Zoo lets you name a cockroach after an ex and feed it to an animal
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🗓️ 7 February 2023
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For $10, the San Antonio Zoo will name a cockroach after your ex and feed it to an animal. But there are more dramatic examples of the enmity invading our culture, like the 77 percent of Americans who say our country’s partisan divide is deeper now than before the pandemic. As Christians, we are called to know Christ and make him known—but we too often settle for knowing about Christ rather than seeking to know Christ personally. How can we ensure we seek him for who he is?
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | The season of Lent begins soon, and our current release was written to be started on the first day of Lent, February 22nd. |
| 0:11.0 | The devotional is entitled Empowered, and will take you on a 47-day journey into understanding and experiencing the power of the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:22.0 | Each day's reading is brief, biblical, and insightful, and includes a daily prayer. |
| 0:28.7 | Visit daily article.org today to request your copy of Empowered so that you may begin reading |
| 0:35.5 | it on the first day of Lent. And may its words lead you to a more |
| 0:41.2 | vibrant walk with God. Welcome to the Daily article podcast. Today is Tuesday, February the 7th, |
| 0:50.6 | 2023. Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the |
| 0:56.0 | Denison Forum. In the midst of all the bad news in today's news, I thought you might like to hear |
| 1:01.0 | about something a little different this morning. As you're making plans for next week's Valentine's |
| 1:06.0 | Day, here's an option you may not have considered. You can donate $10 to the San Antonio Zoo. |
| 1:11.6 | For that amount, they will name a cockroach after anybody you designate and then feed it to an animal. |
| 1:18.6 | Their annual, Cry Mea Cockroach, is intended for, quote unquote, |
| 1:23.6 | exes who just won't bug off, as CNN reports. |
| 1:34.8 | The annual event received more than 8,000 donations last year from all 50 states and over 30 different countries. This expression of animosity is relatively innocuous, unless someone |
| 1:40.5 | names a cockroach for you, I suppose. Here's a more dramatic example of the enmity pervading our culture. |
| 1:47.4 | According to Pew, 77% of Americans say our country's partisan divide is deeper now than it was before the pandemic, |
| 1:55.7 | as compared with a median of 47% in 13 other nations surveyed. Even worse, support for the use of political |
| 2:04.5 | violence is rising in our society. Gallup recently conducted a confidence in institutions survey. |
| 2:11.4 | Their polling included the church or organized religion, the military, the Supreme Court, |
| 2:19.5 | public schools, the police, the criminal justice system, small business, big business, large tech companies, banks, |
| 2:25.4 | the medical system, newspapers, television news, Congress, and the presidency. |
| 2:31.3 | What do these 15 institutions have in common? |
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