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
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 athttp:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/ From the big-bang-faith depart\u00adment: May\u00adim Bia\u00adlik: Hol\u00adly\u00adwood is not friend\u00adly to peo\u00adple of faith<\/a> (Sasha Bogursky, Fox News): Bia\u00adlik, a devout Jew, is an actress on the Big Bang The\u00ado\u00adry and in real life holds a Ph.D. in neu\u00adro\u00adscience. This inter\u00adview caused such com\u00adment that she post\u00aded a fol\u00adlow-up on her blog: Where Faith Meets Sci\u00adence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n From the his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal analy\u00adsis depart\u00adment: Did Reli\u00adgion Make The Civ\u00adil War Worse?<\/a> (Allen Guel\u00adzo, The Atlantic): the author is a respect\u00aded pro\u00adfes\u00adsor with a sem\u00adi\u00adnary back\u00adground. I\u2019m not sure what I think of his argu\u00adment, but I did find it inter\u00adest\u00ading<\/span>. The arti\u00adcle made me think about Lincoln\u2019s Sec\u00adond Inau\u00adgur\u00adal Address<\/a>, which is always worth a re-read.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n From the hap\u00adpy news depart\u00adment: Chris\u00adt\u00adian Mis\u00adsions and the Spread of Democ\u00adra\u00adcy<\/a> (Greg Scan\u00addlen, The Fed\u00ader\u00adal\u00adist): This is a sum\u00adma\u00adry of some rather won\u00adder\u00adful research Robert Wood\u00adber\u00adry pub\u00adlished in The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Sci\u00adence Review back in 2012: The Mis\u00adsion\u00adary Roots of Lib\u00ader\u00adal Democ\u00adra\u00adcy<\/a>. If it looks famil\u00adiar it\u2019s because I allude to it from time to time in my ser\u00admons and con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n 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 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":" 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 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 14\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":[124,114,115],"class_list":["post-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-hollywood","tag-missions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-10f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","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=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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