{"id":4439,"date":"2017-03-31T16:50:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T00:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2017-03-31T16:54:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T00:54:28","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/03\/31\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-94","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 94"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. Sor\u00adry, but if you\u2019re a Chris\u00adt\u00adian, you need to go to church. Reg\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly.<\/a> (Paul Prather, Lex\u00ading\u00adton Her\u00adald-Leader): \u201cYou might see your\u00adself as a ter\u00adrif\u00adic base\u00adball pitch\u00ader. But if you only throw base\u00adballs in your back\u00adyard at a ply\u00adwood cutout, you won\u2019t progress. You\u2019re not even real\u00adly play\u00ading base\u00adball. To dis\u00adcov\u00ader the full extent of your abil\u00adi\u00adties, to under\u00adstand the true game, you need a catch\u00ader, a coach, infield\u00aders and out\u00adfield\u00aders \u2014 and even some\u00adone stand\u00ading in the batter\u2019s box ready to swat your best fast\u00adball right back at you.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. Review\u00ading Rod Dreher\u2019s \u201cThe Bene\u00addict Option\u201d<\/span><\/a> (Jake Meador, Mere Ortho\u00addoxy): The Bene\u00addict Option is a much-dis\u00adcussed book which lays out a strat\u00ade\u00adgy for Chris\u00adtians in the mod\u00adern world \u2014 delib\u00ader\u00adate with\u00addraw\u00adal from some aspects of cul\u00adture, delib\u00ader\u00adate engage\u00adment with oth\u00aders. This is one of the most insight\u00adful reviews I\u2019ve read.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Just Who Are These \u2018Peo\u00adple of Faith\u2019 Any\u00adway?<\/span><\/a> (John Stack\u00adhouse, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cThe Ther\u00adava\u00adda form of Bud\u00addhism, still the dom\u00adi\u00adnant ver\u00adsion of that reli\u00adgion in Sri Lan\u00adka and South\u00adeast Asia, does not ven\u00ader\u00adate a deity. The Chi\u00adnese tra\u00addi\u00adtions of Con\u00adfu\u00adcian\u00adism and Dao\u00adism do not, either. Many forms of belief in the super\u00adnat\u00adur\u00adal do not require <\/span>faith<\/span><\/i> so much as knowl\u00adedge of the divine and of the cor\u00adrect prac\u00adtices to align one\u00adself with it in order to best nego\u00adti\u00adate the world.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Can Reli\u00adgious Char\u00adi\u00adties Take the Place of the Wel\u00adfare State?<\/span><\/a> (Emma Green, The Atlantic): \u201cKeis\u00adter [a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy at Duke Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty] has argued that reli\u00adgious engage\u00adment is close\u00adly asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with finan\u00adcial generosity\u2014in a recent paper, for exam\u00adple, she found that those who attend reli\u00adgious ser\u00advices every week give near\u00adly three times as much as those who don\u2019t.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Read the above in con\u00adjunc\u00adtion with <\/span>How Utah Keeps The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Dream Alive<\/span><\/a> (Megan McAr\u00addle, Bloomberg View): \u201cThe vast wel\u00adfare infra\u00adstruc\u00adture from the Mor\u00admon Church nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adly makes it eas\u00adi\u00ader to have small\u00ader gov\u00adern\u00adment. Per\u00adhaps that could be repli\u00adcat\u00aded by oth\u00ader com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties. But the val\u00adues of the Mor\u00admon Church may cre\u00adate a pub\u00adlic that sim\u00adply needs less help. That\u2019s hard\u00ader for anoth\u00ader com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty to imi\u00adtate. I\u2019m not sure this key ingre\u00addi\u00adent is avail\u00adable in a sec\u00adu\u00adlar ver\u00adsion; I think reli\u00adgion might only come in reli\u00adgion fla\u00advor. How the heck is some state gov\u00adern\u00adment sup\u00adposed to get peo\u00adple to mar\u00adry, and stay mar\u00adried?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. In Europe, cohab\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtion is stable\u2026right?<\/span><\/a> (Brad Wilcox and Lau\u00adrie DeRose, Brook\u00adings): <\/span>\u201cIt is easy to see why some con\u00adclude that mar\u00adriage <\/span>per se<\/span><\/i> does not mat\u00adter. But here\u2019s the thing: mar\u00adriage is itself strong\u00adly asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with fam\u00adi\u00adly sta\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty. U.S. chil\u00addren born to cohab\u00adit\u00ading par\u00adents are twice as like\u00adly to see their par\u00adents\u2019 rela\u00adtion\u00adship end com\u00adpared to chil\u00addren born to mar\u00adried par\u00adents\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Does it pay to get a dou\u00adble major?<\/span><\/a> (Chris\u00adtos Makridis, Quartz): our very own Chris\u00adtos ana\u00adlyzes whether get\u00adting a techie plus a fuzzy major yields a high\u00ader salary than get\u00adting either alone.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Why Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Farm\u00aders Are Hack\u00ading Their Trac\u00adtors With Ukrain\u00adian Firmware<\/a> (Jason Koe\u00adbler, Vice): \u201cIt\u2019s quite sim\u00adple, real\u00adly. John Deere sold farm\u00aders their trac\u00adtors, but has used soft\u00adware to main\u00adtain con\u00adtrol of every aspect of its use after the sale.\u201d
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    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

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    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. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading Sor\u00adry, but if you\u2019re a Chris\u00adt\u00adian, you need to go to church. Reg\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly. (Paul \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 94\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":true,"_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 Christians should go to church, why Christians should think through their role in society, who \"people of faith\" are, 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":[131,140,170,112,117],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-culture","tag-devotional","tag-marriage","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-19B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439","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=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4443,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}