Inspiring stories from 2023 that will give you HOPE for 2024



In the face of Bidenomics, non-stop war, illness, and a near non-existent border, it can be hard to feel that you’ve made a difference.

However, Glenn Beck has some good news for his audience: you have actually made a serious difference.

“You might think that you haven’t done anything this year,” Glenn says, noting that his audience is precisely the reason the Nazarene Fund has been able to support so many persecuted people this year.

The Nazarene Fund is currently supporting roughly 125 people monthly inside of Afghanistan with food and life-sustaining supplies. Most of those being supported are widows with children or Christians in hiding.

The fund is also evacuating high-risk individuals from Afghanistan to safe houses in Pakistan, where they wait for final resettlement.

According to Glenn, 22,000 people have been successfully relocated around the world.

One of the biggest successes Glenn has seen is through a prison camp in Syria, called Al-Hol.

The camp is full of about 10,000 Yazidi slaves, and the Nazarene Fund is working tirelessly to free them. So far, 172 have been saved and sent to Australia while 18 have gone to Canada.

But that’s not all.

“We’re reuniting these women with their family members in Iraq, rescuing survivors from human trafficking in Iraq, we’re rescuing families fleeing religious persecution for their Christian faith in Syria, we have safe houses for at-risk Yazidi women and their children of war,” Glenn explains.

The Nazarene Fund has also responded with assistance to partners in Israel, with one chartered flight from Tel Aviv to Nashville for U.S. citizens and Israelis who were survivors of the October 7 attack.

The fund has also partnered with Mercury One to provide funding for the relocation to the U.S. of six Israeli families who were survivors of the attack.

But it doesn’t stop there.

Operation Lego was launched in Nigeria on April 30 and targeted any and all individuals or rings involved with the illicit trade of organ harvesting, human trafficking, child abduction and exploitation, baby factories, and ritual killings.

Six human traffickers have been arrested, and 32 children have been rescued and are now being cared for.

“I just want you to know, there’s never been a commercial radio audience or I think a commercial television audience ever that has done anything like this,” Glenn says. “Thank you. It is an honor to be around you and to serve you.”


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With another year of woke cinema behind us, THESE 2023 movies were actually decent



As the woke mob has grown stronger, films and television have become weaker.

However, that hasn’t stopped Lauren Chen from picking a few favorites.

“It’s a very short list,” she says, adding, “Maybe I am overly negative, or maybe Hollywood just isn’t delivering it like it used to.”

Her top film pick was "The Equalizer 3" starring the one and only Denzel Washington.

“This may be one of the rare situations where the third movie in the franchise is actually the best of the series,” Chen explains, noting that the film received a 94% audience score and a 76% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Her next favorite was "A Haunting in Venice," which is a must for murder mystery fans.

“You can’t go wrong with an Agatha Christie adaptation,” Chen says.

Rotten Tomatoes audience and critic reviews were essentially tied on this film, which received a 77% audience score and 76% critic score.

"The Super Mario Bros. Movie" almost made the cut. It is an excellent film to bring your children to.

“I think the reason why this movie is worth seeing and why so many people did go see it is that it is — imagine that in 2023 — just a regular kids movie” that “doesn’t feature any non-binary characters or same-sex relationships,” Chen explains.

As for television, Chen has picked some clear winners as well.

"Only Murders in the Building" is her first pick; it is available on Hulu.

“If you’re a fan of murder mysteries, you can’t go wrong with this show,” Chen says.

"Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan" had its final season release this year, and that was another obvious success in Chen’s eyes.

“If you haven’t seen that show yet and you’re into that military thriller kind of vibe, I think John Krasinski is great in it,” Chen says.

Her honorable mentions go out to "Reacher" and "The Terminal List," which are the same sort of genre.

“I think with shows like ‘Terminal List,’ ‘Reacher,’ and ‘Jack Ryan,’ the studio shows us that they can do good work if they put their minds to it and if they have the right people in charge.”


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