The World and Everything in It: June 21, 2024

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning! Health warnings for social media, a cake baker back in court, and a book stirring up discontentment for married women.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: We’ll talk about it on Culture Friday with John Stonestreet. Plus a whimsical movie for all ages about the importance of family.

SATSUKI: Maybe you were dreaming.

MEI: No, I saw Totoro.

And the review of a helpful book on the climate that suggests changes are part of its design.

BROWN: It’s Friday, June 21st. 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, Mark Mellinger with today’s news.

MARK MELLINGER, NEWS ANCHOR: Putin/Vietnam/North Korea » Vladimir Putin is accusing NATO of threatening Russia’s security in the Asia-Pacific region.

PUTIN: [Speaking Russian]

In Vietnam yesterday, Putin said NATO is moving into Asia permanently.

He calls that a threat and promises Russia and other countries in the region will respond.

Meanwhile, Republican Senator Lindsay Graham and Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal unveiled a bipartisan resolution to designate Russia a state sponsor of terrorism.

Blumenthal showed reporters a picture of Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang earlier this week announcing a new mutual defense pact.

BLUMENTHAL: This photograph is not just outrageous, it is deeply scary because it signals cooperation, not only against Ukraine, but against the United States.

Graham agreed saying Putin has signed on to help North Korea’s nuclear program.

GRAHAM: We need to up our game when it comes to Russia. And the last, really, tool in the toolbox that we can use is a designation making Russia a state sponsor of terrorism.

If the resolution is approved Russia would join Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria as countries the U.S. has named state sponsors of terrorism.

U.S. to redirect interceptor missiles to Ukraine » The White House is speeding up the delivery of air defense interceptor missiles to Ukraine, and to accomplish that, it’s even diverting shipments away from other allied countries.

National Security spokesman John Kirby explained the urgency behind the move.

KIRBY: In recent months, Russia has accelerated both its missile and its drone attacks against cities and civilian infrastructure.

President Biden had already told other countries expecting air defense systems from the U.S they would have to wait.

The White House plans to prioritize interceptors for Ukraine for the next year and a half, potentially including hundreds of Patriot missiles.

Protester charges dropped » Dozens of pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel student protesters arrested at Columbia University in April had their criminal charges dropped Thursday.

The Manhattan district attorney's office decided not to prosecute 32 protesters, citing a lack of evidence and prosecutorial discretion.

The protesters had barricaded themselves inside a building on campus, leading to their arrests on trespassing charges.

Thirteen other protesters refused an offer that would’ve dismissed charges after six months as long as they don’t commit further offenses.

Sullivan meets w/Israeli military leaders » Two top Israeli leaders were in Washington Thursday with tension still running high between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the White House.

Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi joined U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to talk about the war in Gaza.

On the agenda, according to State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller:

MILLER: Our ongoing work to try to reach a cease-fire that will secure the release of all hostages, would surge humanitarian assistance.

U.S. leaders are still working to reschedule another high-level meeting on Israel’s security.

There have been differing stories from White House staffers about whether that meeting was first scrapped… because of a recent video in which Netanyahu slammed the Biden Administration for withholding weapons.

U.S Pier in Gaza unloading again » Humanitarian aid is once again flowing into Gaza from a temporary pier the U.S. military built.

Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder says the 230-million-dollar pier was re-anchored to the Gaza beach Wednesday.

The military had removed it last week because of rough seas.

RYDER: Overnight, the transfer of humanitarian assistance from Cyprus to Gaza resumed, with more than 656 metric tons, or 1.4 million pounds, being delivered to the marshaling yard in Gaza today.

Ryder says Israeli Defense Force engineers helped with the placement of the bridge, and there were no U.S. boots on the ground in Gaza.

But rough seas aren’t the only setbacks. Aid groups have called the pier a distraction to take pressure off Israel to open more border crossings into Gaza.

And the United Nations, which was supposed to use the pier to deliver aid through its World Food Program suspended its cooperation with the project earlier this month. The UN says it’s conducting a security review.

ERIC MORO: Yeah, it’s just we don’t know what’s going to happen with our home (voice breaks). And, um, my daughter was crying when we were packing stuff up. She thought we were leaving town. She thought we were never coming back.

New Mexico wildfires » A man in New Mexico describes the heartbreak of his family evacuating their home to get out of the path of a wildfire.

Two wildfires burning in that state have claimed at least two lives and destroyed at least 1400 buildings, a lot of them homes.

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham calls the larger of the two fires:

GRISHAM: One of the most devastating fires in New Mexico’s history.

Hundreds of firefighters are working to keep the flames from spreading further.

President Biden issued a disaster declaration Thursday to deliver more resources for recovery efforts.

I’m Mark Mellinger. 

Straight ahead: Social media and the surgeon general on Culture Friday. Plus, family movie night.

This is The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: It’s Friday, June 21st. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. Good morning. I’m Lindsay Mast.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. If you skipped straight to Culture Friday, I want to make sure you hear it: that today is the last day of the special dollar-for-dollar WORLD Mover match in our June Giving Drive. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to double your gift today at the Friday deadline, wng.org/donate.

MAST: Speaking of Friday. it’s Culture Friday. Joining us now is John Stonestreet. He's the President of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint Podcast. Good morning, John.

JOHN STONESTREET: Good morning.

BROWN: Well, John, let's start this morning's conversation with a list. How about this: unbuckled joyrides in your grandparents car until seatbelt laws change the rules?

MAST: Another example of laws altering behavior: cigarettes. The dramatic drop in smoking in the U.S. over the last 60 years is due in large part to warnings issued by the U.S. Surgeon General. This week, The New York Times published an op-ed from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, in which he is now calling for cigarette-style warning labels on social media for young people.

John, I have kids aged 10 to 18, so I've been in the thick of this battle for years. Pushback that I hear from other parents includes not wanting to disappoint their child by telling them no, thinking that withholding social media will make their child a social pariah, or parents enjoying a break while kids scroll.

So my question is, will parents listen to Dr Murthy, and are we asking the government to do something parents should have the guts to do themselves, or could this be another good tool in concerned parents’ belt?

STONESTREET: You know, I'm actually okay with this. The stories that you cited are evidence that sometimes there is a role for public information campaigns, for, you know, the state actually providing, you know, some assistance, rather than incentivizing, you know, wrong behaviors, and we certainly have that, in things like tax policies and and other things in other areas of life. So, you know, the government does, I think, have a role here when you have such a kind of culturally widespread problem. And this is one, there's no question about this. We have all the evidence we need that there is a direct correlation between the spiking mental health crisis, particularly among teenage girls, and social media use. We have all the evidence we need that this mental illness includes, you know, the deepest crisis of meaning and identity, and that it also extends to other generations as well. 

STONESTREET: Now, will this actually mean that parents will, you know, do their job? Can the government do the parents job? Absolutely not. The government can do what the government can do. And one of the great confusions of our age, both by the government and by politicos, is not knowing, you know, where those limits are, what the government can do and what it can't do. And you don't want to give it, you know, too much ground. It eats up enough ground on its own.

But, but, you know, listen, the first generation of parents with cigarette warnings probably didn't do enough either. The second generation did. The first generation of parents, you know, to Myrna's point of that, got the seat belts, or, you know, basically they were there in the car, and then there were these public service campaigns, and then it eventually bore fruit. I don't know if you guys, the other thing I was thinking of with your examples was the, you know, "this is your brain on drugs, any questions?" And then the "Now you know, and knowing is half the battle."

I mean, look, there have been various degrees of success with these public information campaigns, but we are at a place now where the evidence is so overwhelmingly clear and the support needs to happen, and parents need to realize, because there is that point, that point that parents got to on these other issues where it was like, Well, I don't care if my kid does complain, they're going in a car seat. I'd say right now the crisis is so great, let's do everything we can.

BROWN: Well, John, I know you have been following the 10+ year religious liberty battle Christian cake baker Jack Phillips has been fighting, even after a Supreme Court win in 2018, an attorney was back in Colorado pleading his case this week, arguing that Phillips should not be forced to custom design a cake celebrating a gender transition. As I said earlier, this has been going on for more than a decade, yet, when I mention the name Jack Phillips to, say, women in my Bible study group, or people in general at my church, they're not familiar with Jack Phillips or his story. And I wouldn't say these people have their heads under a rock either.

What do you make John of what might be a disconnect with the average American and stories like Jack Phillips?

STONESTREET: Well, it's a great question. I've experienced the same thing. I actually was at the courthouse this week, on Tuesday, which was the date of the hearing there at the Colorado Supreme Court. And you know, I tell you, it is amazing to think of just how long this has been going on for this man. I'd like to point everyone to a piece in WORLD Opinions by Kristen Waggoner, the CEO of ADF and General Counsel, because she writes a little bit about this. And we've known Jack for a lot of this journey, not the whole journey, but a lot of this journey.

And I think, to answer your question specifically, I think we're just not really used to these being real stories maybe, I think that, you know, there's still this sense that that kind of thing doesn't happen in America. People can't actually, you know, maybe they tuned out after the Supreme Court win and didn't realize that it was the same day that the Court agreed to hear that case, that this man in Denver, who is an attorney and presents as a woman, decided, literally, as he has been quoted, saying, "Change Jack's mind." And we just don't think that, really, that that kind of harassment would be allowed. And yet, here it is.

There's a lot of things that have just kind of been lost in terms of Christian discipleship that we need to bring back. I mean, I've talked about the theology of getting fired, that's one of them. So we need to know, we need to have talked about, we need to have drawn the lines so that when we're confronted with the same decision that Jack was, you know, over a decade ago, and then repeatedly since that, you know, we know the right decision to make, and we also know that loyalty to Christ at times, means a loss, a significant loss.

But you know, I want to say something while you have brought up Jack Phillips again here, and I'm glad you did, and I mean, one way is to continue to bring him up as a prayer request. He needs your continued prayer. But as I said, I've had the privilege—and I'm saying that directly—a privilege of knowing Jack throughout most of this. And I just want to say that I have seen in Jack an incredible joy. You know, Paul talks about this, the joy and suffering for the truth. "Count it all joy," you know, that sort of thing. And he is the best example that I know of that, I know personally, of someone who has gone from really being disoriented by the attack that was so intense and has been so intense on him for so long, to a place where he really sees the Lord working.

And Kristen told one of those stories with this amazing, you know, story we've all been following, of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, this new atheist coming to faith. And Jack played a role in that. I had no idea. No one had any idea. I talked to Jack about it on Tuesday, his face lit up. He has a joy of going through this trial. This is stuff that we haven't had up close and personal, but has been normal throughout the history of the church: the persecution and how God uses the challenge to refine his people. And God help us get that lesson, because that's what's going on.

MAST: John, last week, you talked about Fidelity Month and how it's calling people to reconsider the goodness of commitment to God, country and family. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it seems like The New York Times hasn't gotten that memo. Since May, they've covered a new novel called All Fours multiple times across their platforms.

Now I'll just say that this book sounds downright raunchy. There's no other word for it—and it's not a book we here at WORLD would review or recommend—but it seems women in our surrounding culture are reading it and talking about it. And now the Times says it's causing midlife women to reconsider marriage and family life. It used to be that regardless of faith, adultery really left a bad taste in people's mouth. So why this seeming push for women to consider and even normalize non-monogamy, or what's traditionally been called cheating?

STONESTREET: Oh, man, there's so much here. One is the bitter fruit of second and third wave feminism, when feminism was really hijacked by the sexual revolution. I mean, the fundamental lie was, you know, "Hey, women, men have screwed up the world. So here's what you should do: go act like them." I mean, it made no sense, but it was first sold in terms of premarital sexual behavior, and now we do see this increasingly like, leave your marriage if you're not happy, and, oh, cheat if you're not happy.

And you know, we've heard that kind of sexual libertine nonsense from men and kind of alpha male sort of masculinity for a while now, and it, you know, got joked about in 90s movies and sitcoms and now this has also become part of the the lie of of late feminism. And of course, we've seen on every level that these lies that promise women freedom, in the words of the brilliant Frederica Matthewes-Green, "only delivered abandonment," and that's really been the fruit of these lies. And of course, we've also seen that, you know, this push to secure women's place in our society has left us with men reappropriating those places in women. 

I mean, the whole thing is just upside down and backwards, and this is just another chapter of these mistakes of the sexual revolution. It is true. And I think there's obviously sometimes men behaving badly that's behind this, but the vast majority of divorces today are initiated by women. And if cheating goes along with that, then you know, that's kind of all part of this. There's this promise of happiness, there's this promise of self-fulfillment, there's this idea that the more you care about yourself, the happier you'll be.

Here's the thing that's never been true, but now we know, because to your point, if you really wanted to promote fidelity month to others, look up the wonderful work of Brad Wilcox right now and his stuff on the happiness factor. Listen, the happiest, most satisfied—and I mean intimately—people on the planet–and no other group comes close–are married, religious people. People that show fidelity to their God and to their spouses. In fact, the top group is married, church-going, middle-aged women who are the happiest and report being the most satisfied in their life, including in their intimate relationships.

Now that's the exact opposite message. And I did not look up this book. I did not Google this book that you mentioned. I did not know about it until you asked about it. So I'm just...but, but we've seen, we've seen versions of this in Huffington Post articles and Buzzfeed headlines, and I mean, this is you're seeing this increasing use of this narrative in a whole new level that now we're actually talking about infidelity. And I'm just telling you, it's never been true. It ain't true now, and we have the actual data thanks to folks like Brad Wilcox who have been looking at the happiness factor here.

BROWN: John Stonestreet is President of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint Podcast. Thanks, John.

STONESTREET: Thank you both.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Friday, June 21st. 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: a family movie night recommendation.

For that we turn back to a beloved Japanese animation from 1988. Here’s reviewer Chelsea Boes to talk about why her family loves My Neighbor Totoro.

CHELSEA BOES: Are you ready for a twelve-legged cat that is also a bus, giant benevolent rabbitlike spirit neighbors, and soot that comes to life? Even if you’re not, your kids probably are.

MUSIC: [Hey Let’s Go - Opening Theme Song - My Neighbor Totoro Soundtrack]

You might want to consider cueing up My Neighbor Totoro for family movie night.

My Neighbor Totoro comes from Studio Ghibli, the acclaimed Japanese animation film studio that consistently wins praise from critics and popular audiences alike. At first, Studio Ghibli films were an acquired taste for many Americans. But soon they gathered a cult following and influenced the work of the biggest U.S. animation studios.

My family loves this movie for its pure artistry. Every frame is frameable. The storybookish, hand-drawn film has a mythic quality. My Neighbor Totoro is the story of two young sisters—Satsuki and Mei—dubbed in English by real sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning. Satsuki and Mei move to the country with their father to be closer to their mom, who is in the hospital. The sisters deal with the scariness of moving into a new house and the fear of losing their mom. In true Studio Ghibli fashion, the film delivers a child’s perspective on adult problems.

SATSUKI: Dad! Something’s running around in here!

DAD: More squirrels?

SATSUKI: I don’t think so. They’re not bugs or mice either. They’re black and they’re all over the place!

We get the first hint that magic is afoot when the sisters encounter “soot gremlins” in their rickety new home.

DAD: Normally, you can’t see soot gremlins. But every once in a while if you go from a bright place to a dark one, you can catch a glimpse of them.

Christian parents might get nervous about the film’s inclusion of animistic and magical elements, and that’s a fair criticism. The movie is rated G, but the film depicts a family bathing together, which will seem odd to westerners. But with the right parental shepherding, My Neighbor Totoro can be good for kids. It offers a fascinating cultural experience of Japanese art. Though the film wrongly attributes to “luck” what we attribute to God, it also puts forth characters who embody virtue. Mei is little but brave. Satsuki is a responsible and protective big sister. Their neighbors love them well during a hard time in their lives.

One of those neighbors is big and strange and goes by the name Totoro.

While her big sister is at school, Mei sets out to play alone. But she spies tall ears coming through the grass–a rabbity creature that only kids can see. It dashes under a porch, but Mei pursues it. Mei is maybe a little too brave. Eventually, like Alice in Wonderland, she follows the creature down a hole and finds herself in an enchanted forest glade. There she meets a similar, fuzzy critter with a head five times bigger than her whole body.

MEI: Who are you? A great big soot gremlin?

TOTORO: (starts to sneeze)

MEI: Totoro? Is that what your name is, Totoro?

But is Totoro real, or just a dream?

SATSUKI: Maybe you were dreaming.

MEI: No, I saw Totoro!

Dad explains that Totoro might be a forest spirit. My Neighbor Totoro is like a fairy tale. And like most fairy tales, it’s populated by the religions of the place it comes from. Parents should evaluate whether their kids are ready for that–and prepare to talk about it with them. One good question to ask: What makes this film stick with people from different generations and different nations? Why do we identify with these characters–even though we don’t share their culture or beliefs?

My Neighbor Totoro tells a human story about little girls who miss their mom and depend on their neighbors.

SATSUKI: Mei! We just have to wait a little longer!

MEI: NO!

SATSUKI: You want her to die, Mei? Is that what you want?

MEI: NO!

SATSUKI: You’re such a baby. Just grow up!

Things turn dire when Mei runs away to the hospital and gets lost on the way.

At this point the viewer really is concerned that either Mom or Mei is not going to be okay. But though the movie deals with real trouble, it lands safely in a happy ending.

The story feels scary in the way children experience fright. It feels wonderful in the way children experience amazement. It reminds me of something C.S. Lewis said about children and stories. He rejected the idea that adults should protect kids from the knowledge that they are “born into a world of death, violence, wounds, adventure, heroism and cowardice, good and evil.” He said, “Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” We have heroism, sisterhood, and neighbor love in Mei and Satsuki. Without the high stakes, all that just wouldn’t shine through.

I’m Chelsea Boes.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, June 21st, 2024. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast. Up next, a review of a new book on climate change.

The nearly 450-page anthology features a dozen experts seeking to lower the temperature of the current debate. Together they help readers understand how the climate works and suggest a realistic path for better stewarding creation.

BROWN: Here’s WORLD Radio executive producer Paul Butler.

WOODSY: Give a hoot, don’t pollute…

PAUL BUTLER: As a child of the 70’s I grew up with Woodsy Owl. I was one of millions of young people in bell bottoms and T-shirts who readily embraced the battle against pollution with the conservation messages of: reduce, reuse, recycle.

But over the last 50 years, those messages have gone from personal responsibility to global alarmism, and in the process, conservation has been replaced with radical environmentalism.

PROTESTER: What do we want? Climate justice. When do we want it? Now!

Regnery Press has published a helpful new book: Climate and Energy, the Case for Realism edited by Cal Beisner and David Legates. It is a welcome invitation to reconsider the “sky is falling” claims of the modern climate change movement.

Cal Beisner is the founder, president, and chairman of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation.

BEISNER: You know, critical thinking is hard work. It really is. And people really need to learn a lot of facts and counter emotions with facts.

And the many experts featured in Climate and Energy certainly cram a lot of facts into this volume.

In the chapter on the history and politics of climate change, co-editor and climatologist David Legates, reports that the climate conflict emerges during the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment. It provides the backdrop for the clash between “conservationists” who wish to manage the earth’s resources and “preservationists” who say that nature must be protected from human threats. It doesn't take long for the “preservationists” to gain control of the movement. Leading to modern environmental activists like Greta Thunberg.

GRETA THUNBERG: You have stolen my dreams and my childhood…we are in the beginning of a mass extinction…

Today it’s almost impossible to have a reasoned conversation about the environment.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Today’s congress though is full of folks who stubbornly and automatically reject the scientific evidence of climate change…

BILL NYE: I’m just not clear on what’s going on with so aggressively denying science. It’s almost like they’re on the world is flat…

NEWS REPORT: Around the globe, populists including the new president of Brazil are attacking what they call the “myth of global warming…”

And for all the media and government appeals to “environmental and climate science” debates often turn on emotional arguments and fear, the kind where if something isn’t done immediately, the world as we know it is going to end.

That’s one of the things that makes Climate and Energy so refreshing. When you look at the list of contributors, they are all highly qualified academics and experts in their fields, and none of them can be called true climate deniers. They all acknowledge the climate is changing, but what they don’t buy into is that it is an emergency. They also don’t believe human activity is to blame for most of the changes. And they insist that change is a key part to climate science.

The 16 chapters cover a wide range of topics.

BEISNER: We have chapters on the role of the sun, the role of the oceans, the role of greenhouse gasses, the role of evaporation, precipitation and clouds. We have chapters on the effects of climate change, and on energy, all of these different things.

Each chapter begins with a summary in plain language and ends with a short conclusion. So even if readers get a little lost in some of the advanced math and technical terms in between, they can go back and re-read the chapter. Looking for what’s most important.

BEISNER: You just simply have to learn the hard facts. And the more you can do that, I think the better you can counter the emotional responses, but that's the way it is with most of life, isn't it?

At times the scientific language was a little intimidating, but it’s not used as a weapon to shut down investigation nor shout down skeptics. Rather it inspires deeper exploration. Every chapter is loaded with source citations and bibliographic information at the end. I felt empowered after reading every chapter.

Climate and Energy would be ideal for families preparing to send their kids to college. It will equip students with facts that are sure to come in handy—whether in class or conversation.

I also think this book would be a great gift for those interested in climate science. I think you could give it to anyone. It is not overtly Biblical or religious, but each author seems to have a high view of God’s design.

It’s not a textbook, though I could see a homeschool or Christian highschool using it as one. Nor is it a reference book that will collect dust on a shelf. It’s just approachable enough to make it feel like a valuable resource to turn to when countering the current climate change narratives.

A handful of the authors approach environmental and climate science from an old earth perspective, or at least reference sources that do, but the age of creation is not the point of any of the articles. No matter what your perspective on origins, you’ll find very helpful information about the world God has made.

King Solomon invites those who desire wisdom to “consider the ant.” Cal Beinser, David Legates, and the other authors invite us to consider the ocean, the sun, the atmosphere, the clouds, so that we will marvel at—and desire to protect—what God has made.

For WORLD, I’m Paul Butler.

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, Caleb Welde, Leah Savas, Mary Muncy, Daniel Darling, Carolina Lumetta, Onize Ohikere, Will Inboden, Amy Lewis, Cal Thomas, John Stonestreet, and Chelsea Boes.

And a new voice on the program this week: WORLD Opinions Commentator Delano Squires. 

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

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.

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Go now in grace and peace.

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