The World and Everything in It - Feb. 23, 2013
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Washington blame game escalates as sequester nears, the last in our series of interviews for Black History Month, a debate on religion's place in the 21st century, plus a look at health care sharing ministries and commentary from Cal Thomas and John Stonestreet
Sequester, Cal Thomas, remembering Howard Hendricks, FRC shooter inspired by SPLC 'hate map,' German homeschool family faces deportation, Academy Awards, Black History Month interview with Kay Coles James, John Stonestreet on why Pope selection matters to Protestants, markets and economy, Rowan Williams and Richard Dawkins debate at Cambridge, health care sharing ministries, Mississippi officially ratifies 13th amendment, birth of modern calendar, The History Book, and more
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Hour A, Segment 1
The looming sequester and the Washington blame game
Commentator Cal Thomas: Democrats feel threatened by Hispanic Republicans
Remembering Howard Hendricks
Kent Covington is a political reporter for The World and Everything in It.
Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform and serves as a contributing editor to American Spectator Magazine.
Cal Thomas is America’s most widely syndicated columnist. Read his recent article “The double threats” about Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla).
Howard Hendricks was a professor at Dallas Theological Seminary. He died Feb. 20, 2013, at age 88. He was a mentor to many well known evangelical leaders.
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Hour A, Segment 2
FRC shooter inspired by SPLC ‘hate map’
Do Christian parents have a fundamental right to homeschool?
Mary Reichard is a legal affairs correspondent for The World and Everything in It.
Michael Farris is chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association. He represents Uwe and Hannelore Romeike, who fled from Germany to the U.S. with their five children in 2008 seeking asylum. Germany has threatened to take custody of the Romeike’s children if they don’t enroll them in state-approved schools.
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Hour A, Segment 3
Looking ahead to the Academy Awards
Megan Basham is the entertainment editor for WORLD News Group.
The 85th annual Academy Awards airs Sunday night, Feb. 24, on ABC.
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Hour A, Segment 4
The Olasky Interview: Kay Coles James
Kay Cole James is former director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, and now founder and president the Gloucester Institute, a leadership training center for young African Americans.
Watch (article and video) or listen (mp3) to the full conversation between WORLD News Group editor in chief Marvin Olasky and Kay Coles James, conducted at Patrick Henry College in Virginia.
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Hour A, Segment 5
Commentator John Stonestreet: Why the selection of the next Pope matters to evangelicals
Commentator John Stonestreet is a Fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview and host of The Point, a daily radio feature on worldview and culture.
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Hour B, Segment 1
What's behind rising gas prices?
Markets and the economy
Kent Covington is covers current events for The World and Everything in It.
E. Calvin Beisner is a spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation. He is also general editor of the Cornwall Alliance’s "A Renewed Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Examination of the Theology, Science, and Economics of Global Warming" (PDF).
Warren Cole Smith is Vice President of WORLD News Group and regularly covers business and economic news. Read his weekly finance column “Dollars and Sense.”
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Hour B, Segment 2
Rowan Williams and Richard Dawkins debate religion at Cambridge University
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and prominent atheist Richard Dawkins debated last month at Cambridge University. The focus of the debate was the place of religion in the 21st century.
For more, you can watch the full debate and read accounts published by The Cambridge Student Online and Christian Today.
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Hour B, Segment 3
Health care sharing ministries remain untouched by Obamacare
Learn more about health care sharing ministries.
Steve Jordahl is a reporter for The World and Everything in It.
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Hour B, Segment 4
Mississippi officially ratifies the 13th Amendment
How we got our modern calendar
Ken Sullivan, an employee at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, discovered that Mississippi had not officially notified the U.S. Archivist in 1995 after finally passing the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery. He worked to finish the process. On Feb. 7, 2013, the ratification became official.
Reporter Michael Cochrane covers science and technology stories for The World and Everything in It.
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Hour B, Segment 5
The History Book
Feb. 25, 1870—Hiram R. Revels, R-Miss., becomes the first black member of the United States Senate.
Feb. 25, 1913—The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, is declared in effect.
Feb. 23, 1991—President George H.W. Bush announces the beginning of an allied ground offensive against Iraqi forces.
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