12.25.25 Lighting of the National Christmas Tree throughout history and the apostles’s view of the Incarnation

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🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony throughout history, and Peter Mead on the apostles’ view of the Incarnation, and the Thursday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donateAdditional support comes from Missions Upside Down - a FREE, award-winning video series about Christian missions in the past, present, and into the future. You can find this free resource on RightNowMedia or at missionsupsidedown.comAnd from Commuter Bible, the audio Bible podcast series to match the work week. Available via podcast apps and commuterbible.org

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0:00.0	Good morning.
0:06.8	Today, a special Christmas Day edition of the world and everything in it.
0:10.7	How a 100-year-old holiday tradition helps unite Americans in moments of crisis.
0:15.5	Our strongest weapon in this war is that conviction of the dignity and brotherhood of man, which
0:26.2	Christmas Day signifies.
0:29.4	And Peter Mead is back with his final reflection on the incarnation of Christ.
0:34.5	This time, a survey of how the apostles wrote of the coming of Christ.
0:46.3	It's Thursday, December 25th. This is The World and Everything in it from listeners-supported
0:51.7	World Radio. I'm Mary Rikert. And I'm
0:54.2	Myrna Brown. Merry Christmas. Up next, Kent Covington has today's news.
1:02.2	Crews in Bristol, Pennsylvania, are digging through the wreckage of a nursing home after a
1:06.5	powerful explosion killed at least two women and injured more than 20 others.
1:14.2	Fire chief Kevin DeVolito said as for the cause of the blast.
1:18.6	That is still under investigation. We have heavy machinery on site right now that's helping us excavate the area until we excavate that area and remove the walls and roofs that collapsed.
1:24.7	We won't have any idea what may have occurred in there. A utility crew had been
1:29.3	checking on a gas odor shortly before the explosion. The blast tore through a wing of the Bristol
1:34.6	Health and Rehab Center Tuesday afternoon, collapsing walls and the roof of the kitchen and cafeteria.
1:40.5	Police chief Charles C.J. Winnick praised the firefighters who carried residents to safety,
1:45.7	many of whom were wheelchair-bound.
1:47.3	I've never seen such heroism. They were running into a building that I could from 50 feet
1:54.4	away and still smell gas and walls that looked like they were going to fall down.
1:58.4	And they were still going into building to recover people.
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