{"id":3846,"date":"2015-08-07T09:27:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T17:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2015-09-05T12:08:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T20:08:19","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/08\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-11","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 11"},"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>I am at a con\u00adfer\u00adence in Flori\u00adda with spot\u00adty inter\u00adnet ser\u00advice, so there will be few\u00ader items than nor\u00admal this week (large\u00adly&nbsp;items from pre\u00advi\u00adous weeks I\u2019ve been hold\u00ading in reserve). Here are&nbsp;three quick insights from the con\u00adfer\u00adence that have stood out to me:\n<ul>\n<li>Poor lead\u00aders seek atten\u00adtion, great lead\u00aders pay atten\u00adtion,<\/li>\n<li>You need both the pow\u00ader of God and the pres\u00adence of God in your life. The pow\u00ader of God appears in a moment, but the pres\u00adence of God is some\u00adthing we con\u00adstant\u00adly pur\u00adsue. We freak out when we are in an area with no cell phone cov\u00ader\u00adage. We should be at least that des\u00adper\u00adate for the pres\u00adence of God.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t hunt for green\u00ader grass \u2014 it\u2019s prob\u00ada\u00adbly just a sep\u00adtic leak any\u00adway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>From the east\u00adern affairs depart\u00adment:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/08\/01\/china-is-tearing-down-crosses.html\">Chi\u00adna Is Tear\u00ading Down Cross\u00ades<\/a> (Bren\u00addon Hong, Dai\u00adly Beast): this comes from the rec\u00adom\u00admen\u00adda\u00adtion of a stu\u00addent. An arti\u00adcle that goes into more detail about the response of the church is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2015\/august\/china-sees-red-christian-protest-hundreds-crosses-wenzhou.html\">Chi\u00adna Sees Red: Chris\u00adt\u00adian Protest Puts Hun\u00addreds Of Cross\u00ades Back In Pub\u00adlic<\/a> (Sarah Zyl\u00adstra, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthropology-news.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/26\/buddhist-and-christian-interpretations-of-the-hong-kong-protests\/\">Bud\u00addhist and Chris\u00adt\u00adian Inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtions of the Hong Kong Protests<\/a> (Mariske Wes\u00adt\u00aden\u00addorp, Anthro\u00adpol\u00ado\u00adgy News): the umbrel\u00adla protests last year had heavy Chris\u00adt\u00adian over\u00adtones (as not\u00aded by NPR \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/parallels\/2014\/10\/09\/354859430\/a-surprising-tie-that-binds-hong-kongs-protesters-faith\">A Sur\u00adpris\u00ading Tie That Binds Hong Kong Protest Lead\u00aders \u2014 Faith<\/a> and Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2014\/october-web-only\/hong-kong-christians-lead-protests-for-democracy-china.html\">Hong Kong Chris\u00adtians Lead Protests For Democ\u00adra\u00adcy<\/a> among oth\u00aders).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-pacific-33740261\">North Korea And Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty \u2014 Uneasy Bed\u00adfel\u00adlows<\/a> (Stephen Evans, BBC ): the title of this arti\u00adcle is weird and the sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion is worse than he describes, but it is nice to see a news agency like the BBC com\u00adment\u00ading on the prob\u00adlem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>From the every-tribe-tongue-and-nation depart\u00adment:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2015\/07\/hillary-clinton-democatic-primary-sanders-netroots\/\">Yes, Racism Is Root\u00aded In Eco\u00adnom\u00adic Inequal\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (Seth Ack\u00ader\u00adman, Jacobin): A Marx\u00adist analy\u00adsis of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan race rela\u00adtions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/parablemania.ektopos.com\/archives\/2015\/07\/implicitbias-hyp.html\">Implic\u00adit Bias, Fear Of Hood\u00adies, and the Hypocrisy of the Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Com\u00admen\u00adtari\u00adat<\/a> (Jere\u00admy Pierce, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): Jere\u00admy is a Chris\u00adt\u00adian who is also a philoso\u00adpher of the meta\u00adphysics of race.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/rage-and-ruin-black-panthers\/\">Rage and Ruin: On the Black Pan\u00adthers<\/a> (Steve Wasser\u00adman, The Nation): this is an account of the Black Pan\u00adthers which is both sym\u00adpa\u00adthet\u00adic and crit\u00adi\u00adcal. It is more bal\u00adanced&nbsp;than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/07\/25\/whitewashing-the-black-panthers.html\">White\u00adwash\u00ading The Black Pan\u00adthers<\/a>: (Michael Moyni\u00adhan, The Dai\u00adly Beast) which is respond\u00ading to a pro-Pan\u00adthers doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary. The lat\u00adter arti\u00adcle is worth read\u00ading, but you should know it is is pret\u00adty hor\u00adri\u00adfy\u00ading.<\/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\/08\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-11\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 11\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":[125,126,116],"class_list":["post-3846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-china","tag-persecution","tag-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-102","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846","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=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3850,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions\/3850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}