{"id":4120,"date":"2016-07-08T11:19:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T19:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4120"},"modified":"2016-07-08T11:19:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T19:19:25","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/07\/08\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-57","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 57"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issu<\/span>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>pla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. <\/span><\/p>\n

Articles I Found Interesting<\/b><\/h3>\n

This has been a depress\u00ading week. Shoot\u00adings by police, shoot\u00adings of police, the ISIS bomb\u00ading in Bagh\u00addad, reli\u00adgious-lib\u00ader\u00adty infringe\u00adments, dis\u00adgrace\u00adful polit\u00adi\u00adcal behav\u00adior and more. If you\u2019re feel\u00ading down, the first few links will be espe\u00adcial\u00adly help\u00adful to you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. How To Pray In Our Time Of Nation\u00adal Cri\u00adsis<\/span><\/a> (Joe Carter, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201c<\/span>Many of us are anx\u00adious and hurt\u00ading. All of us are con\u00adfused. When faced with this type of nation\u00adal cr<\/span>isis we may find it dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to turn to our Com\u00adforter in prayer. We are used to going to God with our requests, but this time seems dif\u00adfer\u00adent. We are mired in sor\u00adrow and pain\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Lamen\u00adta\u00adtions: A Bot\u00adtle For The Tears Of the World<\/span><\/a> (Christo\u00adpher Wright, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cSo much of our wor\u00adship is cov\u00ader-up: pre\u00adtend\u00ading to have emo\u00adtions we don\u2019t real\u00adly feel, or smoth\u00ader\u00ading the emo\u00adtions we do. That is not praise. It sim\u00adply leaves us to pick up our suf\u00adfer\u00ading again on the way out\u2014without bring\u00ading it into God\u2019s pres\u00adence or hurl\u00ading it at him in ques\u00adtion\u00ading (but trust\u00ading) protest. Spend\u00ading time in Lamen\u00adta\u00adtions helps us learn how to plumb the depths of lament as well as scale the heights of rejoic\u00ading.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. What Shoot\u00adings And Racial Jus\u00adtice Mean For The Body of Christ<\/span><\/a> (Rus\u00adsell Moore, per\u00adson\u00adal blog<\/span>): \u201cIf we believe that every per\u00adson will stand before a Judg\u00adment Seat, we can\u00adnot then stand silent\u00adly when we see injus\u00adtice. But many\u2014including evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals of all ethnicities\u2014wonder what we can real\u00adly do? Some are reluc\u00adtant to speak because they do not wish to reduce these issues to a hash-tag and they don\u2019t know what to do.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. End Need\u00adless Inter\u00adac\u00adtion With Cops Dur\u00ading Traf\u00adfic Stops<\/span><\/a> (Conor Frieder\u00ads\u00addorf, The Atlantic): a shrewd, easy-to-imple\u00adment sug\u00adges\u00adtion.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. My Four Months As A Pri\u00advate Prison Guard<\/span><\/a> (Shane Bauer, <\/span>Moth\u00ader Jones): a very long but very engag\u00ading essay. \u201cI start\u00aded apply\u00ading for jobs in pri\u00advate pris\u00adons because I want\u00aded to see the inner work\u00adings of an indus\u00adtry that holds 131,000 of the nation\u2019s 1.6 mil\u00adlion pris\u00adon\u00aders. As a jour\u00adnal\u00adist, it\u2019s near\u00adly impos\u00adsi\u00adble to get an uncon\u00adstrained look inside our penal sys\u00adtem. When pris\u00adons do let reporters in, it\u2019s usu\u00adal\u00adly for care\u00adful\u00adly man\u00adaged tours and mon\u00adi\u00adtored inter\u00adviews with inmates. Pri\u00advate pris\u00adons are espe\u00adcial\u00adly secre\u00adtive.\u201d See also <\/span>Wounds From Incar\u00adcer\u00ada\u00adtion That Nev\u00ader Heal<\/span><\/a> (Tony Brown & Eve\u00adlyn Pat\u00adter\u00adson, The New Repub\u00adlic)<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Two sto\u00adries on the reli\u00adgious-lib\u00ader\u00adty front: <\/span>\n