{"id":4153,"date":"2016-07-29T22:36:16","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T06:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2016-07-29T22:36:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T06:36:16","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/07\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-60","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4136\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/07\/15\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-58\/20160715_161627\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4136\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4136\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160715_161627-300x101.jpg?resize=300%2C101\" alt=\"1 Chronicles 12:32 - they &quot;understood the times&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160715_161627.jpg?resize=300%2C101&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160715_161627.jpg?resize=768%2C259&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160715_161627.jpg?resize=1024%2C345&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160715_161627.jpg?resize=1200%2C404&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/20160715_161627.jpg?w=1692&amp;ssl=1 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1 Chronicles 12:32 \u2014 they \u201cunderstood the&nbsp;times\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<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.<\/p>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To quote from the beginning of both posts: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">over the past 30 years lawmakers in Congress tend to vote in line with their party\u2019s platform: 89 percent of the time for Republicans and 79 percent of the time for Democrats.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to read the full party platform statements they are linked in the articles and weigh in at a tad over 50 pages each \u2014 these are much shorter summaries. They are presented in the order of their conventions.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/what-you-should-know-about-the-republican-party-platform\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What You Should Know About the Republican Party Platform<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Joe Carter, Gospel Coalition)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/what-you-should-know-about-the-democratic-party-platform\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What You Should Know About The Democratic Party Platform<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Joe Carter, Gospel Coalition)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thegospelcoalition.org\/evangelical-history\/2016\/07\/26\/is-segregation-scriptural-a-radio-address-from-bob-jones-on-easter-of-1960\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is Segregation Scriptural? A Radio Address From Bob Jones On Easter Of 1960<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Justin Taylor, Evangelical History): this is fascinating to me as a preacher. Notice that where Jones went off the rails was when he relied upon his interpretation of a single verse as the foundation of his theology. Beware of single-verse theology! Also, who doesn\u2019t talk about the resurrection on Easter? What was his Christmas sermon about?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-False-Promise-of-a\/237066\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The False Promise Of A \u2018Conversation\u2019 About Race<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (John McWhorter, Chronicle of Higher Education): \u201cThe Martian anthropologist \u2014 or even a sharp 10-year-old \u2014 would be baffled by so many brilliant people\u2019s endlessly claiming in the very wake of the latest racial incident, discussed in the news cycle for weeks, that America \u2018doesn\u2019t want to talk about race.\u2019\u201d The author is a professor at Columbia who earned his Ph.D. in linguistics at Stanford.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/in-the-culture-war-between-students-and-professors-the-1781580133\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In The Culture War Between Students and Professors, The University Is The Real Enemy<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Donna Zuckerberg, Jezebel): \u201cHeller is correct on one crucial point that I don\u2019t think readers have been taking seriously enough. Colleges like Oberlin do encourage individual expression while simultaneously grooming all of their students to belong to a single socioeconomic class\u2014the intellectual and professional elite. In other words, studying Antigone doesn\u2019t just teach you about Greek drama and female political resistance. It also turns you into the kind of person who has read Antigone.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/yale-law-school-inequality_us_5772a27ee4b0dbb1bbbc11b9\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As A Poor Kid From The Rust Belt, Yale Law Brought Me Face-To-Face With Radical Inequality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (J.D. Vance, Huffington Post): \u201cVery few people at Yale Law School are like me. They may look like me, but for all of the Ivy League\u2019s obsession with diversity, virtually everyone\u2014black, white, Jewish, Muslim, whatever\u2014 comes from intact families who never worry about money.\u201d I shared&nbsp;a link to an interview with J.D. Vance last&nbsp;week.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Amusing<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephanpastis\/status\/758471559950368768\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">comic newspapers refused to run<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>What to order for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/last-meal\">your last meal<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ideological Turing test<\/a> 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).<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a non-Stanford friend who might be interested in these emails, they can sign up at <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/subscribe\">http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/subscribe<\/a>, and if you want to view the archives they are at <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links<\/a>.<\/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. Things Glen Found Interesting To quote from the beginning of both posts: \u201cover the past 30 years lawmakers in Congress tend to \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/07\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-60\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 60\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":"A summary of the party platforms, some stuff about race, and some stuff about college life.","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":[131,117,116],"class_list":["post-4153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-politics","tag-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-14Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","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=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}