Staff writer, desiringGod.org
I used to wonder why so many marriages ended in divorce. Why so many of my friends through grade school, high school, and college were the children of divorce. And then in the years after college, why so many of my peers had already been divorced.
And then I married. And like any other married person, I suddenly felt how painfully hard communication can be between a man and a woman. I groaned over how grueling decision-making often became. I saw how marriage drew more sin out of me than any other relationship had before. I was confronted with how proud, defensive, and sensitive I can be when I am sinned against. I stumbled into all the typical (and explosive) marital land mines â budget, schedule, cleanliness, conflict, in-laws. I began to trace just how much our family backgrounds were shaping (and often straining) our new family.
wins, they re looking for 23 wins. what they have is enthusiasm. in the level of interest among democrats in this district. the last poll i looked at was 66%. this is an election in august in an off year. it s and they have to run again by the way in november. and 66% of democrats say they want to come out and vote about you look at that and republicans are kind of thinking, all right, things are good, things are fine. i don t need to get out there. the governor endorsed the republican even though democrats like him better than john kasich. that s not as interesting. are republicans scared? no, they re not scared. these elections should be wakeup
pr preparing more nuclear tests despite his zsister s smile at the olympics. let s bring in the coe author of politico s play book. good morning to you. obviously making a lot of news on so many different fronts whether it s the reporter story, whether it s the russian meddling and what s been the response? i mean, how much of a wakeup call was it for lawmakers who have been saying russia is going to try to interfere in these elections again despite the fact that we re not hearing much from the white house on this. reporter: yeah, we ve been hearing these wakeup calls for years. ever since the summer of 2016 when there was conclusive evidence that they were trying to meddle in the elections, trump hums has not acknowledged that fact. and i think he views it as legitimizing his own victory if he had a foreign adversary
seine. we are facing cutbacks in research dollars at the worst possible moment. the pandemics that tony is referring to happening repeatedly, there are always called wakeup calls. we did the thing, h 1 n 1, now we ll invest enough muff to do what needs to be done from a science point of view. they turn out to be not so much wakeup calls but snooze alarms. we get alarmed in the middle of the crisis and we hit that snooze button and drift back off. and we do this not just with n pandem pandemics, but every kind of disaster. it s the same pattern. we re standing in our hip boots in the flood waters and then, you know, it s onto something else. i think that s a problem. but, you know, we really do need to focus on doing the things that tony thinks we need to do, which is starting with the universal vaccine, which would be a tremendous innovation for human kind, really. what would that do? well, what it would do is, it would induce an immune response that would be protective
resistance fighters in kashmir. they just released one of the master minds of the horrific attacks in mumbai. they have to understand terrorism as a unitary threat. they have to go after this as if they re all pieces of the same puzzle. haven t they gotten 20 wakeup calls. i see no historical evidence. you have a weak divided state. not a failed state, but it s a failing almost endlessly failing state. it s a weak state. they ve had endless opportunities to do this. it s the reason, quite honestly, that pakistan remains in many ways the most frightening country in the world. nearly 200 million people. you ve got a new, what, 150, 200 nuclear weapons. many of the world s most dangerous terrorists all within a state that s unable or unwilling to observe its territory in large chunks. this is the nightmare country in many ways in the world. pakistan is another one of