Doubletake

Feb 15 2025 35 ep. 35 mins 296
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Doubletake is a narrative podcast. We tell stories creatively about interesting people encountering big ideas. It’s journalism plus storytelling, informed by a biblical worldview.

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Just a bad idea

Feb 15 2025 14 mins  
Everybody knows you’re not supposed to bargain with God. It’s just a bad idea. God doesn’t answer prayers that begin, “Dear God, if you just give me this one thing I’ll do this other thing. For the rest of my life. I promise.”Theologically speaking, we don’t give God our terms. He gives us His.But today we have an essay from someone who actually did bargain with God.

Fighting for Sabbath rest

Feb 08 2025 35 mins  
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 no

Intended for Evil, Part III: The Plan

Feb 01 2025 29 mins  
Hearing that his father was dead was very nearly the last straw for Radha Manickam. In two years he’d lost almost his entire family under the brutal regime of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge. It seemed that God had abandoned him, and one night while lying on an anthill in the middle of a rice paddy, he decided to end it all. But then hope arrived–in a most unlikely place, and a most u

Intended for Evil, Part II: The Realm of the Dead

Jan 25 2025 32 mins  
After the communist Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia on April 17, 1975, they herded everybody out of the cities and into socialist “cooperatives.” Radha Manickam and family were sent to the country’s northwest, where they and 1.8 million others were dumped out of trains and told to start building villages.It was Year Zero, supposedly the start of the agrarian utopia promised by

Intended for Evil, Part I: The Clearing of Phnom Penh

Jan 18 2025 31 mins  
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 a

The last safe place

Jan 11 2025 37 mins  
Last week we brought you the story of Hawler Sheikhe, a Syrian woman who returned in 2023 to one of the world’s most chaotic countries on unfinished family business. She went with a Christian humanitarian aid group called the Free Burma Rangers. WORLD correspondent Caleb Welde went with them.This week, the story of the rest of that trip. They went a year before the Islamist rebel

Hawler’s Story

Jan 04 2025 29 mins  
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.

Singletake: Dear Dad

Dec 21 2024 22 mins  
Today, something a little different: it’s a series of letters Doubletake host Les Sillars wrote to his father last year. He never sent them. He doesn’t think he could.This episode is about regret and loss. But also hope, and memory, and memories.Support WORLD News Group at wng.org/donate (http://wng.org/donate)

Singletake: Free stuff

Dec 14 2024 18 mins  
Two women head to Hollywood just hoping to get on a game show and have some fun. They get on national TV and hobnob with Drew Carey. There they realize, in a most unlikely place, that everything they have is a gift.Don’t forget to rate and review this program!Support WORLD News Group at wng.org/donate (http://wng.org/donate)

A Digital Revolt

Dec 07 2024 27 mins  
Doubletake correspondent Alessandra Nash visits a Christian school in Idaho that’s encouraging parents to take the “Postman Pledge.” It has nothing to do with the Post Office. The Postman Pledge is a promise a small group of parents around the country are making to each other to not let their kids use social media–not at school, and not even at home.As one parent told us, t