3.14.25 Culture Friday, the Looney Tunes cinematic debut, and Word Play highlights malaphors

The World and Everything In It

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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On Culture Friday, John Stonestreet gives updates on BLM, SBC, and the DOE; Collin Garbarino reviews The Day the Earth Blew Up; and on Word Play, George Grant considers mixed metaphors. Plus, the Friday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate.Additional support comes from…When we pick up our Bibles, if we're honest, sometimes we lose the thread, especially with some of the strange happenings in Genesis. In From Eden to Egypt, Alex Duke gives everyday Christians accessible insight of these wonderful stories so that they'll see how these seemingly obscure stories connect to Jesus and to our lives. For a chapter preview with pre-order, visit FromEdenToEgyptBook.com.Located in Central Florida, Reformation Bible College seeks to equip students in the knowledge of God and His holiness, that they may glorify and enjoy Him in any career they enter. Established by Dr. R.C. Sproul, RBC’s curriculum equips students to know, serve, and worship God in all of life. See what life is like on campus during Spring Preview Day on April 9, 2025. Register at ReformationBibleCollege.org/preview.Ambassadors Impact Network, helping entrepreneurs who are looking for more than just funding. Discover a community of Christian faith-led investors. More at ambassadorsimpact.com

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0:00.0	Good morning. Today on Culture Friday, a new paid job for Black Lives Matter Plaza, a proposed workforce reduction for the Department of Education, and the big abuse scandal among Southern Baptists that wasn't.
0:19.5	John Stone Street is standing by for Culture Friday, and later.
0:23.7	Why, this is just the opportunity we've been waiting for.
0:26.9	Woohoo!
0:27.6	Looney Tunes makes its cinematic debut,
0:30.9	and metaphor meets Malaprop because, when it comes to wordplay,
0:35.5	you'll always find George Grant burning both ends of the midnight oil.
0:46.3	It's Friday, March 14th. This is the world and everything in it. From listeners-supported World Radio. I'm Merle Brown.
0:53.9	And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning.
0:58.2	Up next, Ken Covington with today's news. At the Capitol, senators are up against a midnight
1:04.9	deadline to pass a government funding bill to avert a government shutdown. Senate Democratic
1:10.1	leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday that he's ready to start the process
1:13.8	today of considering a Republican-led stopgap spending bill.
1:18.4	Democrats had been holding out, demanding, among other things, language to limit the power
1:22.9	of Doge led by Elon Musk to audit government spending.
1:30.3	Russia's Vladimir Putin says he agrees in principle with the U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine.
1:40.1	But he said certain provisions still need to be ironed out and more discussions are needed, including with President Trump.
1:47.1	And for his part, Trump welcomed Putin's response expressing guarded optimism.
1:52.2	He put out a very promising statement, but it wasn't complete.
1:56.7	And yeah, I'd love to meet with him or talk to him.
1:59.9	But we have to get it over with fast.
2:01.9	Ukraine has already accepted the proposal from the U.S.
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