{"id":4526,"date":"2017-06-30T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2017-06-30T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T21:52:00","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-107","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/06\/30\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-107","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 107"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/a>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&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thegospelcoalition.org\/justintaylor\/2017\/06\/19\/the-simple-questions-to-ask-every-time-you-open-your-bible\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Simple Questions to Ask Every Time You Open Your Bible<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Justin Taylor, Gospel Coalition): \u201c1. What does God want me to understand? 2. What does God want me to believe? 3. What does God want me to desire? 4. What does God want me to&nbsp;do?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/conversations-with-tyler\/ben-sasse-tyler-cowen-book-twitter-trump-cb5b4a435323\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben Sasse on the Space between Nebraska and Neverland<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Tyler Cowen, Conversations With Tyler): Sasse is my favorite Republican Senator and he does not disappoint in this interview. While you could just read the transcript, the audio is great and highly recommended. The Conversations With Tyler podcast generally is a worthwhile subscription (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/conversations-with-tyler\/id983795625?mt=2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">iTunes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/users\/soundcloud:users:146429914\/sounds.rss\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RSS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). My favorite Democratic Senator, by the way, is Cory Booker. You can read <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/news\/2012\/june\/transcript-cory-booker-061912.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the transcript of Booker\u2019s 2012 commencement speech at Stanford<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Sasse and Booker being my favorites does not imply that I agree with them on any specific policy issue \u2014 I just think they\u2019d be great to have as neighbors.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/book-review-debating-religious-liberty-and-discrimination\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Religious Freedom and Discrimination: Why the Debate Continues<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Albert Mohler, Gospel Coalition): \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great moral debates ride on arguments, but they\u2019re decided on emotion and moral intuition. That doesn\u2019t mean arguments don\u2019t matter\u2014they assuredly do. What it does mean is the winning side in a great moral crisis will never win on argument alone. Moral sentiment is more basic than moral argument.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Relevant: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2017\/june\/sex-disputes-americans-favor-faith-lifeway.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Sex Disputes, Most Americans Still Favor Religious Rights<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court made a very encouraging ruling in defense of religious liberty. Here are a few takes on&nbsp;it:&nbsp;<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-big-idea\/2017\/6\/26\/15875612\/scotus-trinity-lutheran-funding-secularization-belief-religious-freedom\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SCOTUS ruled that churches qualify for state money. Churches, beware.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Lyman Stone, Vox): \u201cChurches should celebrate the Court\u2019s decision, yet think hard about how they\u2019ll act on it\u2026. Religious people and groups do deserve and are one step closer to receiving equal access to public programs, but if they are wise, they should avoid actually availing themselves of these programs in most cases. The experience of centuries has shown that far from sacralizing the state, public support of religious bodies secularizes the church.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2017\/06\/trinity-lutheran\/531399\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court Strikes Down a Major Church-State Barrier<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Emma Green, The Atlantic): \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seven justices affirmed the judgment in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trinity Lutheran v. Comer<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, albeit with some disagreement about the reasoning behind it. The major church-state case could potentially expand the legal understanding of the free-exercise clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It is also the first time the Supreme Court has ruled that governments must provide money directly to a house of worship, which could have implications for future policy fights\u2014including funding for private, religious charter schools.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2017\/06\/19675\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paving a Playground, and Weeding the Unruly Garden of Religious Liberty<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Matthew J. Franck, Public Discourse): \u201cSomething of this generalized animosity to the place of religion in American society can be seen in the startlingly reactionary dissent of Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Considerably longer than Roberts\u2019s opinion of the Court, Sotomayor\u2019s dissent stakes out the amazing position that Missouri is not only permitted by the free exercise clause of the First Amendment to exclude churches from equal access to funding available to others; it is required to exclude them by the establishment clause.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2017\/6\/30\/15879702\/health-care-capitalism-free-market-socialism-single-payer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think health care is a right. I asked an expert to tell me why I\u2019m wrong.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Sean Illing, Vox): \u201cFundamentally, you have to understand that getting access to healthcare services, getting people to be willing to provide high-quality services and innovative treatments, is the result of a market decision for those providers as well, and so if you don\u2019t treat it like a marketplace to some degree, you\u2019ll get less innovation and fewer new treatments than you will if you do.\u201d The journalist interviews an econ professor at Northwestern and they disagree helpfully.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2017\/06\/seattle-minimum-wage-study.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Seattle Minimum Wage Study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution): \u201cThe authors are able to replicate the results of other papers that find no impact on the restaurant industry with their own data by imposing the same limitations that other researchers have faced. This shows that those papers\u2019 findings were likely driven by their data limitations. This is an important thing to remember as you see knee-jerk responses coming from the usual corners.\u201d See also <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2017\/06\/minimum-wage-evidence-danish-discontinuity.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Minimum Wage: Evidence from a Danish Discontinuity<\/span><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 23px; font-weight: 900;\">Things Glen Found Amusing<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/facebook-announces-praise-jesus-reaction-button-celebrate-christians\/\">Facebook Announces \u2018Praise Jesus\u2019 Reaction Button To Celebrate Christians<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/preferred-pronouns-thouthine-explains-kjv-onlyist\/\">\u2018My Preferred Pronouns Are Thou\/Thine,\u2019 Explains KJV-Onlyist<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>From The Archives<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m experimenting with a new feature \u2014 every week highlighting an older link still worth your consideration. First up we have the very first link I ever shared way back in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/05\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-1\">volume 1<\/a>:&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/spiritual-shape-political-ideas_819707.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Spiritual Shape of Political Ideas (Joseph Bottum, The Weekly Standard)<\/span><\/a>. It argues that some of our modern and supposedly secular political ideas are mutant variants of Christian theology.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">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<p>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&nbsp;it.<\/p>\n<p>Archives at <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&nbsp;way. Things Glen Found Interesting The Simple Questions to Ask Every Time You Open Your Bible (Justin Taylor, Gospel Coalition): \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/06\/30\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 107\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":"How to benefit from reading your Bible, my favorite senators from both parties, and several articles on religious liberty.","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":[170,113,117,138],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-devotional","tag-lgbtq","tag-politics","tag-religious-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1b0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","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=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}