{"id":3854,"date":"2015-08-21T16:43:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T00:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=3854"},"modified":"2015-09-05T12:04:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T20:04:51","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/08\/21\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-13","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To that end, on Fri\u00addays I\u2019ve been shar\u00ading 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 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the provoca\u00adtive-but-not-ful\u00adly-explained depart\u00adment: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/marissa-johnson-a-generation-of-activists-who-believe-in-disruption\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maris\u00adsa John\u00adson, Part of a New, Dis\u00adrup\u00adtive Gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of Activists<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Nina Shapiro, Seat\u00adtle Times): turns out that Maris\u00adsa John\u00adson (the Black Lives Mat\u00adter activist famous for dis\u00adrupt\u00ading a Bernie Sanders speech) attends an evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal church and stud\u00adied the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy in col\u00adlege. Fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading pro\u00adfile, although it leaves me with many ques\u00adtions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the friends-in-high-places depart\u00adment: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/stephen-colbert-gq-cover-story\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Late, Great Stephen Col\u00adbert<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Joel Lovell, GQ): Col\u00adbert has deep faith, and it real\u00adly comes out in this inter\u00adview. It\u2019s long, so if you just want the faith bit search for the phrase \u201cHe lift\u00aded his arms as if to take in the office\u201d and start read\u00ading there.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal insight depart\u00adment: <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/faithfulness-in-college-is-life-wide\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faith\u00adful\u00adness in Col\u00adlege Is \u201cLife-Wide\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Stephen Lutz, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): what good does it prof\u00adit a per\u00adson to get a 4.0 and lose their soul? This one comes rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by an alum\u00adnus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/georgeowood.com\/keep-your-enthusiasm-in-check\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep Your Enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm In Check<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (George Wood, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): very short but help\u00adful. The author is the leader of the Assem\u00adblies of God, the group which spon\u00adsors Chi Alpha (and which I am ordained by).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the peo\u00adple-of-this-world-are-shrewd&nbsp;depart\u00adment: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/16\/upshot\/effective-altruism-where-charity-and-rationality-meet.html?hpw&amp;rref=upshot&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=well-region&amp;region=bottom-well&amp;WT.nav=bottom-well&amp;_r=1&amp;abt=0002&amp;abg=0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Effec\u00adtive Altru\u00adism: Where Char\u00adi\u00adty and Ratio\u00adnal\u00adi\u00adty Meet<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Tyler Cowen, NY Times): there is noth\u00ading overt\u00adly Chris\u00adt\u00adian about this piece, but the sub\u00adject should be of great inter\u00adest to Chris\u00adtians. We are called to give to spread the gospel and help the poor \u2014 and the Church can do bet\u00adter at both.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the pol\u00adi\u00adtics-and-the-pul\u00adpit depart\u00adment: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevindeyoung\/2015\/08\/19\/ten-things-to-remember-as-the-presidential-campaign-seasons-gets-into-full-swing\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ten Things To Remem\u00adber As the Pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial Cam\u00adpaign Sea\u00adson Gets Into Full Swing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Kevin DeY\u00adoung, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): DeY\u00adoung is a well-known pas\u00adtor and author. Points 6, 7, and 8 are espe\u00adcial\u00adly good.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the unex\u00adpect\u00aded bed\u00adfel\u00adlows depart\u00adment: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/stanley-fish\/scalia-gets-it-pretty-muc_b_7880118.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scalia Gets It Pret\u00adty Much Right<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Stan\u00adley Fish, Huff\u00adin\u00adg\u00adton Post): I share this most\u00adly because famed post\u00admod\u00adern (or anti-foun\u00adda\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adist) the\u00ado\u00adrist Stan\u00adley Fish is one of the most unlike\u00adly defend\u00aders of the famed orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adist Jus\u00adtice Scalia I can imag\u00adine. The world is an odd place. Be sure to read the fol\u00adlow-up <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/stanley-fish\/respond-to-the-column-tha_b_7898486.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Respond To The Col\u00adumn That Was Actu\u00adal\u00adly Writ\u00adten<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 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.<\/span><\/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, on Fri\u00addays I\u2019ve been shar\u00ading articles\/resources I have found help\u00adful \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/08\/21\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-13\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 13\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":[119,120,117,116],"class_list":["post-3854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-charity","tag-famous-christians","tag-politics","tag-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-10a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854","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=3854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}