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2 weeks ago | 
wng.org | Kevin Martin |Lynn Vincent |Nick Eicher |Brad Littlejohn
CULTURE TRENDING Too hot to handle SUMMER BOOKS | Popular new books targeting young adults combine fantasy with steamy romance Books Secrets worth keeping SUMMER BOOKS | Cozy gothic novels appeal to a wide range of readers Just light enough SUMMER BOOKS | Our staff picks for summer reading, perhaps best enjoyed on the beach History in human scale SUMMER BOOKS | The power of biography—and several reading recommendations A man and his movement SUMMER BOOKS | The monumental life of Bill Buckley...
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2 weeks ago | 
wng.org | Lynn Vincent
When the Navy and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in June announced the renaming of several USNS ships—a class of civilian-operated oilers—including the USNS Harvey Milk, the American left erupted.
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1 month ago | 
wng.org | Lynn Vincent |Anna Brown |Grace Snell
SOUND: [NEW YORK CITY] ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN, HOST: It’s business as usual in America’s largest city. Skyscrapers overshadow teeming sidewalks. Yellow taxis zip by. Neon headlines crawl across billboards. Top story: The death of a brain-injured woman in Florida. Camera crews prowl the New York City streets, stopping passersby for reactions. BYSTANDER 1: She died? Yeah. Whoa, that they should have put the feeding tube in her. So she could live like a human being like you would be supposed to.
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1 month ago | 
wng.org | Lynn Vincent |Anna Brown |Grace Snell
LYNN VINCENT: It’s March 28, 2005. The Monday after Easter. CARRIE: This afternoon, it’ll mark a full ten days since Terri Schiavo has had any food or water. VINCENT: A white stretch limousine cruises within a block or so of the hospice…then parks. A tall, distinguished-looking man climbs out—an icon of the Civil Rights era and a lightning rod of contemporary politics: The Reverend Jesse Jackson.
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1 month ago | 
wng.org | Lynn Vincent |Anna Brown |Grace Snell
ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN, HOST: Terri’s time is running out. And the battle for her life consumes the Schindlers. They’ve quit their jobs to become full-time advocates. Bobby leads the charge—juggling phone calls from senators and celebrities. Suzanne fights to stay cheerful for her family. SUZANNE: We had to stay strong for each other. We also had to stay strong for Terri. I mean, we had a fight ahead of us. And all of us had to suck it up and fight for her.
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1 month ago | 
wng.org | Lynn Vincent |Kevin Martin |Janie B. Cheaney |Nick Eicher
CULTURE TRENDING Is Hollywood listening? TRENDING | Ticket sales are telling a story the film industry needs to hear Books Spiritual celebutante BOOKS | One woman’s strange relationship with God and America Whither faith goest? BOOKS | A look at the decline of America’s religious institutions A sober diagnosis BOOKS | Modern medicine’s obsession with labels Travels and travails: seven books BOOKS | History, medical ethics, Biblical studies, and more A deep-dive tour around the Holy Land BOOKS...
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1 month ago | 
wng.org | Lynn Vincent
Every spring, birds flock to the Earl O. Henry Sr. Memorial Bird Sanctuary, so named after I developed a historical crush on the slightly nerdy but true-blue Navy dentist and painter of birds who wrote scores of beautiful love letters to his wife before he died when the USS Indianapolis sank in 1945. The “sanctuary” is really two towering Engelmann oaks and the vanishing edge of my swimming pool.
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2 months ago | 
wng.org | Lynn Vincent |Anna Brown
Audio sources listed at the bottom of the transcript. This episode was update/remastered April 2025. AMBI: REPORTERSLYNN VINCENT: It’s March 25, 2005. Terri Schiavo is on her eighth day with no food or water. At the Florida State Capitol in Tallahassee, the press room is packed. Governor Jeb Bush has called a press conference…and attorney Rocky Rodriguez is about to be thrust into the harsh glare of the media spotlight.
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2 months ago | 
wng.org | Lynn Vincent |Anna Brown
Sound journalism, grounded in facts and Biblical truth | Donate WORLD Radio - Lawless Encore: Episode 8, A Little Slice of Hell Exhausted by a week of testimony in the trial over Terri’s feeding tube, Michael and the Schindlers wait for a verdict. But the fight isn’t over yet. Audio sources listed at the bottom of the transcript. This episode was update/remastered April 2025. LYNN VINCENT, HOST: In the second week of March 2005, the whole country is talking about Terri Schiavo. OPRAH: Okay,...
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2 months ago | 
wng.org | Lynn Vincent |Anna Brown
Audio sources listed at the bottom of the transcript. This episode was update/remastered April 2025. SFX: POLICE CHATTER For all of March 2005, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office has been on high alert. For six weeks, Judge George Greer has been under police protection. Greer is the probate judge who ordered Terri’s feeding tube removed. GEORGE GREER: We had details of undercover deputy sheriffs at our home 24/7. They took us wherever we went.
