2.20.26 Culture Friday on Texas politics, linguistic surrender, and a mass shooting, Max Belz on Hamnet, and Les Sillars on South Sudan
The World and Everything In It
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Culture Friday on Texas politics, linguistic surrender, and a mass shooting, Max Belz on Oscar contender Hamnet which explores love, loss, creativity, and Les Sillars on South Sudan’s tribal violence. Plus, the Friday morning news
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Today on Culture Friday, a U.S. Senate candidate from Texas centers his campaign on a critique of Christian nationalism. |
| 0:13.6 | They convinced a lot of our fellow Christians that the most important issues were abortion and gay marriage. |
| 0:20.6 | We'll talk it over with John Stone Street. |
| 0:23.0 | Also, today a poetic retelling of the loss that may have shaped Shakespeare's Hamlet. |
| 0:28.0 | He loves me for what I am, not what I ought to be. |
| 0:31.3 | Reviewer Max Bell's on an Oscar favorite. |
| 0:33.7 | And later, African military chaplains trained in both word and weapons. |
| 0:46.8 | It's Friday, February 20th. This is The World and Everything in it from listeners-supported |
| 0:52.0 | World Radio. I'm Mary Reichard. And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning. |
| 0:58.1 | Up next, Kent Covington with today's news. |
| 1:01.6 | In Washington, President Trump gaveled to a close the first session of his newly inaugurated Board of Peace. |
| 1:09.5 | This is the most prestigious board ever put together. |
| 1:12.8 | You know, I've seen some great corporate boards. |
| 1:15.1 | I've seen some great boards, period. |
| 1:17.4 | It's peanuts compared to this board. |
| 1:19.6 | The board consists of more than two dozen members, |
| 1:21.9 | including countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, and Israel, |
| 1:25.6 | as well as several nations taking part as observers. |
| 1:28.6 | The board's focus right now is the reconstruction of the war-torn Gaza Strip, as the ceasefire |
| 1:34.4 | between Israel and the Hamas terror group moves into phase two. |
| 1:38.7 | Indonesia's president, Prabolo Subbiento, says a prosperous Gaza is a goal worth fighting for. |
| 1:43.8 | We will achieve our dream of peace in Palestine, a lasting and peaceful solution for the Palestinian |
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