{"id":3915,"date":"2015-11-27T21:29:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T05:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2016-06-10T14:13:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T22:13:44","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/11\/27\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-27","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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>http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

To be frank, most of what I found interesting this week was turkey.<\/strong> The pickings are little slimmer than other weeks:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. The Christian Century No One Predicted<\/span><\/a> (Justin Taylor, personal blog<\/span>): \u201cit was also a reversal in that Christianity moved from being centered in Christian nations to being centered in non-Christian nations. Christendom, that remarkable condition of churches supporting states and states supporting Christianity, died. The idea of Christian privilege in society was all but killed. And yet the religion seemed stronger than ever at the end of the twentieth century.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Ross Douthat on <\/span>The Joy of ISIS<\/span><\/a> (NY Times): \u201c<\/span>But if the West\u2019s official alternative to ISIS is the full Belgium (basically good food + bureaucracy + euthanasia), if Western society seems like it\u2019s closed most of the paths that human beings have traditionally followed to find transcendence, if Western culture loses the ability to even imagine the joy that comes with full commitment, and not just the remissive joy of sloughing commitments off \u2014 well, then we\u2019re going to be supplying at least some recruits to groups like ISIS for a very long to come.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Why Tolerate Religion?<\/span><\/a> (First Things, Rafael Domingo):  \u201cThe right to religion is different from freedom of conscience. Conscience is a sort of protective shell around people\u2019s privacy: it safeguards them from abusive intrusions by the law. Conscience marks a private limit of the legal system, not a public one.\u2026 The right to religion demands toleration; freedom of conscience demands accommodation.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Fear and Voting on the Christian Right<\/span><\/a> (CNN, Thomas Lake). \u201c<\/span>They called her a bigot, a homophobe, even a racist, which was strange, because the two gay men were white and so was Betty Odgaard. The angry people on the Internet told Betty she would die soon, that her death would be good for America, and then she would probably go to hell. Betty had other ideas about her final destination, but she agreed it was time to go.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. There\u2019s an Awful Cost To Getting a Ph.D. That No One Talks About<\/span><\/a> (Quartz). Also of interest to Christians considering a doctoral program, <\/span>The Illusion of Respectability<\/span><\/a> (Christianity Today, Allen Guelzo).<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Chicago School of Free Speech<\/span><\/a> (Wall Street Journal<\/span>, L. Gordon Crovitz): <\/span>one school\u2019s response to the tumult sweeping college campuses. (may be behind a paywall)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n

    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>the ideological Turing test<\/span><\/a> 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":"

    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 world. To that end, on Fridays I\u2019ve been sharing articles\/resources I have found helpful recently \u2026 Continue reading \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 27\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":[131,152,127,123,117,138],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-free-speech","tag-history","tag-islam","tag-politics","tag-religious-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-119","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","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=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3917,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions\/3917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}