{"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 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

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

To be frank, most of what I found inter\u00adest\u00ading this week was turkey.<\/strong> The pick\u00adings are lit\u00adtle slim\u00admer than oth\u00ader weeks:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. The Chris\u00adt\u00adian Cen\u00adtu\u00adry No One Pre\u00addict\u00aded<\/span><\/a> (Justin Tay\u00adlor, per\u00adson\u00adal blog<\/span>): \u201cit was also a rever\u00adsal in that Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty moved from being cen\u00adtered in Chris\u00adt\u00adian nations to being cen\u00adtered in non-Chris\u00adt\u00adian nations. Chris\u00adten\u00addom, that remark\u00adable con\u00addi\u00adtion of church\u00ades sup\u00adport\u00ading states and states sup\u00adport\u00ading Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty, died. The idea of Chris\u00adt\u00adian priv\u00adi\u00adlege in soci\u00adety was all but killed. And yet the reli\u00adgion seemed stronger than ever at the end of the twen\u00adti\u00adeth cen\u00adtu\u00adry.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Ross Douthat on <\/span>The Joy of ISIS<\/span><\/a> (NY Times): \u201c<\/span>But if the West\u2019s offi\u00adcial alter\u00adna\u00adtive to ISIS is the full Bel\u00adgium (basi\u00adcal\u00adly good food + bureau\u00adcra\u00adcy + euthana\u00adsia), if West\u00adern soci\u00adety seems like it\u2019s closed most of the paths that human beings have tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly fol\u00adlowed to find tran\u00adscen\u00addence, if West\u00adern cul\u00adture los\u00ades the abil\u00adi\u00adty to even imag\u00adine the joy that comes with full com\u00admit\u00adment, and not just the remis\u00adsive joy of slough\u00ading com\u00admit\u00adments off \u2014 well, then we\u2019re going to be sup\u00adply\u00ading at least some recruits to groups like ISIS for a very long to come.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Why Tol\u00ader\u00adate Reli\u00adgion?<\/span><\/a> (First Things, Rafael Domin\u00adgo):  \u201cThe right to reli\u00adgion is dif\u00adfer\u00adent from free\u00addom of con\u00adscience. Con\u00adscience is a sort of pro\u00adtec\u00adtive shell around people\u2019s pri\u00adva\u00adcy: it safe\u00adguards them from abu\u00adsive intru\u00adsions by the law. Con\u00adscience marks a pri\u00advate lim\u00adit of the legal sys\u00adtem, not a pub\u00adlic one.\u2026 The right to reli\u00adgion demands tol\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion; free\u00addom of con\u00adscience demands accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtion.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Fear and Vot\u00ading on the Chris\u00adt\u00adian Right<\/span><\/a> (CNN, Thomas Lake). \u201c<\/span>They called her a big\u00adot, a homo\u00adphobe, even a racist, which was strange, because the two gay men were white and so was Bet\u00adty Odgaard. The angry peo\u00adple on the Inter\u00adnet told Bet\u00adty she would die soon, that her death would be good for Amer\u00adi\u00adca, and then she would prob\u00ada\u00adbly go to hell. Bet\u00adty had oth\u00ader ideas about her final des\u00adti\u00adna\u00adtion, but she agreed it was time to go.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. There\u2019s an Awful Cost To Get\u00adting a Ph.D. That No One Talks About<\/span><\/a> (Quartz). Also of inter\u00adest to Chris\u00adtians con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ading a doc\u00adtor\u00adal pro\u00adgram, <\/span>The Illu\u00adsion of Respectabil\u00adi\u00adty<\/span><\/a> (Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today, Allen Guel\u00adzo).<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Chica\u00adgo School of Free Speech<\/span><\/a> (Wall Street Jour\u00adnal<\/span>, L. Gor\u00addon Crovitz): <\/span>one school\u2019s response to the tumult sweep\u00ading col\u00adlege cam\u00adpus\u00ades. (may be behind a pay\u00adwall)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

    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>the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/span><\/a> 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":"

    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 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 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_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":[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}]}}