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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. The Curious Rise Of The \u2018White Left\u201d As A Chinese Internet Insult<\/a> (Chenchen Zhang, Open Democracy): \u201cIf you look at any thread about Trump, Islam or immigration on a Chinese social media platform these days, it\u2019s impossible to avoid encountering the term baizuo (\u767d\u5de6)<\/i>, or literally, the \u2018white left\u2019.\u2026 Criticisms of the \u2018white left\u2019 against the background of the European refugee crisis fit especially well with the \u2018rising China\u2019 versus \u2018Europe in decline\u2019 narrative.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. The True Heartbreak Of Reading The Bible<\/span><\/a> (Rebecca McLaughlin, Veritas): \u201cWhen we humans make metaphors, we\u2019re noticing connections.  Love is a sickness. Life is a marathon. Parents can be helicopters.  But if the message of the Bible is true \u2013 if there <\/span>is<\/span><\/i> a God who created the universe  \u2013 then biblical metaphors are different. God did not notice how human fathers love their children and decide to call himself our Father (e.g.<\/span> Isaiah 63:16<\/span>,<\/span> Matthew 6:9<\/span>).  Rather, God created fatherhood, so that the best of human fathers could give us some small glimpse of how he loves us.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Beauty sleep is a real thing, research shows<\/span><\/a> (Michelle Roberts, BBC): \u201c<\/span>Beauty sleep is a real thing, according to researchers who have shown that people who miss out on sleep do appear less attractive to others. A couple of bad nights is enough to make a person look \u201csignificantly\u201d more ugly, their sleep experiments suggest.\u201d Bad news for Stanford students.<\/li>\n
  4. Way More Americans May Be Atheists Than We Thought<\/span><\/a> (Daniel Cox, Five Thirty Eight): I suspect that even the highest estimate in the article is lower than what many at Stanford assume.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. The Damage We Would Do To Each Other If We Had \u201cThe Explanation\u201d<\/span><\/a>  (Richard Beck, personal blog): \u201cImagine, if you will, that the Bible gave us an explanation for why there is so much pain and suffering in the world. Imagine that the Bible gave us \u2018The Explanation\u2019 in a specific text, something we could easily quote and share\u2026. Then imagine how The Explanation would be used.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. What Makes A Parent?<\/span><\/a> (Ian Parker, New Yorker): \u201c\u2026at the end she stood to make a skeptical point or two. In her view, the speakers had underestimated the legal consequences of making a person a parent. The panel\u2019s chair, a judge, asked Rabin to stop lecturing the room. It was a peculiar moment. Rabin\u2014who is gay, and a parent, and who has no argument with Barone\u2019s victory, and who is admired for her own challenge to Alison D., in 2010\u2014seemed to have been cast as a reactionary, intruding on a celebration.\u201d This is a long, fascinating piece which (in my view but not the author\u2019s) highlights some of the negative consequences of the LGBT revolution in society. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things Glen Found Amusing<\/h3>\n