{"id":4228,"date":"2016-09-30T14:57:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T22:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4228"},"modified":"2016-09-30T14:57:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T22:57:57","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/09\/30\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-69","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 69"},"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 Chron\u00adi\u00adcles 12:32 \u2014 they \u201cunder\u00adstood the times\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thegospelcoalition.org\/justintaylor\/2016\/09\/29\/how-to-pray-a-psalm\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How To Pray A Psalm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Justin Tay\u00adlor, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): prayer life need a boost? Give this a try.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2016\/09\/a-college-is-a-community-but-cannot-be-a-home\/500882\/?utm_source=feed\">A Col\u00adlege Is A&nbsp;Com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty But It Can\u00adnot Be A&nbsp;Home<\/a> (Conor Frieder\u00ads\u00addorf, The Atlantic): for\u00adget col\u00adlege.&nbsp;This whole world is not your home \u2014 1 Peter 2:11; Hebrews 13:14.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gerv.net\/2016\/09\/is-plagiarism-a-sin\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is Pla\u00adgia\u00adrism A Sin?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Ger\u00advase Markham, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): this is well-argued and rais\u00ades issues I had not con\u00adsid\u00adered before.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/09\/30\/us\/donald-trump-christians-gay-marriage.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0\">Split Over Don\u00adald Trump and Cut Off by Cul\u00adture Wars, Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals Despair<\/a> (Lau\u00adrie Good\u00adstein, NY Times): an unusu\u00adal\u00adly per\u00adcep\u00adtive piece from the often obliv\u00adi\u00adous-to-reli\u00adgion <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/helives.blogspot.com\/2016\/09\/science-denialism-pot-kettle-black.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sci\u00adence Denial\u00adism: Pot. Ket\u00adtle. Black.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (David Hed\u00addle, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): a nuclear physi\u00adcist gives an stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading sum\u00adma\u00adry of cos\u00admo\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal fine-tun\u00ading and how both the\u00adists and skep\u00adtics often mis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstand it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2829299\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eco\u00adnom\u00adic Free\u00addom and Reli\u00adgion: An Empir\u00adi\u00adcal Inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SSRN): \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our cross-sec\u00adtion\u00adal dataset includes 137 coun\u00adtries aver\u00adaged over the peri\u00adod 2001\u20132010. Sim\u00adple cor\u00adre\u00adla\u00adtions show that Protes\u00adtantism is asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with eco\u00adnom\u00adic free\u00addom, Islam is not, with Catholi\u00adcism in between.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/interrogation\/2016\/08\/shadi_hamid_on_islamic_exceptionalism.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can Islam and Lib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adism Coex\u00adist?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Isaac Chotin\u00ader, Slate): an absolute\u00adly fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading inter\u00adview with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sha\u00addi Hamid. \u201cDur\u00ading the course of our con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion\u2026 we dis\u00adcussed why lib\u00ader\u00adals have trou\u00adble tak\u00ading reli\u00adgion seri\u00adous\u00adly, the future of Islamist pol\u00adi\u00adtics in Turkey and Egypt, and what the rise of Don\u00adald Trump has meant for Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Mus\u00adlims.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Amusing<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/a-new-debate-format\">A New Debate For\u00admat<\/a> (SMBC comics) \u2014 that bit about regres\u00adsion to the mean was a nice touch.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2016-09-27\">Dil\u00adbert on Bad Deci\u00adsion Mak\u00ading<\/a> \u2014 more accu\u00adrate than most of us would like<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">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<p>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<p>Archives at <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 How To Pray A Psalm (Justin Tay\u00adlor, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): prayer life need a boost? Give this a try.&nbsp; A Col\u00adlege Is A&nbsp;Com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty But It Can\u00adnot Be A&nbsp;Home (Conor \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/09\/30\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-69\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 69\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 plagiarism is not a sin, why colleges are not homes, and why Islam and liberal democracies don't mesh well. 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