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The World and Everything In It

12.26.25 Culture Friday on the cultural stories of the year, the music of Italian flutist Gian-Luca Petrucci, and Listener Feedback

The World and Everything In It

WORLD Radio

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4.87K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On Culture Friday, John Stonestreet revisits the biggest cultural stories of 2025, Arsenio Orteza reviews the music of Gian-Luca Petrucci, and Listener Feedback for the month of December. Plus, the Friday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donateAdditional support comes from Commuter Bible, the audio Bible podcast series to match the work week. Available via podcast apps and commuterbible.orgAnd 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.com

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0:00.0

Good morning. John Stone Street here from the Colson Center. Every single week on Culture Friday,

0:04.4

we try to do something that is increasingly rare to slow down, long enough, to look at our

0:10.1

culture and understand what is happening without losing our minds, not just what the people are

0:14.9

arguing about in this time and place, but what those arguments reveal about who we are, about

0:20.2

what is true, about the moral order

0:22.0

that God put in the universe that's bigger than the headlines. And that kind of conversation

0:27.0

does not happen by accident. It takes time. It takes care and it takes a commitment to thinking

0:32.1

with a Christian worldview. If you value that kind of clarity and you want to see these

0:36.4

kind of conversations continue, please support the work of world. You can learn more by going to wng.org

0:43.4

slash donate. That's wng.org slash donate. And thanks for listening, for standing with us as we

0:51.2

try to make sense of this crazy culture.

0:59.5

Thank you. with us as we try to make sense of this crazy culture. Good morning. Today on Culture Friday, a culture year in review, and our country's major debates

1:06.7

have always centered on how we could best as a people please God.

1:12.1

Is Vice President Vance right about that John Stone Street standing by to talk about it?

1:17.4

Also today, world music critic Arsenio Orteza introduces the timely work of an Italian classical musician and listener feedback.

1:32.2

Music classical musician and listener feedback. It's Friday, December 26th.

1:34.6

This is the world and everything in it from listener-supported world radio.

1:38.4

I'm Lindsay Mast.

1:39.4

And I'm Nick Eicher.

1:40.5

Good morning.

1:43.1

Up next, Kent Covington with today's news.

1:47.3

Millions of Americans living in the mid-Atlantic and northeastern regions of the U.S.

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