Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 98

On Fri­days I share articles/resources about broad cul­tur­al, soci­etal and the­o­log­i­cal issues. Be sure to see the expla­na­tion and dis­claimers at the bot­tom. I wel­come your sug­ges­tions. If you read some­thing fas­ci­nat­ing please pass it my way.

Things Glen Found Interesting

  1. Pre­emie Lambs Suc­cess­ful­ly Grown To Term In Arti­fi­cial Womb (Jason Kot­tke, per­son­al blog): what an amaz­ing age we live in. These arti­fi­cial wombs are trans­par­ent, so this fif­teen sec­ond video of a lamb in one is def­i­nite­ly worth watch­ing.
  2. In ‘China’s Jerusalem’, ‘anti-ter­ror cam­eras’ the new cross for church­es to bear (Alice Yan, South Chi­na Morn­ing Post): “Gov­ern­ment offi­cials came to the church­es and put up ­cam­eras by force. Some pas­tors and wor­ship­pers who didn’t agree to the move were dragged away.… Some peo­ple need­ed to be treat­ed in hos­pi­tal after fight­ing the offi­cials.”
  3. Rod Dreher’s Monas­tic Vision (Joshua Roth­man, New York­er): “The most suc­cess­ful peo­ple nowa­days are flex­i­ble and root­less; they can live any­where and believe any­thing. Dreher thinks that liq­uid moder­ni­ty is a more or less unstop­pable force—in part because cap­i­tal­ism and tech­nol­o­gy are unstop­pable. He urges Chris­tians, there­fore, to remove them­selves from the cur­rents of moder­ni­ty.”
  4. The Cru­cible of the Appli­ca­tion Process (Dil­lon Bowen, Quil­lette) — “This essay is about my expe­ri­ence with the [elite grad school] appli­ca­tion process—specifically how I was repeat­ed­ly encour­aged to alter my appli­ca­tions to con­form with far-Left polit­i­cal ide­ol­o­gy.” Rec­om­mend­ed to me by an alum­nus.
  5. A bap­tism, then a mur­der con­fes­sion (The Chris­t­ian Chron­i­cle, Bob­by Ross Jr): “Lucin­da Wil­son might have got­ten away with mur­der. Except that she became a Chris­t­ian and con­fessed to her crime. Now 48, Wil­son has served 20-plus years of a life sen­tence for the cap­i­tal mur­der of her ex-fiancé’s girl­friend, Mar­garet Morales.”
  6. The Survivor’s Guide To Adult­hood (Wyatt Hong, Yale Dai­ly News): “Many of you will leave col­lege as I did, believ­ing that you will change the world, but you will soon dis­cov­er that the truth is the reverse. The world will change you. This is not nec­es­sar­i­ly a bad thing, but it can be fright­en­ing.” Rec­om­mend­ed by a stu­dent as “a thought­ful, well-writ­ten piece.” The author is a Stan­ford grad in med school at Yale.
  7. I learned today that the Nation­al Chi Alpha Min­istry Cen­ter is on Pin­ter­est. I knew about the Insta­gram, Twit­ter and YouTube accounts, but some­how I nev­er expect­ed Pin­ter­est.

Why Do You Send This Email?

In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro­duced shrewd war­riors “who under­stood the times and knew what Israel should do” (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim­i­lar way, we need to become wise peo­ple whose faith inter­acts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con­tin­ue the tra­di­tion of Issachar.

Disclaimer

Chi Alpha is not a par­ti­san orga­ni­za­tion. To para­phrase anoth­er min­is­ter: we are not about the donkey’s agen­da and we are not about the elephant’s agen­da — we are about the Lamb’s agen­da. Hav­ing said that, I read wide­ly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass the ide­o­log­i­cal Tur­ing test and in part because I do not believe I can fair­ly say “I agree” or “I dis­agree” until I can say “I under­stand”) and may at times share arti­cles that have a strong par­ti­san bias sim­ply because I find the arti­cle stim­u­lat­ing. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every­thing an author says in an arti­cle I men­tion, much less things the author has said in oth­er arti­cles (although if I strong­ly dis­agree with some­thing in the arti­cle I’ll usu­al­ly men­tion it).

Also, remem­ber that I’m not report­ing news — I’m giv­ing you a selec­tion of things I found inter­est­ing. There’s a lot hap­pen­ing in the world that’s not mak­ing an appear­ance here because I haven’t found stim­u­lat­ing arti­cles writ­ten about it.

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