I had a strange half-awake dream this morning.

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Since the first time I heard Rush Limbaugh, then soon after Fox News, and the anger, grievances, and lies they pushed, I've been worried. My church Faith Meets Life small group can attest to decades of prayers about healing the growing partisan divide and how we could be instruments in that endeavor.

In the dream, it brought to mind the two world history-shaping miracles that have happened in my lifetime, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of apartheid in South Africa, neither of which I ever thought could happen without a terrible blood-letting. And I realized that those events were a result of a lot of things including diplomacy, protests, letters, advocacy, earlier clashes and violence, economic sanctions, but also much prayer. Sustained prayer pouring forth voluntarily because that is what people of faith believe can make a difference, making a way out of no way.

In the case of the media ecosystem that is providing powerful incentives through their platform to sociopaths who are filling the airwaves with a toxic stew of conspiracy theories, grievances, and fuels distrust and hatred, I was praying for the symptoms to be healed but not for God to take action. The media ecosystem is one of those things that is beyond easy solution for any of us though many have been working for change for decades. But those of us of faith may not have thought of it as something to lift up to God.

Anyway the dream had a compelling feel to it, like I shouldn't just keep it to myself but check with other people of faith for feedback and to see what possibilities might come from throwing the idea out into the universe.