The World and Everything in It: March 20, 2026

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

The legacy of a false prophet of population doom. Also: dealing with the aftermath of DIY abortion—and a poll asking, can you be good without God?

NICK EICHER, HOST: Katie McCoy will be along shortly for Culture Friday.

Also today: A new sci-fi adventure film that feels like Hollywood at its best.

AUDIO: I am not an astronaut. If you don’t go, you die.

A review of Project Hail Mary from Joseph Holmes.

And later: RFK Junior’s plan for tackling America’s mental-health crisis.

BROWN: It’s Friday, March 20th. 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 update / Pentagon $200b request » Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters in Jerusalem that Iran’s nuclear program and ballistic missile production have been devastated.

NETANYAHU: [Speaking Hebrew]

He said Iran can no longer make new ballistic missiles, and it can no longer refine uranium.

The prime minister delivered a portion of his remarks in English, explaining the goal:

NETANYAHU: Removing both of these threats before they're buried deep underground and become immune from aerial attack.

The UN’s nuclear watchdog has yet to confirm his claim on uranium enrichment.

He also addressed claims by some that Israel coerced the United States into launching military strikes against Iran.

NETANYAHU:  Does anyone really think that someone can tell President Trump what to do? Come on. President Trump always makes his decisions on what he thinks is good for America.

Netanyahu also said Israel's military won't strike any more Iranian oil and gas infrastructure per President Trump's request. This comes after Wednesday's strike on the South Pars field.

Hegseth remarks » Hours earlier, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said he’ll be seeking more funds from Congress for the war in Iran, even as the administration says it likely won’t last much longer.

HEGSETH:  It takes money to kill bad guys. So we we're going back to Congress and our folks there to, to ensure that we're properly funded.

Hegseth said the mission is to eliminate grave threats in Iran and then leave. No nation building or quagmires as with some wars of years past.

Trump and Japanese PM » President Trump on Thursday hosted a special guest at the White House yesterday. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

A major topic of discussion, the ongoing conflict with Iran. Speaking through an interpreter, the Japanese prime minister agreed that Iran is a potential threat.

INTERPRETER: Japan condemns Iran's actions, such as attacking the neighboring region, and also the de facto or effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump pressed the prime minister to get Japan to commit to assist the U.S. in securing the Strait of Hormuz. The president pointing out that 90 percent of Japan's oil flows through the strait:

TRUMP: Look I expect Japan to step up because you know we have that kind of relationship. And we step up for Japan. We have 45,000 soldiers in Japan. We spend a lot of money on Japan.

Some awkward moments. A reporter asked the president why he didn't give Japan and other U.S. allies prior notice before Operation Epic Fury began. In response, Trump referenced a darker chapter in U.S.-Japan relations.

TRUMP: We didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan, okay? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor, okay, right?

The December 7th, 1941 Japanese bombing of the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii killed more than 2,300 Americans.

Mullin's nomination advances » Senator Markwayne Mullin is a step closer to becoming the next Homeland Security secretary. The Senate Homeland Security Committee advanced his nomination on Thursday.

AUDIO:  On this vote, the yays are eight, the nays are seven, and the motion to report the nominee is agreed to.

That will now go to a full vote on the Senate floor, possibly next week.

Democratic Sen. Gary Peters argued:

PETERS:  The department and the American people deserve a leader who is steady and proven under pressure, not just someone better than the very low bar set by his predecessor.

But GOP Senator James Lankford says Mullin is exactly the kind of leader the department needs.

LANKFORD:  If you wanna sit down and talk about an issue, he's glad to be able to talk about it and to be able to work it out and has very good relationships in the house and in the Senate.

President Trump removed Kristi Noem as DHS chief roughly two weeks ago.

The nomination vote comes as DHS is still operating under a funding lapse now more than a month old.

Federal probe of states that require ins cover abortions » The Office for Civil Rights at the Health and Human Services Department is opening investigations into 13 states for allegedly coercing health care entities to pay for abortions. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin reports.

KRISTEN FLAVIN: Federal investigators say laws that require insurance plans to cover abortion may violate the Weldon Amendment. That provision bars states from discriminating against health care providers that decline to cover, pay for, or refer for abortions.

Investigators say the states have effectively coerced health care entities into funding abortion coverage against their beliefs.

The Biden administration had asserted that the Weldon Amendment did not apply to employers or insurance sponsors. But the Trump administration reversed that.

Each of those 13 states has 20 days to respond.

All of the states in question have Democratic governors, except for Vermont.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

Jobless claims drop » New applications for U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week to 205,000. That was better than analysts expected and near historically low levels. The Labor Department reported Thursday that claims dropped 8,000 from the previous week, below the 215,000 analysts had forecast.

The healthy weekly figures contrast with February's weaker monthly jobs report.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday left interest rates unchanged, citing deep uncertainty over the war's economic impact, though Chairman Jerome Powell said the US economy is strong.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: Katie McCoy is here for Culture Friday. Plus, treating mental illness holistically.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Friday, March 20th. 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.

Author and speaker Katie McCoy joins us today—and we can add a new line to the bio now: author, speaker, and co-host with Jonathan Morrow of Reality Check, an exciting pilot feature of WORLD Watch—our video news program for students.

Katie, good morning.

KATIE MCCOY: Good morning, Nick and Myrna. How about that? That was so fun to do.

EICHER: 

And congratulations, by the way.

The show looks really good.

Just this week, on Wednesday, Reality Check made its debut. We’ve got a 10-episode pilot season … so it’ll go each week for those 10 episodes. It’s a short—not even five minute—feature Wednesdays on WORLD Watch. The idea is it pauses a cultural argument, and poses a simple question: what are the worldview ideas driving it—with the aim of helping students see what assumptions are really shaping the debate.

This has been a long time coming, but it’s something else to finally see it on the screen. So what was it like for you seeing the finished product?

MCCOY: It was so fun to go from speaking into a teleprompter to seeing the full produced version. The creativity of the whole WORLD Watch team is phenomenal. They took all these concepts and packaged them in a way that is engaging and informative.

Please make sure your listeners know we want to hear from them—what they think about it and what we can do to improve. This is a work in progress, but we’re really excited about it.

EICHER: Well, we’re excited about it too.

And I’ll say to the listener … if you’re not a WORLD Watch subscriber yet, you can try it free for 30 days at worldwatch-dot-news. That won’t get you all 10 weeks of Reality Check … but I think after a month, WORLD Watch will be indispensable for any home with young students in it. Check it out, worldwatch-dot-news. Free preview on the house if you’ve never tried it before.

BROWN: Yeah, I wholeheartedly agree. And Katie, you know, I’ve been on that side of the camera. It ain’t easy. You made it look easy.

MCCOY: Oh, thank you.

BROWN: Yes, well, let’s talk. Let’s begin with Paul Ehrlich. He’s the best selling author. Died at 93 a week ago, but lived long enough to see populations around the world decline thanks to sowing seeds of unfounded concern about population overwhelm. So how do you think, Katie, he will be remembered or regarded in history? What do you think?

MCCOY: There’s a few things happening at play. Dr. Mohler had a great piece on WORLD Opinions about this, about how he was effectively a false prophet. He said that this was going to be mass starvation back in the ’80s and ’90s and this gloom and doom.

But really what he did was give this ecological philosophical excuse to a lot of issues that we’re seeing be front and center today. For instance, when you look at some very pro-abortion progressive arguments, you’re going to see a connection between climate change, food insecurity, and abortion.

Some of these groups say things like “reproductive justice is climate justice,” that you have to have abortion in order to have a healthy and balanced planet.

The logic goes we need to eliminate unwanted births, unwanted pregnancies, and certainly “forced pregnancies.”

This isn’t just fringe corners of the internet either. This was on a website for the School of the Environment at Yale University, and they were talking about how we need to reduce the population so that we can retain our human rights and liberties. The way to do that is to prevent unwanted births.

There’s another element to this too—the psychological element. You may remember former Vice President Kamala Harris talking about how young Americans are suffering from climate anxiety.

Gen Z is reluctant to have children because they don’t even know if they’re going to have a planet in ten years. Why would they want to bring children into the world?

One study found that over one-third of Gen Z was less likely to have children because of climate change.

So these issues are trickling down to major sociological developments, and here we are. We’ve been talking for about twenty years now how in the West there is what we call demographic winter.

One more thing about this. You’ll find another correlation between some of the things that we’ve talked about on this show related to critical theory and majority culture.

Some of these climate activists and population-control advocates make the argument that someone who is born into a third-world country produces exponentially less carbon emission than someone born in a wealthy country—by wealthy, read the West.

So someone who is born in America or Europe, by the time you have a baby, well, that baby is producing all kinds of greenhouse gas. But third-world countries—totally different story.

And so really fascinating to see this intersection—this convergence—of different cultural and political values that are brought to the surface by this man’s theories.

EICHER: Let me turn to something we saw last week involving Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri.

He’s introduced a bill called the Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act. The bill would bypass the federal Food and Drug Administration to effectively issue a nationwide ban on the abortion pill Mifepristone by stripping the drug of its FDA approval.

About a week ago, he put on a press conference, and stood with several women who described serious complications after taking the abortion pill.

What struck me was how different their stories were—one of them a woman who took the pill but changed her mind, and got a reversal that saved her child. The woman is Rebekah Hagan, now a pro-life activist. But even as I say the stories were different, there was a very similar pattern. Listen to Ms. Hagan:

HAGAN: Reminded that I was running out of time, that the window for having a chemical abortion was quickly closing. I swallowed the abortion pill in front of a nurse, signed some paperwork, and was sent on my way with a little brown bag of abortion drugs … to take soon after. The only medical guidance I received, and I still remember her exact words to this day were, “once you start this, Rebecca, there will be no going back. Expect bleeding, expect cramping, take your pain medication, rest, and call us if you pass blood clots larger than the size of a lemon.” … What I didn't understand was that I had just been sent home with instructions to literally send myself into labor. No one talked about the complications, what I might feel, what I might see, and no one talked about my baby.

Just like this, woman after woman described being given the pills, sent home, and largely left to deal with the consequences on her own.

We know all Democrats are opposed to Hawley here, but so are some Republicans. There are some anonymous White House staff dishing to the press how mad they are about Hawley’s move here but is that a reason not to move ahead?

MCCOY: Thank the Lord for Senator Josh Hawley. He is taking up the mantle of advocating for preborn Americans.

Let me juxtapose it with this, Nick. The Trump administration so far has been out to lunch on abortion. They have utterly failed their pro-life constituents who were looking to them to continue a lot of the advances made in the first Trump administration—namely this issue of mifepristone.

By the way, the vast majority of abortions now are chemical. They happen in a woman’s apartment, her home, her bathroom—completely apart from medical care.

Our friends at the Ethics and Public Policy Center have uncovered that about one in ten or one in eleven women have a serious and urgent health complication because of these drugs.

But our current FDA and Department of Health and Human Services have done nothing to rein in the Biden-era liberties with which mifepristone was disseminated.

You can get it by telehealth. You don’t even have to see a doctor, and you can get it in your mailbox.

Just this week the Trump administration continued trying to fight GOP states and their efforts to rein in mifepristone—to reinstate some of the restrictions that were in place before Biden.

Those restrictions related to telehealth, requiring a doctor’s visit, or requiring the pills to be dispensed in a medical facility.

But it gets worse. They’ve talked about continuing to study or move toward approval of a generic mifepristone.

If they want to hide behind legal process, I say that’s not convincing. If the government can change the food pyramid or vaccine schedules, it can deal with a drug harming one in ten women.

But they won’t.

The word for that is midterms. Midterms.

We are seeing this administration play the political game like so many have before when it comes to abortion.

Every believer needs to make their voice known. We may be grateful for many things an administration does that align with our values and a biblically shaped worldview.

But on abortion this administration has failed, continues to fail, and has given no indication it intends to do anything but fail.

BROWN: I want to end talking about another Pew Research Study that reveals about seven out of 10 Americans now believe that belief in God is not essential to being moral or holding good values. Pew started asking this question back in 2002, as I understand it. “Is it necessary to believe in God in order to have good values and morals?” And the number who said no, 68% which is the highest that it’s ever been.

MCCOY: Yeah, so first, let’s talk about what that Pew Research poll reveals. The idea of, can you just be a good, moral person and not believe in God at all? It’s incoherent. The whole premise of it is completely incoherent. Let’s look at why.

If there is no God, then the only worldview to explain the universe and the existence of you, me, and every other person on this planet is naturalism, meaning that the world evolved from purely material sources.

You may recall Nietzsche’s philosophy was all about power, and this goes with Darwinian naturalism and materialism perfectly, because the only thing that exists is power.

Well, if you have a world where the only thing that exists is power, then there is no right and wrong.

In fact, this is why Nietzsche hated Christianity, because he said Christianity did things like valorize humility. Well, in a world of everything is power, you don’t need humility. Humility is something that gets in the way of you exercising your power.

So the very values that people say they believe and would value—like kindness, like hospitality to strangers, like equality—you don’t get those things without there being a transcendent being to whom you can lock those ideas into.

So the idea that you can have a naturalistic, materialistic world and just evolve into morals—it is utterly incoherent. It simply doesn’t work.

And then, as we’ve talked about before on this show, the values that we value, the values that we espouse and prize in our culture, are linked all the way back to the influence of Christianity in Western society.

But if anybody watched the Oscars, you might have seen that the Best Actress award went to Jessie Buckley for Hamnet and the Best Actor award went to Michael B. Jordan for Sinners.

Fascinating little tidbit: both of those movies—and they won other awards—but both of those movies feature some sort of pagan spirituality, some sort of valorizing witchcraft, the occult.

In Hamnet she is a forest witch who can do incantations and see the future.

In Sinners there’s this protagonist who practices hoodoo, which is African ancestor worship and folk magic.

And Christianity, generally speaking, is portrayed as oppressive, whereas pagan spirituality is portrayed as a means to spiritual freedom.

And so we’re seeing these ideas play out not only in broader culture that you might find with a poll like Pew Research, but even in Hollywood.

And we’re seeing what our world valorizes and elevates and then wants to get rid of.

It really is living in our post-Christian and even post-secular society, where we want to hang on to Christian values, we recognize we need something more than materialism to make it make sense, but we’re just trying to make it all up as we go in our own image.

BROWN: All right, author, speaker, and cohost of WORLD Watch’s Reality Check, Katie McCoy, always good to have you. Katie, thank you!

MCCOY: Thanks, Nick and Myrna, always good to be with you.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, March 20th.

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 return to form in Hollywood.

The new film Project Hail Mary is a sci-fi adventure starring Ryan Gosling. It tells a refreshing, original story instead of copying what’s already out there.

Here’s WORLD reviewer Joseph Holmes.

JOSEPH HOLMES: “Why doesn’t Hollywood make movies like that anymore?” I hear people asking that question a lot nowadays, and they’re usually talking about movies like Braveheart or When Harry Met Sally, that praise self-sacrifice and love without irony. Now, every movie seems like it’s trying to be Marvel or some postmodern deconstruction. Project Hail Mary, however, feels like an answer. It’s an old-fashioned sci-fi blockbuster that’s deeply entertaining while unironically praising timeless virtues like friendship and self-sacrifice.

AI: Please state your name.

GRACE: Ryland Grace. I just woke up from a coma. I’m several light years from my apartment. And… I’m not an astronaut. I’m not an astronaut! I’m not an astronaut!

STRATT: If you don’t go you die. With the rest of us.

Based on the book by Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary follows science teacher Ryland Grace, played by Ryan Gosling, who wakes up alone on a spaceship with one mission: solve the mystery of the organisms that are killing Earth’s sun. While there, he meets an alien friend also trying to save his own world, and they have to learn to work together to save both of their species.

The best description I have for Project Hail Mary is it’s Interstellar meets The Martian meets E.T. It’s a refreshing film directed by the guys responsible for The Lego Movie and the Spider-Verse films, and it’s written by Drew Goddard–who previously adapted another popular Weir book, The Martian. This film deftly balances heroic spacefaring grandeur and grounded humor with smart, scientific problem-solving, and a touching interstellar friendship. It has plenty of humor without undermining its dramatic moments with jokes. The world is ending, but not because humans are destroying it. In fact, humans are the world’s only hope for survival. Ryland Grace is flawed without being a deconstruction of a hero. Human institutions are imperfect, but they aren’t secretly evil.

ROCKY: (Alien noises)

GRACE: You want me… to go back to my ship?

ROCKY: (Alien noises)

GRACE: But I just got here.

ROCKY: (Alien noises)

The filmmaking is stellar. Gosling carries much of the movie on his shoulders, whether he’s alone on the ship or acting opposite a CGI alien. And the movie never feels dull when it’s just him onscreen. The cinematography and editing convey both the vastness of space and the intimate moments of human (and alien) connection.

STRATT: The sun is dying. You are the only scientist who might know what this is.

GRACE: I’m just a teacher at Grover Cleveland Middle.

STRATT: You have a doctorate in molecular biology.

One pleasant surprise here that screenwriter Drew Goddard often brings into his stories is faith. One character says they will succeed “God willing” and insists that believing in God is better than the alternative. It’s a small moment that keeps the film from being a purely secular glorification of man’s achievements to one where people choose to be part of God’s plan of redemption. (Something Interstellar never did.)

GRACE: So… I met an alien. He’s a genius engineer. And if I can’t understand him he puts on a puppet show for me and my tiny brain. And you know? I don’t mind it. His planet’s dying too. We’re here for the same reason.

This idea that heroes need help to be heroes is also a major theme and is handled in a surprisingly complex—and even Christian—way. Grace is a smart man with a hero inside him. But he requires the encouragement—and sometimes bullying—of his ranking superiors to bring that out of him. Yet Grace isn’t a passive character being carried along to virtue. Throughout, he makes real choices to be the best version of himself.

GRACE: He has incredible hearing. He can see through walls. Personal space is at a premium.

ROCKY: Who is Grace talking to, question?

GRACE: There’s no way you can hear me.

ROCKY: Can hear. Who are you talking to?

GRACE: You can hear this?

ROCKY: Yes. Grace say: you can hear this.

The movie is rated PG-13. As such, there is some violence and profanity as well as some crude comments. There are also a few storytelling weaknesses. The third act of this 2-hour-48-minute film drags a bit with what seems like five different climaxes. The final climax feels a bit lightweight for a movie all about sacrifice. And because the film’s bad guys are just bacteria, the film is most interesting when the heroes are bantering or strategizing about how to solve the problem. It gets duller when they’re actually facing down the threat in a generic Hollywood action sequence.

In an age of sequels, remakes, and cynically subversive films, Project Hail Mary is a reminder of how good Hollywood can be. Hopefully, the box office proves that audiences still want this kind of film, too.

I’m Joseph Holmes.

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

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

Finally today: a fresh approach to three of America’s biggest social problems: homelessness, addiction, and serious mental illness.

Last month, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a sweeping plan. Kennedy’s looking at how to tackle what he’s called a “crisis of despair.”

Though light on details so far, experts say the plan signals a new era in recovery policy.

WORLD’s Grace Snell reports.

GRACE SNELL: RFK Jr. is bringing a new theory of recovery to Washington.

KENNEDY: Addiction is about isolation. It’s a disease of isolation.

He sees patterns…

KENNEDY: Addicts end up alone. They burn their relationships. They lose their jobs. They end up in rooms or jails or institutions or dead…

And says he’s looking to treat root causes.

KENNEDY: The ultimate solution to that is reconnecting people to community.

That’s a significant departure from Biden administration policies—which prioritized external factors like housing or social stigma.

Kennedy’s plan prioritizes responding to people in crisis…and then coaching them through different recovery stages—starting with psychiatric help and medical care.

KENNEDY We find them on the street, we move them from crisis to detox, treatment, to housing, to employment…

HHS also announced an investment into assisted outpatient treatment for people battling serious mental illness. And it encourages more faith-based organizations to get onboard with its programs.

Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He says the specifics of Kennedy’s plan are still pretty vague. But there’s a common thread.

EIDE: He wants to promote the idea of relying more on kind of social support, maybe even faith-based approaches to recovery.

It’s a perspective rooted in Kennedy’s own experience of recovery after spending his teens and 20s addicted to heroin.

EIDE: It is known not only that he has a personal story, but that he recovered not using kind of intensive medical interventions.

Now, Kennedy wants to bring together law enforcement, counselors, housing experts, and faith leaders. He’s hoping together they can find workable solutions for some of the deep-rooted issues which have plagued the country for decades.

EIDE: They are also trying to do more to promote kind of sobriety-oriented, employment-oriented programs for homeless people.

Eide says the modern homeless crisis traces back to the 1980s. That’s when four major factors converged: loss of affordable housing, breakdown in family structure, street policing restrictions…

EIDE: And then lastly, you had the deinstitutionalization of the mental ill, the shift away from an inpatient or asylum style mental health system to a community based one.

That shift, prioritizing local, outpatient care, was spurred on by problems with serious overcrowding and abuse in mental hospitals. The system had started out much differently. Many were founded in the 1800s on an idea known as “moral treatment.” It espoused art therapy, education, and work as a way to nurture patients back to health.

A holistic approach not unlike the one Kennedy’s advocating.

But, most institutions soon strayed from that guiding principle. And eventually, many of them got shut down, or significantly downsized. While beds for psychiatric patients still exist—in hospitals, prisons, residential treatment centers, and nursing homes, Eide says some experts wonder if it’s adequate.

EIDE: There are people who need inpatient care because they’re so severely mentally ill, who are not getting it because of the basically normative bias towards community mental health care…

On the campaign trail in 2024, Kennedy advocated the creation of “healing farms.” Places where opioid addicts could receive therapy and work outside. The suggestion sparked significant backlash. Eide questions why.

EIDE: Something like a wellness farm or a residential treatment program. I think is just an uncontroversial idea. I think that because the Trump administration suggested it, people decided they had to be against it.

He sees commonality with the 19th century’s moral treatment.

EIDE: Something like that original idea has always been there. There’s still programs that are doing that. It is always an idea that recurs when you’re trying to help people.

But the ideas face varied, strong opposition.

EIDE: Some people on the left are afraid of bringing back the asylum. Other people on the right are afraid that it would cost too much, because it would raise costs for Medicaid, which people are trying to keep costs down.

Still, Eide says he’s glad to see a recognition that lasting recovery goes beyond the physical.

EIDE: We need to be careful about not over medicalizing recovery, that people who are grappling with addiction, it’s not just that they have some sort of disease or health condition.

And that’s why he hopes experts will continue focusing on what helps people stay back on their feet. Things like social support, church membership, and stable employment.

EIDE: So I do think it is very helpful what RFK has done to emphasize things like recovery housing, which experts in the field recognize are utterly essential in terms of individuals maintaining their sobriety, but really are programs more of a social than healthcare nature.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Grace Snell.

BROWN: This was just part of some long-term reporting Grace has done on the factors that have played into America’s current mental health crisis. She’s turned that into the next episode of Doubletake. And it’s coming out tomorrow wherever you listen to The World and Everything in It. We hope you’ll listen in.

NICK EICHER, HOST: It’s time to thank the crew who contributed to this week’s programs:

Jenny Rough, David Bahnsen, Mary Reichard, Carolina Lumetta, Grace Snell, Daniel Suhr, Hunter Baker, Mary Muncy, Janie B. Cheaney, Josh Schumacher, Lauren Canterberry, Arsenio Orteza, Cal Thomas, Katie McCoy, and Joseph Holmes.

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

And thanks to the Moonlight Maestros—working overnight to serve up the program each week-day bright and early: Benj Eicher and Carl Peetz.

Harrison Watters is Washington producer, Kristen Flavin is features editor, Lindsay Mast is producer.

I’m Executive Producer Nick Eicher.

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

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WORLD’s mission is biblically objective journalism that informs, educates, and inspires. The Psalmist writes,

“You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.

But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.” —Psalm 73:24–28

Be sure and gather at a Bible-believing church this weekend and experience the hope of Jesus.

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

Go now in grace and peace.

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