The World and Everything in It: January 9, 2026

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

Today on Culture Friday, dying well.

AUDIO: Many of my Christian friends and Christian followers say to me, Scott, you still have time. You should convert to Christianity.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: We’ll talk about two well known figures who are dealing publicly with the end of their lives. John Stonestreet is standing by.

Also today:

SMUGGLER: You show up late, or you get caught? Not my problem.

A new Angel Studios film takes on war and migration, but oversimplifies the questions.
And WORLD’s music critic Arsenio Orteza on worship without words.

BROWN: It’s Friday, January 9th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

MAST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. Good morning!

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

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: House Obamacare subsidies vote » The House voted Thursday to extend COVID-era Obamacare subsidies:

AUDIO: On this vote, the yeas are 230. The nays are 1 96. The bill is passed.

That after 17 Republicans joined Democrats to back the bill, bypassing objections from GOP leaders.

The subsidies expired last week. Supporters say without them, premiums are rising and more people could lose coverage. The bill would renew the aid for three years.

A budget analysis says it would add about $80 billion dollars to the deficit over a decade. And most Republicans say there are better options. Congressman Jason Smith:

SMITH:  What I have been trying to convince my Democrat colleagues is, is let's work on policies to lower the cost of healthcare, lower premiums for every single American.

The bill now heads to the upper chamber, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is pressuring the Senate majority leader to bring the bill to the Senate floor for a vote.

JEFFRIES:  John Thune knows that a majority of the United States Senate supports a straightforward, clean, three year extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits.

Senators are looking at a possible scaled-back version of the plan that could replace the House bill.

Senate advances war powers measure » Meantime, in the Senate, lawmakers voted Thursday to send a message to President Trump about any potential further military action against Venezuela.

The resolution would limit Trump’s ability to launch any further strikes without approval from Congress.

Senate majority leader, John Thune remarked shortly before the vote:

THUNE: This is the Democrats trying to, you know, poke the president, and I hope that we have the, the votes to defeat it.

But the vote succeeded, 52 to 47, with five Republicans joining Democrats to pass it.

Democrat Tim Kaine said he was encouraged by the outcome.

KAINE:  I came to the Senate obsessed about these war power issues 'cause I'm a military dad and I represent a state that has deep, deep military equities. But we all should be obsessed about it.

But Thursday’s vote was largely symbolic.

While it clears the way for a full Senate vote next week passage on the Senate floor would require 60 “yes” votes, which is unlikely. And even then, President Trump would have to sign it into law.

The president criticized the senators who supported the resolution, saying it could weaken national security.

ICE shooting investigation » Heated protests have erupted in Minneapolis after a federal immigration agent shot and killed a woman that federal officials say tried to strike the agent with her car.

Many protesters say they want immigration enforcement out of the city.

AUDIO:  We don't want you. You have no right to be here. You're destroying our communities. Just leave.

The Trump administration says not enforcing the law is not an option.

City officials dispute the claim that 37-year-old Renee Goode tried to strike the agent. And state officials are complaining that the FBI has shut them out of the investigation. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz:

WALZ:  I will continue to press that we be part of the investigation, that we do the investigation so that Minnesotans can trust what the outcome is.

But Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem says:

NOEM: They have not been cut out. They don’t have any jurisdiction in this investigation.

Noem added that from her understanding of the facts, the agent acted appropriately and in accordance with his training.

New nutrition standards for food stamp retailers » The Trump administration unveiled a new food pyramid and other dietary guidelines this week. But officials are not stopping there.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says her department wants to see action from many retailers.

ROLLINS:  We are requiring any of those 250,000 retailers that accept food stamps or SNAP dollars have to double their offering of healthy food.

The new recommendations call on Americans to eat more whole foods and protein, and less processed carbohydrates. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the data show that American children eat far too many processed carbs.

KENNEDY:  That is the result of a food pyramid that was driven by mercantile impulses that put fruit loops at the top of the fruit pyramid pyramid.

Experts praised the emphasis on eating less ultra-processed foods.

Some, however, criticized the new food pyramid's focus on meat and dairy.

The guidelines still recommend Americans limit saturated fat consumption.

Iran protests » Protests broke out in Tehran Thursday as the unrest continues over Iran’s weak economy and a collapsing currency. WORLD’s Benjamin Eicher has more.

BENJAMIN EICHER: Residents chanted from windows and rooftops and crowds filling streets, after Iran’s exiled crown prince called for nationwide demonstrations.

Markets and bazaars also shut down in several cities.

Shortly thereafter internet and phone service went dark.

Watchdog groups say the Iranian government cut communications in a bid to quell the protests.

A U.S.-based rights group says dozens have been killed and thousands arrested in recent weeks.

The growing demonstrations are ramping up pressure on Iran’s leadership, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

For WORLD, I’m Benjamin Eicher.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: Culture Friday with John Stonestreet. Plus, a look at a new film from Angel Studios.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Friday, January 9th. Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I'm Lindsay Mast. It’s Culture Friday! Joining us is John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. Morning, John!

JOHN STONESTREET: Good morning.

BROWN: Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, says he is dying.

Adams, who is 68, recently announced he has terminal prostate cancer. And in a recent podcast episode, he spoke directly to the Christians in his life—friends who have urged him to consider faith in Christ while he still has time.

Adams says he plans to convert to Christianity—but not yet.

Here is part of what he told those Christians.

ADAMS: Any skepticism I have about reality would certainly be instantly answered if I wake up at heaven. I do believe that the dominant Christian theory is that I was I would wake up in heaven if I have a good life. Yeah, I don't necessarily have to state something in advance.

And so to my Christian friends, yes, it's coming. So you don't need to talk me into it. I am now convinced that the risk reward is completely smart if it turns out that there's nothing there, I've lost nothing, but I've respected your wishes. And I like doing that.

If it turns out there is something there and the Christian model is the closest to it, I win. So with your permission, I promise you that I will, I will convert, but I probably won't spend much time in that phase, so don't expect it to happen today, okay, but argument made, argument accepted.

John, Adams is being very honest here. But what do you think the core problem is with the way he’s framing salvation?

STONESTREET: Well, I mean that it can be done that way, as if salvation is a form of fire insurance. I think all of this has to be couched in light of something else, a bigger reality, because whenever Christians talk about anything that is happening in a particular moment in time, in a particular cultural time and place, we have to see that in light of the overarching story of what God is doing to reclaim this world that he created for His own glory through the death, resurrection and lordship of Jesus Christ throughout all eternity.

In other words, if Adams does make it to God’s presence when he dies, and let’s pray that he does, it’s going to be because of the work of God in his life. It’s going to be because of Christ, and that’s the overarching thing.

And I, you know, there was a particular progressive liberal thinker that I had some disagreements with throughout the years, and who once said, you know, I think people are going to be more surprised by who is in heaven with them than who is not. And I think that there’s a lot of truth to that.

And the reason is because what we know about God is who God has revealed himself to be over and over and over in Scripture, in his work with both unbelieving individuals and unbelieving tribes, people, nations and languages. And that is that he is gracious.

It’s true that his grace takes a very particular expression in the person and work of Jesus Christ, but that’s what we should count on, and that’s what we should pray for. It’s going to have a lot less to do with this kind of bet that Adams thinks he’s making.

BROWN: I can’t help but think about another well-known person who is also facing terminal cancer, former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse. We talked about this on the program the day the news came out. In his announcement on X last month, Sasse wrote, “A well-lived life demands more reality – stiffer stuff. That’s why while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope”

Similar circumstances, but totally different worldview. Is this just the difference between a mature, intellectually serious Christian faith, and a still-developing one?

STONESTREET: There is obviously a big, big difference in world view. I’m not sure it’s a difference in intellectual seriousness. I mean, I think it’s interesting, right? I mean, both of these guys are known for their intellectual seriousness.

Adams is, he does it in the form of snark and humor. And then Ben Sasse is, and a lot of people have commenting on his political career, said he was just too serious about standing for what he believed to make a good politician. And I think that’s probably is what it turned out to be in his life and career.

So you have an intellectual seriousness, I think on both sides. The difference is one of world view. It’s a difference of materialism and non materialism, because materialism really reduces life down to these days that we have.

And so you can see in Adam’s own calculation, an attempt to get around it. In Sasse, you see the reflection of someone who has taken to heart that death has lost its sting, that the grave doesn’t have victory anymore, that this isn’t a calculation of how to push back or figure out some sort of last minute work around.

This is a completely different viewpoint, because it begins with a different understanding of gain and a different understanding of loss. That’s why we see in so many different cases that a follower of Christ’s most amazing testimony can be in a moment of death or at a time of dying.

And this is why some of the earliest theological works that the church had to offer the world, one is called the art of dying. How do we die? Well, and may God give Senator Sasse this strength and grace to be this kind of voice for us right now.

I tell you, I’ve thought about this a lot. You’ve heard me quote Stanley Hauerwas a lot about if Christians are known in 100 years as those who didn’t kill their young and elderly, we will have done well.

But I also think far more than that, Christians have a remarkable gift to give to the world in what it means to die well, because you’re not getting that from any other corner of the planet. You’re getting governments trying to off their citizens too early. You’re getting people pursuing the premature death by by suicide, either “legalized” or not.

And Christians have a a real, valuable gift to give to the world with this fundamentally different understanding of life and death.

MAST: John, I want to follow up:

Is our broader culture actually equipped to talk honestly about death at all?

STONESTREET: It’s not and because it is a limited view of what it means to be human, not just in terms of who we are, you know, whether there’s an immaterial part of us or an immaterial aspect of us, although it’s certainly confused about that.

But also in terms of what makes life worth living, where do we find meaning? And if you don’t have sources of depth? And instead, the dominant, and I mean here, culturally speaking, understanding of life is one of just perpetual distraction until you die, we’re not going to be equipped to talk about that, and you can see that reflected across the board in our inability to just think about it.

I saw a piece this week that put an example of this in such stark contrast. You are more likely as a Canadian to die of medical assistance in dying than an American is to die of gun violence.

So isn’t that a fascinating statistic, if it weren’t so important and significant and grave? And I mean kind of net possibility out of 100,000 it’s actually significantly more likely to die of MAID in Canada than of gun violence in the United States.

But then what do you hear about? What all civilized people are most concerned about? You know, it just kind of points to the blinders that a worldview either helps you understand the world or it actually blinds you from understanding the world.

But here’s what we know. Death is coming for all of us. We cannot escape that. And so how we think about it, how we live in the face of it, what we say, what we believe, how we stand, what we care about, what we love, how we love, all of that is going to be a profound witness to what all of this is all about.

And I think it’s going to be an incredible opportunity for Christians. And it has been, certainly.

I think a lot about what President Clinton said about Mother Teresa at the National Prayer Breakfast when she made such a courageous stand at that event for the unborn, and what President Clinton, who of course had advanced pro abortion policies pretty aggressively, said.

It’s hard to argue with a life so well lived. And I think that that has always been true. And I think also it’s going to be true that it’s going to be hard to argue with a death that’s been done well, because it’s going to be in such stark contrast to a culture that just doesn’t have the categories.

MAST: John, here’s another worldview on display on the public stage. This is from New Year’s Day, an exciting, grinning, optimistic-seeming young man becomes mayor of America’s largest city. Here’s the part of his speech that was re-played again and again.

MAMDANI: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty. Many of these people have been betrayed by the established order, but in our administration, their needs will be met. Their hopes and dreams and interests will be reflected transparently in government. They will shape our future. And if for too long, these communities have existed as distinct from one another, we will draw this city closer together. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

I know that “rugged individualism” gets a bad rap in Christian circles, John, because you can see how it might reek of works-righteousness. But then here, and this is the clip that’s been on repeat all week, the contrast is with “the warmth of collectivism.”

Mayor Mamdani has a guest in the city who brought the warmth of collectivism to Venezuela, and now that he’s in jail in New York Venezuelans are dancing in the streets.

Still, “warmth” and “collective good” are resonating with Americans right now, why do you think that’s so when the testimony of history is so clear?

STONESTREET: Well, history only helps you if you know it. We don’t know history. So that’s the easiest answer to the American civic question, is we are just civically unenlightened.

I’ll give you an example here. The conversation since Mamdani’s speech has been about individualism versus collectivism, and that’s completely misleading.

First of all, the warmth of collectivism, what a bunch of Hallmark kind of sappy nonsense. But beyond that, we’re not talking about communitarianism, and that’s the lie of socialism.

Christianity rejects rugged individualism. Let’s just be really clear, and it’s not just because it works righteousness. It’s because we believe that humans are made in the image of God, and that the God we’re in the image of is a relationship, a trinity.

And so we can’t understand our life outside of our relational requirements, our relational bonds, the relationships that God created us to be a part of.

First of all, our relationship with Him. Secondly, our relationship and awareness with ourselves. Third, our relationship with others, both personal and social. And then fourth, the relationship with the rest of creation. We have a unique understanding of that relationship as Christians as well.

The lie of this word collectivism, and this is kind of classic liberal progressive, let’s use a word that doesn’t mean what we say it means, is to basically insinuate that he’s basically saying we’re responsible for each other.

Collectivism, when it’s played out in the way that he’s advocating for, it never happens because people want to give and love and care for their neighbors. It’s state enforcement. It’s forced charity, which makes it not charity at all.

And somebody else is doing all the thinking and all the application. And those people, according to a biblical worldview, are infected by the fall.

And so this is what always happens. It’s like, let’s everyone have their fair share. And suddenly, the Mamdanis and the Nicolas Maduros, they suddenly get more than everybody else, right? They got more than their fair share.

Their fair share suddenly is a level of comfort that nobody else has afforded, because it’s basically a forced collectivism, a state enforced collectivism that really ends up not being charity.

It’s not being communitarian. It’s not being loving or caring or so on. And the citizens themselves become the victims.

And of course, some of us had a memory of this because we grew up in the Cold War. But we’re talking about a group of people that didn’t. And we’re talking about a school system that doesn’t teach cultural memory.

And so collectivism is this really nice sounding word. And by the way, he used it intentionally because it is the misleading word that democratic socialist and communist always use.

But it doesn’t refer to what it says it refers to. It doesn’t refer to a group of people happily loving and hugging each other. What it is, is a state enforced inequality.

And that’s why the Christian view, which puts us first and foremost in a relationship with God, and from that relationship with God we now know what love is, and we can love our neighbors as ourselves, that that actually can become a frame not just for personal morality, although it is, but also for the way that the state should operate to allow people to be those kinds of neighbors.

And when we see communities at their best, it’s when they’re taking care of their own problems, and they’re taking care of their own in a way that demonstrates that sort of charity, love, and respect for human dignity.

BROWN: John Stonestreet is president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint Podcast. Thank you John!

STONESTREET: Thank you both.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Friday, January 9th.

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

Good morning. I’m Lindsay Mast.

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

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: When good intentions collide.

Angel Studios is best known for faith-driven films that resonate with Christian audiences. Its latest takes on war, displacement, and the call to love the stranger—subjects fraught with moral disagreement and political consequence.

WORLD reviewer Joseph Holmes now on how well the film bears the weight of its ambition.

JOSEPH HOLMES: I Was a Stranger is a rather unconventional movie for Angel Studios. They’re traditionally known for faith-based films, but this is a war drama about people trying to flee a war-torn Syria. But they’re still clearly marketing it to the faith-based audience, even choosing a title referencing Jesus' call in the Bible to welcome the stranger. Unfortunately, storytelling choices and political messaging will likely cause most of that audience to pass on it.

SMUGGLER: We don’t accept Visa, Mastercard, or American Express. Only cash. No exchanges. No refunds. You show up late, or you get caught? Not my problem.

The film follows multiple individuals and families on the path to freedom from war and violence in Syria. A Syrian doctor is forced to flee Aleppo with her young daughter. A smuggler trying to save his son. A soldier wrestling with his conscience. A poet searching for home. A Greek coast guard captain caught between duty and mercy. Their paths collide on a night in the Mediterranean, where survival isn’t certain for everyone.

SMUGGLER: Listen, after tonight, you and I will get out of here for good.

SON: That wasn’t the deal.

SMUGGLER: It’s a new deal. Where should we go?

SON: Someplace better.

SMUGGLER: Better for both of us?

SON: Someplace with pizza.

SMUGGLER: (laughs) Pizza?

The film is well made. Sympathetic characters are introduced without cumbersome exposition, and the stakes they face feel consequential. It’s impressive how the film deftly introduces multiple central characters over and over without slowing down the overarching story. The cinematography relies on a lot of long takes and shaky cam, which adds tension and a feeling of raw realism.

Faith is ever-present in the film as most of those seeking to escape Syria are religious—whether they’re Christian or Muslim. The movie treats this as a fact of the world rather than something that’s good or bad. People talk about God and pray to God as naturally as breathing.

CAPTAIN: This is the Hellenic Coast Guard. Please remain on the boat while we rescue those in the water.

But I Was a Stranger doesn’t have enough emotional punch to make the harrowing journey worth it. The film largely sticks to the same beats with each new character. It gets repetitive and transparent fairly quickly. Meet a sympathetic character, watch horrible things happen to them, see (most of) them get out of danger, but at a horrific cost. The lack of emotional variety causes each scene to have less impact. Likewise, the constant switching to different perspectives breaks up the flow as we spend time re-orienting ourselves to a new set of characters to invest in.

FATHER: You ask for all I have. This is everything. I give you what most important to you. Can I trust you with what most important to me?

Furthermore, by the end, the film abandons much of its empathetic subtlety for politically coded finger-wagging at the audience. We are introduced to several characters who express concerns about unchecked immigration. The film treats them as cartoonishly privileged and heartless. The final scene portrays a refugee doctor working as a janitor at a hospital rather than as a doctor—a final horrific indignity. But the film’s target demographic knows the immigration topic is complicated. Seeing the debate portrayed simplistically takes the audience out of the film. Are these realistic people or highly curated objects of sympathy for political propaganda?

ASSISTANT: They make it, they don’t.

SMUGGLER: It all pays the same.

ASSISTANT: I counted 28. Four must’ve not made it.

The film is a PG-13 war drama. As such, there’s plenty of PG-13 violence. People get killed and wounded, and bloody bodies are strewn about. Bombs level a building and bury everyone inside. There’s some profanity —including some uses of Christ’s name—throughout. A racial slur is spoken a few times in Arabic and is once translated by subtitles.

Movies that help us better understand our Christian call to love the stranger are good. However, I Was a Stranger’s storytelling choices might make it difficult to see clearly the thorny problem of immigration from war-torn regions.

I’m Joseph Holmes.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Next up on The World and Everything in It: Beyond the lyrics.

There’s a corner of Christian music that rarely makes it to radio—music meant less to be sung along with than listened to closely.

But for decades, that instrumental tradition, shaped by jazz and grounded in worship, has been developing largely out of view.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: One of its most accomplished practitioners is a German worship musician Lothar Kosse.

Since 1988, Kosse has released more than a dozen albums and his latest is titled, Shekinah.

WORLD’s music critic Arsenio Orteza thinks it’s high time that listeners outside Germany found out what they’ve been missing.

ARSENIO ORTEZA: In contemporary Christian music, instrumental fusion jazz goes back a long way—over 40 years, in fact, to the debut album by Koinonia in 1983.

MUSIC: [“Cuando” by Koinonia]

But CCM is primarily defined by its lyrics, and Christian fusion jazz is instrumental, a fact that’s kept it niche. But its second-class status hasn’t deterred the German electric guitarist Lothar Kosse from becoming one of its primary exemplars.

MUSIC: [“First” by Lothar Kosse]

This is “First,” a track from Kosse’s latest release, Shekinah. Like his numerous other albums, it’s on YouTube in its entirety, so you can check it out before buying it. Two of music’s most in-demand players accompany Kosse: the drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and the bassist Abraham Laboriel, Sr., who also happens to be a founding member of Koinonia. They have hundreds, and by some estimates thousands, of credits to their names. Also, like Kosse, they’re believers.

Kosse said he first met Laboriel in 1988, the year that Kosse recorded his first solo album, One for All.

KOSSE: I asked him whether he would like to join me on this recording. And he said yes, and it was a dream for me because I always was admiring him and Koinonia and his music and this friendship has lasted very long. And Vinnie I met in ’99 through a friend of mine, Matthias Heimlicher, also a great producer who lives in Switzerland, and Vinnie was working with him. And then I was going to Switzerland to record Rainmaker with him, which also was a great dream for me.

Rainmaker was Kosse’s third fusion-jazz album. It followed his 1994 release Rockland. Between Rockland and Rainmaker, Kosse released Die Flut—or The Flood in English. It was his first solo album of worship songs, a medium in which he has gone on to excel. In 2006, he even recorded an album in English, All That Sound.

MUSIC: [“Lion of Judah” by Lothar Kosse]

Kosse learned English as a teenager from a friend of his who, interestingly enough, came from Kenya. But Kosse’s German heritage is important to him. It’s one reason, for instance, that Shekinah includes this well-known melody.

MUSIC: [ “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” by Lothar Kosse]

Although “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded” is a 13th-century hymn with an originally Latin text, its best-known lyrics have come down to us via the German hymnist Paul Gerhardt.

KOSSE: He was living in the 17th century, and his lyrics are still state of the art in Christian music. It's so wonderful. But they only work really in German. So I took ‘O Sacred Heart Now Wounded.’ I wanted to have another hymn on an album because I want to point to my German heritage and say, ‘Look, I'm coming from this country. We have not invented jazz and blues, but we have some music that is also very, very meaningful and very deep.’ And I try to bring it over to the other—to the other side of music.

“Bringing it over to the other side of music” isn’t easy. But Kosse, who began studying guitar when he was 13, has had impressive role models. Like many a budding boomer, he first wanted to figure out the instrument for himself after hearing Jimi Hendrix. He also admires Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour, and Toto’s Steve Lukather. But it’s when I asked him what he found most challenging about making Shekinah that he mentioned the guitarist he admires most.

KOSSE: When I started to plan this album, I had a big sign over my brain. It was ‘Melody. Stick with a melody.’ And to play a melody on electric guitar so that it really captures the essence of the melody is not so easy. It's easier with a voice.… But with the guitar, it easily can get boring.… So I said to myself, ‘You have to pay attention to the melody and really shape the melody.’ The master of it was, for me, was always Jeff Beck. He was a master of melody.

MUSIC: [“Over the Rainbow” by Jeff Beck]

Because Vinnie Colaiuta was a member of Beck’s band, Kosse had the privilege of seeing Beck perform “Over the Rainbow” live. “It took your shoes off,” he told me.

And speaking of taking off one’s shoes, I asked him why he called his new album Shekinah, a Hebrew term referring to God’s glory.

KOSSE: The spirit of the session was actually worship from the beginning. It's about, it's about Shekinah. It's about—it’s about the glory. And that was the meaning of the whole album. I don't care about being famous. Being well known, at my age now, I think doesn't make really sense. Why should I do it? I like if people like it and enjoy it, but I like it more if they are blessed.

And just in case being blessed also means having your shoes taken off, you might want to bring a second pair.

MUSIC: [“Shekinah” by Lothar Kosse]

I’m Arsenio Orteza.

LINDAY MAST, HOST: Time now to thank the team who made the show possible this week:

Mary Reichard, David Bahnsen, Emma Eicher, Kim Henderson, Hunter Baker, Jenny Lind Schmitt, Arsenio Orteza, Janie B. Cheaney, Emma Freire, Maria Baer, Cal Thomas, 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, Nick Eicher is executive producer.

And I’m producer Lindsay Mast.

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

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The Bible says to pray then like this:

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. —Matthew 6:9-13

This weekend be sure and shake a hand, hug a few necks on the Lord’s day. Hear the Word, give thanks and make a joyful noise with songs of praise.

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

Go now in grace and peace.

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