{"id":4012,"date":"2016-04-29T19:12:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T03:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2016-06-10T13:39:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T21:39:53","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/04\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-47","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 47"},"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.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2016\/april-web-only\/china-reveals-what-it-wants-to-do-christianity-xi-jinping.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chi\u00adna Reveals What It Wants To Do With Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Brent Ful\u00adton, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201chow China\u2019s athe\u00adis\u00adtic regime plans to deal with the country\u2019s grow\u00ading Chris\u00adt\u00adian pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion, pro\u00adject\u00aded to become the world\u2019s largest with\u00adin the next cou\u00adple decades.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2016\/april\/after-pastors-wife-buried-alive-chinese-church-wins-land.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Pas\u00adtor\u2019s Wife Buried Alive, Chi\u00adnese Church Wins Land Bat\u00adtle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Sarah Zyl\u00adstra, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): use\u00adful to read in con\u00adjunc\u00adtion with the pre\u00adced\u00ading arti\u00adcle.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwestern.edu\/newscenter\/stories\/2016\/04\/radiant-zinc-fireworks-reveal-quality-of-human-egg.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Radi\u00adant Zinc Fire\u00adworks Reveal Qual\u00adi\u00adty of Human Egg<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Mar\u00adla Paul, North\u00adwest\u00adern Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty News): you were formed in a burst of light. For real. \u201cI praise you because I am fear\u00adful\u00adly and won\u00adder\u00adful\u00adly made\u201d (Psalm 139:14)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2016\/04\/a-human-extinction-isnt-that-unlikely\/480444\/\">You\u2019re More Like\u00adly To Die In A Human Extinc\u00adtion Event Than A Car Crash<\/a>&nbsp;(Robin\u00adson Mey\u00ader, The Atlantic): but did they fac\u00adtor in the return of Christ?<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/penews.org\/news\/relating-to-the-skeptics\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Relat\u00ading To The Skep\u00adtics<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Robert Mims, PE News): short and encour\u00adag\u00ading. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailynous.com\/2016\/04\/26\/were-historys-so-called-greatest-philosophers-all-that-great\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are History\u2019s \u201cGreat\u00adest Philoso\u00adphers\u201d All That Great?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Gre\u00adgo\u00adry Lewis, Dai\u00adly Nous): inter\u00adest\u00ading but miss\u00ades a huge point. Socrates is not famous mere\u00adly&nbsp;for the words he used&nbsp;\u2014 he is famous&nbsp;for the life he lived. Great\u00adness is not a mat\u00adter&nbsp;of clev\u00ader\u00adness&nbsp;alone.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Things that tick\u00adled me:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/man-god-perfects-sidehug\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Man of God Per\u00adfects The Side Hug<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (The Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1875\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will This Be On The Test?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (PHD): your TAs read this com\u00adic, I guar\u00adan\u00adtee it. You have been warned.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tierney_tyre\/status\/724316417223458816\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scot\u00adtish Par\u00adent\u00ading Win<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (John Tierny, Twit\u00adter)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stanfordflipside.com\/2016\/04\/drought-ends-just-in-time-for-admit-weekend\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drought Ends Just In Time For Admit Week\u00adend<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (The Flip\u00adside)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/pcusa-discernment-group-senses-holy-spirit-leading-denomination-lose-members\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PC(USA) Dis\u00adcern\u00adment Group Sens\u00ades Holy Spir\u00adit Lead\u00ading The Denom\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion to Lose More Mem\u00adbers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (The Baby\u00adlon Bee): I found this hilar\u00adi\u00adous. Your mileage may vary.<\/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","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. Chi\u00adna Reveals What It Wants To Do With Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty (Brent Ful\u00adton, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201chow China\u2019s athe\u00adis\u00adtic regime plans to deal with the country\u2019s grow\u00ading Chris\u00adt\u00adian \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/04\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-47\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 47\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":[125,161,127,157],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-china","tag-global-christianity","tag-history","tag-testimonies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-12I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","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=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4078,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions\/4078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}