The World and Everything in It: June 26, 2026

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The politics of conflict, from New York to London.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Right, two similar movements, raising one big question: Does the West have the will to survive? Katie McCoy standing by for Culture Friday.

Also today: DC’s rebooted universe continues with a Supergirl who is nothing like Superman.

KARA: He sees the good in everyone. And I see the truth.

And Listener Feedback.

BROWN: It’s Friday, June 26th. 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!

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

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Iran / Strait of Hormuz » The UN has paused a rescue of ships trapped in the Strait of Hormuz — after one came under attack.

A Singapore-flagged cargo ship was hit off Oman Thursday. U.S. officials blame an Iranian drone — no one was hurt.

The UN's maritime agency then froze its plan to evacuate thousands of stranded sailors and ships until it can guarantee their safety.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking in Bahrain, drew a red line:

RUBIO: We see the continued flow of ships in this particular case, that, that lane is the one that's being used for this evacuation effort that's being led by the International Maritime Organization, and that must continue. And as long as it continues, they can have all the press conferences they want. If that stops, then we're gonna have a problem.

Just before the strike, Iran's Revolutionary Guard had warned ships off the rescue route — and several tankers turned back, others diverted.

The strait is a major artery for the world’s oil supply, and traffic had finally been climbing back toward prewar levels.

Iran allowing traffic to pass safely through the strait was a critical component of the framework peace deal with the US.

Mullin DHS testimony » On Capitol Hill:

AMODEI: We're gonna have a little visit with you, as is the tradition

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin faced tough questions from a House panel on Thursday.

Democrats lost no time in criticizing Mullin's leadership. In one heated exchange, Illinois congresswoman Lauren Underwood, questioned whether DHS is reporting deaths in detention centers.

UNDERWOOD: Will you commit to reporting detainee deaths as required by law?

MULLIN: We do report them, ma'am. No, I don't know. We report these. What you're talking about is what Congress has asked us to do, which we're not required to do is report the deaths after they're released, that doesn't make any sense.

Mullin also testified about what he said were more than 400,000 migrant children who made it across the U.S. southern border during the Biden administration. He said many of those children were ultimately sex trafficked in conditions he characterized as horrific.

MULLIN: As a father to six, and three beautiful girls, when you see this, there's evil in the world. There's evil in the world! And we fed it! The Biden administration fed it for four years!

The secretary also fielded questions about the security for the World Cup. He said so far there have been some threats … but no serious issues.

Earthquake aftermath » The United States is among the nations rushing aid to Venezuela after two devastating earthquakes.

The back-to-back quakes — magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 — struck near the Caribbean coast Wednesday evening, among the strongest in a century. At least 188 people are dead and more than 1,500 injured … with those numbers expected to climb.

Secretary of State Rubio says U.S. rescue teams are already on the way — and the Pentagon will play a big logistical role:

RUBIO: Because they have the ability to land in challenging places. Right now, the airport in Caracas is damaged. One of the runways is cracked — but the Department of War has the capability to land in situations like that.

Acting president Delcy Rodríguez on Thursday thanked the United States and others for the help.

RODRIGUEZ: [Speaking Spanish]

Relations between Washington and Caracas have warmed since the ouster of deposed dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Supreme Court decisions » The U.S. Supreme Court is in its home stretch, handing down decisions in significant cases, with four more yesterday. WORLD’s Harrison Watters reports from Washington.

HARRISON WATTERS: In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled the judiciary cannot block the Department of Homeland Security from ending temporary protected status, or TPS, for immigration from “unsafe” countries. Earlier this year, the Trump administration moved to end TPS for immigrants from Haiti and Syria. The court’s ruling allows that policy to stand, requiring immigrants to apply for asylum or leave the country.

In another 6-3 ruling, the court decided that immigration law does not require the U.S. to process asylum requests from people who have not yet entered the United States from Mexico.

Other opinions struck down restrictions on concealed guns in Hawaii and ruled a cancer patient could not sue an herbicide company for failing to warn about risks.

The court returns on Monday, with eight decisions still to come in cases ranging from presidential authority to women’s sports.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Harrison Watters in Washington.

Economy expands » The U.S. economy is on steadier footing than expected. The government now says it grew at a solid 2.1% pace in the first three months of the year — better than its earlier estimate.

But your wallet may not feel it just yet. A closely watched inflation gauge just hit a three-year high, driven mostly by the price of gas. Gas prices recently pushed north of $4 per gallon nationally.

But the Trump administration says costs should ease now that the fighting has stopped. And there's early evidence: gas and energy prices have already started falling, though they’re not expected to return to pre-war levels quickly.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead, Katie McCoy joins us for Culture Friday. And later, your listener feedback for the month of June.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Friday, the 26th of June. Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It.

Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. It’s Culture Friday.

Joining us now is author, speaker, and co-host of WORLD Watch’s Reality Check, Katie McCoy.

Good to see you, Katie.

KATIE MCCOY: Good to see you guys.

EICHER: Well, Katie, on Tuesday we saw something really remarkable in the New York primary results. Socialists in New York were not defeating moderates. They were defeating progressives.

Even the very partisan Democrat leader in the U.S. House, Hakeem Jeffries, who is from New York, was criticized by the socialists there as too soft.

Now, at the same time, a Muslim writer for The Free Press has a fascinating essay arguing that among some younger American Muslims, political identity is increasingly being shaped less by traditional religious practice and more by a broader anti-Western worldview.

Do you see a connection there? Is what we’re seeing in New York evidence that the center of gravity on the left is moving away from the Western tradition itself—and toward a politics built around oppression, victimhood, and resistance?

MCCOY: You know, Nick, it would help explain why so many far-left Americans are identifying in solidarity with a religion that is antithetical, and even hostile, to pretty much everything that they believe.

What this Free Press author did was identify what he called “third worldism“—that the Muslim identity of people like Mayor Mamdani is more of an emblem of resistance to Westernism and whiteness.

Think about that. We saw that at work in Ivy League institutions in the last couple of years.

So when I step back and look at why these two seemingly disparate worldviews are so in lockstep in American culture today, I think Islam and the militant left have some common denominators at work.

First, they both despise the West and want to dismantle the ideas, the values, and the institutions that created it. And that’s even more than a specific religion like Christianity or the family structure, although it certainly includes that.

But there’s another thing, too. Both of these worldviews rest on a foundation of conflict. They both need conflict to exist.

Certainly the religion of Islam is all about conflict. World peace is defined as global caliphate, meaning global Muslim domination—the global domination of Islam and the subjugation of every other worldview and every other people.

And then the militant far left also rests on conflict.

You have the Marxian dialectic that came from Marx and Engels, and later was propagated culturally by Lenin, that says family structures, private property, capitalism—all of these things—need to be dismantled.

And in both worldviews you see a pursuit of cultural replacement.

These things are working hand in hand right now because they have a common enemy, and that common enemy is the West.

But I have to tell you, too, Nick, we’ve got to give Mamdani his props. Right? He’s incredibly charismatic and charming. And you kind of have to be to sell one of the worst ideas in human history—one that has precipitated and been the on-ramp for some of the greatest atrocities in the 20th century.

Because these candidates in New York are not socialists. I refuse to call them socialists. They are communists.

When you hear what they talk about, they’re discussing LGBTQ advocacy that dismantles gender, sex, family, and what we can know from nature. They talk about freeing Palestine. You don’t have to be an apologist for the state of Israel to recognize the ideology behind that statement.

Again, what you see is they are amplifying this message of cultural dismantling of the West and replacing it with a completely new moral order.

This is not just the infiltration of socialism. They can call themselves whatever they want. This is communism.

So with the ideological Marxism that’s rising on the American left, and the promotion of this kind of third-worldism, anti-Western thought, these two things are in lockstep together—for now.

Soon, one of them is going to turn on the other.

BROWN: Well, Katie, let’s stay in New York just a little longer. Sometimes a picture tells the whole story.

A former Israeli hostage stood before a U.N. official and said, “I am the living proof of sexual violence by Hamas. Look at me. Will you apologize?“

And the official almost smugly sits there in silence.

Katie, this seems to me bigger than one U.N. bureaucrat. It feels like a moral failure of an entire international system that found its voice for almost every victim except these Jewish women.

What struck you about that moment?

MCCOY: Yeah, so a little background here.

Welcome to the upside-down world of the United Nations, where you have a so-called expert on violence against women. Her name is Reem Al-Salem, and she produced a report on the state of gender violence worldwide, and she left out the sexual violence against Jewish women on October 7 and thereafter.

It just didn’t make the report.

She also conveniently happened to leave out the sexual violence and torture of Iranian nurses who helped dissidents in Iran earlier this year when they were rising up against their government.

Not only did Iran punish the people who were trying to overthrow the government, but they punished the people who helped them.

It is absolutely horrific—not only the crimes, but then the international gaslighting—to leave them out and fail to advocate for them.

You know, this is what we’re seeing on that far militant left. It’s the same thing at work.

Because when you don’t have universal principles, when you have a truly secular state—a secular organization like the United Nations, I think we can safely say they are—you have no transcendent principles to hook ideas onto, like universal human dignity.

So all you have left are demographic categories.

This young Israeli woman showed pure courage. She looked this woman in the eye and asked for an apology.

At the end, you could almost see her trembling—just the courage that this took.

But this is part of what common-sense conservatism is up against, frankly. The United Nations, the European Union, our education system, the upper echelon of Ivy League institutions—they’re all slanted in one way.

So the United Nations Human Rights Council... I mean, it shouldn’t surprise us. This is the same body that added Iran to a committee to make human-rights policy. That’s not a joke.

But they really are making a mockery of human rights.

And the reason for that is that, apart from the foundations—specifically of Christianity in the West—you have no foundation for universal human rights.

EICHER: Katie, let’s move from New York overseas to London, to the U.K., because there’s quite a lot going on with Islam and the West.

The clash there: quite a few things, from a near beheading to a young kid being stabbed to death to grooming gangs.

And we really don’t have the language to discuss politely what has happened over there.

I’ll simply say that as I listened to a member of Parliament reading testimony from a 200-page official report, I was struck by the cadence of the way the report was put together—the way he told the stories.

He would describe an atrocity in fairly neutral terms. Then another. Then another, followed by more neutrally described atrocities. Another, another, and on and on for several minutes.

He concluded he could go on all day.

It’s just devastating when you listen to him.

And it pushes you to one of two ideas: either Britain doesn’t have what it takes to fight this, or perhaps it does, and Rupert Lowe—that member of Parliament—represents a flicker of resolve.

What do you think about that?

Will Europe remain the West, or do you think of it as conquered territory?

MCCOY: Oh, I hope it’s not conquered territory.

We’re seeing people in Britain rise up in protest against their government—in some cases, riots.

What’s fascinating, too, is you juxtapose that with some of the headlines in major news outlets here in America.

They’re called racially charged, or hatred. There are riots fueled by hatred.

There’s a couple of stories with these grooming gangs, and fair warning to anybody who would read about them: it is enraging.

And it should be.

This is a civilizational clash with a religion that is married to a political ideology.

And this religion—Islam, not Muslims, I’m saying Islam—is fundamentally incompatible with religious pluralism and the West.

But, Nick, I actually think that is only the secondary story here.

I think the outrage rests in the institutional failure of a government to fulfill its basic social contract with its own people.

Men in British communities were drugging, trafficking, and raping young girls.

Law enforcement was punishing whistleblowers, blaming the victims, and calling them child prostitutes who made bad lifestyle choices.

They did this because they were afraid of being racist.

Keep in mind, this happened under multiple governments.

This was not a new thing. This goes back decades.

That tells you these rings evolved. They became more prevalent and more sophisticated because they knew they would get away with it.

So what does this tell us?

It tells us that in the pyramid of victimhood, ethnicity is weighted more heavily than gender.

It reminds me of the verse in Proverbs that says, “A false balance is an abomination to the Lord.“

The principle there is two different types of so-called justice—two different standards.

And it’s also why, just this week, Ayaan Hirsi Ali said there is no alternative to what Christian Western civilization has built.

These stories are genuinely alarming.

There, but for the grace of God—and a few amendments—go we.

Speaking out against them is only part of what we have to do to keep ourselves from becoming like Europe.

What gave rise to this was their secularization.

It was moving away from the influence of Christianity, to say nothing of the prevalence of Christians in public office in their country.

Yes, we need to confront ideas.

Yes, we need to combat threats.

But that’s not enough.

We have to recover a moral framework that comes from the Christian faith shaping a culture’s laws and ethics.

That is our task if we are going to pass on to the next generation a secure America.

BROWN: Author, speaker, and co-host of WORLD Watch’s Reality Check, Katie McCoy. Thank you, Katie.

MCCOY: Thanks for having me.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, June 26th. 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: A new twist on a classic superhero.

Warner Bros.’ DC Studios releases Supergirl this weekend, introducing audiences to Superman’s edgy cousin.

WORLD’s arts and culture editor Collin Garbarino now with his thoughts.

COLLIN GARBARINO: Supergirl is the followup to last summer’s Superman and the second installment in DC Studios’ recently rebooted DC Universe.

British actress Milly Alcock plays Supergirl, who goes by the name Kara Zor-el. She might be Superman’s cousin, but she didn’t have the luxury of growing up with a loving family in Kansas. This Kryptonian carries a world of sorrows.

CLARK: I’m worried you’re not going to find your people.

KARA: Yeah, well that’s the thing, Clark. I have no people.

The film opens with Kara celebrating her 23rd birthday getting drunk in a bar on an alien planet. She’s started hanging out on planets with red suns, which sap her of her super powers. She’s running from the responsibility that being Supergirl requires. Maybe she just wants to live a normal life, one that allows her to feel physical pain.

KARA: Oh, that might be a problem.

But in the midst of Kara’s intergalactic pub crawl, she meets a young girl named Ruthye. Ruthye’s parents were killed by the leader of a gang called the Brigands. And she believes that with Kara’s help, she can get revenge. Initially, Kara has no interest in getting involved in someone else’s quarrel, but circumstances drag her into Ruthye’s quest for vengeance.

KARA: Revenge. It won’t take your pain away.

This story might sound familiar to some listeners. Supergirl is based on the comic book series Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow… Which in turn was inspired by Charles Portis’ classic True Grit and its film adaptations. Ruthye serves as the indomitable Mattie Ross, and Supergirl is her grizzled Rooster Cogburn. It might sound strange to restage True Grit in outer space with a twenty-something blonde girl filling the role made famous by John Wayne. But the overall story arc was satisfying.

The journey with Ruthye changes Kara. She goes from being hopeless and self-absorbed to embracing the responsibility required of someone with enormous powers. However, she’s still going to have more of an edge than her more famous cousin.

KARA: He sees the good in everyone. And I see the truth.

Supergirl also introduces the alien bounty hunter Lobo, played by Jason Momoa. Momoa used to play Aquaman in the previous incarnation of the DC franchise. He seems to be having fun with this new character, chewing the scenery as he chomps a cigar. He represents power unhinged from moral responsibility. The kind of person Kara might have developed into if she hadn’t met Ruthye.

LOBO: I’m looking for a Brigand. Goes by the name of Drom Baxton.

In the last few months, Milly Alcock has caused some consternation among fans who have cringed at some of her public statements. But the movie isn’t burdened with a left-wing agenda like many feared. Alcock brings an appealing rock-n-roll vibe to the character. And the film turns out to be a straightforward space-cowboy adventure. At only an hour and 47 minutes, it doesn’t contain the typical bloat and setup you get with most comic book movies. It manages to seamlessly tell Kara’s origin story without getting bogged down.

I was also impressed by how the film handled the perennial problems associated with such a powerful central character. It’s difficult for a story to build meaningful conflict when its protagonist possesses a list of abilities that make her almost invincible. This script puts her in numerous situations in which either her powers fail her or she can’t use them effectively. In this film that explores the galaxy’s gritty underbelly, Kara won’t be able to save everyone.

KARA: You cannot give up on me.

But I’m sad to say this isn’t a top-tier superhero movie.

James Gunn, who directed Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movies, is currently serving as the head of DC Studios. And while he didn’t direct this movie, his fingerprints are all over it. The visuals of DC’s alien worlds look remarkably like those featured in Gunn’s Guardians movies. The dialogue aims for that snappy irony in Gunn’s films. And each big moment begins with a pop-music needle drop. Another of Gunn’s signature moves. The best superhero movies all have memorable scores. No such-thing here. These kinds of tricks are getting a little stale. Another disappointment: the action sequences. I’m guessing Alcock wasn’t hired for her physicality because the camera often pans away during her fight scenes.

KARA: OK. This does not look like this is going to end well… For you guys. I mean, anyone want to leave?

Superhero movies tend to embody our God-given desire to see justice roll down, and this movie is no exception. We even get—what’s also become commonplace in superhero movies—the hero’s metaphorical resurrection before exacting justice. Despite its problems, I was more or less satisfied with how Supergirl turned out. However, superhero fatigue is real, so Supergirl might struggle to find an audience. But if you think a mashup of True Grit and Guardians of the Galaxy sounds appealing, this might be the movie for you.

I’m Collin Garbarino.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Next up: Doubletake is back with a new season. We’ve got some terrific episodes coming up this summer. You won’t want to miss any of them. We’re starting tomorrow with a story from WORLD’s Kim Henderson.

NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s about a young reporter at a conservative website in Alabama called 1819 News. One day in 2023 Craig Monger was sitting at home when he got a tip. It came with two photos. One was of a Baptist pastor who was also the mayor of a town called Smiths Station. Bubba Copeland. The other was of a man in women’s clothing. Monger’s boss told him,

MONGER: We're being told this is the same person. We need you to find it out.

BROWN: Monger’s story on 1819 News prompted a round of pearl-clutching from the high priests of journalism. Sent shockwaves through a community. And ended with gut-wrenching consequences. Doubletake host Les Sillars now for a brief preview.

SILLARS: Can you tell us briefly what the Bubba Copeland story is for our audience who hasn't heard of it before.

HENDERSON: It's really the story of someone leading a double life and the consequences of that for not only him, but everyone around him. It’s also the story of a news organization, and one reporter in particular, as they grappled with what would happen once the story became public. They knew there would be fallout, and there was.

SILLARS: What did you think of Craig, and how he handled himself?

HENDERSON: Craig's a very grounded guy, and I believe he was the right reporter for this story. I think listeners will understand what I mean by that as they get to know him in the episode. He reported what he discovered, understanding it would be controversial. But the backlash was severe, and, of course, he was grieved over some things that happened.

HENDERSON: Really, the whole organization felt the weight of this story. But if they hadn't published it, who would have? Somebody had to take it on. I've thought about that a lot, and I keep coming back to the fact that reporters play a vital role in holding people and institutions accountable. That's an important part of this story, and it shouldn't be overlooked.

SILLARS: Well, you did a terrific job on this story, Kim. It's an incredibly compelling piece about a very, very sad situation. So, thanks for your work on this, and I think people are really going to enjoy the story.

HENDERSON: I hope so, Les. Thank you so much.

MYRNA: Season four of Doubletake starts tomorrow. Right here on The World and Everything In It.

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.

A clarification for a story we ran yesterday on forever chemicals: we said that Teflon, a synthetic chemical used in nonstick cookware, is “highly toxic.” Teflon is generally considered safe under normal cooking temperatures, but can be harmful when overheated.

BROWN: Alright, and now it’s time for Listener Feedback for the month of June.

Matt Brown listens in southern Arizona and he found the conversation with retired Lt. Col. Mike Nelson on June 16th helpful. We discussed the memorandum of understanding with Iran.

BROWN: I think the way he articulates issues regarding the conflict with Iran are spot on, and I think he frames this conversation and this perspective in a way that really does give us pause and reason to pray and not to have unrealistic expectations.

EICHER: Others wrote to say they disagreed with Nelson and found themselves more in line with Clifford May at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

BROWN : Anjinette Piland from Northeast Ohio had some thoughts on a metaphor John Stonestreet used during Culture Friday three weeks ago.

ANJINETTE PILAND When he was explaining politics' place in today's American culture as being a table with very wobbly legs, I just found that idea to be right, hitting the nail right on the head. It reminded me of an idea that Carl Trueman has written about, that in a secular world where God is eliminated or ignored, people begin to prop up themselves as the ultimate authority on morals and thus treating themselves as God. So it seems to me that this wobbly table that John Stonestreet was talking about, this wobbly table of politics being king in our American culture, is just another attempt to create some moral compass or a god to rule those who have decided to reject the true God.

EICHER: Adam Hines from Dallas, got in touch with us about Culture Friday two weeks ago. We discussed a social media influencer and his wife who aborted their baby, who’d been diagnosed with Down syndrome.

ADAM HINES: This is a heartbreaking and unfortunately an all too often occurrence, as was addressed. My brother-in-law had Down syndrome and passed away suddenly one year ago at the age of 44. We cannot put into words fully what a gift he was. His joy of life and love for others quickly brings us to focus of what is actually important. I often think of Hebrews 13:1-2 when thinking about our relationship with kids with Down syndrome. I think most people tend to treat them as strangers to this world. It says, “let brotherly love continue, do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unaware.” Thank you, guys, for your excellent reporting.

BROWN: Leta Powell from New Mexico phoned in this comment:

POWELL: I am calling regarding Seth Troutt’s piece on June 18th before Fathers Day. I thought it was a great piece. It reminded me of how important our fathers are. I sent the piece to all my kids as an encouragement to them.

Pattie Hall from New Hampshire was encouraged by Janie B. Cheaney’s commentary about adult care-giving.

PATTIE HALL:. I've worked as a nurse for nearly 20 years, and my last two jobs were in home hospice and as a private duty caregiver. I am so thankful that many Christians are beginning to give end of life issues as much attention and thought as we have given pre-born life for the past 50 years. I want to thank Mrs. Cheaney for discussing this hard topic and for encouraging all of us to reframe our thoughts about what a burden is, and how we are to approach our burdens as we strive to follow Christ more closely. I have seen so much dignity given to both the person who is dependent or a burden, as well as those providing care for that dependent person, and it breaks my heart that our society has decided death is a better option. I want to thank all of you for your tireless work to bring us opinions like this that challenge us to walk more closely with our Savior.

EICHER: Janie’s commentary the 17th on fixing our own food at home brought a good natured reply from a blind listener who described his own culinary skill as, his words, “terrible.” And then insisted we not be so hard on people like him who can only heat up the frozen chosen in the microwave. Oh, and enjoy food that friends bring over.

BROWN: And that’s Listener Feedback for the month of June.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Well now it’s time to name the crew who helped out with this week’s programs:

Jenny Rough, David Bahnsen, Mary Muncy, Joe Rigney, Lauren Smyth, Mary Reichard, Bekah Bernhardt, Hunter Baker, Cal Thomas, Daniel Darling, Collin Garbarino, Katie McCoy, and Josh Goniea.

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

And thanks to the guys who are up late so your program is ready early: Tech producers Benj Eicher, Carl Peetz, and Johnny Franklin.

Harrison Watters is Washington producer, Kristen Flavin is features editor, Emma Eicher is assistant producer, Lindsay Mast is producer, and 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.

The Bible says, “ I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive. For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.”—Romans 16:17-20

Sunday's coming! Get to a Bible-believing church and let the word of Christ dwell in you richly. And don't forget: sing psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs.

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

Go now in grace and peace.

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