The World and Everything in It: October 29, 2026

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

Pro-lifers in Massachusetts work at a breakneck pace to stop a sweeping new abortion law.

FLYNN: This is one of the times that we do have a shot at success

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And, voters in Texas weigh policies against principles.

Also, insurance fraud. We’ll hear from a woman signed up for Obamacare–without her knowledge.

And it’s a plant, it’s a grass, no, it’s an alga. An explanation of seaweed’s superpowers.

DAVIS: There’s a lot of mystery out here that remains.

And WORLD Commentator David Closson on the ballot initiatives shaping the future of girl’s sports.

BROWN: It’s Thursday, October 29th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

REICHARD: And I’m Mary Reichard. Good morning!

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

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: United Nations » The U.S. government gave the boot to a Cuban diplomat after a confrontation at United Nations headquarters in New York.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed an order expelling that diplomat, without naming him publicly. That came after Ambassador Mike Waltz said the man tried to physically intimidate a U.S. official

Waltz said Wednesday.

WALTZ:  He was attacked, pushed, slapped. You know, the, the, the Cuban slapped the phone out of his hand. And, uh, I can tell you what, under President Trump, and now on the order of Secretary Rubio, that individual will be on a flight back to Havana and out of this country today. We're not gonna put up with it.

On Tuesday, Cuban diplomats angrily interrupted Waltz as he accused the Castro regime of confiscating property from ordinary Cubans to enrich its leaders.

CUBAN: You’re a liar!

WALTZ: Back up! Ambassador, back away! This isn’t Havana…

PRESIDENT: I’m suspending the meeting…

Waltz was defending U.S. sanctions on Cuba, against a resolution up for debate.

Cuba says the U.S. is choking its economy by blocking shadow fleet tankers from delivering oil. But the U.S. says Cuba’s dictatorship and socialist policies are to blame for the blackouts and shortages on the island.

Israel update » Vote tallies continue to roll from Israel's historic election. WORLD's Travis Kircher is in Jerusalem and spoke with a political analyst who talked about some of the surprises from Tuesday's vote.

TRAVIS KIRCHER: It is still unclear at the moment who will lead the Jewish state going forward.

Both sides can claim victories. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party appeared Wednesday to have scored slightly more seats than challenger Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar! Party, but neither party had a majority.

Political analyst Jacob Laviel Dallal says one surprise was the number of votes for Arab parties.

DALLAL: There was a very large voter turnout in the Arab sector much more than usual.

KIRCHER: The Arab parties are projected to win a historic 19 seats, and their support could help Eisenkot get the first chance to form a government. But that depends on whether those parties agree to back him.

DALLAL: He could be. He definitely could be. But again, how he does, you know, what he does with that is difficult to know...

KIRCHER: Another wild card: The possibility of renewed military action against Iran.

DALLAL: It's in my view very likely. Even though people here are so absorbed with the election that they're forgetting that there might be a war in a week, they check their calendar, but that'll create a sense of urgency.

KIRCHER: President Trump has threatened renewed strikes in Iran after U.S. midterm elections — IF the two sides don’t strike a deal soon to end Iran’s nuclear program.

Reporting for WORLD, I'm Travis Kircher in Jerusalem.

Spain train accident » A high-speed train slammed into the back of another train stopped on the tracks in Spain on Wednesday, killing at least 68 people and injuring dozens.

One passenger said the impact threw her and her husband from their seats.

AUDIO: It happened very quick. In a split of seconds, I found myself, like I saw him on the aisle, like he flew from the aisle, and then I was already on his seat because I'm on the window side

The trains collided amid olive fields south of Madrid, near the town of Urda. Another passenger described the moment of impact.

AUDIO: Our train was stopped there, middle of the track for seven, eight minutes, and then it's suddenly everything start falling apart. Bang, we fell down. Then we realized something hit

Spain’s transport minister says a safety system failed, but controllers then allowed one train to move again without speed restrictions.

Authorities are investigating the crash.

Several Spanish regions have declared three days of mourning. Another high-speed train collision killed 46 people in January.

Bolsonaro arrives in U.S. » Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro arrived in Florida on Wednesday:

SOUND: [Bolsonaro arrival in Miami]

…after losing Brazil’s presidential election, a result he disutes. He then escaped from the country with the help of the US government. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin reports.

KRISTEN FLAVIN: Flavio Bolsonaro, his wife and their two daughters stepped off of a private jet onto a tarmac in Miami. They traveled through Argentina and Ecuador after the Trump administration granted them visas.

He left despite a Brazilian court order barring him from leaving.

Bolsonaro lost Sunday’s election to left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. But he challenged the result, pointing to a last-minute court order extending voting by two hours.

But election officials say the extra votes could not have erased Lula’s lead of more than four million.

President Trump, though, was not convinced.

TRUMP: Well, it looked terrible. I thought it was terrible. I didn’t take sides, but it looked like another rigged election, frankly.

FLAVIN: A Brazilian Supreme Court justice had ordered Bolsonaro to surrender his passports. He faces investigations into corruption, money laundering and tax evasion. He denies wrongdoing. His allies call the cases political persecution.

His father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, is serving a 27-year sentence under house arrest after the Supreme Court ruled that he plotted a coup following his 2022 election loss.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

World Series » For the first time ever, the Milwaukee Brewers are World Series champions.

AUDIO (game call): Palacios, grounds one softly … unshakable, unstoppable! And champions at last! The Milwaukee Brewers!

The Brewers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays last night 4 to 1 in game 5 of the Fall Classic behind strong pitching.

Jacob Misiorowski pitched nearly 6 shutout innings for the win.

That caps what was a Major League best 103-win season for Milwaukee.

In the Brewers 58-year history, the team had never won the World Series until now. The last time they had even played in one was all the way back in 1982.

I'm Kent Covington.

Coming up, voters in Texas weigh their options. Plus, the superpowers of seaweed.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s The World and Everything in It from WORLD Radio, celebrating 15 years. Today is Thursday the 29th of October.

Thanks for making us part of your morning routine. Good morning. I’m Mary Reichard.

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

First up: a pro-life pushback.

Pro-lifers in Massachusetts are nearing the end of a breakneck campaign to suspend a radical new state law. Under the new measure, the state would allow abortion up to birth–and for any reason.

REICHARD: But their hard work may push the law back long enough to overturn it. WORLD’s Lauren Canterberry has the story.

LAUREN CANTERBERRY: In August, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed the bill ending the state’s few remaining pro-life protections.

If the bill is enacted, Massachusetts will join nine other states and the District of Columbia in having no restrictions on abortion at any gestational age.

HEALEY: Abortion will remain safe, it will remain legal, and it will remain accessible here in Massachusetts. That’s my commitment to you.

The law also removes requirements that late-term abortions happen in a hospital.

FLYNN: This law was different because it crossed such a fundamental ethical line.

Myrna Maloney Flynn is president and CEO of Massachusetts Citizens for Life.

FLYNN: It endangers women. And that is something I think people here became angry about.

In early September, a coalition of pro-life groups filed a petition to fight the law by sending it to voters in November 2028.

FLYNN: It’s not that often here in Massachusetts when pro-lifers actually have a shot at making meaningful change and fighting back. But this is one of the times that we do have a shot at success.

Pro-lifers got to work collecting signatures outside grocery stores, at community events, and at dozens of churches.

FLYNN: We ended up recruiting over 800 volunteers across this state for this effort.

The coalition needed to gather over 37,000 certified signatures by November 6 to place the petition on the ballot. With just under 50,000 signatures they could also suspend the abortion measure until the 2028 election.

I spoke with Flynn on Tuesday as the signatures were being counted.

FLYNN: What we know right now, according to the secretary of state who gave us an update just yesterday, is that over 87,000 signatures have been certified so far.

The petition is on track to surpass 100,000 signatures, double what was needed to temporarily suspend the law.

FLYNN: We’re proud. We’re excited. And yet we’re cautious because we know that games can be played and likely will be played at some point. They won’t just let this go.

But it’s uncertain what the end result of all that work may be. Flynn anticipates legal challenges from pro-abortion groups. And Governor Healey could force the law to take effect regardless of the signatures.

Healey is up for reelection next week and has not said whether she will take action.

FLYNN: We’re at least hoping that Governor Healey internalizes the wishes of the voters.

No matter what happens, Flynn and the coalition are already setting their sights on 2028.

FLYNN: We’ve got now two years to educate the voters.

We need to inform people that this is a common sense effort to protect viable, healthy, unborn infants who are capable of surviving outside the womb.

The coalition plans to stay active. Flynn says it could be the start of a revitalized pro-life movement in the state.

FLYNN: There’s this rejuvenation that was desperately needed in Massachusetts because so many pro-lifers were understandably frustrated, discouraged, hopeless. This effort has proven that their voices and their efforts, their energies, do matter and that we can be effective.

And it could set an example for others: showing that dedicated individuals can effect change–even in Democrat strongholds like Massachusetts.

FLYNN: If more of us spoke up like our volunteers have then life would be the winning issue going forward. We wouldn’t have to wait decades for movement on this. We would see lives protected at a much faster rate.

Flynn hopes pro-lifers in other states are watching.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Lauren Canterberry.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Up next, policies and principles.

As election day approaches, the Texas Senate race is still anyone’s game.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: The close race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico has some Christian voters wondering: what should I do when both options have baggage?

WORLD’s Claire Wilkerson has the story.

AUDIO: Do you believe that faith matters? [Cheers] Yes!

CLAIRE WILKERSON: Democrat James Talarico is a young progressive hoping that moderated messaging, and a faith-forward campaign, will turn a Texas Senate seat blue for the first time in decades. But his blending of progressive policies with Christian messaging has drawn sharp criticism.

JAMES TALARICO, God is nonbinary: God is both masculine and feminine, and everything in between. God is non-binary.

That modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six.

 I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity.

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is a committed conservative backed by President Trump. But he has a problematic history. For some conservative Christians, this election is a choice between a progressive Christian or a conservative with a checkered past.

CHRIS HAMMONS: It's very difficult.

Dr. Chris Hammons is a professor of political science at Houston Christian University.

HAMMONS: I think most conservative Christians look at the two candidates and they see in Talarico a person who seems nice and sincere and clean cut, but his views are outside of what most conservative Christians would support.

Talarico claims to be running a David and Goliath campaign. He casts himself as David fighting the Goliath of institutional corruption. At a CNN townhall, he tried to walk back some of his more controversial comments.

TALARICO: Preachers will sometime say something shocking in order to get your attention and that's something i'm trying to do in a responsible way

SOUND: [Music, Cheering, “Fort Worth it is so good to see you…”]

At a Talarico rally in Forth Worth, a local teacher named James told WORLD he’s not religious, but he thinks Talarico’s emphasis on faith is a good political strategy.

JAMES: I think it's important in Texas, I think that's the reason why there's so many people here and I think that he's done a really good job combining faith with, you know, democratic principles.

America has a long history of bringing religious principles into politics. Still, Talarico’s use of Scripture and his conclusions stand out.

HAMMONS: If we didn't know who said that, I would think it was from some evangelical conservative candidate in some Midwestern state. Right? What is novel this cycle is that it's coming from a progressive leftist candidate, he is speaking the language of sort of moderate mainstream Texans.

And many of those Texans have reservations about Paxton’s character. Paxton served as Texas attorney general for more than a decade. Then the state House impeached him in 2023 for corruption and bribery. He was accused of using his status as AG to intervene in a federal fraud investigation against a donor in exchange for home renovations and favors for his mistress.

The House impeachment vote had wide bipartisan support. But the Senate found there wasn’t proof of wrong-doing beyond a reasonable doubt.

Hammons thinks that many Christian voters are tired of feeling caught between hard choices.

HAMMONS: I think the dilemma is how many more times can I consistently go to the polls and hold my nose and vote for a candidate that I think is flawed or ethically compromised simply because I like his policies more than the other guy.

Voter Miriam Walker says Paxton’s policies make the choice a no-brainer. She likes how hard he fought as AG to keep the Texas border secure.

MIRIAM WALKER: I have a hard time with people saying hold your nose, ‘cause as a Christian, I just believe that anyone without sin, throw the first stone. I thought about the same thing with Trump.

Still, Hammons contends that some voters wish there was a “none of the above” option on the ballot.

HAMMONS: I definitely understand the frustration that conservative Christian voters have of not being able to find somebody who not only espouses what they believe, but also lives by a moral code of conduct that they can embrace. The days of simply holding your nose are over.

The close race has already helped set a state record for midterm early voting. Nearly 5 million Texans have already cast their ballot.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Claire Wilkerson in Fort Worth, Texas.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Up next, healthcare fraud hits home.

More than a million Americans report identity theft each year. Victims often discover it when their credit scores sink or bank accounts are drained. But sometimes the theft isn’t so obvious.

WORLD’s Harrison Watters has the story.

MANNING: Come on goats! [bleeting]

HARRISON WATTERS: Susan Manning runs a family farm in North Florida. Her husband works in IT, and she’s covered by his health insurance. But in September, she found a strange health insurance tax form on her IRS account.

MANNING: It was in my name, it had my social security number, and a South Carolina address.

She’s never lived in South Carolina. So she called the helpline for the Health Insurance Marketplace…the online exchange for Obamacare.

MANNING: It seemed like they didn't believe me that I hadn't signed up for it. And it took several minutes for me to convince the person that this really was a fraudulent application.

She thought maybe someone used her identity to get health insurance. The Marketplace agent told her it wasn’t that simple.

MANNING: What's more likely has happened is that an insurance agent has signed you up for it to receive a commission.

Manning isn’t alone.

In September, Vice President J.D. Vance said it’s been happening nationwide for several years.

VANCE: In one case we found a fraud ring that had 40 agents, 40 brokerage agents who had funneled 50,000 people into the Obamacare system fraudulently.

That includes people who were ineligible for government health insurance. Some used stolen identities. Others made up names. The problem goes back to a COVID-era change by Congress to increase government spending to pay for millions of people enrolling in Affordable Care Act plans. Here’s Brian Blase, a health policy expert who worked in the first Trump administration.

BLASE: That subsidy expansion made the coverage free for individuals that claimed to have a low income.

That means Americans could get government health insurance without paying any fees. Meanwhile, brokers would get paid to sign them up.

BLASE: The taxpayer sent the money every month to the health insurer. The health insurer then paid the broker every month that the individual was enrolled in insurance coverage.

Ten million new accounts were created by 2024. Blase’s group the Paragon Health Institute estimates at least 5 million of those were ineligible…and possibly fraudulent. Last December, Congress allowed some of the expanded subsidies to expire.

BLASE: That cleaned up some of the problem, but there's a lot of residual problems.

Then last month, the Department of Health and Human Services ended 760,000 accounts for people that either did not exist or had never used their plans. The number of accounts made with stolen information is unknown but likely in the tens of thousands. HHS has since reported less than 1 in ten thousand of the closed accounts were actually in use. Federal Trade Commission chairman Andrew Ferguson:

FERGUSON: When we do these big cutoffs, almost no one comes.

Those real people can appeal the closure.

SOUND: [Goats bleating]

Back in Florida, Susan Manning is working to secure her accounts and social security number. She says it could take up to 45 days for Marketplace to resolve her complaint. And she won’t get her tax refund until it does. With winter coming, that makes things harder on the farm budget.

MANNING: We have to rely on buying hay and grain to feed our animals, and so it’s a time of year when that money is really needed, and it may or may not come in.

Paragon Health told WORLD the helpline at HealthCare.Gov can help uncover ineligible Obamacare accounts. A Marketplace agent told Manning the person that enrolled her in Obamacare was an insurance broker living in Texas.

MANNING: I'm the victim here, but I'm left to clean up this mess that I never created.

At least two states have revoked the Texas broker’s insurance license following other complaints, but no charges have been filed.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Harrison Watters.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: A San Francisco startup is looking to hire dog walkers. Twenty bucks an hour. No experience necessary.

And no need to carry around waste bags to clean up after them!

The reason is the dogs aren’t actual dogs. They’re robot dogs.

The company needs people to walk these four-legged machines around town to collect data so they’ll eventually navigate on their own.

The downside: If the programmable pooch breaks down, the walker has to carry all thirty-three pounds back to the office.

So far, these digital dogs have mastered one real canine trick: getting humans to work for them.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Thursday, October 29th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

Coming next on The World and Everything in It: seaweed.

You may think of it as something gooey and wet from the ocean. But seaweeds play a critical role in the health of our ecosystem.

One scientist from California has been studying it for 45 years. Here’s WORLD’s Jenny Rough with the story.

JENNY ROUGH: Stephen Davis stands over a table in the archive room at Pepperdine University’s Payson Library in Malibu, California. He uses a magnifying glass to examine specimens mounted onto heavy-duty sheets of paper.

STEVE DAVIS: Cystoseira osmundacea. And then Coilodesme californica. Oh, epiphyte on Laminaria. And this is a Porphyrella.

The archived collection is named after him: The Stephen Davis Algae Press Collection. It sits just a mile from the Pacific Ocean where Davis has been gathering macroscopic marine algae since the 1970s. You know—seaweed.

Under the magnifying glass, the details of seaweeds’ shapes and colors come alive.

ROUGH: Oh my gosh, it’s poofy!

DAVIS: I go back to God and God’s creation. What an incredible planet we have.

Davis’s work gives scientists a rare look at how seaweeds adapt to a changing environment–like when ocean temperatures rise.

AUDIO: [Ocean]

We head to the Pacific Ocean on a seaweed hunt and arrive at Latigo Bay Beach. I pick up a blob in the sand that looks familiar. It has a long stalk structure, called a stipe, large leaf-like blades, and a bunch of pear-shaped bulbs called air bladders.

You can pop ’em.

AUDIO: [popping air bladder; crashing wave; popping air bladder]

It’s known as giant bladder kelp.

DAVIS: And is it slimy or not?

ROUGH: Yes, it’s slimy.

DAVIS: That’s the sodium alginate that’s in thousand island salad dressing. … It’s also in toothpaste and quite a few other things we use. It’s a thickener, an emulsifying agent.

It can grow two feet every day to about 200 feet in length. All kinds of marine life seek it out for shelter and protection.

DAVIS: All these critters depend on them. They depend on them for foraging, for eating, for reproduction as a nursery ground. Even the mother sea otter, she’ll wrap the seaweed around the little baby that doesn’t drift away in the tide and she goes down and gets food for the baby.

Like all algae, seaweed falls into three groups based on its pigmentation: brown, green, and red. Giant bladder kelp is brown. Davis soon finds a green one called sea lettuce. And we find reds, too.

DAVIS: There’s some that are better eating than others. The reds are really good. Like nori. Are you familiar with nori?

ROUGH: Yeah, but it’s green at the grocery store.

The color turns when processed.

Seaweeds thrive in cool water and are sensitive to temperature. So Davis is concerned. The average temperature of the Pacific Ocean’s surface waters is at its highest peak since record keeping began in the 1800s.

DAVIS: We’ve got an El Nino coming. It’s going to get hotter. It kills the most important seaweed. That one can’t handle high temperatures.

That’s what makes the four decades Davis spent collecting so important. He gathered it from an area where the water temperature has long been above average.

DAVIS: So these species are going to be the first to be impacted by climate change. Genetically they’re going to be different from the species up in the cold climate. So the earlier we had those things the better.

Public debate rages on over the cause of rising ocean temperatures and the policies best suited to fix it. But Davis’ collection allows scientists to look at a benchmark—directly comparing seaweeds now to samples from the 1970s.

DAVIS: All you need is a little clipping, a little bit, and you can extract the DNA. And the DNA tells you what kind of organism that was 40, 50 years ago.

Scientists can use that information to see how seaweeds have changed and whether they’ve genetically adapted to keep pace with the temperature increase.

Davis says humans can learn from the world God has made by remembering He designed ecosystems to function to our benefit. Our job is to remain humble and work with our creator to use His blueprint.

DAVIS: It’s hard to duplicate nature because we don’t understand how it works completely. There’s a lot of mystery that remains. We’ve got to appreciate it and realize that the goods and services and benefits that nature provides support all of us. And to be sustainable means the ecosystem has to be healthy to sustain us in the future.

Davis sees God’s providence in the way the organisms exist, persist, and continue. One more benefit Davis appreciates about seaweed?

DAVIS: The seaweed breaks the current, and the swell, and the seiche, and so it’s calm.

It’s the kind of calm that urges him to take time to quietly sit and watch.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Jenny Rough in Malibu, California.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

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

Earlier this week we told you about female athletes in Washington state who are asking voters to pass a ballot initiative to keep boys out of girls sports. Voters in three other states will also consider initiatives on women’s sports next week, and WORLD commentator David Closson says the results will be telling.

Millions of Americans will soon vote in the 2026 midterms. Most notably at stake is control of Congress.

But four states will also vote on first-of-their-kind ballot initiatives concerning women’s sports. In Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, and Washington state, voters will decide whether to prohibit males from competing in women’s athletics.

DAVID CLOSSON: The partisan leanings of these states differ widely. Colorado and Washington are reliably Democratic. Nebraska, solidly Republican. And Arizona, purple, a perennial battleground.

Polling consistently shows that a sizeable majority of Americans oppose males competing in women’s sports. But now voters in these four states will have an opportunity to confirm that emerging consensus. Or contradict it.

The measures differ in their details.

Arizona’s Proposition 318 would require schools to designate athletic teams as male, female, or coed based on sex. Crucially, it would prevent males from joining female teams. The measure also addresses access to restrooms and locker rooms.

Colorado’s Proposition 134 would require school and college athletes to compete on teams consistent with their biological sex.

In Nebraska, legislators have already passed a bill to protect girls’ sports. But those protections are in the law, not the constitution. Voters there will decide whether to elevate them to the state constitution.

And in Washington, Initiative 638 would prohibit males from competing in girls’ sports. The measure would also require verification of biological sex from a healthcare provider.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld state laws designed to preserve the integrity of women’s sports.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh explained that women and girls should be allowed to compete for life-changing opportunities on an equal playing field. He said they shouldn’t have to fear physical injury from biological males, or be forced to compete against them.

Here’s the key: The Court ruled that states may determine eligibility for women’s and girls’ sports based on biological sex.

Currently, our state laws are a patchwork: 29 have laws or regulations that limit participation in women’s or girls’ school sports to females only. The remaining 21 states provide no comparable protections.

Congress has not been able to agree on a national standard, so state patchwork it remains.

Voters next week will tell us a lot. The outcomes could be especially significant in Colorado and Washington, where female athletes lack legal protection. If polling is accurate, these measures have a decent chance to pass—even in states that vote overwhelmingly Democratic.

If these measures can make it there, to paraphrase Frank Sinatra, they can make it anywhere.

For WORLD, I’m David Closson.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Tomorrow: John Stonestreet will be here for Culture Friday. And, Collin Garbarino reviews a new documentary about climbing–then skiing down–Mount Everest. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Mary Reichard.

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

This is episode 3519 of The World and Everything in It, from WORLD Radio. WORLD’s mission is biblically objective journalism that informs, educates, and inspires.

The Bible says, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.” —1 John 2:15-17

Go now in grace and peace.

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