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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. Transcript of New Orleans Mayor Landrieu\u2019s address on Confederate monuments<\/span><\/a> (Derek Cosson, The Pulse): \u201cTo literally put the confederacy on a pedestal in our most prominent places of honor is an inaccurate recitation of our full past, it is an affront to our present, and it is a bad prescription for our future.\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Rod Dreher\u2019s <\/span>A Monumental History<\/a> offers a general agreement with Landrieu\u2019s speech along with a thoughtful defense of Robert E. Lee. <\/span>\u201cI am only somewhat troubled by the Lee monument\u2019s removal. That\u2019s not because of any sympathy for the Confederacy \u2014 it deserved to lose, and the suffering of the South in and after the war was, I believe, God\u2019s judgment on it for the sin of slavery\u2026. [nonetheless] Lee was a far more complex man than many people today seem to realize.\u201d (Dreher is also a Louisiana resident)<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. College Freshmen Are Less Religious Than Ever<\/span><\/a> (Allen Downey, Scientific American): \u201cMost of this growth [of \u2018no religious preference\u2019] comes at the expense of Catholicism, which dropped from 32 percent to 23 percent, and mainstream Protestant denominations including Baptists (from 17 percent to 7 percent), and Methodists (from 9 percent to 3 percent). At the same time the number of students choosing \u2018Other Christian\u2019 increased from 5 percent to 13 percent.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. UK Muslims Reported Abedi<\/span><\/a> (Rod Dreher, The American Conservative): \u201cWhat else would you have had these Muslims do? Sounds like they did exactly what they were supposed to do\u2026 [On the other hand] what more would you have authorities do? If he had not acted out\u2026 what do you do?\u201d Things are complex. And yes, this is the same Rod Dreher as in the second entry on this list. He\u2019s prolific. <\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Sexual regret in US and Norway: Effects of culture and individual differences in religiosity and mating strategy<\/span><\/a> (Bendixen, Asao, Wyckoff, Buss and Kennair, Personality and Individual Differences): <\/span> From the abstract: \u201cMen were significantly less likely to regret having had casual sex than women and were significantly more likely to regret passing up casual sexual opportunities than women\u2026 Finally, North Americans and Norwegians did not differ significantly in overall amount of sexual regret nor in patterns of sex differences in sexual regret.\u201d I\u2019m always fascinated by gender differences that transcend cultures. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things Glen Found Amusing<\/h3>\n