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Nov 27, 2024 | 
wng.org | Paul Butler
LINDSAY MAST, HOST: Today is Wednesday, November 27th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day. Good morning. I’m Lindsay Mast. NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: a blast from the past.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
wng.org | Paul Butler |Bekah McCallum
NICK EICHER, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: the persecuted church in Nicaragua. Last week, the United Nations on increasing persecution against churches and nonprofits in the Central American nation. Days later, the Nicaraguan government released 135 political and religious prisoners. Thirteen of those freed are associated with an evangelical ministry based in the United States known as Mountain Gateway.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
wng.org | Paul Butler
MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Friday, August 16th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown. NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. In 2003, youth pastor Mark Hall led his local Baptist church worship band in releasing its first commercial project—co-produced by well-known artist Steven Curtis Chapman. The band took the name Casting Crowns, a reference from the book of Revelation.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
wng.org | Paul Butler |Harrison Watters
MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: a four alarm fire in Dallas. On Friday evening, firefighters responded to calls from the First Baptist Church where the section of the church built in the 1890s was on fire. What happened and how is the congregation responding? WORLD Radio executive producer Paul Butler has the story. SOUND: [Firefighters, flames and shouting]PAUL BUTLER: At 6:09pm central time on July 19th, firefighters arrived on the scene.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Peter Altman |Michael Asaro |Paul Butler
On June 26, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court held 6-3 in Snyder v. United States that a federal statute, 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1)(B), does not criminalize “gratuities” to state and local officials—i.e., payments made to those officials after an official act as a reward or token of appreciation.
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May 24, 2024 | 
phillytrib.com | Paul Butler
The battle is over, and J. Cole won. The bestselling rapper’s gangsta move was to lay down his sword and apologize. Hip-hop turned 50 years old last year, but it still needs to grow up. Cole’s badass performance of Black masculinity was exactly the sort of adult behavior the industry needs.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
phillytrib.com | Paul Butler
Last week, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik offered congressional testimony fiercely committed to one principle: keeping her job. The spectacle of the leader of one of the world’s great universities snitching on some of the school’s professors was both frightening and pathetic. Combating antisemitism at American universities is an urgent objective, but some conservatives are using it as a means to a different end: broader control of U.S. higher education.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
wng.org | Paul Butler
NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Monday March 18. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher. MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Up next: the WORLD History Book. Today a reminder that there is nothing new under the sun. 10 years ago, U.S. President Barack Obama announces sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine. 20 years ago, Israel kills the founder of Hamas.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
paulbutler.org | Paul Butler
Among a certain tech set, Kubernetes has earned a reputation as an unnecessarily complicated time-sink that startups should avoid. Using Kubernetes with a small team is seen as a sign of over-engineering. I’m guilty of taking pithy jabs myself. I might gripe about Kubernetes sometimes, but it really is a great piece of technology. I highly recommend it to all my competitors.
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
washingtonpost.com | Paul Butler
CommentSaveBlack prosecutors are having a moment in America. Of the three prosecutors who have charged the former president of the United States with crimes this year, two of them — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani T. Willis — are African American. On top of that, Letitia James, New York’s Black attorney general, is pursuing a civil fraud case with the potential to crush the Trump Organization.
