{"id":4071,"date":"2016-06-10T19:19:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T03:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2016-08-26T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T21:36:50","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/06\/10\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-53","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 53"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issu<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">es, with a pref\u00ader\u00adence for con\u00adtent from aca\u00add\u00ade\u00admics and influ\u00aden\u00adtial voic\u00ades. Be sure to see the ex<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/religion\/2009\/04\/conversion-experience-atheism\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why I Believe Again<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (A.N. Wil\u00adson, The New States\u00adman): this piece is about sev\u00aden years old, but I don\u2019t remem\u00adber see\u00ading it before. \u201cone thing that final\u00adly put the tin hat on any aspi\u00adra\u00adtions to be an unbe\u00adliev\u00ader was writ\u00ading a book about the Wag\u00adn\u00ader fam\u00adi\u00adly and Nazi Ger\u00admany, and real\u00adis\u00ading how utter\u00adly inco\u00adher\u00adent were Hitler\u2019s neo-Dar\u00adwin\u00adian rav\u00adings, and how potent was the oppo\u00adsi\u00adtion, much of it from Chris\u00adtians; paid for, not with clear intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal vic\u00adto\u00adry, but in blood.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2016\/02\/evangelical-american-economics\/460455\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Roots of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Eco\u00adnom\u00adics<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Bradley Bate\u00adman, The Atlantic): \u201cOne unlike\u00adly exam\u00adple of the Protes\u00adtant influ\u00adence on Amer\u00adi\u00adcan cul\u00adture is the for\u00adma\u00adtion of eco\u00adnom\u00adics as an aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic dis\u00adci\u00adpline in the Unit\u00aded States.\u201d Fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading and high\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/6\/7\/11868028\/evangelicals-nevertrump\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals like me can\u2019t vote for Trump \u2014 or Clin\u00adton. Here\u2019s what we can do instead.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Alan Noble, Vox): This is a long and thought\u00adful piece. \u201cunless a third-par\u00adty can\u00addi\u00addate with broad appeal emerges, evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Chris\u00adtians would be bet\u00adter served by abstain\u00ading from [the pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial] vote and shift\u00ading their ener\u00adgy toward elect\u00ading peo\u00adple to Con\u00adgress and local and state gov\u00adern\u00adments who have the oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to restrain whichev\u00ader can\u00addi\u00addate is elect\u00aded as need\u00aded.\u201c &nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/katiejmbaker\/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here Is The Pow\u00ader\u00adful Let\u00adter The Stan\u00adford Vic\u00adtim Read Aloud To Her Attack\u00ader<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Katie J.M. Bak\u00ader<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Buz\u00adzfeed): many of you have seen this. If not, it\u2019s worth read\u00ading. Pow\u00ader\u00adful&nbsp;and insight\u00adful. <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In rela\u00adtion to this case, an anony\u00admous alum\u00adna con\u00adtact\u00aded me recent\u00adly to say: \u201cI\u2019m frus\u00adtrat\u00aded [that peo\u00adple] are not mak\u00ading an effort or rec\u00adog\u00adniz\u00ading the role that alco\u00adhol and the cul\u00adture sur\u00adround\u00ading the whole sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion had. What they\u2019re call\u00ading for is greater pun\u00adish\u00adment on col\u00adlege kids who com\u00admit sex\u00adu\u00adal assault but I think that kin\u00adda miss\u00ades a huge point. They refuse to rec\u00adog\u00adnize the sin in being ok with col\u00adlege drink\u00ading and the whole frat par\u00adty thing.\u201d I replied with a sug\u00adges\u00adtion that she read some\u00adthing I shared way back in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/11\/13\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-25\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">issue 25 <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">titled <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/the-culture\/the-alcohol-blackout\/?utm_source=nextdraft&amp;utm_medium=email\">Alco\u00adhol, Black\u00adouts, and Cam\u00adpus Sex\u00adu\u00adal Assault<\/a>, which I still believe is&nbsp;the most thought\u00adful sec\u00adu\u00adlar analy\u00adsis&nbsp;I\u2019ve read of the issue<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many peo\u00adple feel that to crit\u00adi\u00adcize the par\u00adty scene is to excul\u00adpate&nbsp;rapists. That seems odd to me, because&nbsp;we rec\u00adog\u00adnize that when some\u00adone dri\u00adves drunk&nbsp;they accept moral respon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty for any acci\u00addents they cause. Their ine\u00adbri\u00ada\u00adtion is not a defense \u2014 it is an admis\u00adsion of cul\u00adpa\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty. And we also rec\u00adog\u00adnize the prin\u00adci\u00adple does not flow in both direc\u00adtions \u2014 if you stab me while I am drunk, the fact that I am drunk does not pro\u00advide you with any excuse. The same prin\u00adci\u00adple holds here: Brock Turn\u00ader\u2019s drunk\u00aden\u00adness is no defense and the vic\u00adtim\u2019s drunk\u00aden\u00adness is no jus\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion. Fur\u00adther\u00admore,&nbsp;our con\u00advic\u00adtions about&nbsp;drunk dri\u00adving hint at&nbsp;a broad\u00ader prin\u00adci\u00adple: drunk\u00aden\u00adness is a sin because over time it pre\u00addictably leads to deplorable out\u00adcomes. This means that&nbsp;Brock Turn\u00ader is to blame \u2014 and so are the parts of&nbsp;cam\u00adpus cul\u00adture which&nbsp;encour\u00adage drunk\u00aden\u00adness.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The par\u00adty scene is no excuse for Brock\u2019s wicked\u00adness, but that does not make the par\u00adty scene a vir\u00adtu\u00adous one.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the par\u00adty scene on our cam\u00adpus abounds with sin even when it fails to make nation\u00adal news. The worst sin that night (that we know of) was the sex\u00adu\u00adal assault com\u00admit\u00adted by Brock Turn\u00ader. But it was far from the only sin.&nbsp;There were numer\u00adous con\u00adsen\u00adsu\u00adal non\u00admar\u00adi\u00adtal sex\u00adu\u00adal encoun\u00adters that night \u2014 each of them also sin\u00adful&nbsp;(although less so). There were many peo\u00adple drunk that night \u2014 they too sinned, every one of them. There was arro\u00adgant pos\u00adtur\u00ading, envy, lust, anger, lying, betray\u00adal, gos\u00adsip, slan\u00adder and a whole host of sins exac\u00ader\u00adbat\u00aded by alco\u00adhol and the social sce\u00adnario. Our alum\u00adna\u2019s instincts are cor\u00adrect \u2014 the sys\u00adtem itself makes sin like\u00adly and it should not be embraced by Chris\u00adtians.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In case you stum\u00adbled over the \u201cworst sin\/less sin\u00adful\u201d judg\u00adments I made,&nbsp;you should read&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2005\/january\/19.65.html\">All Sins Are Not Equal<\/a> (J.I. Pack\u00ader, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today).<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you for your patience. I rarely add lengthy edi\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal com\u00adments, but my words ran away with me today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2016\/may\/28\/jessica-valenti-my-life-as-a-sex-object\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Life as a \u2018Sex Object\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Jes\u00adsi\u00adca Valen\u00adti, The Guardian): this is pow\u00ader\u00adful, slight\u00adly vul\u00adgar piece. I am always intrigued by authors who embrace the sex\u00adu\u00adal rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion and are dis\u00admayed by some of its man\u00adi\u00adfes\u00adta\u00adtions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Amus\u00ading:\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dil\u00adbert: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2016-06-03\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decid\u00ading Which Liar You Pre\u00adfer<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baby\u00adlon Bee: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/trump-fires-back-bible-accuses-not-christian\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump Fires Back After Bible Accus\u00ades Him Of Not Being Chris\u00adt\u00adian<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baby\u00adlon Bee: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/unsatisfied-persecuted-church-member-try-church-just-across-minefield\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unsat\u00adis\u00adfied Per\u00adse\u00adcut\u00aded Church Mem\u00adber To Try Out Oth\u00ader Church Just Across Mine\u00adfield<\/span><\/a><\/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;\">If you have a non-Stan\u00adford friend who might be inter\u00adest\u00aded in these emails, they can sign up at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/subscribe\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/subscribe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and if you want to view the archives they are 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;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[minor edit for clar\u00adi\u00adty short\u00adly after post\u00ading]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues, with a pref\u00ader\u00adence for con\u00adtent from aca\u00add\u00ade\u00admics and influ\u00aden\u00adtial voic\u00ades. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. Why I Believe Again (A.N. Wil\u00adson, The New States\u00adman): this piece is about sev\u00aden years old, but I don\u2019t remem\u00adber see\u00ading it \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/06\/10\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-53\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 53\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":[143,128,117,147,135,157],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-alcohol","tag-economics","tag-politics","tag-sexual-assault","tag-stanford","tag-testimonies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-13F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","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=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4087,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions\/4087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}