{"id":4218,"date":"2016-09-16T19:49:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T03:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2016-09-16T19:49:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T03:49:59","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/09\/16\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-67","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 67"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1 Chron\u00adi\u00adcles 12:32 \u2014 they \u201cunder\u00adstood the times\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom.<\/p>\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. Ice\u00adbreak\u00aders Are Ter\u00adri\u00adble. They Also, Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, Work Real\u00adly Well<\/span><\/a> (Cari Romm, NY Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201c<\/span>Is there any val\u00adue to mak\u00ading a room\u00adful of peo\u00adple mis\u00ader\u00adable with false cheer? Psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgist Anton Vil\u00adla\u00addo is adamant that the answer is yes, and that ice\u00adbreak\u00aders don\u2019t have to be pleas\u00adant to be effec\u00adtive.\u201d Rel\u00ade\u00advant for the start of the school year.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Reli\u00adgion in US \u2018worth more than Google and Apple com\u00adbined\u2019<\/span><\/a> (Har\u00adri\u00adet Sher\u00adwood, The Guardian): \u201c<\/span>the sums spent by reli\u00adgious organ\u00adi\u00adsa\u00adtions on social pro\u00adgrammes have tripled in the past 15 years, to $9bn. Twen\u00adty of the top 50 char\u00adi\u00adties in the US are faith-based, with a com\u00adbined oper\u00adat\u00ading rev\u00adenue of $45.3bn.\u201d There\u2019s some <\/span>excel\u00adlent com\u00admen\u00adtary<\/span><\/a> on this at Crux.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The First Coun\u00adtry to Offi\u00adcial\u00adly Defend Chris\u00adtians Per\u00adse\u00adcut\u00aded by ISIS<\/span><\/a> (World Watch Mon\u00adi\u00adtor at Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): It\u2019s Hun\u00adgary. Hun\u00adgary\u2019s Min\u00adis\u00adter for Human Resources said, \u201c<\/span>Today, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty has become the most per\u00adse\u00adcut\u00aded reli\u00adgion, where out of five peo\u00adple killed [for] reli\u00adgious rea\u00adsons, four of them are Chris\u00adtians.\u2026 In 81 coun\u00adtries around the world, Chris\u00adtians are per\u00adse\u00adcut\u00aded, and 200 mil\u00adlion Chris\u00adtians live in areas where they are dis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded against.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Why Not a Col\u00adlege Degree in Sports?<\/span><\/a> (Roger Pielke Jr., NY Times): \u201cBeyond our cul\u00adtur\u00adal bias\u00ades, what real\u00adly is the dif\u00adfer\u00adence between a Shake\u00adspeare play, an orches\u00adtra con\u00adcert and a bas\u00adket\u00adball game? Each per\u00adfor\u00admance requires some high-lev\u00adel com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adtion of phys\u00adi\u00adcal abil\u00adi\u00adty and men\u00adtal acu\u00adity, devel\u00adoped through years of train\u00ading and study, and for which only a select few reach elite lev\u00adels.\u201d There is a sim\u00adi\u00adlar arti\u00adcle back <\/span>in issue 44<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Time For A Realign\u00adment<\/span><\/a> (NY Times, David Brooks): \u201c<\/span>There\u2019s a good chance many of you will be switch\u00ading polit\u00adi\u00adcal par\u00adties over the next 15 years.\u201d This is true both for the rea\u00adsons Brooks men\u00adtions and also because some of you will change your minds.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. The world will only get weird\u00ader<\/span><\/a> (Steven Coast, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201c<\/span>We fixed all the main rea\u00adsons air\u00adcraft crash a long time ago. Some\u00adtimes a long, long time ago. So, we are left with the less and less prob\u00ada\u00adble events.\u201d The piece is a few years old so the exam\u00adples are dat\u00aded, but it remains very intrigu\u00ading.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n

    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.<\/p>\n

    Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n

    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 the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> 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).<\/p>\n

    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.<\/p>\n

    Archives at http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading Ice\u00adbreak\u00aders Are Ter\u00adri\u00adble. They Also, Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, Work Real\u00adly Well (Cari Romm, NY Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cIs there any val\u00adue to mak\u00ading a room\u00adful of peo\u00adple mis\u00ader\u00adable with false cheer? Psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgist \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 67\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":"Why unpleasant icebreakers work nonetheless, why athletes should be able to major in football, and more.","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":[131,124,126,117],"class_list":["post-4218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-persecution","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-162","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218","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=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4221,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions\/4221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}