{"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 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<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 Sim\u00adple Ques\u00adtions to Ask Every Time You Open Your Bible<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Justin Tay\u00adlor, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201c1. What does God want me to under\u00adstand? 2. What does God want me to believe? 3. What does God want me to desire? 4. What does God want me to 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 Nebras\u00adka and Nev\u00ader\u00adland<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Tyler Cowen, Con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions With Tyler): Sasse is my favorite Repub\u00adli\u00adcan Sen\u00ada\u00adtor and he does not dis\u00adap\u00adpoint in this inter\u00adview. While you could just read the tran\u00adscript, the audio is great and high\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded. The Con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions With Tyler pod\u00adcast gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly is a worth\u00adwhile sub\u00adscrip\u00adtion (<\/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 Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic Sen\u00ada\u00adtor, by the way, is Cory Book\u00ader. You can read <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/news\/2012\/june\/transcript-cory-booker-061912.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the tran\u00adscript of Booker\u2019s 2012 com\u00admence\u00adment speech at Stan\u00adford<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Sasse and Book\u00ader being my favorites does not imply that I agree with them on any spe\u00adcif\u00adic pol\u00adi\u00adcy issue \u2014 I just think they\u2019d be great to have as neigh\u00adbors. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/book-review-debating-religious-liberty-and-discrimination\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reli\u00adgious Free\u00addom and Dis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion: Why the Debate Con\u00adtin\u00adues<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Albert Mohler, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Great moral debates ride on argu\u00adments, but they\u2019re decid\u00aded on emo\u00adtion and moral intu\u00adition. That doesn\u2019t mean argu\u00adments don\u2019t matter\u2014they assured\u00adly do. What it does mean is the win\u00adning side in a great moral cri\u00adsis will nev\u00ader win on argu\u00adment alone. Moral sen\u00adti\u00adment is more basic than moral argu\u00adment.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rel\u00ade\u00advant: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2017\/june\/sex-disputes-americans-favor-faith-lifeway.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Sex Dis\u00adputes, Most Amer\u00adi\u00adcans Still Favor Reli\u00adgious Rights<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court made a very encour\u00adag\u00ading rul\u00ading in defense of reli\u00adgious lib\u00ader\u00adty. Here are a few takes on it: <\/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 church\u00ades qual\u00adi\u00adfy for state mon\u00adey. Church\u00ades, beware.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Lyman Stone, Vox): \u201cChurch\u00ades should cel\u00ade\u00adbrate the Court\u2019s deci\u00adsion, yet think hard about how they\u2019ll act on it\u2026. Reli\u00adgious peo\u00adple and groups do deserve and are one step clos\u00ader to receiv\u00ading equal access to pub\u00adlic pro\u00adgrams, but if they are wise, they should avoid actu\u00adal\u00adly avail\u00ading them\u00adselves of these pro\u00adgrams in most cas\u00ades. The expe\u00adri\u00adence of cen\u00adturies has shown that far from sacral\u00adiz\u00ading the state, pub\u00adlic sup\u00adport of reli\u00adgious bod\u00adies sec\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adizes 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 Bar\u00adri\u00ader<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Emma Green, The Atlantic): \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sev\u00aden jus\u00adtices affirmed the judg\u00adment in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trin\u00adi\u00adty Luther\u00adan v. Com\u00ader<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, albeit with some dis\u00adagree\u00adment about the rea\u00adson\u00ading behind it. The major church-state case could poten\u00adtial\u00adly expand the legal under\u00adstand\u00ading of the free-exer\u00adcise clause of the First Amend\u00adment of the U.S. Con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion. It is also the first time the Supreme Court has ruled that gov\u00adern\u00adments must pro\u00advide mon\u00adey direct\u00adly to a house of wor\u00adship, which could have impli\u00adca\u00adtions for future pol\u00adi\u00adcy fights\u2014including fund\u00ading for pri\u00advate, reli\u00adgious char\u00adter schools.\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2017\/06\/19675\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paving a Play\u00adground, and Weed\u00ading the Unruly Gar\u00adden of Reli\u00adgious Lib\u00ader\u00adty<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Matthew J. Franck, Pub\u00adlic Dis\u00adcourse): \u201cSome\u00adthing of this gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adized ani\u00admos\u00adi\u00adty to the place of reli\u00adgion in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan soci\u00adety can be seen in the star\u00adtling\u00adly reac\u00adtionary dis\u00adsent of Jus\u00adtice Sonia Sotomay\u00ador, who was joined by Jus\u00adtice Ruth Bad\u00ader Gins\u00adburg. Con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adably longer than Roberts\u2019s opin\u00adion of the Court, Sotomayor\u2019s dis\u00adsent stakes out the amaz\u00ading posi\u00adtion that Mis\u00adsouri is not only per\u00admit\u00adted by the free exer\u00adcise clause of the First Amend\u00adment to exclude church\u00ades from equal access to fund\u00ading avail\u00adable to oth\u00aders; it is required to exclude them by the estab\u00adlish\u00adment 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): \u201cFun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adly, you have to under\u00adstand that get\u00adting access to health\u00adcare ser\u00advices, get\u00adting peo\u00adple to be will\u00ading to pro\u00advide high-qual\u00adi\u00adty ser\u00advices and inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive treat\u00adments, is the result of a mar\u00adket deci\u00adsion for those providers as well, and so if you don\u2019t treat it like a mar\u00adket\u00adplace to some degree, you\u2019ll get less inno\u00adva\u00adtion and few\u00ader new treat\u00adments than you will if you do.\u201d The jour\u00adnal\u00adist inter\u00adviews an econ pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at North\u00adwest\u00adern and they dis\u00adagree help\u00adful\u00adly. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2017\/06\/seattle-minimum-wage-study.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Seat\u00adtle Min\u00adi\u00admum Wage Study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cThe authors are able to repli\u00adcate the results of oth\u00ader papers that find no impact on the restau\u00adrant indus\u00adtry with their own data by impos\u00ading the same lim\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtions that oth\u00ader researchers have faced. This shows that those papers\u2019 find\u00adings were like\u00adly dri\u00adven by their data lim\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtions. This is an impor\u00adtant thing to remem\u00adber as you see knee-jerk respons\u00ades com\u00ading from the usu\u00adal cor\u00adners.\u201d See also <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2017\/06\/minimum-wage-evidence-danish-discontinuity.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Min\u00adi\u00admum Wage: Evi\u00addence from a Dan\u00adish Dis\u00adcon\u00adti\u00adnu\u00adity<\/span><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 23px; font-weight: 900;\">Things Glen Found Amus\u00ading<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/facebook-announces-praise-jesus-reaction-button-celebrate-christians\/\">Face\u00adbook Announces \u2018Praise Jesus\u2019 Reac\u00adtion But\u00adton To Cel\u00ade\u00adbrate Chris\u00adtians<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/preferred-pronouns-thouthine-explains-kjv-onlyist\/\">\u2018My Pre\u00adferred Pro\u00adnouns Are Thou\/Thine,\u2019 Explains KJV-Only\u00adist<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>From The Archives<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m exper\u00adi\u00adment\u00ading with a new fea\u00adture \u2014 every week high\u00adlight\u00ading an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. 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\">vol\u00adume 1<\/a>:&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/spiritual-shape-political-ideas_819707.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal Shape of Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Ideas (Joseph Bot\u00adtum, The Week\u00adly Stan\u00addard)<\/span><\/a>. It argues that some of our mod\u00adern and sup\u00adpos\u00aded\u00adly sec\u00adu\u00adlar polit\u00adi\u00adcal ideas are mutant vari\u00adants of Chris\u00adt\u00adian the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">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<p>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<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 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 The Sim\u00adple Ques\u00adtions to Ask Every Time You Open Your Bible (Justin Tay\u00adlor, Gospel \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/06\/30\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-107\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":"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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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}]}}