{"id":3881,"date":"2015-10-02T19:53:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T03:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2015-10-02T19:54:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T03:54:33","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/10\/02\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-19","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 19"},"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<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With\u00adout fur\u00adther ado, I give you the inter\u00adest\u00ading things:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was a shoot\u00ading at a col\u00adlege in Ore\u00adgon yes\u00adter\u00adday. There\u2019s a reli\u00adgious angle to this sto\u00adry, but the details are still not clear.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before read\u00ading the news arti\u00adcles, read this great arti\u00adcle from The New Repub\u00adlic about pro\u00adcess\u00ading break\u00ading news called <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/123005\/skeptics-guide-media-coverage-mass-shootings\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Skeptic\u2019s Guide To Media Cov\u00ader\u00adage of Mass Shoot\u00adings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joe Carter at The Gospel Coali\u00adtion has a help\u00adful sum\u00adma\u00adry of some of the reli\u00adgious angles to the sto\u00adry: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/factchecker-the-umpqua-community-college-shooting\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FactCheck\u00ader: The Umpqua Com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty Col\u00adlege Shoot\u00ading<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NY Post: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/10\/01\/oregon-gunman-singled-out-christians-during-rampage\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ore\u00adgon Gun\u00adman Sin\u00adgled Out Chris\u00adtians Dur\u00ading Ram\u00adpage<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/10\/02\/ore-shooter-left-behind-online-portrait-of-a-lonely-youth-with-a-grudge-against-religion\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ore. Shoot\u00ader Left Behind Online Por\u00adtrait Of A Lone\u00adly Youth WIth A Grudge Against Reli\u00adgion<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accord\u00ading to one eye\u00adwit\u00adness quot\u00aded in the LA Times, \u201cIf they said they were Chris\u00adtians, they were shot again\u201d: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-oregon-shooting-live-updates-htmlstory.html?update=84578901\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ore\u00adgon col\u00adlege shoot\u00ading updates: Gun\u00adman Chris Harp\u00ader-Mer\u00adcer killed 9, had 13 guns<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ore\u00adgon Live: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/pacific-northwest-news\/index.ssf\/2015\/10\/gunman_in_oregon_college_shoot.html#incart_maj-story-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gun\u00adman in Ore\u00adgon col\u00adlege shoot\u00ading exe\u00adcut\u00aded class\u00admates, say\u00ading \u2018I\u2019ll see you soon\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> accord\u00ading to an eye\u00adwit\u00adness in this sto\u00adry he did ask stu\u00addents about their faith before killing them, but did not specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly tar\u00adget Chris\u00adtians.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By con\u00adtrast, the NY Times arti\u00adcle <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/02\/us\/oregon-shooting-umpqua-community-college.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=a-lede-package-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ore\u00adgon Shoot\u00ading At Umpqua Col\u00adlege Kills 10, Sher\u00adiff Says<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> does not even men\u00adtion the word Chris\u00adt\u00adian or God, nor does Inside High\u00ader Ed\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2015\/10\/02\/oregon-community-college-site-third-worst-mass-shooting-college-campus\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tragedy at Umpqua<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For com\u00adplete\u00adly dif\u00adfer\u00adent news, read <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/20\/opinion\/sunday\/seth-stephens-davidowitz-googling-for-god.html?_r=0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Googling For God<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NY Times, Seth Stephens-Davi\u00add\u00adowitz): file under \u201cinter\u00adest\u00ading but not that sur\u00adpris\u00ading\u201d (although I am sur\u00adprised at the rel\u00ada\u00adtive posi\u00adtions of ques\u00adtions 1 and 2 &nbsp;\u2014 I assumed they were swapped)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/douthat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/24\/pope-francis-and-the-not-quite-secular-west\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pope Fran\u00adcis and the Not-Quite-Sec\u00adu\u00adlar West<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NY Times, Ross Douthat): Secularism\u2019s grip on Amer\u00adi\u00adca is weak\u00ader than it appears.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v37\/n18\/amia-srinivasan\/stop-the-robot-apocalypse\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stop The Robot Apoc\u00ada\u00adlypse<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Amia Srini\u00advasan, Lon\u00addon Review of Books): the title is mis\u00adlead\u00ading \u2014 this is an insight\u00adful cri\u00adtique of the effec\u00adtive altru\u00adism move\u00adment from the left.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Huh. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/priceonomics.com\/the-correlation-between-arts-and-crafts-and-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cor\u00adre\u00adla\u00adtions Between Arts and Crafts and a Nobel Prize<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Rosie Cima, Priceo\u00adnom\u00adics).<\/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\/10\/02\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-19\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 19\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":[119,144,145,126,146],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-charity","tag-guns","tag-nobel","tag-persecution","tag-pope"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-10B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","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=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3883,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions\/3883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}