9.10 | Grace at Ground Zero

0:0015 years of weekday mornings and now the world and everything in it is probably about two weeks away from hitting 100 million downloads. That's because you listened. These programs don't download themselves, y'all. Exactly. So to celebrate, we had a special commemorative sticker designed and we would love to send you one as a way of saying thanks. Thank you, Ours, by September 30th at the world and everything in it.org slash sticker. Just tell us where to send it. Links in the show notes. Good morning. Canadian military chaplains are being told no prayers, no mention of God at public ceremonies. It's reducing religious language pushing it out of the public square. Also today, NATO's growing drone problem and Mississippi's remarkable reading turnaround

1:00from near the bottom to near the top and at ground zero, the church that became a refuge. It was God's grace shining through this trauma and bringing us some solace. And World Commentator Daniel Sur on Charlie Kirk's legacy one year after his assassination. It's Thursday September 10th. This is the world and everything in it from listener supported world radio. I'm Merna Brown and I'm Mary Ryker. Good morning. Up next, Kit Cobbington with today's news. Brent crude the world's benchmark oil price closed above $100 a barrel Wednesday for the first time since May. That as the US and Iran are in their seventh month of war, Central Command said American forces destroyed five Iranian tankers on Tuesday after Iran twice tried and failed to hit a Navy worship. President Trump says Iran's leaders are hanging by a thread trying to leverage the November

2:03midterms. The war will end immediately after the election. Because they can't hold out any longer. They're desperate to try and affect the election so that we can get a nice week group of people in there and leave them alone and let them have their nuclear weapons. Triple A put the national average for regular and let it at $4 and $22 cents on Wednesday. But the president also predicted those prices will come down substantially not long after election day, which is now less than eight weeks away. Democrats though, predict drivers will continue to feel pain at the pump from what they call a war of choice in Iran. President Trump had lined a gathering of Republicans Wednesday in Texas at the Republican National Committee midterm convention. Roves Mary Muncie reports now from Dallas. Friends, distinguished guests, vice president, and the proud citizens of the United States of America.

3:04Welcome to the first ever midterm convention of any party. President Trump says the government will give out $5,000 dividends to every U.S. adult if the GOP wins the midterms. He called it the Trump dividend. He spoke for nearly two hours to an energetic crowd, saying he would visit every state with a Republican running for Congress to drum up support for the midterms. He touted substantial drops in illegal immigrants and fentanyl coming across the border, and called men and women's sports demeaning. The GOP also got an unexpected boost from Pennsylvania Senator John Federman. He appeared in a video saying he's a common sense Democrat against socialism. New Yorker Rousat Rampagal says maintaining a GOP majority would mean the president can further his agenda. People understand we may have frustrations with a party and power at different points in time, but the case needs to be made that if the midterms are lost, that is basically the end of enacting the Trump agenda come at the beginning of next year.

4:09Vice President J.D. Vance will wrap up the convention tonight with his keynote address. Reporting for World, I'm Mary Muncie and Dallas. Israel is facing growing international pressure over the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Earlier this week, the United Kingdom banned trade with those Israeli settlements and imposed sanctions, singling out what it called settler terrorists. UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband says he believes a so-called two-state solution is the only path forward. Two viable and secure states alongside each other, and that prospect is being destroyed by the facts on the ground. The creation of all of these settlements, which have been with increasing pace, and we weren't willing to stand by in the face of that. France and Canada say they plan to take similar punitive actions, but Israeli President Isaac Herzog says in his view, those measures would only backfire. He said dialogue is the solution not sanctions.

5:22Israel also responded by saying it would close the British consulate in Jerusalem. A former missionary from Ohio has admitted to sexually abusing boys during mission trips to Haiti, Rhodes Benjamin Iker reports. Jurya Mast pled guilty this week in federal court in Cleveland to two counts of sexually abusing children overseas. Prosecutors had charged him over four boys. The 45-year-old made mission trips there over the span of more than 15 years. In 2019, Mast confessed to his church and then to the police that he had molested more than 30 boys in Haiti. An Ohio judge granted him early release last year, where he had been serving time for molesting boys in Ohio. But federal judges arrested him just weeks later. His plea agreement with prosecutors calls for at least 25 years behind bars, but a federal judge will have the final say at sentencing in December. For world, I'm Benjamin Iker.

6:24If you're over 30, you might remember the days when you could stroll through airport security and greet a relative at the gate as they walked off the plane. That of course changed after 9-11, but just ahead of the 25th anniversary of those attacks, TSA is once again letting some people walk to the gate without tickets. A new program called Gateside started this month. It's free, but you do have to have TSA pre-check or another trusted traveler clearance and you have to apply in advance one to three days is recommended. Right now the program is running at 13 U.S. airports, including LA, Dallas Fort Worth, and Las Vegas, but TSA says more will follow. I'm Kent Cuffington and still ahead. Mrs. Cippie's remarkable reading turnaround and later Charlie Kirk's legacy one year after his assassination. This is The World and Everything in It.

7:25It's Thursday, the 10th of September. Glad to have you along for today's edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I'm Erna Brown. And I'm Mary Reichard. First up, drones, menacing NATO. The Wall Street Journal this week called European NATO airspace an active front line after a rise in drone incursions. It says 16 countries belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have reported violations of their airspace or found drone remnants over the last two years. In August, Germany blamed Russia after the discovery of an explosive drone at Leipzig airport. NATO has beefed up policy on its eastern flank, but the number of incursions remain too low to warrant a collective NATO response. Peter Rao is director of the Center on Europe and Eurasia at Hudson Institute and he's been following this story.

8:26World's Lindsey Mass has Rao on the line to talk about it. Peter, good morning. What a pleasure to be with you. Thanks for having me. Thanks for joining us. You've said these incursions are a portion of Russia's larger campaign against NATO. It's important to note Russia has denied all of this. What are the markers you see that point to Russia? For one, the German government just unders hook an exhaustive investigation and it's known to be rather careful when it comes to attribution before announcing recently through the Foreign Minister and the Interior Minister that the most spectacular of these recent incursions, namely a Russian drone at the Leipzig airport, is attributed to the Russians. That's a pretty strong, determinative factor, a strong indicator. There are other actors across Europe, intelligence agencies, officials who've said with a fair amount of clarity and known to be cautious that they think it's the Russian. So I don't think there's a lot of doubt about this at this point. What do you think then Russia is trying to accomplish by sending drones into NATO air spaces?

9:27Is this to test defenses? Is it for intimidation or something else? Well, there are a couple of factors. For one, the Ukrainians have been striking deep into the Russian hinterland, taking on petrochemical installations, refineries, even warehouses where dual use items are produced. And the Russians in return can hit Ukraine, but they can't really hit Ukraine and resupply in NATO countries because that would be what amounts to a dramatic act. The war can potentially pull in all of the NATO lines, including the United States. So I think they are walking right up to the red line of trying to coerce, cajole, intimidate the NATO allies away from supporting Ukraine so they can isolate it and they want to one match up where it's a period of size and weight can be brought to bear without crossing that red line. In this form of gray zone warfare, whether it be the drones or assassinations, sabotage operations, arson, any number of techniques that the Russians have utilized in recent months and years are part and parcel of that campaign. You alluded to NATO's article five, basically, that says that an armed attack against one

10:30member is considered an attack against all members. Russia seems to be exploiting the space between peace and an armed attack that would be serious enough to trigger article five. So does NATO need to fine tune its definition of collective response for these repeated gray zone attacks, as he said? It's a great point. And I think the alliance is basically seized on two response mechanisms. The first is to try to build up defenses. A drone wall is something that's been much in conversation, which the Baltic states and northeastern Europe and Poland have thought about. There's also a so-called drone sentinel project that's ongoing and project operation eastern century, which is to guard the eastern flank against these hybrid incursions. So all of that is part of resilience and defending and hardening. Perhaps the Germans, as they've seemingly decided in the wake of this drone attack a reference earlier at Leipzig airport, are going to send their iris, tea, interceptors,

11:30and attack drones to Ukraine. So there's a way of, I think, escalating horizontally or responding asymmetrically, or even symmetrically, that would allow the allies to push back against Russia and make clear that they're going to be cost for the sort of behavior. If you take the premise that every action sends a message, what has Russia learned about NATO from how the alliance has responded so far? I think that's a great question, because the Russian mode of war is really probe, observe, react and withdraw, and then fine tune their own operational concepts, and how far they're willing to take and issue politically. So I do think that these drones are, when method for the Russians to gain intelligence, to gain information, also to increase the costs of defenses and increase the costs of responding. I mean, the allies are using very expensive missiles or F-35 jets that are scrambled to take down some of these styrofoam and wood observation drones that the Russians send in, and it's a way to test the defenses and concepts in NATO alliance.

12:34So I think all of that is kind of a combination. You had mentioned the drone wall earlier. What does an effective drone wall consist of, and how fast can it be up and running? These are really high technology sensors and systems that are stitched together to create what amounts to not an impenetrable wall, but a great early warning system with response mechanisms connected to them. The Eastern Front Allies are really eager in working with a lot of athleticism and speed to get this drone wall completed, but it will be sometime, and the earliest date really is 2027 for the drone wall being in decent shape and for it to be entirely completed might even take much longer. So it will take some time, but this is an ambition that it's tied with and to Eastern Century, the NATO operation to try to buy time and knock down some of these drone incursions that I mean while. You know, Peter, the administration has been telling Europe for two years to carry its own weight. Isn't this exactly the kind of threat Europeans should be able to handle without American

13:39help? I suppose these are new forms of not warfare, but it's certainly new technologies, and the Russians have the advantage of in warfare being forced to innovate at the speed of conflict. They're being killed on the front lines, and they are also doing a lot of killing, and that really puts a lot of urgency into Russian innovation and Russian development. They're also sharing with their partners and allies technology and receiving technological inputs in return. So the Europeans are just like the United States playing catch up here. I wouldn't say that the US is dramatically ahead in all aspects of drone warfare. We've seen in the Straits of Hormuz and elsewhere that we have our own challenges, but Europe is acutely aware of this problem, and I think they're working it as we speak. All right. Well, Peter Raul is director of the Europe and Eurasia Center at the Hudson Institute. Peter, I appreciate your time. Thank you. Coming up next on the world and everything in it, religious censorship in Canada.

14:40People in military, political and faith communities are warning against a new policy that limits the speech of military chaplains. At ceremonies like this day of remembrance for fallen soldiers in the Canadian capital of Ottawa, you'll hear music, words of tribute, and cannons fired in salute. About what you won't hear anymore are references to God. Last year, a rabbi recited the words of former Canadian Prime Minister John Defenbaker. I am Canadian. Free to speak without fear. Free to worship God in my own way. Free to stand for what I think right. Freedom. The right to be oneself. But this summer, the Canadian Armed Forces rolled out new instructions that banned chaplains from praying or mentioning God at public events. Instead, the policy tells chaplains to offer inclusive spiritual reflections. Religious specific language is off limits.

15:42That means chaplains cannot pray at historical parades, change of command ceremonies, mess dinners, or commissioning of ships. And if event organizers or attendees ask for a prayer, chaplains can only give a vague spiritual reflection. The rules don't apply to funeral or voluntary worship services. So I see it as kind of a secularist gag order. Bruce Cleminger is the president emeritus of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and a member of the Interfaith Committee for Canadian military chaplaincy. He says the policy bans chaplains from freely sharing their beliefs. They're basically being told that they can't even...it's not just they can't invoke God as you would in a prayer. They can't even mention God in their remarks. Cleminger says it's ironic that the national anthem can reference God at events, but not chaplains. The policy says chaplains have to stay neutral about religion when they speak in public.

16:43It claims that makes them more welcoming to people of every belief. And Cleminger says this actually excludes religion. You know, how can we come together as Canadians from diverse backgrounds when the beliefs of summer are precluded from even being mentioned? Cleminger hopes the lawsuits, the pressure from religious leaders and the news coverage will get the policy changed. Derek Abna is the spokesman for Canada's Department of National Defense. He told World over email that the policy respects the dignity of all by avoiding religion-specific language. Abna says the change traces back to a 2015 ruling from Canada's Supreme Court. The court found a city council violated religious neutrality by opening its meetings with a Catholic prayer. Revoluntary Cherwick is a Ukrainian Catholic priest who served as a military chaplain for more than 30 years. To him, the new policy erases the purpose of a chaplain speaking at a parade.

17:45They hired me to come into the Canadian forces as a Catholic priest. So if you wanted some just generic chaplain who's just going to care for people and not really bring in the charisms that I bring to the table as a Catholic priest, then why have a diverse chaplaincy? He says respecting different beliefs goes both ways. I can respect to make sure that I'm not giving a completely Catholic prayer only, that the integrity of all those on parade. Likewise they need to respect on who I am as a Catholic priest and for those people on parade who have a faith and believe in us the yesterday good. Major General Douglas Carver is a retired U.S. Army chaplain who now leads chaplaincy for the North American Mission Board. He's critical of the ban on praying, but he's grateful that no U.S. regulations bar chaplains

18:46from praying. We have this unbroken blessing, gift, privilege of freedom to express our faith, belief, and practices without coercion, without punishment, without prejudice. And I hope Americans realize the gift that we have. The Roman Catholic military or denariat of Canada's bishop published a statement in August criticizing Canada's new policy. Several other groups have voiced objection as well. A member of Parliament and the Conservative advocacy group have also called for it to be amended. Additional support comes from Ridge Haven Camp and retreat centers in North Carolina and Iowa. Fall registration now open at Ridge Haven.org.

19:49From Ambassadors Impact Network, offering growth stage Christian entrepreneurs funding and support for Mission Aligned Investors. AmbassadorsImpact.com 15 years of the world and everything in it adds up to a lot of stories. It sure is nice when we have stories about things getting better and coming next, a reading revival. For many years Mississippi students ranked near the bottom for reading achievement. Then that started to change. The turnaround was so dramatic, people started calling it the Mississippi Miracle. Back in 2013, the state was 49 among the 50 states and fourth grade reading. Six years later, it had climbed to 29 and eclipse the national average for the first time. But we also ranked number one in the nation for gains and fourth grade reading and math. So what changed? Well, Merna, I talked with Dr. Carey Wright and she told me the transformation began after

20:54making one very important shift in the classroom. Now by way of background, Carey is the former state superintendent of education in Mississippi. She now holds the same role in Maryland. The problem she told me was the way teachers were teaching reading to kids. At the time, they were using a concept called balanced literacy. That method leans on books and meaning with phonics taught only is needed. When kids get stuck on a word, teachers may tell them to use pictures and sentence context to guess. There's no research that supports balance literacy and there are decades of research that support the science of reading. The alternative method called the science of reading teaches children directly that letters make sounds and sounds make words. C, E, T, spells cat. Speed, vocabulary and understanding build from there. It's a very explicit, structured way to teach children how to read and so we decided we were going to lean in where the research supported it and that's what we did.

21:58But few Mississippi teachers knew how to teach that way. Dr. Tnett Smith helped lead the state's reading program. The state needed 75 literacy coaches to work in struggling schools. So it interviewed more than 600 teachers, administrators, even college professors. Those 600 very few could tell the interview panel what the components of reading were. Even fewer of them could identify a strategy that you would use to support a kiddo who was struggling in one of those components. Only 24 made the cut. We only have these 24 people that told us that we had a capacity issue. So to start, the state had to teach the teachers. It provided training in the science of reading and deployed the new literacy coaches to some of the lowest performing schools. That got some pushback from teachers anxious about the state watching them. The coaches had to show that they were there to listen, not judge. We wanted them to focus on observing and then building that psychological safety that

23:00is needed to have a true coach, coachy relationship. Coaches worked with teachers, not students. They looked at student test scores, taught sample lessons, sat in on classes and told teachers what they saw. That's the name of the letter, but the sound area is... Right, deliberately had the state hire the coaches instead of handing money to local districts to hire on their own. We wanted teachers to know the person in their classrooms had already met a high standard. Smith describes the system as a three-legged stool. Train the teachers, find the children falling behind and help them right away and give teachers materials that match what the research says works. The law put teeth behind the effort. Third graders who could not read well enough would repeat the year, but Wright says the emphasis was elsewhere. We need to talk about prevention and intervention. The state says if we can intervene and we can prevent children from failing, then we don't need to be worried about third grade, right?

24:00The state also refused to blame poverty for low scores. Poverty cannot be inexcused because you've got buckets of poverty around that state. But if you take a look at the success that many of these students are having now on Mississippi, being poor did not inhibit their learning, but it may have required additional intervention. Researchers observed classrooms to make sure instruction changed. Then they compared coached schools against schools with no coach. And every year without a doubt, our coach supported schools outperformed our non-coach supported schools. So we knew that coaching was also making a difference. The national numbers also changed. Mississippi went from 49th and 4th grade to 29th in six years. No surprise that other states wanted Mississippi's playbook, but Elise Brown, who helped develop Mississippi's digital coaching program, says the bigger lesson is consistency. The district's know exactly what our expectations are for them.

25:00This is what our focus is on. This is how we're going to get there. Give them the road map. Stay on task. So the lesson from Mississippi may not be phonics alone. This is the system. Train teachers track progress, catch struggling readers early and keep standards high. As for that catchy phrase, the Mississippi miracle? Smith doesn't care for it. Miraculous? No. Hard work. Yes. A marathon. Of course, because they're still running that marathon. Today, Mississippi's 4th graders read above the national average. And when reading scores fell across most of the country after the pandemic, Mississippi's health. Fans of the Kansas City Royals had something to cheer about after a long, hot summer of

26:01having very little to cheer about. Last weekend, between innings at Kaufman Stadium, workers tossed a giant inflatable hot dog into one section of the stands and a giant inflatable bun into another. Fans had 35 seconds to crowdsurf the two together, and they did it. As for the ballgame itself, yeah, the Royals fell to the Blue Jays 4-3, but who cares? Kansas City's out of it anyway. And nice consolation for the fans. Everybody got a free hot dog and a day closer to football season. It's the world and everything in it. Today is Thursday, September 10th. Thank you for turning to World Radio to start your day. Good morning. I'm Merna Brown. And I'm Mary Rankard.

27:02Coming next on the world and everything in it, the aftermath of 9-11. It took just an hour and 42 minutes between the time the first plane hit the North Tower and the time it came crumbling down. But the recovery and cleanup lasted nine months. One New York City photographer documented how volunteers at a nearby chapel turn the sanctuary into a place of refuge. World's Jenny Ruff reports. In the morning of September 11th, 2001, Christina Sanderson stood at the bedroom window of her 12th floor apartment building. I live in East Village, so I had a direct view of the World Trade Center. She watched the smoke and fire in shock. Weeks later, a reverend she knew from church called her up. And I remember exactly what she said. Christina, something extraordinary. It's happening in St. Paul's Chapel. Come over and bring your camera.

28:02St. Paul's Chapel is an 18th century Episcopal Church with Crystal Chandeliers. It's been around so long George Washington prayed there. It sits a hundred yards from the World Trade Center site. Sanderson made her way past barricades, jackhammers, and dump trucks. She saw the spire of the church still standing. Inside the church, workers searched for bodies and cleared debris. Inside, volunteers filled the sanctuary. The volunteers offered the next layer of care, relief to the relief workers. Firefighters, police officers, construction workers, sanitary workers, that they were working on the ground zero. And they started to come to St. Paul's Chapel. And it became like a spontaneous relief center. St. Paul's Coctamines, spiritual counselors prayed. Doctors bandaged up weary and injured feet. Massage therapists needed muscles to release the knots out of tense shoulders.

29:02So for 24-7, the workers from ground zero were coming here. And the church became really a living church because there was a kitchen here. A cot's here when they were sleeping. They were also sleeping in pews. They're a pews here. There was something about this sanctuary that was conducive to people not only rest, but to pray and to get not only physical nourishment, but spiritual nourishment, an emotional nourishment. Sanderson documented all of it. She captured a violinist playing music to soothe herding souls. She photographed thank you letters that school children sent to the recovery workers. And she took pictures of the banners that hung on the church's wall. One in particular caught her eye. It said, to New York City and all the rescuers, keep your spirits up. Oklahoma loves you. It's alluding to 1995 attack of Oklahoma.

30:03So it was just so moving to see it because what happened was that people from all over the world were grieving for us. The banners still hangs in the church today. 25 years ago, Sanderson knew the importance of recording such hospitality through visual images. She was the only photographer allowed in St. Paul's Chapel. I felt this responsibility to document it. Otherwise, it would be lost. I felt like I was seeing eye-dog because people could not see what was here. And I was seeing things here for them. Sanderson is from Poland. She moved to New York City and the hopes of becoming a famous photographer by her own wits, willpower, and hard work. And it didn't happen. Instead, I found God. I need a savior to save me from myself that I was powerless over doing it on my own.

31:06It was God calling. I was struck like St. Paul's on the road to Damascus. Eventually, she switched fields, but photography remained close to her heart. Sanderson returned to the chapel dozens of times over the nine months following 9-11. During that time, thousands of people came to volunteer. Like the diamonds that are made under pressure, I feel the diamonds of human spirit just shining here through the tremendous pressure of trauma and death and the evil that happened. I just see that it was God's grace that was shining through this trauma and bringing us love and peace and some solace. Sanderson took 2500 photos, including photos of posters pleading for information on the missing. And we knew what happened, but they were still thinking that somehow they will find them. And it was just very painful to see those mothers and fathers and husbands missing their

32:14loved ones. Since 9-11, Sanderson thought a lot about suffering. This goes to the fallen world. This has been going on for thousands of years. Still, she says it's possible to find meaning in suffering. We can suffer well by drawing close to God and turning our pain into work that helps others, like the work of those in the chapel. Sanderson returned to the chapel last week. She remembers. When we were here 25 years ago, we were very aware, very cognizant that we were working on the holy ground because the ashes of those who were perished were on their shoes, on their clothes and the air that we breathed. So there was something very holy about this place. One year after the relief work, a Christian publisher asked Sanderson to choose 100 photos to appear in a book called Light at Ground Zero, a prayer or Bible verse accompanies each

33:15picture. This year, some of those photos will be on display Friday at the Hebs of the House in Manhattan. Reporting for World, I'm Jenny Ruff in New York City. Good morning. This is the world and everything in it from Lister supported World Radio. I'm Merna Brown. And I'm Mary Rygard, September 10, 2025. On that date, on the campus of Utah Valley University, Charlie Kirk was cut down by an assassin's bullet. One year later, World Commentator Daniel Sir reflects on the influence of Kirk and what he was trying to offer the young people who came to hear him.

34:15I stopped last week at a local bike shop, not exactly a hotbed of right-wing activism. The employee who helped me wore a red t-shirt across the front, one word, freedom. Underneath was Charlie Kirk's signature. A year after Kirk was killed, people still wear his name. Why? Part of the answer was his manner. Kirk loved debate. He also understood that many young people at those microphones were asking a question bigger than politics. Because I listen as much as I talk. Almost all of them are like Charlie. I don't know what to do. What can we do? Sure, Kirk could be combative, sometimes sharp, but his signature format gave opponents the microphone, and a treated young man's drift as a serious problem, not a punchline. Another part of Kirk's appeal was his intellect. He never earned a college degree, but he did not treat that as an end to his education. Hillsdale College President Larry Arne asked the 19-year-old Kirk questions he could not answer. Kirk asked what he should do.

35:16Arne challenged him, studied the Bible, the classics, and the American founding. I thought I'd never hear from him again. Within a month he got hold of my cell phone number, and he texted me a copy of a certificate of completion of a Hillsdale College online course. He would go on to do that 31 times. Kirk was self-educated, but not self-satisfied. His arguments could sometimes be unrefined. They were also alive, less constrained by academic fashions or career calculation. Still, personality and intellect do not fully explain the shirt. Kirk connected with people because he offered a vision. He gave the Trump formula, make America great again, a younger voice. For Kirk, American greatness began with freedom, but freedom was not the end of the sentence. By the end of his life, Kirk had been increasingly explicit about what came next. Christian faith, marriage, children, responsibility, and moral truth.

36:16He was not saying every American must be a Christian and not every adult apparent. His point was that a free civilization depends on institutions that form character and carry life forward. In a long interview that summer, Kirk was asked how he hoped to be remembered. I want to be remembered for courage for my faith. That would be the most important thing. Most important thing is my faith in my life. Let me explain the bike shop t-shirt better than any campaign slogan. Freedom was the word, Kirk increasingly gave it content, faith, family, truth, and courage. Charlie Kirk did not merely tell young men what to oppose. He tried to tell them what freedom is for. One year later, people still wear his name, rightly so. For World, I'm Daniel Sir. Tomorrow John Stone Street will be here for Culture Friday and we'll have a review of the new action film The Runner.

37:17That and more tomorrow I'm Mary Reichard and I'm Murna Brown. The world and everything in it comes to you from World Radio. World's mission is biblically objective journalism that informs, educates, and inspires. The Bible says, which is why I suffer as I do? But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me. Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrust it to you. Verses 12 through 14, up 2 Timothy 1. Go now in grace and peace.