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On this week’s special literature and the arts program: Richard Platt reads from As One Devil to Another, Michael Leaser on The Artist, a profile of a “wordsower” who presents entire books of Scripture from memory, Andrée Seu Peterson on softselling sin on the movie screen, Susan Olasky reviews books on literature, actor Max McLean talks about performing The Screwtape Letters on stage—plus, J.P. Morgan Chase, David Skeel on market risk, President Obama rips Mitt Romney on Bain Capital, Romney at Liberty University, The History Book, and more.

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On this week’s program: President Obama endorses redefining marriage, what the North Carolina marriage amendment does and doesn’t, Mitt Romney stands by man-woman marriage, electoral math, Romney VP selection timetable, Emory University professors are upset that commencement speaker doesn’t believe in macro-evolution, autopsy reveals cause of death for painter Thomas Kinkade, reviews of War Horse and America’s Heart and Soul, churches in Charlotte work together to reach 20- and 30-somethings, United Methodists turn back attempt to change doctrine on human sexuality, Barnabas Piper on being “authentic,” U.S. Postal Service losses deepen, an update on the economy, California bill would make it a crime to counsel a child struggling with same-sex attraction, the Sinatra songbook, Vanderbilt University stands firm against campus-ministry groups, Andy Andrews reads from How Do You Kill 11 Million People?, The History Book, and more.

The program is now heard on close to 200 radio stations across the country. Check our station list to find out what time it airs on a station near you.

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On this week’s program: President Obama’s campaign blasted for politicizing Osama bin Laden mission, preview of coming Supreme Court decisions, deadly campaign against Christians in Nigeria, diplomatic quagmire with China, newborns with drug withdrawal, knowing two languages may be good for your brain, new book on Jeremy Lin, Matthew Lee Anderson on the Bible’s voice on human sexuality, EPA official resigns after controversial remarks, jobs report does little to inspire confidence, TV commercials and child obesity, Marvin Olasky interviews J.C. Watts, Megan Basham reviews The Avengers, interceding for America on the National Day of Prayer, spiritual lessons from a bike ride across the countryside, The History Book, and more.

The program is now heard on more than 180 radio stations across the country. Check our station list to find out what time it airs on a station near you.

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On this week’s program: Supreme Court oral arguments on Arizona immigration-enforcement law, student loan kerfuffle, President Obama’s campus campaign, a 1999 speech by Chuck Colson, the enduring popularity of Ronald Reagan, Norah Jones’ new album, a Joel Belz commentary, the Social Security trust fund, Paul Ryan defends his budget, Matt Kibbe and Marvin Olasky on libertarianism vs. compassionate conservatism, Chicago White Sox pitcher Phil Humber’s perfect game, John Stonestreet on the legacy of Charles Colson, The History Book, and more.

The program is now heard on more than 180 radio stations across the country. Check our station list to find out what time it airs on a station near you.

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On this week’s program: Obama administration faces three scandals in one week, oil speculators, combating sexual exploitation of children, prominent Southern Baptist pastor endorses Mitt Romney, many voters distrust faith proclamations of President Obama and Romney, recent crime novels, judge to rule soon rule in case of NASA employee who claims he was fired for supporting intelligent design, Cal Thomas on the 2012 political house of mirrors, space shuttle becomes a museum piece, nervousness on Wall Street, Mississippi’s new regulations on abortion providers, Richard Land on the North Carolina marriage amendment, home-video reviews of The Way and We Bought a Zoo, historic congregation that broke from The Episcopal Church reaches settlement with former denomination, deeply divided United Methodist Church gathers for quadrennial meeting, The TW&E History Book, and more.

The program is now heard on more than 180 radio stations across the country. Check our station list to find out what time it airs on a station near you.

Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. announced this morning that Mitt Romney, the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party for president and a Mormon, will deliver the evangelical school’s commencement address on May 12.

“We are delighted that Gov. Romney will join us to celebrate commencement with Liberty’s 2012 graduates,” Falwell said. “This will be a historic event for Liberty University reminiscent of the visits of governor and then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan to Liberty’s campus in 1980 and of President George H.W. Bush who spoke at Liberty’s 1990 commencement ceremony.”

During the GOP primary season, Romney lost most of the evangelical vote to Rick Santorum. Now that Santorum has dropped out of the race, the former Massachusetts governor will attempt to improve his standing with that voting bloc, and his appearance at the prominent Christian college may represent his first major step in that direction.

Mark DeMoss, who advises the Romney campaign on evangelical matters, is a graduate of Liberty.

More than 34,000 guests and 14,000 graduates are expected to attend the commencement ceremony, which will also be streamed on the internet to the school’s 70,000-plus online students around the world.

As we gather our collective breath after surviving the long, arduous GOP presidential primary season and set our sights on the upcoming general election, we need to take a break and have some fun. And last night, the Daily Caller blogger known as “Jim Treacher” gave us something to laugh about.

Treacher was responding to the old story that keeps popping up along the campaign trail about the Romneys and their Irish setter Seamus. If you haven’t heard the tale, it involved strapping a crate containing the dog on the roof of the family station wagon for a vacation trip to Canada in 1983. (The “incident” even has its own Wikipedia entry.)

The left love to use the story as a prime example as to why Mitt Romney is unlikeable, uncaring and, they hope, unelectable. For example, a couple of months ago Obama reelection communications director David Axelrod tweeted the photo above, noting, “How loving owners transport their dogs.” It has even spawned organized efforts to spread the word that “Mitt is mean!”

And it’s back in the news and top of mind again this week, thanks to Diane Sawyer’s “exclusive interview” with the Romneys. It was what my in-laws were talking about last night as we celebrated my wife’s birthday. But after the last bite of birthday cake had been washed down with decaf, I fired up the computer and discovered the news from Treacher about this year’s other presidential candidate and a dog story from his distant past in his own words:

“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share” (Dreams from My Father).

That posting set conservative creative minds afire, as Twitter lit up with clever takes on #ObamaAteADog and #ObamaDogRecipes. Twitchy has a nice summary of some of the better ones, including this one from Treacher:

Q: Why did @MittRomney put his dog on top of the car? A: So @BarackObama wouldn’t eat it. #WeWillNotBeSilenced #GenK9

Predictably, the left didn’t like it, calling the jokes “silly” and “stupid,” or even an “attack,” “classless,” and a “new rightwing Obama is weirdo Muslim dog eater meme.”

Lighten up, folks, and have some fun. No one is condemning the commander in chief for his canine culinary past; they were, as Sheriff Andy Taylor used to say to Deputy Barney Fife, “just funnin’.”

Remember Ecclesiastes 3: “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven … a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance. …”

So let’s take time to laugh now … while we can.

Listen online to today’s broadcast of WORLD’s weekly radio news magazine, The World and Everything in It. Or download an mp3 file of the entire program or individual segments and take it with you to listen to wherever you go. Even better, subscribe to our free podcast via iTunes or our RSS feed and never miss another program.

This week: Trouble around the world: North Korea, Syria, and Iran; Santorum out, Romney up; President Obama pushes the “Buffett Rule”; Marvin Olasky interviews noted surgeon Ben Carson; reviews: The Wrath of the Titans and Touch; lessons from the Titanic; Joel Belz on the Paul Ryan budget; Trayvon Martin shooter charged; New study of Obamacare’s cost; death and taxes; Let the Candidate Speak: Mitt Romney; Justice Department goes after e-book publishers; Instagram and Facebook; School-choice programs make inroads; and The TW&E History Book.

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Long-time readers here at WORLDmag.com are no doubt familiar with Denver Moore, a man who was without hope until God set him on a different course after he met up with a wealthy art dealer and his persistent wife at a homeless shelter in Fort Worth, Texas. The story of this providential meeting can be found in the bestselling book Same Kind of Different As Me, written by Moore and that art dealer, Ron Hall, with assistance from WORLD senior writer Lynn Vincent.

On Saturday, March 31, after several years of ill health, Moore, 75, died, or, as Hall shared in an email, “The gates of heaven swung open … and Denver Moore went walkin’ in!” A memorial service for Moore was held yesterday at McKinney Memorial Bible Church in Fort Worth.

After Moore’s life-changing encounter with Ron and Deborah Hall, and with God, he traveled the country, speaking at more than 400 fundraising events and making numerous radio and television appearances. (He also graciously agreed to an interview with me for an article in Delta Air Lines’ Sky magazine.) For his tireless efforts to raise awareness and money for the homeless, the citizens of Fort Worth named Moore Philanthropist of the Year in 2006.

Vincent, who also helped Moore and Hall write a follow-up book, What Difference Do It Make? shared with me her thoughts on Moore’s life.

“When Peter and John preached in Jerusalem, the Sadducees marveled because the apostles had become passionate, eloquent spokesmen for Christ even though they were uneducated men,” she said. “Denver’s life reminds us that God is still in the business of using simple things to confound the ‘wise,’ and ordinary people to change the world.”

In one of his TV interviews, Moore shared with PBS’s Tavis Smiley how God had transformed him, “God is in the recycling business. What most folks in Fort Worth thought was trash on the streets, God turned into a treasure!”

Moore’s travels also took him to the White House, where he once had lunch with then-first lady Laura Bush and former president George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara. Moore humbly told his hosts, “I want to thank you for inviting me to y’all’s house. You got a real nice house. I bet you all is proud of it. I’d like to thank you by name, but I can’t remember none of your names. All white folks look alike to me.”

Later, as they were leaving in a limousine, Moore turned to Hall and said, “Mr. Ron, I done gone from livin’ in the bushes to eatin’ with the Bushes. God bless America. This is a great country!”

In his email to friends, Hall shared that, despite all the attention and praise he received at these events, Moore wanted to be introduced in a certain simple way.

“Tell ’em I’m a nobody that is tryin’ to tell everybody about somebody that can save anybody,” Moore told Hall.

“That ‘Somebody’ was Jesus,” Hall wrote shortly after Moore’s passing, “and Denver woke up in His arms on Saturday. His famous quote and the final words in his book are ‘We are all homeless workin’ our way home.’ Welcome home friend; you were a good and faithful servant.”

Denver Moore is survived by two daughters, Tracy and Marva, and two sons, Thomas and Curtis. Donations in his memory can be made to the Union Gospel Mission of Tarrant County, 1331 East Lancaster Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas 76102.

Golf fans were treated to a new way of playing yesterday at Augusta National, as Bubba Watson turned “Bubba Golf” into a green jacket. On a day when we celebrate the ultimate of miracles, the new Masters champion defeated South African Louis Oosthuizen with what many consider a miraculous shot from deep in the woods on the second sudden-death playoff hole.

But for a guy whose motto is “If I’ve got a swing, I’ve got a shot,” facing a 155-yard wedge shot off pine straw and then hooking it around trees and a TV tower to within 10 feet of the cup wasn’t that big of a deal.

“The thing is, golf is not my everything,” Watson told reporters afterward. “But for me to come out here and win, it’s awesome for a week and then we get back to real life.”

And Watson’s real life has seen its ups and downs over the past couple of years. Two weeks ago, after four years of trying to adopt, he and his wife, Angie, brought home a baby boy named Caleb. A year and half ago his father, Gerry, the only person ever to give him a golf lesson, died after a long battle with cancer. And a few years ago, his caddie and friend Ted Scott threatened to quit carrying his bag if Watson couldn’t control his temper on the course.

And yesterday, watching Bubba sob on Ted’s shoulder, turn to embrace his mom, Molly, and later humbly address the media left no doubt where his priorities lie. It’s even evident in how he chooses to order his Twitter bio:

“Christian. Husband. Daddy. Pro Golfer. …”