The Wednesday, August 19, 2015 episode of WORLD Radio’s The World and Everything in It has been posted to Geneva College’s website at http://www.geneva.edu/faith/the-world. The midweek edition of the show contains today’s news and a political discussion about presidential candidates jockeying for position in Iowa, plus a highlight on the Midwest region finalist for WORLD’s 2015 Hope Award for Effective Compassion.
Today’s headlines include another lost vote for the Obama administration in the battle for approval of the nuclear deal, heat for the IRS for under reporting the size of its recent data breach, the murder trial of the 74-year old man charged with killing three people last year outside Kansas City Jewish Centers and popular children’s television show Sesame Street’s move to HBO.
In the White House Wednesday portion of the program, WORLD Radio’s chief political correspondent Kent Covington discusses the more than 20 presidential contenders fighting for public attention at the Iowa State Fair, now inside six months from the important Iowa caucus. He also talks about a recent survey of evangelical thinkers and opinion leaders, naming religious liberty as the number one voting issue facing evangelicals, with abortion coming in second.
Continuing a series of features on the finalists for WORLD’s 2015 Hope Award for Effective Compassion, this week the Midwest finalist Grace Centers of Hope is featured. Grace Centers of Hope is a ministry based out of Pontiac, Michigan. The ministry provides temporary housing for the homeless, those battling addiction and victims of domestic violence. They have several programs aimed at helping people find Christ and establish a firm footing to be able to take care of themselves.
To end the program WORLD founder Joel Belz gives a commentary entitled “Whatever happened to holiness?” in which he discusses why the term “holiness” is difficult for Christians. He encourages listeners to pray for the eyes to see through the façade of temptation to the rubbish underneath.
Geneva is a sponsor of The World and Everything in It half hour news program produced by WORLD Radio, a nonprofit news team committed to honest reporting from a biblical perspective. The World and Everything in It covers current news topics as well as issues such as legal battles, personal freedoms, government policy, racial intolerance and other topics of concern to the Christian community – all with a distinctive Reformed Christian worldview.
With the help of this sponsorship, The World and Everything in It is aired on 1230 WBVP and 1460 WMBA every Wednesday at 3 p.m. A rebroadcast of the radio show is also available on the Geneva website after it is aired on 1230 WBVP and 1460 WMBA so that those who live outside of the listening area may be able to hear WORLD Radio news with a biblical Christian worldview.
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