The World and Everything in It: September 18, 2026

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MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Well, you did it!

NICK EICHER, HOST: You really did. Fifteen years of The World and Everything in It—and you’ve pushed this program past 100 million downloads.

BROWN: That’s a milestone we could never reach without you listening, day after day. So thank you.

EICHER: And we’d like to mark it with a small token of our gratitude: a commemorative 15th-anniversary The World and Everything in It sticker.

BROWN: We’d be delighted to send you one—with our compliments.

EICHER: Just go to theworldandeverythinginit.org/sticker. There’s a link in the episode notes. Get your order in by September 30th. Or better yet, just do it today!

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

Today on Culture Friday: Kids running on energy drinks, cultural contradictions over women and the body

NICK EICHER, HOST: And false equivalence over radical Islam. John Stonestreet is standing by.

Also today—

GANDALF: Sauron needs only this ring to cover all the lands in a second darkness. He is seeking it.

Why The Fellowship of the Ring still sets the standard for Middle-earth, after 25 years.

Later: Quest with George Grant. Today, with pastor and author Scotty Smith on three books that deepened his Christian life

BROWN: It’s Friday, September 18th. 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: Carney EU association / Trump threat » President Trump is threatening the European Union with tariffs if it moves ahead with plans to make Canada the first associate member of the EU.

Trump said that if he decides it's, his words, at all a hostile act, he'll put very serious tariffs on Europe, or stop trading with Europe on many things.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to forge stronger ties with Europe amid a trade war between the US and Canada. He blames that friction on Trump, alluding to him in a speech to the European Parliament.

CARNEY: We are pursuing resilience so no one, no one can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty, threaten our territorial integrity, or undermine our freedoms, our democracies, our rule of law.

Trump also called Canada a terrible trade partner after talks between the neighboring countries collapsed last month. About two-thirds of what Canada sells abroad had been going to the United States, but that number has dropped in recent weeks.

Canada joined Europe's defense buying program this year, the first country outside Europe to do so. But associate membership doesn't exist yet. Europe would have to invent it, and Carney says Canada is not seeking full membership.

CARNEY: Canada and Europe should s-secure our strategic autonomy through deep cooperation in the full range of strategic capabilities.

He listed critical minerals, defense, artificial intelligence, energy, space, and payments. The two sides plan to meet in Montreal at the end of October to work out the details.

Speaker Johnson recesses early » The House of Representatives is on recess two weeks early, starting just one day before a vote on impeaching Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth.

WORLD’s Harrison Watters has more from the nation’s capital.

HARRISON WATTERS: Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Wednesday the House is closing up shop until after the November midterms.

JOHNSON: So the House has done its job, and will return here on a moment's notice if the Senate sends us things to continue to work on.

WATTERS: The House calendar originally had members staying in town until September 30th.

On Tuesday, GOP Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie surprised his party by introducing eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who the Trump administration now calls the Secretary of War.

MASSIE: Peter Brian Hegseth, in his capacity as Secretary of Defense, has executed unlawful orders in contravention of section 2C of the War Powers Resolution of 1973.

WATTERS: Massie says Hegseth has run out the clock on the War Powers Act and continued the war on Iran without approval from Congress.

Massie’s impeachment resolution would have forced a vote within two legislative days, but the House left town before that could happen. Massie on Wednesday questioned the move.

MASSIE: Why would we be canceling days when the country is burning, the inflation is rampant? There are things we could do here. Why would we cancel our own majority?

WATTERS: Speaker Johnson said members could return with 48 hours notice if necessary.

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

Ukraine attack » In Ukraine:

SOUND: [Odesa attack aftermath]

At least 19 people were injured Thursday, after a barrage of Russian missiles and drones targeted Kyiv and the surrounding region.

The injured included two children.

SOUND: [Apartment cleanup]

Meanwhile, residents are left to pick up the pieces.

AUDIO: [Speaking Ukrainian]

This woman says her mother was in her apartment when the door was blown down. She says she's thankful she wasn't hurt, but they're still trying to clean up the debris.

And on Capitol Hill, lawmakers this week passed their own legislation aimed at ending the Ukraine war.

South Carolina Senator Darline Graham celebrated passage of the bill named after her late brother.

GRAHAM: The Lindsey O. Graham sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026. A critical piece of legislation that will assist President Trump in his noble efforts to bring the Russia-Ukraine war to a close.

It now heads to President Trump's desk for signature.

S. Korea abortion pills » South Korea is moving to approve abortion pills for the first time. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin reports.

KRISTEN FLAVIN: The government announced the plan Wednesday. Doctors could prescribe a two-drug combination through the ninth week of pregnancy, starting early next year, once regulators sign off. Officials say women already buy the pills from unverified online sellers.

South Korea has had no enforceable abortion ban or legal limits since 2021. The Constitutional Court struck down the old ban in 2019 and told lawmakers to write a new one. They never did.

This comes amid a demographic crisis in the country. South Korea has the world’s lowest fertility rate.

At a rally Thursday, opposition lawmaker Cho Bae-sook said, her words: if the unborn live, Korea lives.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

Chinese advanced chip » Chinese tech company Huawei has unveiled new artificial intelligence chips, aimed at competing with American chip giant Nvidia.

Washington bars China from buying the top AI chips, so Chinese companies build their own. Huawei showed off a system, due next year, that wires thousands of its chips together to act as one machine.

But researchers say Huawei still has only a fraction of Nvidia’s AI computing capacity. And Huawei says it can't make enough chips to meet demand at home.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is expected in Washington next week to meet President Trump.

On Sunday, Trump stressed the importance of staying ahead of China on artificial intelligence.

I'm Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: John Stonestreet is standing by for Culture Friday. And later: Why The Fellowship of the Ring still sets the standard for Middle-earth, after 25 years.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Fifteen years. One hundred million downloads. And today, we’re just grateful. Because without you listening, none of this lasts. But you do—morning after morning—and here we are.

So thank you for helping us get here.

It’s Friday the 18th of September. This is The World and Everything in It.

Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. It’s Culture Friday, and joining us is John Stonestreet, president of the Colson Center and host of the Breakpoint podcast. Good morning!

JOHN STONESTREET: Good morning.

EICHER: Well, John, a couple of stories about kids that at first may not seem related.

One of them—and this is where I’d like to start. One of them has to do with schools trying to stamp out the use of energy drinks among students.

Teenagers, according to a story I saw in The Wall Street Journal, are drinking two or three of these a day. No huge surprise, maybe, for older students. But elementary-school kids are showing up to school with them.

One student explained the attraction this way: You get home late from a ballgame, you’ve got school the next day, the caffeine helps get you going.

So here’s the question for you: When did being tired—being exhausted, not getting enough sleep … When did that become a problem children are supposed to deal with by using energy drinks

STONESTREET: Well, I think if you asked any teenager in the history of the world how they’re doing, their number one answer is always, “I’m tired.”

And the question is, do they have a real reason to be tired or not a real reason to be tired? Listen, we were popping Mountain Dews back in the day, two or three a day, though. And the amount of caffeine that’s included in some of these energy drinks today is way beyond the norm.

But the thing to think about here, too, is that we do have something that we know disrupts sleep, despite the constant answer, “I’m tired,” to every question that you ask teenage youth groups, which I’ve experienced too. Not that I’m bitter or anything.

But there is a difference now, and that is cell phones. The constant glow of cell phones is something that is known to disrupt sleep. It’s known to keep a brain going in a way that even when eyes are closed, there’s still this sense or awareness of this device that never leaves our side, is always glowing, will wake us up, and so on and so on.

So I think that’s something else that’s in the mix as well, is just the interruption that screens have made to young people’s sleep.

EICHER: I think that’s a good transition into the second story, just in terms of distractions and what they’re doing to kids.

International testing shows students struggling especially with careful reading, making connections, and critical thinking. And the researchers use a phrase I really like: “productive cognitive struggle.”

In other words: You don’t get stronger by watching somebody else exercise. And, you don’t get smarter by simply consuming the answer, either. So what if the frustration of learning isn’t a bug but a feature? That struggle is actually part of the education?

STONESTREET: The struggle is part of the education process, and that points to one of the things. There’s a perfect storm here that’s impacting this.

Not only the devices, the access to easy information, and therefore the cultural category shift between information and wisdom, which I think we’ll be reckoning with a long time, but there’s two other things as well.

The first is there’s been a fundamental shift in what education is. This resurgence of classical education, in large part, is based around this idea that, listen, we don’t want to tell kindergartners and first- and second-graders to look inside for the truth and to get in touch with their feelings and to establish their own identities.

We want them to have some actual, tangible truth, some knowledge that they can actually use, so that then they can become knowers later on.

The assumption is that you are able and allowed to become an independent thinker after you have this ground-level ability that has been cultivated. And some of that comes through things like flashcards and phonics and just basic building blocks of knowledge.

And if you don’t have that, and you send somebody into this task of independent thinking, then they could be thinking about all kinds of things, but they’re not thinking with anything.

And in order to justify the failed models of starting with independent thinking before starting with the grammatical necessities to thinking, well, then you have to add the other thing, which is just lower expectations.

I think this is an epidemic thing that has taken place across the board, and I don’t think it’s just true of education. I think it’s true of Sunday school, and I think it’s true of youth groups, and I think it’s true of how we talk to students.

We say, “Boys will be boys,” but we’re not talking about boys. We’re talking about 16-, 17-year-olds that in other countries would be fighting wars and managing crops and whatever else.

We have this triumph of the adolescent, and it has flipped so many of these things upside down.

So it’s a perfect storm. It’s not one thing. It’s a whole lot of things.

BROWN: John, there are two very different arguments about women happening this week. First: The actress Sydney Sweeney is taking heat from female athletes for a sexualized sports ad they say sets women’s sports back. Meanwhile, second: Women from the University of Wyoming are back in court arguing their sorority changed the meaning of “woman” when it admitted a transgender member.

So here’s what strikes me: In one argument, the female body matters enough that reducing women to the body alone is degrading. In the other, biological sex is treated as beside the point in defining a women’s institution.

Can those two ideas really live together?

STONESTREET: Well, listen. The story of the sexual revolution and the late chapters of the sexual revolution is all about the snake eating its own tail. It’s all about living with incompatible realities.

At the same time, the people that are outraged at Sydney Sweeney—and they should be—I mean, what she has done is objectify her own body. She’s doing it for personal gain. It is a form of prostitution.

But is she new at this?

I mean, is this the first time we’ve seen this? Some of the people that are making this complaint are folks at ESPN. ESPN has published naked athletes now in their “Body Issue” of their magazine for over a decade now.

She’s not doing something new to set women’s sports back unless she’s setting it back a year and a half. Something that set it far more back is not knowing what a woman is, and I say that without endorsing at any level this ad.

Listen, the inconsistencies when you separate the human person from the body are going to be unavoidable. We are not just our bodies; we are more than just our bodies, but we’re not less than our bodies. Our bodies are us.

We’re not souls floating around inside a physical shell. The creation narrative is really clear about this: that humans, He forms out of the dust of the ground—physical—breathes into them the breath of life—spiritual—and that’s what it means to be a living soul.

We’re not bodies and souls. We’re not bodies with souls. As bodies, we are souls, and that is a framing of anthropology that a culture has really missed.

Certainly, the sexual revolution had to do that. It had to separate sexual morality from the body. We’re doing something, and the body is just a portrait. The body’s just being molded into whatever image we want it to be, and it’s not actually given. It’s not informative for us.

And so I think that’s why you see these big contradictions that are happening in culture. But we’ve seen a ton of them, right?

None of this makes any sense. Let’s celebrate a woman posing as empowering, taking control of her own gaze, or whatever the people say these days, and then turn around and say, “Well, no, if she does it, then it doesn’t count.”

So the inconsistencies are stark, but they’re unavoidable when you get rid of reality, because what you’re trying to do—it’s like your feet is firmly planted in midair, as Francis Schaeffer put it.

So what are you going to do?

BROWN: John, The Economist has a cover story this week promising “the truth and the lies” about Islam in Europe. Its basic frame is that Europe is being squeezed between two dangerous fringes: Islamist extremists on one side, far-right extremists on the other, with a sensible majority caught in between.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali says that sounds balanced—but it’s a false balance. She argues those two forces are not mirror images, and treating them as though they are actually obscures what’s happening in Europe.

How do you make the distinction that’s really necessary here—between Islam and Islamism, Muslims and Islamist movements, and legitimate concern about hostility toward Muslim neighbors? How do you do that without this false equivalence?

STONESTREET: Well, I think one thing is to pretend that there’s not the same level of extremism, or more, on the political left, that really what we’re dealing with is the political right.

And make no mistake—there is an extremist element on the political right—but that’s what’s being left out of The Economist framing of it.

And there is an alliance that Ted Cruz talked about and got into some trouble for talking about, the red-green alliance, the social liberals, the young socialists, and why they tend to play so well with Islamists. And that’s something we’re seeing obviously happen here in America.

So one of the things that this will end up doing is shifting what is assumed to be normal. If you’re extreme and you’re extreme and I’m not, then I’m the normal one, and that’s the framing I think that’s happening here in The Economist.

But your question about Islamism is exactly right.

That when we’re talking about an ordinary, everyday Muslim who’s been widely secularized because they’ve been in the United States or been in Europe somewhere, and basically have rejected the more fundamentalist teachings of their religion, we’re not talking about Islamism.

When you’re talking about Islamism, you’re talking about believing this way of thinking about life in the world should control everything.

Now you could say, “Well, wait a minute! Don’t Christians think that too?” And the answer is yes. But you know how different it is when someone acts more like Muhammad versus when someone acts more like Jesus.

You know how different it comes out both for individuals and nations when someone asks, “What would Jesus do in this situation?” versus “What would Muhammad do in this situation?” We could not be any more different.

You’re landing in very, very different places, both for individuals and for complete civilizations.

And when people just say, “Oh, there’s all this extremism over there, but we’re not,” they’re forgetting that they’re imposing a narrative, particularly on religious belief, which is that all religions are fundamentally the same, and it’s only those people who take their own religion too seriously that are the problem.

No, religions are not fundamentally the same. They’re actually fundamentally different, and then they just look a little bit similar on the outside.

And the closer you get to the core of Islam, that’s what Islamism is, and it has implications for the political, for the social, for the economic, across the board.

And I think that’s what we’re seeing.

And I would certainly trust Ayaan, who’s seen all of this stuff up close and personal in a way that few people have. I would listen, and she’s also one of the smartest people on the planet, so we should probably listen to what she has to say.

BROWN: All right, that’s John Stonestreet. John is president of the Colson Center, and he’s host of the Breakpoint Podcast. Thank you, John!

Thank you, both.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, September 18th. 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.

Twenty-five years ago, The Fellowship of the Ring brought Tolkien’s Middle-earth to the big screen. Plenty of fantasy films have followed, but few have matched its scale, seriousness, and wonder.

Here’s WORLD’s Steve Limkeman.

STEVE LIMKEMAN: I love watching stories unfold from their beginnings, and no tale springs from a richer world than The Fellowship of the Ring. Tolkien’s epic starts in the idyllic agrarian country of the Shire and follows Frodo Baggins and his companions on their quest to destroy the ruling Ring of Power. The wizard Gandalf’s much-anticipated arrival for Bilbo’s birthday party establishes his deep friendship with the hobbits and makes us feel right at home. Frodo’s playful chastisement of the wizard for being late is just as endearing as Bilbo’s enthusiastic reception.

GANDALF: One hundred and eleven years old, who would believe it? You haven’t aged a day… [laughter]

BILBO: Come on, come in! Welcome, welcome!

In the midst of Bilbo’s joyful celebration, we grow as fond of the Shire as have Frodo and his good friend Sam. Tolkien himself once remarked, “I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands. I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food.” The Fellowship marvelously grounds viewers in the smallness of the Shire, and our hobbit-like perspective creates an incredible sense of wonder towards the world outside its borders. We share Frodo’s love of the familiar fields, the woods, and the little rivers. At the same time, we resonate with Bilbo’s restless longing for adventure.

BILBO: I’ve got to get away from these confounded relatives hanging on the bell all day, never giving me a moment’s peace! I want to see mountains again, mountains, Gandalf! And then find somewhere quiet where I can finish my book.

One of the greatest strengths of The Fellowship of the Ring is how remarkably it showcases the recovery of the natural world. In his landmark essay, “On Fairy-Stories,” Tolkien asserts that humans need to regain their sense of awe and their appreciation of beauty when they are confronted with creation. The immersive quest of the Fellowship empowers us to “[see] things as we are (or were) meant to see them.” This has also been the most compelling aspect of subsequent Lord of the Rings projects, though their screenplays pale in comparison. There is a magical quality about the realms of Middle-earth, one that infuses our own mountains, caverns, and forests with additional majesty for having dwelt there for a time.

GANDALF: Behold, the great realm of the dwarf city of Dwarrowdelf.

SAM: Well that’s an eye opener and no mistake.

In his 1954 rave review of The Fellowship of the Ring, C.S. Lewis wrote that “nothing quite like it was ever done before… You can hardly put your foot down anywhere… without stirring the dust of history.” Jackson’s adaptation excels at capturing the essence of Tolkien’s groundbreaking storytelling. As travelers through Middle-earth, we cannot help but stand amazed at the depth of ages past and the lingering marks they have left upon the world. The greatest of these, of course, is the legacy of the Ring, and all that its discovery foreshadows. Gandalf treats the Ring with such weight that he refuses to take it from Frodo even to keep it safe. That imbues it with a presence that draws us irresistibly onward. His dark hints masterfully establish the stakes for the quest, surpassing Frodo’s worst fears:

GANDALF: Sauron needs only this ring to cover all the lands in a second darkness. He is seeking it. Seeking it. All his thought is bent on it. For the Ring yearns above all else to return to the hand of its master. They are one—the Ring and the Dark Lord. Frodo, he must never find it.

The Fellowship of the Ring is a faithful adaptation every step of the way. It embodies and enhances the best of what Middle-earth has to offer. The cast delivers a phenomenal performance and Howard Shore’s soaring score is unparalleled as it admirably carries the narrative’s emotional weight. Living landscapes abound with beauty and terror, encountered by friends whose loyalty has no rival.

SAM: I made a promise, Mr. Frodo. A promise. ‘Don’t you leave him, Samwise Gamgee.’ And I don’t mean to. I don’t mean to.

FRODO: Oh, Sam.

My family has long had a tradition of watching the Lord of the Rings movies at Christmas ever since their December releases in theaters. I invite you all to join me as The Fellowship turns 25. May we rediscover our sense of wonder at the beauty of the world and all that is in it.

I’m Steve Limkeman.

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.

Time now for Quest for September. George Grant talks with pastor and author Scotty Smith about three books that shaped his view of God, the Bible, and the Christian life.

GEORGE GRANT: Scotty, you have served in a myriad of ministry contexts, church planter, seminary professor, mentor to pastors, missionaries, and business leaders. So how has reading shaped your life, your faith, and your worldview?

SCOTTY SMITH: Actually, George, I did not read a whole book until I went to college shortly after I became a believer.

GRANT: Oh my goodness.

SMITH: So haven't stopped since, but it has been a radical gift in my life, so joyfully do I stay in that journey with you.

GRANT: Well, let's now talk about the titles on your list. You've shared the list with me previously, so I've got a little bit of a head start on our listeners. What's the first book and what was going on in your life when you encountered it?

SMITH: Yeah, first book: J.I. Packer's classic Knowing God. I became a believer in nineteen sixty-eight, and I think that book came out about 1972 or so, and it just really represented putting together of all the pieces of deconstructing so many wrong thoughts I had about God, George, and it just gave me both in its content and how it was written, just a portal into the glory and the grace of God has been foundational for all these years since.

GRANT: So how does the book show up now in the work that you do day by day today?

SMITH: I think it was Tozier that once said there's nothing more important about us than the notions of God we carry in our heart. So I would say just the massiveness of the glory and the grace and the sovereignty of God that I first received through that book, it shapes every single day of my life. He appropriately put theology in the context of doxology and really was writing out of Jesus' definition of eternal life is knowing God and his son Jesus. So, you know, that is highly relational, rich, very accessible theologically and my first real, real, real understanding of the good news of God's sovereign grace.

Grant: Now the second book that influenced you, this is a weighty tome. In what ways did this second book shape you? And tell us a little bit about it.

SMITH: The Pauline Eschatology by a fabulous Princeton professor named Geerhardus Voss. And this book basically is a wonderful study of the Apostle Paul's understanding of how the new creation reality of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection has really brought about this glorious advancing of the kingdom of God. And I think functionally, George, what it did for me was it made the whole Bible one unfolding story. Because what Voss does in this book is to show how the old broken age of sin and death has been invaded by the promised messianic age. And that's not just in the future, that's happening right now.

GRANT: Okay, let's go on to your third book. What does this one add to your story?

SMITH: So this book, again, a lot of words and a fun name: Not the Way it’s Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin by Cornelius Plantinga Jr. This book with a kind of a frightful theme actually unlocked the first two chapters of the Bible to me in terms of the concept of shalom.

So, Not the Way it's Supposed to Be is a line. It's actually titled of a movie that's a classic movie that I've really enjoyed that really shows the brokenness of sin and death is pervasive. And yet our story did not begin with the fall. Our story began and the concept of shalom, of which Eden was full, and of which our progressive life and growth in Christ and future will come to even greater fullness. So, Shalom is the world of not just God's people, but God's gifts, God's space, everything being saturated with the truth, goodness, and beauty of his being. So again, it was a game changer because it it freed me some some privatized notions of the gospel, freed me from some wrong thinking about the ends times end times as really disparaging this world and just you know, get people saved and ready to die.

GRANT: For twenty six years, Scotty Smith served as the founding pastor of Christ Community, a Presbyterian Church in America congregation in Franklin, Tennessee. In addition, he's been an adjunct faculty member at Covenant, Westminster Redeemer, and Reformed Theological Seminaries. You've been busy, brother.

SMITH: Not as busy as you, my friend.

GRANT: Scotty is the author of several books, including Unveiled Hope, Objects of His Affection, and Everyday Prayers. His blog, Heavenward, may be found at thegospelcoalition.org. Scotty, thank you.

SMITH: Thank you, my friend.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Before we go, one more thank-you for carrying The World and Everything in It past 100 million downloads. On your podcast player, tap the program title and you’ll find the episode notes. We’ve put the link right there to get your free commemorative sticker. Easy peasy. Or just go to theworldandeverythinginit.org/sticker

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The Bible says, “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 near to God — and to His people on the Lord’s Day in a Bible-believing church, where you will be guided by His counsel …

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Go now in grace and peace.

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