{"id":3839,"date":"2015-07-31T11:05:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T19:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2015-09-05T12:07:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T20:07:46","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/07\/31\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-10","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the time of King David, 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.<\/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. Past emails are archived at <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>From the cur\u00adrent events depart\u00adment: the church been opposed to abor\u00adtion from our ear\u00adli\u00adest days for many rea\u00adsons. One of them is that John the Bap\u00adtist, while still in the womb, rejoiced when he was close to Jesus (Luke 1:39\u201344).\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2015\/07\/28\/how-the-planned-parenthood-videos-set-off-a-renewed-wave-of-activism-on-abortion\/\">How The Planned Par\u00adent\u00adhood Videos Set Off A Renewed Wave Of Activism On Abor\u00adtion<\/a> (Sarah Pul\u00adliam Bai\u00adley, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/26\/opinion\/sunday\/ross-douthat-looking-away-from-abortion.html?_r=0\">Look\u00ading Away From Abor\u00adtion<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>From the same-mouth-as-bless\u00adings depart\u00adment:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-dare-you-say-that-the-evolution-of-profanity-1437168515?utm_source=nextdraft&amp;utm_medium=email\">How Dare You Say That! The Evo\u00adlu\u00adtion of Pro\u00adfan\u00adi\u00adty<\/a>&nbsp;(John McWhort\u00ader, Wall Street Jour\u00adnal): culture\u2019s moral val\u00adues change over time, and what we con\u00adsid\u00ader unspeak\u00adable is a big clue to what those val\u00adues are. The same author has anoth\u00ader piece that came out&nbsp;around the same time:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/07\/27\/antiracism-our-flawed-new-religion.html\">America\u2019s Flawed New Reli\u00adgion \u2014 Antiracism&nbsp;<\/a>(John McWhort\u00ader, The Dai\u00adly Beast). The lat\u00adter is a flawed piece \u2014 but it made me think.<\/li>\n<li>From the stand\u00ading-with-our-fam\u00adi\u00adly depart\u00adment: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2015\/july\/mexicos-evangelicals.html\">US Wants Answers on Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Persecution\u2013In Mex\u00adi\u00adco<\/a> (Mor\u00adgan Lee, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty is the most per\u00adse\u00adcut\u00aded reli\u00adgion in the world \u2014 even in places you wouldn\u2019t expect.<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jul\/27\/dying-for-christianity-millions-at-risk-amid-rise-in-persecution-across-the-globe\">Dying For Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (Har\u00adri\u00adet Sher\u00adwood, The Guardian): this arti\u00adcle from a sec\u00adu\u00adlar source puts the pre\u00advi\u00adous arti\u00adcle into a broad\u00ader con\u00adtext.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>From the things-are-always-com\u00adpli\u00adcat\u00aded depart\u00adment:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/islamic-states-embrace-of-social-media-puts-tech-companies-in-a-bind\/2015\/07\/15\/0e5624c4-169c-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html?hpid=z4&amp;kmap=1\">Why The Islam\u00adic State Leaves Tech Com\u00adpa\u00adnies Torn Between Free Speech and Secu\u00adri\u00adty<\/a> (Scott High\u00adam and Ellen Nakashima, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/magazine\/society\/is-the-child-soldier-a-victim-or-a-hero\/\">When A Child Goes To War<\/a> (Mal\u00adcolm Har\u00adris, Aeon)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2015\/07\/fair-trade.html\">Does Fair Trade Help Poor Work\u00aders?<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, blog): the author is an eco\u00adnom\u00adics pro\u00adfes\u00adsor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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 we 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 may 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 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 help\u00adful recent\u00adly in think\u00ading \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/07\/31\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-10\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 10\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":[121,126,116],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-abortion","tag-persecution","tag-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-ZV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","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=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}