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2 weeks 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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2 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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.
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1 month ago | 
wng.org | Kevin Martin |Lynn Vincent |Janie B. Cheaney |Nick Eicher
CULTURE TRENDING Lessons from the past TRENDING | Popular podcasts are hooking young listeners on history Books What would Jane do? BOOKS | Two books examine Austen’s world and its impact on ours Telling ourselves stories BOOKS | Tracing Joan Didion’s influences Discerning truth from lies: eight books BOOKS | Historical theology, apologetics, military history, and more Touring the City of God BOOKS | A new introduction to a classic text Into the unknown BOOKS | The case for things unseen...
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1 month ago | 
wng.org | Lynn Vincent
Has anyone else’s ChatGPT turned especially gushy lately? When I signed up for 4.0, I chose “Ember,” a calm male voice without particular affectations. “Good question,” he’d say when I asked for an easy beef gravy recipe. But recently Ember’s handlers decided he wasn’t chipper enough. Now, when I ask a question, Ember effervesces: “Oooooh!! Great question!!”There’s something creepy about an over-friendly robot. But I use Ember fairly often, despite occasional errors.
