4.11.25 Culture Friday, Arsenio Arteza on legendary vocalists, and Word Play with George Grant

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🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On Culture Friday, Andrew Walker discusses the church’s lack of leadership, Arsenio Orteza highlights two legendary vocalists, and on Word Play George Grant remembers the dictionary that set the standard. Plus, the Friday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate.Additional support comes from Dordt University, where 100% of pre-PT students are accepted into Physical Therapy school. Dordt.edu.From Evangelism Explosion International. Helping believers share the good news of Jesus with the world. EvangelismExplosion.orgAnd from the Colson Fellows Program—a nine-month journey equipping Christians with clarity and courage to navigate today’s culture. colsonfellows.org/world

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0:00.0	Good morning. Today on Culture Friday, what would it take to recover a faith that values both grace and God's design?
0:13.3	Andrew Walker is standing by to talk about that. Also today,
0:16.9	OLE, OLE, OLE, OLE, OLE. World Music critic Arcea on a punk icon's wild ride and a blue-eyed soul farewell.
0:28.6	Later George Grant takes us back to the age of Johnson, Samuel Johnson, that is, with the wit,
0:34.6	wisdom and dictionary definitions of England's great man of letters.
0:38.3	Wordplay for the month of April.
0:47.2	It's Friday, April 11th.
0:49.4	This is the World and Everything in it.
0:51.4	From listeners-supported World Radio.
0:53.4	I'm Merle Brown. And I'm Nick
0:54.9	Eicher. Good morning. Here's Kent Cuffington with today's news. Republicans are one step closer
1:03.1	to passing a bill addressing President Trump's top priorities. On this vote, the Yaser 216,
1:09.0	the Nays are 214. The motion is adopted without objection.
1:12.1	The motion reconsider is laid on the table.
1:14.0	The House on Thursday passed a budget framework, a sort of blueprint for a massive bill to come later, and the president told reporters.
1:22.1	We're well on our way to getting, as we call it, the big, the great big, beautiful bill.
1:28.3	It's tax cuts, regulation cuts, and many other things.
1:32.3	Democrats criticize it as a bill they say will hand tax breaks to the wealthy.
1:36.3	Our Speaker Mike Johnson explains what comes next.
1:39.3	We have our 11 committees that will get instructions for reconciliation in the House.
1:43.3	They are ready to go. We've been working on this for many months, almost a year now, really,
1:47.6	when we first started the effort. And now we go through the process of marking it up and finding
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