Jim mentioned the Associated Press and their top-10 list of stories for 2018. It includes:

The Parkland School shooting

Trump-Russia Probe

#MeToo movement

Mass shootings

2018 midterms

U.S. immigration

Brett Kavanaugh hearings

California wildfires

Climate change

Jamal Khashoggi murder

Some of these news items point to a disturbing loss of life. However, on that subject alone there's a statistic not likely to be spoken of during 'end of the year' reviews from secular news sources. As Jim noted, abortion was the number one cause of death worldwide in 2018. Just under a quarter of all pregnancies globally were ended by abortion. This was more than all deaths from cancer, malaria, HIV AIDS, smoking, alcohol and traffic accidents combined.

This is just a small portion of what Jim had to offer on this edition of Crosstalk, a broadcast that included input from numerous callers as well.