{"id":3812,"date":"2015-05-29T22:57:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T06:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=3812"},"modified":"2015-09-05T12:18:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T20:18:47","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/05\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-1","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

[this was an email I sent to the stu\u00addents in Chi Alpha @ Stan\u00adford<\/a>]<\/p>\n

In the time of King David, the Bible says that the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). That\u2019s a wor\u00adthy goal \u2014 to under\u00adstand our times and know how to live wise\u00adly in them. We need to learn how our faith inter\u00adacts with the world.<\/p>\n

To that end, I\u2019m going to try some\u00adthing: for the next few weeks I\u2019ll send out three to five articles\/resources I have found help\u00adful in think\u00ading about nation\u00adal, glob\u00adal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues (be sure to see the dis\u00adclaimer at the bot\u00adtom). My hope is these read\u00adings nudge you into con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar. If these emails are well-received then they may become an ongo\u00ading thing.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s the first batch:<\/p>\n

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  1. \n

    The Spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal Shape of Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Ideas (Joseph Bot\u00adtum, The Week\u00adly Stan\u00addard)<\/a>: many mod\u00adern polit\u00adi\u00adcal ideas are derived from Chris\u00adt\u00adian the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal con\u00adcepts.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. \n

    What ISIS Real\u00adly Wants (Graeme Wood, The Atlantic)<\/a>: the key to under\u00adstand\u00ading ISIS is under\u00adstand\u00ading their faith, par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly their escha\u00adtol\u00adogy. A take\u00adaway for Chris\u00adtians \u2014 your escha\u00adtol\u00adogy mat\u00adters (so get it right).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  3. \n

    Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Protes\u00adtants Are The Biggest Win\u00adners When\u00adev\u00ader Peo\u00adple Change Faiths (Leah Libresco, FiveThir\u00adtyEight)<\/a>: this is the most inter\u00adest\u00ading take I\u2019ve seen on the Pew Forum study<\/a> that filled the news recent\u00adly. If cur\u00adrent trends con\u00adtin\u00adue until they reach an equi\u00adlib\u00adri\u00adum point, then evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adism will become the largest reli\u00adgious iden\u00adti\u00adty in Amer\u00adi\u00adca (fol\u00adlowed by either the reli\u00adgious\u00adly unaf\u00adfil\u00adi\u00adat\u00aded or the Mor\u00admons depend\u00ading on whether fer\u00adtil\u00adi\u00adty is fac\u00adtored in).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  4. \n

    God\u2019s For\u00adev\u00ader Fam\u00adi\u00adly: The Jesus Peo\u00adple Move\u00adment in Amer\u00adi\u00adca (Lar\u00adry Eskridge, Oxford Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty Press)<\/a>: a schol\u00adar\u00adly his\u00adto\u00adry of an oft-over\u00adlooked Great Awak\u00aden\u00ading \u2014 the Jesus Peo\u00adple revival among the hip\u00adpies. It is full of delight\u00adful anec\u00addotes, includ\u00ading this charmer: one cou\u00adple \u201cbegan to talk to their friends about Jesus and even went so far as to name their dog \u2018Repent\u2019 so they could stand in the city\u2019s parks and shout the canine\u2019s name and their mes\u00adsage at the top of their lungs.\u201d  (p 148). The book is avail\u00adable online through Stan\u00adford\u2019s library sys\u00adtem \u2014 the link will take you right there.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Sug\u00adges\u00adtions for a bet\u00adter title \/ arti\u00adcles to con\u00adsid\u00ader \/ best day to send the email on \/ etc. are wel\u00adcome, as is feed\u00adback on the idea as a whole.<\/div>\n

    Disclaimer<\/h3>\n

    Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read stuff (and may there\u00adfore share stuff) from all over the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal map. I read wide\u00adly in part because I aspire to pass an ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and more gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand.\u201d I encour\u00adage you to adopt a sim\u00adi\u00adlar per\u00adspec\u00adtive.<\/p>\n

    Also, for the first few install\u00adments I\u2019ll prob\u00ada\u00adbly reach far\u00adther back than nor\u00admal for some arti\u00adcles that stand out in my mem\u00ado\u00adry. As time goes on I imag\u00adine the links will become more and more recent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    [this was an email I sent to the stu\u00addents in Chi Alpha @ Stan\u00adford] In the time of King David, the Bible says that the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). That\u2019s a wor\u00adthy goal \u2014 to under\u00adstand our times and know \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 1\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[124,127,123],"class_list":["post-3812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-history","tag-islam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-Zu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3814,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions\/3814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}