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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. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my way.<\/p>\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. A Face-to-Face Request Is 34 Times More Successful than an Email<\/a> (Vanessa Bohns, Harvard Business Review): \u201cyou need to ask six people in person to equal the power of a 200-recipient email blast. Still, most people tend to think the email ask will be more effective.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. What Would Jesus Disrupt?<\/span><\/a> (Mya Frazier, Bloomberg): \u201cAs the product takes shape and Foust prepares to move from the concept phase to fundraising, a more explicitly spiritual question begins to nag at him: \u2018How do you raise money like Jesus?\u2019 Foust has attended Crossroads for five years, but his evangelical faith began when he was a child growing up in a devout household on a tree farm in Paris, a town in northeast Ohio. He\u2019s heard from other entrepreneurs how brutal fundraising can be. You\u2019re going to have to sell your soul, they warn. You\u2019re going to have to lie.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Five Stages of Spiritual Awakening<\/span><\/a> (Dave Ferguson, Christianity Today): Interesting article, although I dislike the labels he chose. I would term them (1) yearning for meaning, (2) experiencing regret, (3) acknowledging need, (4) perceiving Christ\u2019s love, and (5) receiving eternal life. It\u2019s worth asking where your friends are on this journey and engage them on that topic.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Why Prison?: An Economic Critique<\/a> (Peter Salib, Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law): \u201cIf our jewel thief must pay $100,000 to be optimally deterred but has only $50,000 in cash, the chosen monetary sanction must merely be capable of making him worse off by the equivalent of another $50,000. As such, this paper does not endorse any particular nonmonetary sanction. History presents a startling array of options, including: flogging, pillory, running the gauntlope, tarring and feathering, branding, and many more. Modern judges have concocted similarly creative sanctions, including: forcing criminals to publicly carry embarrassing signs, mandating that they sleep in doghouses, or requiring them to undergo unwanted haircuts. If one objects to all of these, as-yet unimagined punishments could be substituted.\u201d This is very long. Skim the table of contents and jump to any parts you find interesting.<\/li>\n
  5. Social ecology of similarity<\/span><\/a> (Bahns, Pickett & Crandall, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations): \u201cDyads were significantly more similar on attitudes, beliefs, and health behaviors in the large campus than in the small colleges sample. Our findings reveal an irony\u2014greater human diversity within an environment leads to less personal diversity within dyads.\u201d In other words, smaller universities lead to more diverse friendships.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things Glen Found Amusing<\/h3>\n