{"id":4094,"date":"2016-06-17T19:42:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T03:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2016-06-17T19:42:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T03:42:13","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/06\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-54","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issu<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">es, with a preference for content from academics and influential voices. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>A QUOTE&nbsp;I COULDN\u2019T GET OUT OF MY&nbsp;HEAD<\/b><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history.\u201d \u2014 Cardinal Francis George (1937\u20132015)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Including a quote may or may not become a recurring thing. Feedback welcomed.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>LINKS WHICH CAUGHT MY INTEREST<\/b><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some helpful articles about processing the mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellmoore.com\/2016\/06\/12\/orlando-can-still-weep-together\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Orlando Can We Still Weep Together?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Russell Moore, blog)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/australia.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/orlando-grief-in-a-time-of-culture-war\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Orlando \u2014 Grief In A Time Of Culture War<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (David Ould, Gospel Coalition)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rzim.org\/global-blog\/tears-for-orlando\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tears For Orlando<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Vince Vitale, RZIM)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/5-ways-christians-can-respond-to-the-orlando-shooting\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5 Ways Christians Can Respond To The Orlando Shooting<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Joe Carter, Gospel Coalition)&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/reactiongifs\/comments\/4o2q8w\/mrw_when_the_orlando_shooter_was_a_gay\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">brief commentary<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on how confounding the situation is (reddit): I am not sure&nbsp;all these claims are confirmed. Still \u2014&nbsp;wow.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2016\/06\/16\/anderson-coopers-orlando-ranting-is-bad-for-america\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anderson Cooper\u2019s Orlando Ranting Is Bad For America<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Mollie Hemingway, The Federalist): one of the most surreal things for me is that many&nbsp;people are blaming Christianity for the actions of a Muslim shooter. This is definitely not the most important angle to the story, but it is worth considering.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2012\/12\/15\/a-history-of-the-second-amendment-in-two-paintings\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A History of the Second Amendment in Two Paintings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Ezra Klein, Wonkblog): In the wake of Orlando, a lot of people are talking about guns. This brief article from a few years ago is still one of the most insightful things I\u2019ve read about firearms in America. The Yale professor interviewed, Dr. Amar, also wrote a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/jurisprudence\/2008\/03\/putting_the_second_amendment_second.single.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lengthier article about this for Slate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A handful of facts which taken together make both sides uncomfortable: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/06\/fbi-homicide-data-by-weapon.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FBI homicide data by weapon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, &nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/hate-crimes-against-lgbt-people-are-sadly-common\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">violence against gay people is common<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2016\/06\/17\/the-history-of-lgbt-gun-rights-litigation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">guns deter violence against gay people<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/2\/29\/11120184\/gun-control-study-international-evidence\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">some gun control laws do seem to reduce gun deaths<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2015\/10\/03\/do-civilians-with-guns-ever-stop-mass-shootings\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">civilians with guns sometimes stop mass shootings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the leading causes of gun deaths are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">suicide followed by homicide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sf\/investigative\/2015\/12\/26\/a-year-of-reckoning-police-fatally-shoot-nearly-1000\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">police shootings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">accidental shootings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> coming in way behind (shockingly far behind if you extrapolate from what you see on the&nbsp;news).&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two comedians take opposite views. Both are vulgar, hilarious, and informative \u2014 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x9iYvyffAh4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bill Burr buys a shotgun<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jim Jeffries on why Americans are nuts<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See also the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/05\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-48\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">theological debate about guns<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I featured in volume&nbsp;48.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/neutralnews\/comments\/4o2wwh\/wh_no_plans_to_reverse_blood_donation_ban_for_gay\/d497721\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why there is a \u201cgay ban\u201d on blood donations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (reddit): also something people are talking about since Orlando. This is a very simple explanation. The comments are&nbsp;informative. I find it particularly interesting that describing the situation accurately practically forces a&nbsp;focus on behavior and not orientation. The fact-driven explanation winds up framing things similarly to the way evangelicals talk when discussing LGBT issues.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2016\/06\/epic-correction-of-the-decade.php\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Epic Correction of the Decade<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Steven Hayward, Powerline): the authors of a widely-reported study about personality types and political affiliations accidentally coded their data backwards. Their real results are the literal opposite of what you remember seeing in the news. Regardless of your political propensities, this is kinda hilarious. More at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2016\/06\/07\/conservative-political-beliefs-not-linked-to-psychotic-traits\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RetractionWatch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/6\/15\/11925792\/school-condoms-teen-births\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Study: schools that give away condoms see more teen births, not fewer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Sarah Kliff, Vox): \u201cA new research paper suggests that [giving&nbsp;away condoms] may have backfired. It finds that access to condoms in school led to a 10 percent increase in teen births.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chesterton.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/15\/the-sphinx-was-disappointed-in-them\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sphinx Was Disappointed In Them<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (G.K. Chesterton): \u201cNow the mistake of critics is not that they criticise the world; it is that they never criticise themselves. They compare the alien with the ideal; but they do not at the same time compare themselves with the ideal; rather they identify themselves with the ideal.\u201d Chesterton was one of the most important Christian intellectuals of the 20th century. This almost became the quote of the&nbsp;week.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amusing:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/radicalized-christians-praying-orlando\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nation\u2019s Radicalized Christians Praying For Orlando<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Babylon Bee)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/index.php?id=4142\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Final exam dream<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SMBC): in honor of all our graduates<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (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 ideological Turing test<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I\u2019ll usually mention it).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also, remember that I\u2019m not reporting news \u2014 I\u2019m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There\u2019s a lot happening in the world that\u2019s not making an appearance here because I haven\u2019t found stimulating articles written about&nbsp;it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues, with a preference for content from academics and influential voices. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom.&nbsp; A QUOTE&nbsp;I COULDN\u2019T GET OUT OF MY&nbsp;HEAD \u201cI expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/06\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-54\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 54\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":[144,113,117],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-guns","tag-lgbtq","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-142","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","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=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4100,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}