12.26.24 Football players proclaiming Christ, women’s prisons with male inmates, and a medieval Christmas tradition

The World and Everything In It

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🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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NFL players sharing their faith (https://wng.org/podcasts/faith-on-the-field-1735150742), male inmates transferring to women’s prisons (https://wng.org/podcasts/men-behind-bars-in-womens-spaces-1735150743), and celebrating the Christmas season with a boar's head (https://wng.org/podcasts/a-medieval-christmas-tradition-lives-on-1735150744) and yuletide log. Plus, a military homecoming (https://wng.org/podcasts/kicker-home-for-christmas-1735150744), Cal Thomas (https://wng.org/podcasts/cal-thomas-washington-dcs-political-christmas-tree-1735150745) on on government waste, and the Thursday morning news (https://wng.org/podcasts/thursday-morning-news-december-26-2024-1735150742).Support The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate (https://donate.wng.org/). Additional support comes from Season 2 of I-Witness: Silent Night, the student-led podcast drama following time-travelers to the first Christmas. On podcast apps or at: iwitnesspod.com (https://www.iwitnesspod.org/) And from Asbury University. Enrollment is now open for January online grad and undergrad classes. Asbury—where Christ is central.

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0:00.0	Good morning.
0:06.6	Netflix was the first company to stream NFL games on Christmas Day, but the story off the field is the one to really watch.
0:14.5	Also today, some state prisons go out of the way to accommodate men who want to be in women's prisons. Never mind how the women feel about it.
0:22.1	The presence of males, no matter how the male acts,
0:25.7	is deeply traumatizing to the female inmates.
0:30.1	Plus, a medieval tradition that one church adopted
0:33.3	as part of its Christmas festivities.
0:35.6	It's not about all the presents in the marketing.
0:38.4	It's about this baby who came to save the world.
0:41.8	And World Commentator Count Thomas says politicians are giving out way too many presents with our money.
0:58.3	It's Thursday, December 26th. This is The World and Everything in it from listeners-supported World Radio.
1:02.5	I'm Mary Reichert.
1:03.4	And I'm Merna Brown.
1:04.7	Good morning.
1:06.3	Up next, Mark Mellinger has today's news.
1:09.8	Tragedy in Kazakhstan.
1:15.6	That is sound from an amateur video taken Wednesday morning as an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed in the former Soviet Republic.
1:24.7	Video shows the aircraft climbing and diving repeatedly, then making an emergency landing at an
1:30.9	airport in the city of Oktow, where it burst into flames.
1:36.1	Rescue crews rushed to the scene.
1:38.8	The airline says at least 38 of the 67 people aboard the plane died, but miraculously, more than two dozen survived.
1:50.6	This man was pulled from the wreckage. He says his wife was sitting next to him when the plane crashed,
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