{"id":3864,"date":"2015-09-04T16:22:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T00:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2015-09-05T12:04:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T20:04:40","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/09\/04\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-15","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the&nbsp;world.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To that end, on Fridays I\u2019ve been sharing articles\/resources I have found helpful recently in thinking about broader cultural and societal issues (be sure to see the disclaimer at the bottom). May these give you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition 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 helping-you-get-better-grades department: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/495098\/heres-the-best-way-to-guess-correctly-on-a-multiple-choice-test\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s The Best Way To Guess Correctly On A Multiple-Choice Test<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Justin Couchman, Quartz): the author, a psychology professor, describes a technique you can use to tell whether to trust your first instinct or revise the answer. You\u2019re welcome.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the kim-davis-no-relation department:&nbsp;<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/09\/02\/kentucky-clerk-didnt-follow-christianity-before-converting-to-it\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kentucky Clerk Didn\u2019t Follow Christianity Before Converting To It<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist): this is the most fascinating of all the articles to me. If you only read one, make it this&nbsp;one.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/09\/03\/kim-davis-shows-that-breaking-the-law-is-only-okay-when-progressives-do-it\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim Davis Uproar Shows That Breaking The Law Is Only Okay When Progressives Do It<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Sean Davis, The Federalist): interesting contrast with the way Gavin Newsom was treated for a surprisingly symmetrical violation. This is not a partisan issue: Davis and Newsom are both Democrats serving in elected office.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2015\/9\/1\/washington-post-looks-at-kentucky-same-sex-marriage-wars-sees-only-two-armies\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington Post Looks At Kentucky Same-Sex Marriage Wars, Sees Only Two Armies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Terry Mattingly, GetReligion): this piece gives some information that I\u2019m not seeing many other places, amplified slightly in a follow-up <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2015\/9\/2\/thats-the-ticket-slut-shaming-kentucky-clerk-who-is-open-to-compromise-legislation\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slut-Shaming The Christian Convert in Kentucky Who Is Open To Compromise?<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/law-for-thee-but-not-for-me-religious-liberty-christians\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Law For Thee But Not For Me<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Rod Dreher, The American Conservative): Rod and I graduated from the same high school, although he is older than me and we never&nbsp;met.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the with-this-ring-I-thee-wed department:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/family-studies.org\/what-god-has-joined-together-religion-and-the-risk-of-divorce\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What God Has Joined Together: Religion And The Risk of Divorce<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Bradley Wright, Institute of Family Studies): the author is a solid believer and also a sociology prof at U&nbsp;Conn.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2015\/08\/14792\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s Driving The Marriage Divide?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Rachel Sheffield, The Public Discourse): &nbsp;a useful introduction to an ongoing debate. The left and right both tend to view the unraveling of marriages and poverty as related social problems, but argue about which is the cause and which is the effect. The author comes from the right and argues that the unraveling of marriages causes poverty.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2015\/08\/26\/hookup-culture-isnt-the-problem-facing-singles-today-its-math\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hookup Culture Isn\u2019t The Real Problem Facing Singles Today: It\u2019s Math<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Jon Birger, Washington Post): I\u2019m including this one partly so Eyosias can say, \u201cStop.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the raging-debates-which-enrage-people department: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealmagazine.org\/hungry-souls\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hungry For Souls: Was Junipero Serra A Saint?<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Gregory Orfalea, Commonweal): this is a helpful summary of the case for Junipero Serra. I\u2019m not sure \u2014 is it J\u2011Ro that is named after him, Serra, or&nbsp;both?&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (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 ideological Turing test<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the&nbsp;world. To that end, on Fridays I\u2019ve been sharing articles\/resources I have found helpful recently \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/09\/04\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-15\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 15\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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[111,120,113,112],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-better-grades","tag-famous-christians","tag-lgbtq","tag-marriage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-10k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","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=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3866,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions\/3866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}