{"id":3817,"date":"2015-06-12T08:34:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T16:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2015-09-05T12:17:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T20:17:13","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/06\/12\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-3","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the time of King David, the Bible says that the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors <i>\u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d<\/i> (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, I share articles\/resources I have found help\u00adful recent\u00adly in think\u00ading about broad\u00ader cul\u00adtur\u00adal and soci\u00adetal issues (be sure to see the dis\u00adclaimer at the bot\u00adtom). May these give you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>From the everyone\u2019s a crit\u00adic depart\u00adment: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/6\/10\/8760199\/gates-foundation-criticism\">The Media Loves The Gates Foun\u00adda\u00adtion \u2014 These Experts Are More Skep\u00adti\u00adcal<\/a> (Juli\u00ada\u00adBel\u00adluz, Vox). This piece nev\u00ader men\u00adtions God, but I found it the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading for three rea\u00adsons:\n<ol>\n<li>This arti\u00adcle reminds me that no mat\u00adter how much good you do there will always be crit\u00adics. Jesus was per\u00adfect and the world nailed him to a cross.<\/li>\n<li>This arti\u00adcle reminds me that it is far eas\u00adi\u00ader to crit\u00adi\u00adcize than to accom\u00adplish. The arti\u00adcle left me far more impressed with the Gates than with their crit\u00adics. And I reflect\u00aded upon the fact that the crit\u00adics are unwit\u00adting\u00adly stor\u00ading up judg\u00adment for them\u00adselves in heav\u00aden where they will be mea\u00adsured by the same stan\u00addards they apply to Bill and Melin\u00adda Gates (Romans 2).<\/li>\n<li>But Bill and Melin\u00adda do not get off scot-free. This arti\u00adcle also reminds me of Isa\u00adiah 64:6 \u2014 our right\u00adeous deeds are like filthy rags before the Lord. These crit\u00adi\u00adcisms (at least those which are well-found\u00aded) are mere hints of the lim\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtions God sees in the right\u00adeous deeds of Bill and Melin\u00adda Gates. All of us need Jesus \u2014 even our most moral friends.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>From the respond\u00ading to crit\u00adi\u00adcisms depart\u00adment: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2015\/05\/13\/conservative-religious-activism-numbers-speak-commentary\/\">On Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Reli\u00adgious Activism, The Num\u00adbers Speak For Them\u00adselves (orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post, but bet\u00adter-for\u00admat\u00adted at RNS)<\/a> &nbsp;Peo\u00adple some\u00adtimes claim that Chris\u00adtians spend too much of their time and mon\u00adey fight\u00ading polit\u00adi\u00adcal bat\u00adtles rather serv\u00ading the poor. This op-ed pro\u00advides num\u00adbers to rebut the claim. A relat\u00aded arti\u00adcle by a non-Chris\u00adt\u00adian jour\u00adnal\u00adist explains why many peo\u00adple believe the charge despite the data: &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2015-05-15\/verily-i-say-unto-you-christians-care-about-the-poor\">Ver\u00adi\u00adly I Say Unto You: Chris\u00adtians Care About the Poor (Megan McAr\u00addle, Bloomberg &nbsp;View)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>From the self-decep\u00adtion depart\u00adment: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-intersect\/wp\/2015\/06\/03\/if-you-use-facebook-to-get-your-news-please-for-the-love-of-democracy-read-this-first\/\">If You Use Face\u00adbook to Get Your News, Please \u2014 For the Love of Democ\u00adra\u00adcy \u2014 Read This First<\/a> (Cait\u00adlyn Dewey, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): Nan\u00adcy sent me this inter\u00adest\u00ading arti\u00adcle about how Facebook\u2019s fil\u00adter\u00ading algo\u00adrithms sub\u00adtly rein\u00adforce our bias\u00ades. In relat\u00aded news, Ezra Klein at Vox explains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/6\/8\/8740897\/informed-voters-may-not-be-better-voters\">Why The Most Informed Vot\u00aders Are Often The Most Bad\u00adly Mis\u00adled<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>From the laugh\u00adter is good depart\u00adment: <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2015-06-07\">Dil\u00adbert meets an Inter\u00adnet star<\/a>. The last pan\u00adel kills me. <a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2015-06-11\">Yesterday\u2019s strip about brain\u00adstorm\u00ading<\/a> was insight\u00adful\u00adly fun\u00adny as well.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Sug\u00adges\u00adtions for a bet\u00adter title\/frequency\/best day to send the email on\/articles to consider\/etc are wel\u00adcome. My cur\u00adrent plan is to send out an email with 3\u20135 top\u00adics every Fri\u00adday.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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 wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass<a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\"> the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part 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) and will at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. To that end, I share articles\/resources I have found \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/06\/12\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-3\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 3\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":[124,119],"class_list":["post-3817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-charity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-Zz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817","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=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}