11.19.20 Cases of COVID despair, risky coping measures, and a designer family

Sarah Schweinsberg reports on the mental health crisis created by the pandemic; Anna Johansen explores how the rising rates of drug overdoses are related to COVID despair; and Kim Henderson meets a family driven by design. Plus: commentary from Cal Thomas, an artificially unintelligent cameraman, a preview of this week’s Listening In, and the Thursday morning news. Support The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate. Additional support comes from “The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self” by Carl Trueman. Exploring the sexual revolution as the symptom of the human quest for identity. Crossway.org/World From Dordt University. Providing an education rooted in faith—for engineers, nurses, social workers, teachers, and more. Dordt.edu

And from Samaritan Ministries. It’s not insurance, it’s Christians helping one another with medical expenses. samaritanministries.org/world