12/19/25 Katie McCoy on recent violence and abortion messaging, Collin Garbarino on Avatar: Fire and Ash, and George Grant on the origins of Christmas words

The World and Everything In It

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Culture Friday on the recent shootings and abortion politics and Collin Garbarino on the latest Avatar film Fire and Ash. Plus, Word Play on the language of Christmas, Peter Mead on Luke’s account of the Incarnation, and the Friday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donateAdditional support comes from Dordt University, where students are invited into God’s story of restoration; to live, learn, and work together with joyful purpose in all of life - until all is made new.From I Witness: The Long Shore:A cinematic audio drama that blends faith and history. iwitnesspod.comAnd from Commuter Bible, the work-week audio Bible in four annual plans. On podcast apps and commuterbible.org

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0:00.0	Good morning, friends. This is George Grant.
0:04.1	December has a way of summoning our most exalted language, our highest adjectives, our richest metaphors, our most ornamented phrases.
0:13.7	But underneath all the gilded vocabulary, there is a plain and practical reality that good work has to be sustained.
0:25.4	At World, the work of journalism is sustained the old-fashioned way by listeners who value it
0:32.6	enough to support it. That is what the December giving drive is for, a yearly rally point for gratitude,
0:42.5	generosity, and resolve. If you are able to take part, you can do so at wng.org slash donate.
0:54.0	And stay with me.
0:55.4	I'll have a Christmas language edition of wordplay before the program's over today.
1:07.0	Good morning.
1:09.1	The anti-Semitic attack in Australia and what it says about civilizational conflict and Islam's influence.
1:17.0	It would be crazy to see the circumstances on Sunday and turn a blind eye to that radicalization.
1:25.0	That and the resilience of Erica Kirk, Katie McCoy, standing by for Culture Friday, and...
1:30.9	All I have is my faith,
1:33.6	that this is the Great Mother's Plan.
1:36.6	Colin Garberino calls the latest avatar film Flimsy and Forgettable,
1:41.0	and later, part three of our Advent series.
1:51.6	Music and forgettable. And later, part three of our Advent series. It's Friday, December 19th.
1:54.1	This is The World and Everything in it.
1:56.3	From listeners-supported World Radio.
1:58.7	I'm Myrna Brown.
1:59.7	And I'm Nick Einker.
2:00.9	Good morning.
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