Whether the senior dog was part of a family where the dog / person devotion knew no bounds or one of the elders being tended at an animal sanctuary, I saw something much
deeper than our divisions, something important about where we live and the best way to die.
Not exact matches
So in the spirit of shining a light rather
than just cursing the darkness, here are a few guideposts for Christian engagement in an era of
deep division and poisonous discourse:
The
deep divisions that separate people can not be wished out of existence simply by repeating the mantra of diversity: anaesthetizing our powers of judgment creates more problems
than it solves.
The first is the realization that at the very moment in which the technical means of developing world community are available and at the very moment when more people
than ever are convinced that world community is essential if civilized life is to continue in the world, the
division between two parts of the world has become so
deep that we can not now see any way in which it can be overcome.
I should doubt that in the field of theology any
division runs
deeper than that between defining God traditionally, as the omnipotent, sole cause of existence of a temporal world and defining Him as a factor in the universe.
With Jones out for who knows how long and AJ retired, you have ONE exceptional fighter in that
division and ONE guy who can present a challenge to exceptional fighters... literally everyone else in that
division is a gatekeeper at best... the HW
division also has a big drop off after the top, but there are still like 6 guys who could conceivably win the title in that
division, so it is WAY
deeper than LHW... I think you will be one of the many who drinks the LHW kool aid that will be surprised at how easily Stipe beats DC.
But
deep divisions in the Tory party were highlighted in the commons when Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, and his long standing ally Owen Paterson, the environment secretary, joined more
than 100 Tory MPs to vote against Cameron in favour of an amendment that would allow registrars to opt out of conducting same sex marriage ceremonies.
The response by some Labour MPs to the performance showed that the
divisions in the party are as
deep, if not
deeper,
than those in the Conservative party.
As evidence of the
deep divisions on Raise the Age, Senator Thomas D. Croci, a Republican from Long Island, suggested that Mr. Heastie and Mr. Cuomo «care more about keeping teenage drug gang members, murderers and rapists out of jail
than they do about funding our public schools, providing tax relief for our families and rebuilding our infrastructure.»
The crisis of American governance goes much
deeper than political
divisions and ideology.
But in the current political climate,
divisions are
deeper than ever and uttering the word «Brexit» can spark heated debate.
It may feel like political
divisions are
deeper than ever before.
And we found the rate of permafrost thaw and its effect on the decomposition of
deep carbon will have a much bigger impact on the carbon cycle
than the availability of
deep nitrogen and its ability to spark plant growth,» says Charles Koven of Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences
Division.