{"id":3967,"date":"2016-03-11T19:23:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T03:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2016-06-10T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T22:00:41","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/03\/11\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-40","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources I have found help\u00adful recent\u00adly in think\u00ading about broad\u00ader cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drivingdiversity.org\/blog\/the-kkk-white-power-and-racism\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The KKK, White Pow\u00ader, and Racism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Chi Alpha\u2019s Dri\u00adving Diver\u00adsi\u00adty blog): \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I woke up a lit\u00adtle after mid\u00adnight unable to sleep. On Face\u00adbook, an African Amer\u00adi\u00adcan stu\u00addent from one of our Chi Alpha groups mes\u00adsaged me ask\u00ading for my prayers and help. The KKK is hand\u00ading out fly\u00aders in his town (more fly\u00aders).\u201c<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2016\/03\/18\/creation-care-evangelical-christianity-climate-change-434865.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Move\u00adment Takes On Cli\u00admate Change<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Tik Root, Newsweek): \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Appalled, Keys found\u00aded a non\u00adprof\u00adit called Jesus Peo\u00adple Against Pol\u00adlu\u00adtion in 1992, and for more than two decades that\u2019s been her mis\u00adsion. She calls it her \u2018king\u00addom assign\u00adment\u2019 from God.\u201c<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2016\/april\/defining-evangelicals-in-election-year.html?utm_source=ctdirect-html&amp;utm_medium=Newsletter&amp;utm_term=9500958&amp;utm_content=420835228&amp;utm_campaign=email\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Defin\u00ading Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals In An Elec\u00adtion Year<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Ander\u00adson and Stet\u00adzer, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cThe desire to sur\u00advey white evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals to deter\u00admine their polit\u00adi\u00adcal inter\u00adests inad\u00adver\u00adtent\u00adly ends up con\u00advey\u00ading two ideas that are not true: that \u2018evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal\u2019 means \u2018white\u2019 and that evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals are pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly defined by their pol\u00adi\u00adtics\u2026. Bro\u00adken out by eth\u00adnic\u00adi\u00adty, 29 per\u00adcent of whites, 44 per\u00adcent of African Amer\u00adi\u00adcans, 30 per\u00adcent of His\u00adpan\u00adics, and 17 per\u00adcent of peo\u00adple from oth\u00ader eth\u00adnic\u00adi\u00adties have evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal beliefs.\u201d Relat\u00aded:&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2016\/03\/the-myth-of-the-evangelical-trump-voters\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Myth of the Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Trump Vot\u00aders<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Dar\u00adren Guer\u00adra, First Things): \u201cthe anti-Trump vote amongst all evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals in the coun\u00adtry might reach 80\u201390% once non-Repub\u00adli\u00adcan pri\u00adma\u00adry vot\u00aders are account\u00aded for.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/this-is-a-good-story-about-growing-up-evangelical-1757159739\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Is A Good Sto\u00adry About Grow\u00ading Up Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Lau\u00adra Turn\u00ader, Jezebel): \u201cIt is rare to hear some\u00adone in main\u00adstream media acknowl\u00adedge that they are glad to be or have been evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal, even though about a quar\u00adter of Amer\u00adi\u00adcans are evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal.\u201d The author is John and Nan\u00adcy Ortberg\u2019s daugh\u00adter and is on staff with City Church in San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruxnow.com\/church\/2016\/03\/06\/remembering-indias-christian-martyrs-should-be-a-church-priority\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Remem\u00adber\u00ading India\u2019s Chris\u00adt\u00adian Mar\u00adtyrs Should Be a Church Pri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adty<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Thomas Allen, Crux): \u201cIn August, 2008, hos\u00adtil\u00adi\u00adty toward the Chris\u00adt\u00adian \u201coth\u00ader\u201d explod\u00aded in Kand\u00adhamal, leav\u00ading rough\u00adly 100 peo\u00adple dead, thou\u00adsands injured, 300 church\u00ades and 6,000 homes destroyed, and 50,000 peo\u00adple dis\u00adplaced, many of them forced to hide in near\u00adby forests where more died of hunger and snakebites.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2016\/04\/the-obama-doctrine\/471525\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Oba\u00adma Doc\u00adtrine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Jef\u00adfrey Gold\u00adberg, The Atlantic): This is real\u00adly long. Fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading, but for polit\u00adi\u00adcal junkies&nbsp;only. <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In light of the above arti\u00adcle, read <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2016\/march\/do-christians-face-genocide-isis-john-kerry-syria-iraq.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do Chris\u00adtians Face Geno\u00adcide From ISIS? US Has One Week Left To Decide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Sarah Zyl\u00adstra, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today) and try to make a pre\u00addic\u00adtion. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Brooks has an insight\u00adful piece prompt\u00aded&nbsp;by&nbsp;Gold\u00adberg\u2019s arti\u00adcle: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/11\/opinion\/dogs-cats-and-leadership.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fdavid-brooks&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=opinion&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=latest&amp;contentPlacement=1&amp;pgtype=collection&amp;_r=0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dogs, Cats, and Lead\u00ader\u00adship<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NY Times). <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As promised in the meet\u00adings, some sources&nbsp;to cor\u00adrob\u00ado\u00adrate my claims about the ben\u00ade\u00adfi\u00adcial impact of mis\u00adsions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2003\/october\/35.112.html\">The Defend\u00ader of the Good News, Ques\u00adtion\u00ading Lamin San\u00adneh<\/a>&nbsp;(an inter\u00adview at Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today),&nbsp;San\u00adneh\u2019s&nbsp;books <a href=\"https:\/\/searchworks.stanford.edu\/view\/1707277\">Trans\u00adlat\u00ading the Mes\u00adsage: The Mis\u00adsion\u00adary Impact On Cul\u00adture<\/a> (BV2063 .S23 1989), <a href=\"https:\/\/searchworks.stanford.edu\/view\/4320459\">Abo\u00adli\u00adtion\u00adists Abroad : Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Blacks and the Mak\u00ading of Mod\u00adern West Africa<\/a> (DT476.S26 1999) and <a href=\"https:\/\/searchworks.stanford.edu\/view\/7113073\">Dis\u00adci\u00adples of All Nations: Pil\u00adlars of World Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (avail\u00adable on reserve at the cir\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adtion desk and also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordscholarship.com\/view\/10.1093\/acprof:oso\/9780195189605.001.0001\/acprof-9780195189605\">avail\u00adable online<\/a>), the works of Rod\u00adney Stark such as <a href=\"https:\/\/searchworks.stanford.edu\/view\/10474781\">How The West Won<\/a> (CB245 .S715 2014, also <a href=\"http:\/\/site.ebrary.com\/lib\/stanford\/detail.action?docID=10852780\">avail\u00adable online<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/searchworks.stanford.edu\/view\/9452654\">The Tri\u00adumph of Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty<\/a>&nbsp;(BR145.3 .S73 2011),&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/searchworks.stanford.edu\/view\/5414229\">For The Glo\u00adry of God<\/a> (BL221 .S747 2003)&nbsp;and, of course, the arti\u00adcle I always allude to: <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/download.php?file=%2FPSR%2FPSR106_02%2FS0003055412000093a.pdf&amp;code=8b4b4da1b4df24f8559d97c60a9e146d\">The Mis\u00adsion\u00adary Roots of Lib\u00ader\u00adal Democ\u00adra\u00adcy<\/a>&nbsp;(Wood\u00adber\u00adry, Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Sci\u00adence Review)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quick Links:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UnMkfkm8pp0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How a the shad\u00adow of a total eclipse looks from space<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (youtube): I assumed it would be big\u00adger.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.christilling.de\/2016\/03\/blogging-through-markus-gabriels-why.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A short, sim\u00adple cri\u00adtique of mate\u00adri\u00adal\u00adism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/index.php?id=4040\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rock\u00adet Engi\u00adneers Are Spe\u00adcial<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SMBC)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/index.php?id=4045\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Heav\u00aden\u00adly Plot Twist<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SMBC): noth\u00ading in this is the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly accu\u00adrate at all. Still fun\u00adny.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<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. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/span><\/p>\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 (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (you can also sign up to receive them at that site)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources I have found help\u00adful recent\u00adly in think\u00ading about broad\u00ader cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. The KKK, White Pow\u00ader, and Racism (Chi Alpha\u2019s Dri\u00adving Diver\u00adsi\u00adty blog): \u201cI woke up a lit\u00adtle after mid\u00adnight unable to sleep. On Face\u00adbook, an African \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/03\/11\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-40\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 40\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":[161,115,117,116,157],"class_list":["post-3967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-global-christianity","tag-missions","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-testimonies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-11Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967","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=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4080,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions\/4080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}