Doubletake

Everybody knows you’re not supposed to bargain with God–but what if you do?

When Gerald Groff took his job at the Post Office in 2012, taking Sundays off wasn’t an issue. USPS didn’t deliver on Sundays. Then about a decade ago Amazon decided people simply had to have their gadgets and groceries delivered on Sundays and hired USPS to help. Suddenly Groff had a choice: keep his job or his convictions. He decided to try for both–and the case is still not settled, exactly.Today on Doubletake, a special legal episode about a mailman, his faith, and the byzantine legal rules that define religious liberty in this country.Support WORLD News Group at wng.org/donate

After Radha Manickam loses almost his entire family under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, hope arrives in a most unlikely way

Radha Manickam and his family struggle to survive in the Khmer Rouge’s brutal work camps

The communist Khmer Rouge marched into Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, on April 17, 1975. Radha Manickam, a new Christian, watched them arrive from the balcony of his parents’ apartment. It was Radha’s first exposure to the Khmer Rouge. The leader of the Khmer Rouge was Pol Pot, led the most violent and brutal government in modern history. In its doomed attempt to create an agrarian utopia, between 1975 and 1979 Pol Pot’s regime murdered over 1.7 million people. Many were beaten to death or executed. Others starved to death or died of fatigue or some wretched disease. Mao and Stalin’s Communist regimes killed far more people. But no other government has destroyed nearly a quarter of its own citizens.Today Pol Pot is largely forgotten. But he and the Khmer Rouge are well worth remembering. Because the ideas that formed the Khmer Rouge are still with us today. Also worth remembering are the stories of those who survived. People like Radha Manickam. We’ll be telling his story over the next three episodes. It is in many ways a brutal story. One of loss and grief and terror. But it’s also a story of hope and grace. And ultimately, redemption.This series is based on my recent interviews with Radha, along with my 2016 book about his experiences. The book and this series are titled “Intended for Evil” by Les Sillars.Audio fromThe Associated PressNBC NewsABC NewsSupport WORLD News Group at wng.org/donate

The Assad government is gone, but Christians in northeast Syria are still stuck in a simmering conflict

On December 8 the Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, known as HTS, overthrew the brutal government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. There’s a new regime in Damascus, but in northeast Syria a lot remains the same. It’s still one of the most chaotic places in the world. WORLD correspondent Caleb Welde traveled around the region in November of 2023 with the Free Burma Rangers. That’s a Christian aid group working in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones.This is the first of two episodes based on Caleb’s reporting last year. Today Caleb will tell us the story of a Syrian woman named Hawler Sheikhe. She was 13 years old when ISIS roared into Syria in 2014. But when ISIS forced her to flee her home, she found herself on a journey that would eventually lead her to Christ– and beatings, bombings, and death threats.Audio from:CNNSky NewsNBC NewsEuronewsSupport WORLD News Group at wng.org/donate.

Last year Doubletake host Les Sillars wrote a series of letters to his father. He never sent them. Now he can't.

Two game show contestants realize that everything we have is a gift

Parents at a small Christian school who pledged to get rid of social media discover that’s easier said than done

A story about a woman who wishes she’d asked a few more questions before making some life and death decisions

The story of a woman who faced a really loaded question: how far should you go to get pregnant?

Through the eyes of a couple who lived through some of its best features–and some of its worst

WORLD Radio’s Jenny Rough was worried. Last year, her memory seemed to be slipping, and few things scared her more than descending into dementia as she got older. She also came across some recent research that tied dementia and Alzheimer's disease to a person’s ability to navigate–and Jenny has always had a little trouble with maps. Worst of all, her own mother had passed away from Parkinson’s disease a few years before.So, naturally, Jenny went for a good long hike … and got lost.On this episode of Doubletake we’re going to navigate—metaphorically and literally. We’ll explore the pathways of the human brain, hike trails in the Rocky Mountains, and journey along the road of grief.Support WORLD News Group at wng.org/donate.

Mallory Millett blames her own feminist icon sister Kate for the most destructive ideas about women the world has ever seen

A father and his son push through challenges God has set before them

Could you testify to Christ if your life was on the line?

A Christian woman learns what it means to patrol the line between life and death

A young man teaches himself to “lucid dream” and stumbles into one of life’s great mysteries

An Albanian family struggles desperately to avoid getting caught up in “blood feud”