{"id":4105,"date":"2016-06-24T17:28:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T01:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2016-06-24T17:28:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T01:28:29","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/06\/24\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-55","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 55"},"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 ex<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">planation and disclaimers at the bottom.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Articles I Found Interesting<\/b><\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Britain voted to leave the European Union.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was intrigued to learn that<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapidomedia.com\/eu-referendum-religious-issue\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Christians were particularly likely to vote to leave<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and so I found <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2016\/06\/britain-votes-on-brexit-today-heres-whats-at-stake\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R. R. Reno\u2019s &nbsp;theological rationale for leaving<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fascinating (First Things): \u201c\u2026the impulse to opt out of ever-greater union reflects an intuition, not a rational plan. The intuition is that loyalty, not prosperity, is the foundation of a healthy society. To my mind, it\u2019s a sound intuition.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/religionnews.com\/2016\/06\/23\/faith-matters-as-uk-votes-on-whether-to-remain-in-european-union\/\">Faith matters as UK votes on whether to remain in EU<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Arthur Keefer, Religion News): skim down to the bit that begins \u201cIn June&nbsp;2013\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2016-06-24\/-citizens-of-the-world-nice-thought-but\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Citizens Of the World? Nice Thought, But\u2026<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Megan McCardle, Bloomberg): \u201cIn many ways, members of the global professional class have started to identify more with each other than they have with the fellow residents of their own countries. Witness the emotional meltdown many American journalists have been having over Brexit.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Related To&nbsp;Orlando:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2016\/06\/21\/shadi-hamid-orlando-shooting-islam-isis-sexuality-column\/86146470\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Omar Mateen\u2019s Multiple Motives<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Kirsten Powers, USA Today): \u201cAlmost as quickly as the massacre of innocents in Orlando unfolded, Americans retreated to their ideological corners to interpret the motivations of the mass murderer, Omar Mateen.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-orlando-gay-fbi-20160623-snap-story.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FBI Investigators say they have found no evidence that Orlando shooter had gay lovers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Molly Hennessy-Fiske, LA Times): huh. This is still a developing story, do not assume this is the final&nbsp;word.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/online-only\/online-only\/the-gun-control-we-deserve\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gun Control We Deserve<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Patrick Blanchfield, n+1): \u201cAs many critics have observed, we would be na\u00efve to think that heavy-handed gun control measures would not involve the same disproportionate racial targeting and police violence we rightly condemn in the War on Drugs and in everyday encounters in places from Baltimore to Ferguson to Cleveland to Oakland.\u201d A very thoughtful piece.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/we-dont-live-in-a-simulation\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elon Musk Is Wrong. We Aren\u2019t Living In A Simulation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Riccardo Manzotti and Andrew Smart, Vice): \u201cThe world we live in is made of real stuff. Simulations are things made of the same stuff. Musk\u2019s argument does not show that we are getting any closer to producing an alternative reality. Rather it shows that we are getting better and better at shaping the physical world.\u201d The authors take unwarranted pot shots at dualism, but make very good points overall. Related: SMBC \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/index.php?id=4147\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heap Problem<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/06\/the-sotomayor-and-kagan-dissents-in-utah-v-strieff.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sotomayor and Kagan Dissents in Utah vs Strieff<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution): \u201cIf outstanding warrants were few and far between and distributed more or less randomly the case would have been wrongly decided but of little practical importance. Outstanding warrants, however, are common and much more common in some communities than others. As I wrote in 2014, in Ferguson, MO a majority of the population had outstanding warrants and not because of high&nbsp;crime:\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2016\/06\/ban-the-box-or-require-the-box.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ban the Box or Require the Box?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution): \u201cSadly, a policy that was intended to raise the employment prospects of black men ends up having the biggest positive effect on white men with a criminal record\u2026. Policies like ban the box try to get people to do the \u2018right thing\u2019 by blinding people to certain types of information. But blinded people tend to use other cues to achieve their interests and when those other cues are less informative that often makes things worse.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennyburk.com\/im-a-single-issue-voter-on-multiple-issues-and-so-are-you\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m A Single-Issue Voter On Multiple Issues And So Are You<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Denny Burk, personal blog): \u201cSingle-issue voting is not the idea that being right on any single issue qualifies a candidate for office. Single-issue voting is the idea that being wrong on a single issue may disqualify a candidate from office.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/archive\/2016\/07\/my-holy-land-vacation\/?single=1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My Holy Land Vacation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Tom Bissell, Harpers): \u201cI excuse myself and stroll outside. I notice that someone else has also walked out early: Pastor Marty. He tells me that he was troubled by the violence of the Israeli Redneck\u2019s speech. I tell Pastor Marty that I don\u2019t fault a man who\u2019s fought in four wars for sounding like a lunatic. What bothers me is the way people were applauding him.\u201d Highly recommended.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><b>A Quote To Ponder<\/b><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStanford students are good at being good at things. Your Christianity can\u2019t just be one more thing you\u2019re good at. To be good misses the point. The point is not what you do but what Jesus has done.\u201d Seth Villegas<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3><b>Something Amusing To End&nbsp;On<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/awOc2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contemporary Seinfeld show ideas<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (imgur)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Christianity\/comments\/4plte5\/a_funny_christian_joke\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A funny Christian joke<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (reddit)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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; Articles I Found Interesting Britain voted to leave the European Union.&nbsp; I was intrigued to learn that Christians were particularly likely to \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/06\/24\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-55\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 55\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":[161,148,159,117,116,132],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-global-christianity","tag-israel","tag-justice","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-supreme-court"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-14d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","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=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4111,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions\/4111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}