to be true today.

BROWN: Scott Bahr from Livonia Michigan sent a different perspective after our February 12th interview regarding the rollback of climate regulations.

SCOTT BAHR: I appreciated the interview with Philip Rossetti about the rollback of climate regulations, but I disagree with his contention that this is more theoretical than practical, because industry had not fully repositioned to it. That certainly is not true for the auto industry, which had invested billions of dollars in electric battery plants to meet the former regulations. Those plants are now being abandoned before they hardly got started. I previously worked in product planning for one of the automakers, and I've seen firsthand the unnecessary costs forced into vehicles to meet these regulations. I've also seen entire vehicle lines for products that Americans want shut down simply because they didn't fit the government plan. This has caused vehicle prices to skyrocket, and they will stay high as automakers try to recover the dollars they wasted on the government's climate change boondoggle. We're all paying the price for that. Thank you.

Paul Gebel from Edmond, Oklahoma wrote in to express his appreciation for our music reviews.

PAUL GEBEL: I've been a fan of Arsenio Orteza's music reviews in World's print magazine for a long time. His descriptive phrases and encyclopedic knowledge of musicians past and present is more than impressive. My only unanswered question after reading arsenio's reviews was, but what does it sound like? That's why I've been more than thrilled that you now feature an occasional audio review by Arsenio. It makes sense that music and music reviews be listened to, so thank you for bringing his work to your podcast. I'll still look forward to Arsenio's articles, which I read and often reread, but please continue his audio contributions as well. Thank you.

John Howeth from Windsor, Colorado had a small quibble with Arsenio Orteza over his February 12th segment on Christian rock band Petra:

HOWETH: Thank you for the episode on February 12 about the musical legacy of Christian rock group Petra, and the review of Petras new album. Without that, I wouldn't have known that they had come out with a new album. Petra has been one of my favorite groups for years, and I feel like Arsenio missed it, skipping the whole 1990s decade, some of Petras best albums, especially Beyond Belief.

EICHER: Now a couple of kudos on what we call our tentpole features, things like Legal Docket, the Monday Moneybeat, Washington Wednesday, Culture Friday. First, Abby DeVaughn from Minneapolis had this to say about Legal Docket on February 16th.

DEVAUGHN: Hi WORLD. My name is Abby Devaughn. I'm a professional actuary in Minnesota, and I wanted to write in and say that I loved the Legal Docket on the actuarial pension problem. You guys did a really great job talking about the profession and the really complex issues at stake here. And I just wanted to say that I really appreciate your commitment to covering all kinds of Supreme Court cases on Legal Docket, even the more technical ones, or the ones that might not sound as “interesting.” And this was just a really special treat for me to see my profession represented in this way. Thanks again.

BROWN: Victoria Cortina had a word of thanks from Norway for our February 10th report on preventing mass violence:

CORTINA: I wanted to thank you for the report on how to prevent mass violence. I'm a public school teacher in Norway in Europe, and we have at least one to two students in every single classroom who acts in the way that that gentleman described himself. And it is so frustrating. It feels hopeless, and I have given up at times, but I feel renewed motivation and encouragement. Thank you for your report, or thanks to your report, and I feel capable. I feel like there is something that I can do, and I feel like I have been doing things just by meeting them where they're at and being kind as we're called to be, and in gratitude to all that Christ has done for us, we can be kind. So thank you for this. What an amazing news podcast that we even get to hear stories like this. Well done.

And here’s Ruth Solow of Highland Village, Texas on John Stonestreet’s Culture Friday comments last Friday:

SOLOW: I just appreciate John Stonestreet's clear and biblical based comments about transgender issues, saying that New York University won't do transition surgeries. What really helped me was his simple comment, well, the Bible tells Christians not to lie, and that God hates lying, or something to that effect. It was so helpful to me as a parent. Your podcast always helps me as a Christian in this twisted culture to know how I should think properly. By the way, the verse which he was mentioning that I had my kids memorize that he alluded to is Proverbs 12:22. Besides the 10 Commandments, this verse says, “Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who deal truthfully are his delight.” Thank you always for being truthful in your mag and your podcast, you are God's delight.

EICHER: Thank you to all who wrote and called this month. We’d love to hear from you as well. If you’d like to comment on a story you heard or a commentary, or just anything you notice, you can send us a recorded message or email to: editor@wng.org. You can also phone it in: 202-709-9595. And that’s listener feedback for the month of February.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Time now to thank the team who helped to put together this week’s programs:

Jenny Rough, David Bahnsen, Arsenio Orteza, Mary Reichard, Carolina Lumetta, Caleb Welde, Cal Thomas, Hunter Baker, Jenny Lind Schmitt, Rachel Coyle, Daniel Suhr, Lauren Smyth, Seth Troutt, John Stonestreet, and Collin Garbarino.

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

And thanks to the Moonlight Maestros, serving up the program each week-day bright and early: Benj Eicher and Carl Peetz.

Harrison Watters is Washington producer, Kristen Flavin is features editor, Lindsay Mast is producer, I’m Executive Producer Nick Eicher.

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.

Scripture records: “With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.” —Proverbs 11:9

Care well for your brothers and sisters in Christ this weekend. Bear one another’s burdens, and let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts.

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

Go now in grace and peace.

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