{"id":4278,"date":"2016-11-25T17:13:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T01:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4278"},"modified":"2016-11-25T17:13:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T01:13:58","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/11\/25\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-77","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 77"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1 Chronicles 12:32 \u2014 they \u201cunderstood the times\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom.<\/p>\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. White Christian Apocalypse?<\/span><\/a> (Philip Jenkins, The American Conservative): Jenkins is a well-known historian. \u201cOn one critical issue, though, contemporary debate and theorizing really is trespassing on my areas of expertise.\u201d Jenkins unpacks some long-term trends and their implications for America\u2019s demographic destiny. <\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The End of Identity Liberalism<\/span><\/a> (Mark Lilla, NY Times): One of the more insightful things I\u2019ve read lately. It\u2019s inspired by the recent election, but is about something much broader \u2014 some intrinsic weaknesses of identity politics. For a very strong reaction against it, read <\/span>Making White Supremacy Respectable. Again.<\/span><\/a> (Katherine Franke, LA Review of Books). Both authors are professors at Columbia, which will no doubt make for tense times in the faculty lounge.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Yes, Trump will build his border wall. Most of it is already built.<\/span><\/a> (Peter Andreas, Washington Post): \u201cIt is important to remember that Trump\u2019s predecessors carefully avoided calling any new border barriers a \u2018wall.\u2019\u201d Wow. I did not realize how much of the southern border is already barricaded. It would be helpful if reporters periodically brought this fact up for context.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Trying To Think Through The Logic Of Abortion Rights<\/span><\/a> (Justin Taylor, The Gospel Coalition): Taylor summarizes the arguments of two philosophy professors. For me, meditating on Luke 1:39\u201345 has been important when thinking about abortion. <\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Everyone should have the right to assisted suicide \u2014 or no one should<\/span><\/a> (Felicia Nimue Ackerman, Vox): \u201ca society that \u2018pathologizes\u2019 suicidal feelings of indignity and degradation in rape victims while endorsing them in the terminally ill is, I contend, engaging in a horrifying, odious form of bigotry.\u201d The author is a philosophy professor at Brown.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    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

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

    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 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

    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 it.<\/p>\n

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    On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. Things Glen Found Interesting White Christian Apocalypse? (Philip Jenkins, The American Conservative): Jenkins is a well-known historian. \u201cOn one critical issue, though, contemporary debate and theorizing really is trespassing on my areas \u2026 Continue reading \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 77\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":"Noncontroversial topics such as identity politics, border barriers, abortion, and assisted suicide.","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":[121,167,117],"class_list":["post-4278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-abortion","tag-euthanasia","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-170","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278","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=4278"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4283,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4278\/revisions\/4283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}