The World and Everything in It: May 27, 2026

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LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Good morning!

A Texas tussle determines who will take on James Talarico for a seat in the Senate.

PAXTON: Tonight, we just made history.

NICK EICHER, HOST: That’s ahead today on Washington Wednesday.

Also today: World Tour on presidential elections in Colombia.

Later, how one mom started a school for her daughter and for other students who have special needs.

BLACK: We can't send her to a school with 2,000 students just to kind of like, hope she does okay and hope she catches truth.

And WORLD Commentator Daniel Suhr responds to Pope Leo’s statement on AI.

MAST: It’s Wednesday, May 27th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. 

I’m Lindsay Mast.

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

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

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Chemical explosion » A chemical tank imploded at a paper mill in southwest Washington state Tuesday, killing multiple workers and injuring at least 10.

The 80,000-gallon tank held a corrosive chemical brew used to break down wood for paper. Crews are still in the area — and the cause is still unknown.

Longview Fire Battalion Chief Mike Gorsuch called it a mass casualty scene:

GORSUCH: There were multiple critical injuries, and patients were transported to hospitals in Longview and throughout the Vancouver/Portland area.

Meantime, in Southern California, evacuations are easing near a chemical tank at an aerospace plant, that nearly exploded last week. About 16,000 people are still waiting for the all-clear — down from 50,000.

A small crack over Memorial Day weekend let pressure out and averted a catastrophic blast.

Moon base announcement » NASA is building a permanent moon base. And it is investing big into moon buggies and aerospace drones.

The space agency just handed out hundreds of millions of dollars to four U.S. companies. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman:

ISAACMAN: We are working alongside our lunar lander providers, preparing for Artemis III crew announcement and getting ready to begin stacking Artemis III this summer with a target launch in mid twenty-twenty seven.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will build the landers. Astrolab and Lunar Outpost will build the moon buggies. And Firefly Aerospace will fly drones to the surface. All of it has to arrive at the moon's south pole — before the first Artemis astronauts land.

Isaacman added that the mission will inspire a new generation of Americans:

ISAACMAN: It means People are looking up again, believing in big things again, and paying attention as America returns to the moon again, and this time to stay.

He said Artemis III astronauts will be landing on the moon as soon as 2028.

Cornyn-Paxton primary » Another Republican senator opposed by President Trump is out.

Texans voting in a U.S. Senate primary runoff last night handed incumbent Sen. John Cornyn his walking papers. He will leave Congress in January after four terms in the upper chamber.

Trump had thrown his support behind Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in an expensive, drawn-out race.

Paxton said ahead of the vote:

PAXTON:  With the endorsement, it, it becomes a lot clearer that I'm gonna be the nominee, and we wanted to focus on the positive and then focus on our next job

That job will be to defeat Democratic nominee James Talarico.

Before endorsing Paxton, Trump had criticized Sen. Cornyn as —his words, "VERY disloyal to me."

Cornyn’s defeat comes 10 days after another GOP incumbent senator opposed by Trump, Bill Cassidy, lost a primary election in Louisiana.

South Carolina redistricting » Republicans face new setbacks to drawing new congressional maps ahead of midterm elections.

WORLD’s Harrison Watters has more.

HARRISON WATTERS: A district court in Alabama temporarily blocked the state’s 2023 House map on Tuesday. This came after the Supreme Court gave Alabama the greenlight to use that map, instead of one drawn by the lower court.

While the state held its primaries last week, it plans to hold special congressional elections in August. The new court order requires Alabama to use the revised map unless lawmakers draw a new one.

Meanwhile, South Carolina’s state Senate punted on a vote to pass a new election map.

Republican State Senator Richard Cash explained why he changed his vote to block the bill on Tuesday.

CASH: South Carolina citizens are going to the polls today, and neither my conscience nor my common sense will allow me to stop an election that is already underway.

WATTERS: A motion to end debate and bring the bill to a vote failed. Then 14 Republicans joined all Democrats in a vote to continue the bill and go on recess. Lawmakers are set to return one day after the June 9th primary.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Harrison Watters.

Suicide bombing in Pakistan » In Pakistan, at least 47 people are now confirmed dead after a suicide bomber struck a train this week.

Pakistani security forces raided the suicide bomber's family home — and detained several of his relatives. His vehicle bomb went off next to a shuttle train carrying Pakistani security personnel and their families — passing through Quetta.

Two cars overturned and caught fire. Nearly 100 more people were wounded. A separatist group — the Balochistan Liberation Army — claimed responsibility.

The group has been fighting for the province's independence from Pakistan for years.

I'm Kent Covington.

Coming up: Can right-wing presidential candidates send Colombia in a different direction? Plus, a classical school for kids with special needs.

This is The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: It’s Wednesday the 27th of May.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Lindsay Mast.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. First up on The World and Everything in It: Washington Wednesday.

The dust is beginning to settle this morning after one of the biggest Republican primary upsets in years.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton crushed four-term Senator John Cornyn in last night’s Senate runoff, winning by a margin so large that the race was effectively over almost as soon as polls closed.

MAST: Cornyn had the backing of Senate Republicans, enormous fundraising support, and a voting record closely aligned with President Trump. None of it mattered. Republican voters overwhelmingly sided with Paxton—the scandal-scarred but combative attorney general whom Trump endorsed just days before the election.

EICHER: Hunter, now that we’ve had a little to absorb it, what does this result actually tell us about the Republican Party? This was not a squeaker or a protest vote. Republican primary voters in Texas made a very emphatic choice.

HUNTER BAKER: We know that before the runoff in the original primary, the two were basically neck and neck, with Cornyn having a very slight edge. Then, post-Trump endorsement, we have Paxton absolutely blowing Cornyn away. And that’s with John Cornyn having been completely unbeaten in the past, easily winning Texas in his previous campaigns.

So you can only conclude: yes, it is Trump’s party. Republican voters, at least, are listening to Trump. There was no assertion of independence—“We like our senator, we like our guy.” No. They listened to what Donald Trump said, and they did it.

The important thing to say here is that I looked into this question historically. I thought to myself: has any sitting American president actively campaigned against a senator of his own party in American history? And the answer is basically no.

Going all the way back to FDR, Franklin Roosevelt campaigned against some conservative Democratic senators who were opposed to the New Deal. Generally speaking, he was unsuccessful in unseating any of them.

Trump, on the other hand, has done that. That gives you a sense of the scale here. FDR was the guy who thought he was so popular and so strong that he could campaign against his own sitting senators. Now we’ve had Trump do it, and he’s taken out two of those senators—Cassidy and now Cornyn.

So that tells you something. Yes, it’s Trump’s party now.

My question is: what is the value in making it Trump’s party when he’s in his second term and approaching the midpoint of that second term? I’m not sure how that cashes out. You’re the king, you’re the king, and you’re nearly 80 years old.

MAST: Cornyn’s closing argument was essentially electability—that Paxton could actually put a Texas Senate seat into play against Democrat James Talarico. Obviously that doesn’t carry much weight, but from a national standpoint, the money it’s going to cost to win a seat that would be a cakewalk draws GOP resources from elsewhere. Assuming Paxton holds the seat for the GOP and they lose elsewhere, does the finger pointing go to Texas?

BAKER: It’ll be part of the postmortem now. I just don’t know what happens.

I think Cornyn would have won easily, because Cornyn gets the standard Republican voter. Paxton maybe loses some of those folks. Paxton loses some of those anti-Trump Republicans, so yes, that makes the task harder.

But then again, here’s the other thing: Republicans didn’t do very well in the midterms during Trump’s first term. I think the logic there was that he’s not on the ballot, and Republicans don’t turn out as well if he’s not on the ballot.

Well, in this case, in Texas, Trump is not on the ballot, but he’s done the next best thing. He has put his hand on Paxton and said, “This is my guy.” So maybe he gets better turnout.

It’s all about that question: do you want the broadest electorate, or do you want the intensity of the electorate?

Trump is putting his bet on intensity.

EICHER: Paxton’s supporters seem almost immunized against scandal. Indictments, impeachment, allegations of infidelity—it all appears priced in. What does that tell us about how Republican voters now evaluate candidates?

BAKER: I think a lot of it is that there are two different things going on.

First of all, American politics is binary. I’ve always thought it was unfair the degree to which some people judge Americans based on their voting—to say they’re hypocritical for voting for a badly behaved Democrat or a badly behaved Republican.

What’s their choice?

Their choice is to vote for somebody from the other party with whom they totally disagree. That’s the situation. We have a binary political system.

We’re not like Germany, where you have five or six choices and the top two or three parties can make a coalition government. Here, you have to go with A or B.

That’s why we get these kinds of results in American politics.

MAST: Talarico is fascinating because Democrats are trying to present him not as a secular progressive firebrand, but as a religiously fluent, culturally moderate figure. Is that a winning message for Democrats in red states?

BAKER: Of course, that’s the way you have to look at it, right? A Democrat has not won statewide in Texas for a very long time.

There was a period before George W. Bush began his dominance in Texas when Democrats could regularly get elected statewide, but that time is over.

The idea now is that maybe you can find the right year—not a presidential year, probably a midterm year—where you can pick off the state and change the balance in the Senate. The other thing is that maybe you can help in some of those down-ticket races.

For example, when Beto O'Rourke came within probably less than two points of beating Ted Cruz in 2018, he lost. The Texas Senate seats remained firmly in Republican hands, but he probably shifted the balance in some of those down-ballot races in favor of the Democrats.

So even if Tallerico were not to win, if they can position him to the point where he comes anywhere close, he may be able to help Democrats in some of those other races.

EICHER: Three voting-rights and redistricting fights erupted across the South yesterday, just weeks after the Supreme Court sharply limited the use of race in congressional mapmaking—and the reaction from lower courts and state officials has been anything but uniform.

Hunter, after the Supreme Court appeared to say clearly that race-based districting has constitutional limits, why do we still see lower courts—and in some cases political systems themselves—acting as though the old Voting Rights Act framework is still largely in force?

BAKER: I think a lot of people took those old rules as sort of the permanent state of affairs for the American republic—that the Southern states would henceforth be supervised and managed in this fashion, where the remedy or correction for past misdeeds, which were substantial, we all know, has been to carve out these special majority-Black districts.

And we should be clear: we’re talking about majority-Black districts. We don’t carve out majority-Hispanic districts, majority-Asian districts, or majority-Jewish districts. It’s this particular thing, and it’s a response to the Jim Crow laws era in the South.

But the question is: does that go on forever? And at what point does it even make sense?

You’re talking about African Americans constituting 13 to 14 percent of the American population. I think a lot of people don’t realize that. I think a lot of people assume the number is much larger. It’s 13 to 14 percent now—obviously a larger percentage in the South—but it just doesn’t make sense that you’re going to structure politics that way forever.

Let me give you a good example: South Carolina.

South Carolina was perhaps the Southern state most eager to go to war with the North in the 19th century. It was the state where Strom Thurmond was a dominant political figure, and he was once the Dixiecrat candidate for president.

That same state now has Tim Scott, an African American senator elected statewide and in essentially no danger of being removed from office.

So I’m not sure you need to draw special districts in that case.

EICHER: More broadly, is this really a fight over race, or increasingly a fight over partisan power that both sides now frame in racial terms?

BAKER: I do think it is mainly about power. I don’t think what we’re really fighting about here is race.

Democrats recognize that they’ve had an advantage in the South for this reason. We know that in Democrat-dominated states there are a number of states with zero Republican congressmen.

This is an attempt by Democrats to make sure they hold on to the one or two seats they still have in some of those Southern states.

MAST: Hunter Baker is a WORLD Opinions contributor, our regular Washington Wednesday analyst, and he’s provost at North Greenville University. Hunter, thank you.

BAKER: Thank you.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: World Tour.

Colombia votes for a new president next Sunday, and the outcome of the race could reshape the country’s direction. After four years under the nation’s first left-wing president Gustavo Petro, voters are weighing questions of crime, security, and the country’s relationship with the United States.

WORLD’s Emma Eicher has the story.

EMMA EICHER: The presidential election comes as Colombia grapples with high crime, political violence, and government corruption.

In the May 31st election, there are a total of 12 candidates running, with platforms ranging across the political spectrum.

But the top candidates from the radical left and right lead the polls.

MIGUEL SILVA: The center is disappearing.

Miguel Silva is a political consultant and analyst in Bogotá, Colombia.

SILVA: There are two very good candidates from the center, but they just were crushed by the forces of the extremes.

For a candidate to win the first round, they must receive the majority popular vote. If there’s no clear majority, the two candidates with the highest totals will proceed to a runoff.

Three candidates currently have a shot at winning the first round. Iván Cepeda is one of them.

SILVA: He is very ideological, very radical, and the continuation of what has been this government.

Cepeda is a popular left-wing senator and orthodox Marxist. He’s widely considered an ideological successor to current president Gustavo Petro.

SILVA: All they want is to, you know, create a bigger state and a bigger state, and a bigger state, and disappear the private sector.

Cepeda’s two challengers are: Abelardo de la Espriella, a far right defense lawyer, and center-right wing senator Paloma Valencia. Their platforms focus on reversing many of Petro’s reforms, and strengthening ties with other nations.

SILVA: it's very hard to tell who has the lead between those two. It's been a fascinating campaign, in any case, because they are battling for the vote of the right.

Polling shows that Cepeda holds an advantage over the two right wing hopefuls, with sizable support within a voting base who wants him to uphold Petro’s policies.

SILVA: He's going to get 35% of the vote, probably a couple more points. And then the question is, ‘Who's going to be against him in June?’

Public safety, armed groups and cartel violence are major issues in the election. Some analysts say recent attacks against civilians and military bases, largely in southwestern Colombia, may sway voters to the right.

Glaeldys Gonzalez is a political analyst for the International Crisis Group.

GLAELDYS GONZALEZ: There was, in late April, more than a dozen attacks against security forces and civilians.

Both of the right-wing candidates hold similar views on tighter security measures and stronger action against these insurgent and criminal groups.

However, left-wing Cepeda supports negotiations under the country’s current security policy, called “total peace.”

Colombia previously used police or military teams to physically destroy crops of coca leaf–the plant used to make cocaine. Petro’s government abandoned that tactic, opting for a more permissive approach.

In the first year of Petro’s presidency, the United Nations estimated that Colombia’s potential cocaine production increased by 53%. Still, it’s unclear whether that’s a direct result of a more lenient strategy.

GONZALEZ: The number of criminal groups have grown in the past four years and have expanded their grip on local communities through different types of mechanisms, extortion and recruitment and kidnapping.

The election has sparked political violence from these growing criminal groups. Right-wing senator Miguel Uribe, a potential presidential candidate, was assassinated last year after repeated attempts on his life.

GONZALEZ: So that has marked the election since the start of it, and this shadow of the possibility of Colombia returning to this type of practices by criminal groups trying to impose their agenda.

Petro is leaving behind a tense relationship with the U.S. In 2025, President Donald Trump sharply criticized Petro’s anti-drug policies, and later announced cuts to U.S. assistance for the country.

Cepeda has said the U.S. remains an essential trading partner.

GONZALEZ: But at the same time, he has said that he will not abide by Washington's interest.

By contrast, de la Espriella and Valencia have welcomed stronger diplomatic ties with the U.S. and the European Union.

In March this year, Trump started the Shield of the Americas initiative, a coalition to combat drug trafficking and organized crime in more than a dozen countries. Colombia is currently not a member, but both right-wing candidates have expressed support for closer security cooperation with the U.S.

Political analyst Silva says while the country still approves of its left-wing government, perspectives are shifting.

SILVA: Public opinion has shifted towards the right, I think. If that part of the vote were not divided in two, it would probably get 51% of the vote and win in the first round.

Barring unforeseen events, analysts predict a runoff election between Cepeda and a right-wing challenger. Then it will be up to the voters to continue another four years of the same, or choose change.

That’s this week’s World Tour. I’m Emma Eicher.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Thousands gathered at Cooper’s Hill in Gloucestershire, England, for the annual cheese rolling competition.

Competitors submit to gravity to chase a seven-pound wheel of Double Gloucester down a hillside so steep … that running can only be described as theoretical.

SOUND: [Crowd yelling / people tumbling]

German YouTuber Tom Kopke won the first men's downhill race for the third straight year.

AUDIO: It was crazy. I think this was my most controlled run ever. I don’t know how it looked …

Oh, I do. And “controlled” was really not the word that came to mind.

Kopke says he did manage to spot a rival ahead of him and figured he’d better pick up the pace.

AUDIO: I need to go faster…

He says he then sprinted the rest of the way down the hill.

Though at Cooper’s Hill, sprinting appears to mean falling with purpose.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST:Today is Wednesday, May 27th.

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

Good morning. I’m Lindsay Mast.

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

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: classical education for students with disabilities.

Classical schools have grown rapidly over the last decade. But for families of students with moderate to severe disabilities, finding a school that fits can be difficult.

MAST: That’s left some families with few options. So in Wichita, Kansas, one mother decided to build the kind of school she could not find.

WORLD’s Lauren Dunn has the story.

STUDENTS: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic…

LAUREN DUNN: It’s Friday morning, and, like many other schools around the country, Joy Academy starts the day with the pledge.

AUDIO: [Class sings “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”]

But it doesn’t take long to notice some differences. For one thing, there are only 11 students, gathered around a big table in what used to be a house. Latin phrases in students’ handwriting decorate the walls. And all of these students have disabilities or learning difficulties.

BLACK: We have three students with Down syndrome. I have one student with a genetic disorder called Coffin Syndrome…

Maggie Black is founder and principal at Joy Academy.

BLACK: We have one student with autism, a couple with ADHD. Two of our students have Fragile X syndrome…

Black and her husband Josh helped start the Classical School of Wichita, which meets at the church across the street, 20 years ago. But when they adopted their daughter Diamond and realized she had serious learning needs that the classical school couldn’t accommodate, they enrolled her in public school. That worked well—for a while.

BLACK: We cannot send our daughter who really functions more, you know, socially, emotionally, academically, like a first or a second grader, we can't send her to a school with 2000 students just to kind of like, hope she does okay and hope she catches truth, or whatever.

The Blacks wanted a school that could combine classical education’s emphasis on truth, beauty, and goodness and natural developmental sequence with the accommodations Diamond needed. Then a friend offered a solution:

BLACK: He said to Josh, we were talking about this, he's like, why don't you just start a school for Diamond? And we thought, can we do that?

Black got in touch with a classical education advocate who wrote a book and curriculum for children with disabilities. Then, in fall 2023, Joy Academy began with two students: Diamond and a boy named Cooper.

AUDIO: [Cooper talking about school]

Today, Cooper and his younger brother Camden attend the school. They both have fragile X syndrome. Their parents, Danny and Katie Back, say the genetic disorder affects the two boys differently.

DANNY: Cooper's biggest hurdle is his intellectual disability. Camden, on the other hand, his biggest hurdle is his hyperactivity, impulsivity, and probably the lack of connections that he seems to struggle with because of his autism.

The Backs say the classical model has enriched their boys’ education.

DANNY: There's just no fluff. If our boys with special needs have limited capacity, then it is all the more important that we fill their buckets with exceptional things and not waste that capacity on things that just don't matter.

Katie Back says her biggest goal for Cooper was that he would learn to read. The high staff-to-student ratios at Joy Academy helped him make quick progress toward that goal.

KATIE: And that was huge for me. Like, I just knew, like, Oh, this is what I wanted. Like, it's happening.

That individualized attention is a built-in feature at Joy. The school employs five full-time and two part-time staff members. Plus a handful of volunteers—including grandparents who serve as lunch buddies or help with writing. Twelve high school students from the classical school across the street also volunteer throughout the week as mentors.

Most of Joy Academy’s current students came from public schools and brought with them individualized education programs—or IEPs—designed to address their unique learning needs and goals. As a private school, Joy Academy isn’t required to follow those, but Black says they’re a good starting point.

BLACK: The needs are so different for each student that that has become, I would say, a learning opportunity or a challenge, just trying to decide again what each student needs to be successful here at Joy Academy, then ultimately in life.

Another challenge is tuition. A year at Joy Academy costs $12,000, about 20% higher than at its partner school across the street. But donors and grants provide scholarships to help.

And now demand is outpacing what the school can do. The term “special needs” encompasses a wide range of abilities and needs, and one small school can’t address them all. That brings another difficulty: turning some students away.

BLACK: We've had three students just the last probably three months applied, and we did some readiness screenings that are nonverbal. At this point, we're not going to do that. I just think the broader you build a school, it's just, it's difficult to manage and to staff.

Black says interest is up but the school plans to only add three new students this fall.

BLACK: And it's heartbreaking because these families that love the Lord and desire for their children, their most precious earthly possession, to be able to be in an environment where they are getting taught with a Christian worldview, and Christ is at the center of all that we do.

SINGING: This is the day that the Lord has made! I will rejoice and be glad in it…

Black says she hopes to see more schools open for students with a variety of needs. In the meantime, these 11 students are rounding out their school year with joy.

SINGING: Rejoice, rejoice, and again I say, rejoice! Rejoice, rejoice, and again I say rejoice! OK, thank you guys, listen…

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Lauren Dunn in Wichita, Kan.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

Pope Leo the Fourteenth this week issued the first encyclical of his papacy. For non-Catholics, an encyclical is essentially a formal teaching letter from the pope—an attempt to apply Christian moral reasoning to major issues facing the church and the wider culture.

EICHER: This particular encyclical tackles a subject shaping nearly every part of modern life: artificial intelligence. Here’s WORLD commentator Daniel Suhr.

DANIEL SUHR: This week, the pope used his first encyclical to address one of the defining moral questions of our age: artificial intelligence.

POPE LEO XIV: Artificial intelligence can be a construction site of history … Let each builder choose with care how to build, warned Saint Paul. He does not fear the worksite. Rather, he warns against building without solid foundations.

That is the challenge before us: not whether artificial intelligence will become more deeply woven into our lives, communities, and economies.

No, that ship has sailed.

The question now is whether we build AI on a solid foundation of law and ethics—so it serves humanity rather than replacing or diminishing it.

The pope frames the question through two Old Testament stories.

First, the Tower of Babel in Genesis—humanity pushing ahead in pride and building without a proper foundation.

Then Nehemiah, who led the rebuilding of Jerusalem’s walls. He notes that everyone had a role: political leaders, religious leaders, laborers, soldiers, ordinary citizens.

Pope Leo’s vision for the age of AI seems to follow that pattern: not slowing innovation out of fear, but ensuring that development does not happen inside a Silicon Valley silo separated from the larger society.

Practically, that could mean allowing AI to flourish while still setting boundaries—especially for children or for AI’s use in darker corners of the internet, like pornography or gambling.

Leo’s sharpest challenge comes over military applications of AI.

POPE LEO: Artificial intelligence now demands to be disarmed, freed from logics that can turn it into an instrument of domination, exclusion, and death.

Leo compares AI to the splitting of the atom: nuclear power brought tremendous benefits, but nuclear weapons also brought enormous danger.

I appreciate the analogy, though I am not convinced the comparison fully fits.

AI’s military uses, at least today, look less like autonomous science-fiction machines and more like faster research, improved intelligence gathering, and better decision-making.

Still, I find myself sympathetic to the balance recently described by Vice President J.D. Vance:

VANCE: We want to be pro-innovation. We recognize artificial intelligence could be great ... It does also have some downsides, and we’re trying to balance that safety against innovation.

That sounds close to the balance Pope Leo is seeking as well: welcoming AI’s potential to advance knowledge, cure disease, expand prosperity, and unlock learning—while remaining mindful of effects on the vulnerable, the environment, and the common good.

For WORLD, I’m Daniel Suhr.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: a new Missouri law requires drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill a parent. We’ll have a report. And, minister and author John Bevere joins to discuss the return of Christ in his new book, The King is Coming. 

That and more tomorrow. I’m Nick Eicher.

LINDSAY MAST, HOST: And I’m Lindsay Mast.

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