{"id":4588,"date":"2017-07-21T14:19:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T22:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2017-07-21T14:19:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T22:19:24","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/07\/21\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-110","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 110"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. The First Church of Inter\u00adsec\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty<\/span><\/a> (Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth C. Corey, First Things): \u201cInter\u00adsec\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty is, then, a qua\u00adsi-reli\u00adgious gnos\u00adtic move\u00adment, which appeals to peo\u00adple for pre\u00adcise\u00adly the rea\u00adsons that all reli\u00adgions do: It gives an account of our bro\u00adken\u00adness, an expla\u00adna\u00adtion of the rea\u00adsons for pain, a sav\u00ading sto\u00adry accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by strong eth\u00adi\u00adcal imper\u00ada\u00adtives, and hope for the future. In short, it gives life mean\u00ading.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Nondi\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion For All<\/span><\/a> (Jonathan Rauch, Nation\u00adal Affairs): \u201cThe land\u00admark civ\u00adil-rights bills that broke the back of racial seg\u00adre\u00adga\u00adtion in the 1960s were not abso\u00adlutist. They pro\u00advid\u00aded exemp\u00adtions for reli\u00adgious orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtions. They exempt\u00aded \u2018Mrs. Mur\u00adphy,\u2019 the land\u00adla\u00addy rent\u00ading a room in her own house. At the time, civ\u00adil-rights advo\u00adcates in Con\u00adgress made the prag\u00admat\u00adic argu\u00adment that exemp\u00adtions were need\u00aded to pass the bill, but they also made the polit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly prin\u00adci\u00adpled argu\u00adment that excep\u00adtions would increase social com\u00adfort with the leg\u00adis\u00adla\u00adtion while still cov\u00ader\u00ading the vast major\u00adi\u00adty of cas\u00ades\u2005\u2014\u2005a trade they deemed worth mak\u00ading\u2026. In fact, the pop-cul\u00adture ide\u00adal of zero-tol\u00ader\u00adance nondis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion is pos\u00adsi\u00adble only <\/span>because<\/span><\/i> of the under\u00adly\u00ading real\u00adi\u00adty of ubiq\u00adui\u00adtous accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtion.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. The Wast\u00aded Mind of Ben Sasse<\/a> (Ben Math\u00adis-Lil\u00adley, Slate): \u201cWhat is most mad\u00adden\u00ading about Sasse is not his par\u00adty feal\u00adty per se\u2014I\u2019m not expect\u00ading a Repub\u00adli\u00adcan sen\u00ada\u00adtor to sup\u00adport left-wing poli\u00adcies; that\u2019s not the stan\u00addard we should hold him to\u2014but the way he has out\u00adlined the basis for a path he has yet to take him\u00adself.\u201d This is more par\u00adti\u00adsan than most things I share, but since I high\u00adlight\u00aded Sasse as one of my two favorite Sen\u00ada\u00adtors back in issue 107<\/a> it seems appro\u00adpri\u00adate. I still like both Sasse and Book\u00ader, by the way.<\/li>\n
  4. Some ques\u00adtions I\u2019m ask\u00ading while off to my white evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal church<\/span><\/a> (Lisa Robin\u00adson, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201c<\/span>Has all this atten\u00adtion on white suprema\u00adcy maybe pushed down cen\u00adtral issues to being part of the king\u00addom of God togeth\u00ader, with its dis\u00adci\u00adple\u00adship man\u00addates and being salt and light in the world? Because it seems to me, based on what I read in Scrip\u00adture any\u00adway, that only through him can true rec\u00adon\u00adcil\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtion hap\u00adpen.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Meet Five Men Who All Think They\u2019re The Mes\u00adsi\u00adah<\/span><\/a> (<\/span>Jonas <\/span>Bendik\u00adsen<\/span>, Nation\u00adal Geo\u00adgraph\u00adic)  \u201c<\/span>If Christ were to come back to com\u00adplete his work today, I\u2019ve thought, what would he think of the world we\u2019ve cre\u00adat\u00aded? And what would we think of him? With these thoughts tum\u00adbling around in my head, I decid\u00aded to start look\u00ading for mes\u00adsi\u00adahs. I found them the way you find every\u00adthing these days: through Google.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. \u201cMain\u00adline\u201d Church\u00ades Are Emp\u00adty\u00ading. The Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Effects Could Be Huge<\/span><\/a> (Lyman Stone, Vox): \u201c<\/span>While pro\u00adgres\u00adsives are keen to see in the decline of labor unions an impor\u00adtant com\u00adpo\u00adnent in the rise of con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive polit\u00adi\u00adcal pow\u00ader, they rarely con\u00adsid\u00ader the impact of los\u00ading their movement\u2019s soul. Despite main\u00adline denom\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtions com\u00admand\u00ading as much or more pop\u00adu\u00adlar sup\u00adport and mem\u00adber\u00adship as labor unions, their decline seems to be unmourned with\u00adin the pro\u00adgres\u00adsive move\u00adment they birthed; the con\u00adse\u00adquences of that decline like\u00adwise go uncon\u00adsid\u00adered.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Get\u00adting the Rich and Pow\u00ader\u00adful to Give<\/span><\/a> (SSRN, Kessler, Milk\u00adman & Zhang): \u201cCon\u00adsis\u00adtent with past psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy research, we find that the rich and pow\u00ader\u00adful respond dra\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, and dif\u00adfer\u00adent\u00adly than oth\u00aders, to being giv\u00aden a sense of agency over the use of donat\u00aded funds. Gifts from rich and pow\u00ader\u00adful alum\u00adni increase by 200\u2013300 per\u00adcent when they are giv\u00aden a sense of agency.\u201d <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things Glen Found Amusing<\/h3>\n