{"id":3873,"date":"2015-09-18T18:18:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T02:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2017-06-30T12:44:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T20:44:28","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/09\/18\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-17","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 17"},"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;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2015\/sep\/24\/marilynne-robinson-fear\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fear<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Mar\u00adi\u00adlynne Robin\u00adson, NY Review Of Books): I don\u2019t often find overt\u00adly the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal pieces in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York Review of Books<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, much less ones whose open\u00ading lines are, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAmer\u00adi\u00adca is a Chris\u00adt\u00adian coun\u00adtry. This is true in a num\u00adber of sens\u00ades.\u201d She\u2019s gonna get some hate mail.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some things that made me chuck\u00adle:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">xkcd: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1577\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unset\u00adtling Gift<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (cf. Psalm 90:12)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dil\u00adbert: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2015-09-13\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Char\u00adac\u00adter<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ig Nobel awards were held last night. Behold <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/winners\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the 2015 win\u00adners<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A news reporter los\u00ades it when try\u00ading to report on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pMA3x-bc8iM\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a pig named Chris P. Bacon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Why-do-good-universities-tend-to-be-good-at-everything\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why Do Good Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties Tend To Be Good At Every\u00adthing?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Quo\u00adra ques\u00adtion): Short but insight\u00adful.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtsfromthewhale.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/14\/what-stanford-taught-me-about-grace\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Stan\u00adford Taught Me About Grace<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Seth Vil\u00adle\u00adgas, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): Seth is an alum\u00adnus of our min\u00adistry who is cur\u00adrent\u00adly doing grad work at Fuller The\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Sem\u00adi\u00adnary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2015\/07\/14671\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reli\u00adgion and the Repub\u00adlic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (David Forte, With\u00ader\u00adspoon Insti\u00adtute): the author (a law pro\u00adfes\u00adsor) explains the impor\u00adtance of reli\u00adgious speech in the pub\u00adlic square. This seems like a good place to men\u00adtion one of my favorite aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic papers: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;aid=8600535&amp;fileId=S0003055412000093\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mis\u00adsion\u00adary Roots of Lib\u00ader\u00adal Democ\u00adra\u00adcy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the I\u2011know-I-shared-this-last-week-but-want-to-share-it-with-the-new-stu\u00addents depart\u00adment: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/articles\/how-to-stay-christian-on-campus\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How To Stay Chris\u00adt\u00adian On Cam\u00adpus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (David Math\u00adis, Desir\u00ading God): I expect\u00aded some\u00adthing very dif\u00adfer\u00adent than what I got. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded.<\/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\/18\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-17\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 17\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":true,"_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":[131,140,139,135],"class_list":["post-3873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-culture","tag-law","tag-stanford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-10t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873","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=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4528,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions\/4528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}