In the time of King David, the Bible says that the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32).<\/p>\n
In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world.<\/p>\n
To that end, I share articles\/resources I have found helpful recently in thinking about broader cultural and societal issues (be sure to see the disclaimer at the bottom). I\u2019m thinking I\u2019ll send these roughly once a week. May these give you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/p>\n
From the depressing department: Hot Girls Wanted (Kenneth Morefield, Christianity Today)<\/a>: a sobering review of a Netflix documentary (from Sundance) about the \u201camateur\u201d porn industry. Read it if you have a hard time explaining why pornography is a bad thing. Prepare to be bummed.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n From the faith and politics department: Is Obama Really a Christian? (David French, National Review)<\/a>: this is the most detailed article I have read about President Obama\u2019s faith.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n From the higher education department: I\u2019m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me (Edward Schlosser, Vox)<\/a>: the article is better than you might expect from the clickbait title. It\u2019s a critique of the current practice of identity politics at American universities by someone sympathetic to identity politics.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n From the learning to think clearly department: The Land of We All (Richard Mitchell, The Gift of Fire)<\/a>: this essay teases out the implications of this insight: \u201cThinking can not be done corporately. Nations and committees can\u2019t think. That is not only because they have no brains, but because they have no selves, no centers, no souls, if you like. Millions and millions of persons may hold the same thought, or conviction or suspicion, but each and every person of those millions must hold it all alone.\u201d Warning: the formatting is horrid. It is worth reading anyway. Either use the Readability bookmarklet<\/a>, an app like Pocket<\/a>, or just cut and paste it into a text document on your computer.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass the ideological Turing test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and will 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the time of King David, the Bible says that the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). 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