{"id":3990,"date":"2016-04-01T15:52:07","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T23:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2016-06-10T13:45:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T21:45:41","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/04\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-43","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 43"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Fridays I share articles\/resources I have found helpful recently in thinking about broader cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Middle Knowledge and the Calvinist-Arminian Debate<\/span><\/a> (Craig Blomberg, personal blog): This is what I was talking about in my sermon this week. Also see the <\/span>YouTube video<\/span><\/a> where Dr. William Lane Craig explains it to a Sunday School class.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. What Apple\u2019s Encryption Fight Has To Do With Religious Freedom<\/span><\/a> (Chelsea Langston, Christianity Today): \u201c[Apple\u2019s] example reminds us of the broad importance of protecting organizations\u2014both secular and religious, for-profit and non-profit\u2014from compulsion to act against their most foundational values.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. How To Hack An Election<\/span><\/a> (Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley, and Andrew Willis, Bloomberg Businessweek): this is a fascinating and unsettling article. \u2018On the question of whether the U.S. presidential campaign is being tampered with, he is unequivocal. \u201cI\u2019m 100 percent sure it is,\u201d he says.\u2019<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Is Islam a Religion of Peace? A Former Muslim Weighs In.<\/span><\/a> (Dargan Thompson, Relevant Magazine): \u201cWhat I\u2019m saying is the foundations of Islam\u2014I\u2019m talking about the Quran and the life of Muhammed\u2014are very violent. Islam can be formulated in non-violent ways, but to do so, you have to depart from its foundations, as many Muslims do.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Religion is the Foundation of Democracy and Prosperity<\/span><\/a> (Clayton Christensen, Mormon Perspectives): the author, a Harvard professor, talks about a conversation he had with a friend, \u201cI learned the importance of religion for the strength of democracy and capitalism in a conversation 12 years ago with a Marxist economist from China who was nearing the end of a Fulbright Fellowship in Boston. I asked my friend if he had learned here anything that was surprising or unexpected. His response was immediate and, to me, quite profound: \u2018I had no idea how critical religion is to the functioning of democracy and capitalism.\u2019 \u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Personal Love and the Call to Chastity<\/span><\/a> (Samantha Schroeder, The Public Discourse): there is a lot I like and a lot I don\u2019t like about this article.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Here\u2019s Every Biblical Reference in \u2018Hamilton\u2019<\/span><\/a> (Alissa Wilkinson, Christianity Today): of interest to the Hamilton fanatics who seem to abound in Chi Alpha.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    On Fridays I share articles\/resources I have found helpful recently in thinking about broader cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. Middle Knowledge and the Calvinist-Arminian Debate (Craig Blomberg, personal blog): This is what I was talking about in my sermon this week. Also see the \u2026 Continue reading \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 43\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":[123,117,138,163,162],"class_list":["post-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-islam","tag-politics","tag-religious-freedom","tag-sex","tag-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-12m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990","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=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}