{"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 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><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 help\u00ading-you-get-bet\u00adter-grades depart\u00adment: <\/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 Cor\u00adrect\u00adly On A Mul\u00adti\u00adple-Choice Test<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Justin Couch\u00adman, Quartz): the author, a psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy pro\u00adfes\u00adsor, describes a tech\u00adnique you can use to tell whether to trust your first instinct or revise the answer. You\u2019re wel\u00adcome.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the kim-davis-no-rela\u00adtion depart\u00adment: <\/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;\">Ken\u00adtucky Clerk Didn\u2019t Fol\u00adlow Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Before Con\u00advert\u00ading To It<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Mol\u00adlie Hem\u00ading\u00adway, The Fed\u00ader\u00adal\u00adist): this is the most fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading of all the arti\u00adcles to me. If you only read one, make it this 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 Break\u00ading The Law Is Only Okay When Pro\u00adgres\u00adsives Do It<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Sean Davis, The Fed\u00ader\u00adal\u00adist): inter\u00adest\u00ading con\u00adtrast with the way Gavin New\u00adsom was treat\u00aded for a sur\u00adpris\u00ading\u00adly sym\u00admet\u00adri\u00adcal vio\u00adla\u00adtion. This is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan issue: Davis and New\u00adsom are both Democ\u00adrats serv\u00ading in elect\u00aded 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;\">Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post Looks At Ken\u00adtucky Same-Sex Mar\u00adriage Wars, Sees Only Two Armies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Ter\u00adry Mat\u00adting\u00adly, GetRe\u00adli\u00adgion): this piece gives some infor\u00adma\u00adtion that I\u2019m not see\u00ading many oth\u00ader places, ampli\u00adfied slight\u00adly in a fol\u00adlow-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-Sham\u00ading The Chris\u00adt\u00adian Con\u00advert in Ken\u00adtucky Who Is Open To Com\u00adpro\u00admise?<\/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 Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): Rod and I grad\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded from the same high school, although he is old\u00ader than me and we nev\u00ader 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 depart\u00adment:<\/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 Togeth\u00ader: Reli\u00adgion And The Risk of Divorce<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Bradley Wright, Insti\u00adtute of Fam\u00adi\u00adly Stud\u00adies): the author is a sol\u00adid believ\u00ader and also a soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy prof at U 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 Dri\u00adving The Mar\u00adriage Divide?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Rachel Sheffield, The Pub\u00adlic Dis\u00adcourse): &nbsp;a use\u00adful intro\u00adduc\u00adtion to an ongo\u00ading debate. The left and right both tend to view the unrav\u00adel\u00ading of mar\u00adriages and pover\u00adty as relat\u00aded social prob\u00adlems, but argue about which is the cause and which is the effect. The author comes from the right and argues that the unrav\u00adel\u00ading of mar\u00adriages caus\u00ades pover\u00adty.<\/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 Cul\u00adture Isn\u2019t The Real Prob\u00adlem Fac\u00ading Sin\u00adgles Today: It\u2019s Math<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Jon Birg\u00ader, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): I\u2019m includ\u00ading this one part\u00adly 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 rag\u00ading-debates-which-enrage-peo\u00adple depart\u00adment: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealmagazine.org\/hungry-souls\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hun\u00adgry For Souls: Was Junipero Ser\u00adra A Saint?<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Gre\u00adgo\u00adry Orfalea, Com\u00admon\u00adweal): this is a help\u00adful sum\u00adma\u00adry of the case for Junipero Ser\u00adra. I\u2019m not sure \u2014 is it J\u2011Ro that is named after him, Ser\u00adra, or both? <\/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\/09\/04\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-15\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 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_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":[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}]}}