{"id":4717,"date":"2017-10-06T14:13:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T22:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2017-10-06T14:13:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T22:13:19","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/10\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-121","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 121"},"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><\/p>\n<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.<\/p>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"simple-list\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wholesomewords.org\/missions\/biotaylor11.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Exchanged Life<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (J. Hus\u00addon Tay\u00adlor, a let\u00adter to his sis\u00adter): \u201cIt lit\u00adtle mat\u00adters to my ser\u00advant whether I send him to buy a few cash worth of things, or the most expen\u00adsive arti\u00adcles. In either case he looks to me for the mon\u00adey, and brings me his pur\u00adchas\u00ades. So, if God place me in great per\u00adplex\u00adi\u00adty, must He not give me much guid\u00adance; in posi\u00adtions of great dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty, much grace; in cir\u00adcum\u00adstances of great pres\u00adsure and tri\u00adal, much strength? No fear that His resources will be unequal to the emer\u00adgency!\u201d (brought to my atten\u00adtion by a stu\u00addent, high\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The news from Las Vegas is so heart\u00adbreak\u00ading. Here are a few pieces about it and also about the issue of guns more gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2017\/october\/after-mass-shootings-top-bible-verses-psalm-34-18-las-vegas.html\">After Mass Shoot\u00adings, Amer\u00adi\u00adcans Turn to Four Bible Vers\u00ades Most<\/a> (Kate Shell\u00adnut, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): John 16:33, Psalm 34:18, Romans 12:19, and Psalm 11:5.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thegospelcoalition.org\/gospeldrivenchurch\/2017\/10\/03\/what-is-god-saying-about-las-vegas\/\">What Is God Say\u00ading About Las Vegas?<\/a> (Jared Wil\u00adson, Gospel Coali\u00adtion)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/edstetzer\/2017\/september\/shooting-in-las-vegas.html\">3 Ways To Pray For Las Vegas: It\u2019s a Pow\u00ader\u00adful (Not Polit\u00adi\u00adcal) Act For Chris\u00adtians<\/a> (Ed Stet\u00adzer, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/a\/mass-shootings-sandy-hook\">After Sandy Hook we said nev\u00ader again. And then we let 1,518 mass shoot\u00adings hap\u00adpen.<\/a> (Ger\u00adman Lopez, Ryan Mark &amp; Soo Oh, Vox). The title is very Vox, but the sta\u00adtis\u00adtics inside are quite inter\u00adest\u00ading.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/i-used-to-think-gun-control-was-the-answer-my-research-told-me-otherwise\/2017\/10\/03\/d33edca6-a851-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html?utm_term=.6611e09ffbb4\">I used to think gun con\u00adtrol was the answer. My research told me oth\u00ader\u00adwise.<\/a> (Leah Libresco, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cBy the time we pub\u00adlished our project, I didn\u2019t believe in many of the inter\u00adven\u00adtions I\u2019d heard politi\u00adcians tout. I was still anti-gun, at least from the point of view of most gun own\u00aders, and I don\u2019t want a gun in my home, as I think the risk out\u00adweighs the ben\u00ade\u00adfits. But I can\u2019t endorse poli\u00adcies whose only sell\u00ading point is that gun own\u00aders hate them.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>From way back in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/05\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-48\">vol\u00adume 48<\/a>&nbsp;I post\u00aded a thought\u00adful debate between two pas\u00adtors on guns \u2014 it\u2019s worth re-read\u00ading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thegospelcoalition.org\/evangelical-history\/2017\/10\/03\/a-brief-history-of-cessationism\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Brief His\u00adto\u00adry of Ces\u00adsa\u00adtion\u00adism<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Thomas Kidd, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cIn the 1700s and 1800s, sus\u00adpi\u00adcion of claimed mir\u00ada\u00adcles was con\u00adnect\u00aded to anti-Catholi\u00adcism. Protes\u00adtant crit\u00adics saw the Catholic tra\u00addi\u00adtion as rid\u00addled with fake claims of mir\u00ada\u00adcles. Ridi\u00adcul\u00ading the fake mir\u00ada\u00adcle claims of Catholics (such as icons bleed\u00ading a liq\u00aduid that turned out to be cher\u00adry juice) became a sta\u00adple of Reformed polemics against the Catholic Church. So when seem\u00ading\u00adly mirac\u00adu\u00adlous events hap\u00adpened in Protes\u00adtant church\u00ades, even sym\u00adpa\u00adthet\u00adic observers warned against the threat of bogus mir\u00ada\u00adcles.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/10\/09\/the-limits-of-diversity?mbid=synd_digg\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lim\u00adits of \u201cDiver\u00adsi\u00adty\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Kele\u00adfa San\u00adneh, The New York\u00ader): \u201cIt is pos\u00adsi\u00adble that \u2018diver\u00adsi\u00adty\u2019 will ulti\u00admate\u00adly prove too weak a term to do all that is asked of it. Con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary advo\u00adcates some\u00adtimes empha\u00adsize, instead, \u201cinclu\u00adsion,\u201d a less neu\u00adtral con\u00adcept, and one that ges\u00adtures at the polit\u00adi\u00adcal agen\u00addas that inevitably shape these debates.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/today\/index.ssf\/2017\/10\/panicked_london_train_commuter.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Pan\u00adicked\u2019 Lon\u00addon train com\u00admuters force open doors, flee onto tracks when man reads the Bible aloud<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Dou\u00adglas Per\u00adry, Ore\u00adgon Live). I\u2019ve said it before \u2014 our cul\u00adture has replaced the fear of God with the fear of reli\u00adgion. It\u2019s a poor trade.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2017\/10\/01\/why-the-rule-of-law-suffers-when-we-have-too-many-laws\/?utm_term=.d98638409d62\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why the rule of law suf\u00adfers when we have too many laws<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Ilya Somin, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cBecause of the vast scope of cur\u00adrent law, in mod\u00adern Amer\u00adi\u00adca the author\u00adi\u00adties can pin a crime on the over\u00adwhelm\u00ading major\u00adi\u00adty of peo\u00adple, if they real\u00adly want to. Whether you get hauled into court or not depends more on the dis\u00adcre\u00adtionary deci\u00adsions of &nbsp;law enforce\u00adment offi\u00adcials than on any legal rule\u2026. the rule of law has large\u00adly been sup\u00adplant\u00aded by the rule of chance and the rule of exec\u00adu\u00adtive dis\u00adcre\u00adtion. Inevitably, polit\u00adi\u00adcal ide\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy and par\u00adti\u00adsan\u00adship have a major impact on the lat\u00adter. For exam\u00adple, fed\u00ader\u00adal law enforce\u00adment pri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adties are very dif\u00adfer\u00adent under Trump than they were under Oba\u00adma.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roy Moore is a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading fig\u00adure with a com\u00adpelling sto\u00adry. He\u2019s the guy you might know as \u201cthat Ten Com\u00admand\u00adments judge from the South.\u201d He is run\u00adning for a seat in the US Sen\u00adate and he just won the pri\u00adma\u00adry elec\u00adtion and seems on track to win the gen\u00ader\u00adal elec\u00adtion. There are inter\u00adest\u00ading times ahead as a result.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2017\/09\/23\/roy-moore-alabama-senate-resurrection-215639\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Res\u00adur\u00adrec\u00adtion of Roy Moore<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Eric Velas\u00adco, Politi\u00adco): \u201cThat peri\u00adod about sums up Moore\u2019s long career in Alaba\u00adma: He throws jabs at the sys\u00adtem; then, when the sys\u00adtem coun\u00adter\u00adpunch\u00ades, he some\u00adhow springs back up\u2014stronger.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2017\/10\/2\/covering-roy-moore-is-it-possible-for-reporters-to-write-fairly-about-him\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cov\u00ader\u00ading Roy Moore: Is it impos\u00adsi\u00adble for many reporters to write fair\u00adly about him?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Julia Duin, GetRe\u00adli\u00adgion): \u201cI inter\u00adviewed Moore years ago in Gads\u00adden, Ala., and was struck by this man\u2019s adher\u00adence not so much to the Bible (which he def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly holds dear) but to the Con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion. That\u2019s what many reporters seem to not under\u00adstand about this man. He is man\u00adic on obey\u00ading the let\u00adter of the law\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/roy-moore-disrupts-alabama-senate-race--and-prepares-for-new-level-of-defiance-in-washington\/2017\/09\/21\/2a88a4a2-9e38-11e7-9083-fbfddf6804c2_story.html?utm_term=.40990ad72945\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roy Moore dis\u00adrupts U.S. Sen\u00adate race in Alaba\u00adma \u2014 and pre\u00adpares for new lev\u00adel of defi\u00adance in Wash\u00ading\u00adton<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Michael Sher\u00ader, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post):&nbsp;I was very impressed with this piece.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Amusing<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"simple-list\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/watch\/80184834\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ryan Hamil\u00adton, Hap\u00adpy Face<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Net\u00adflix): he\u2019s a clean, fun\u00adny standup come\u00addi\u00adan. High\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1977\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Signs You\u2019re Ready to Grad\u00adu\u00adate<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Ph.D. Comics)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/local-christian-proud-loving-people-exactly-like\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local Chris\u00adt\u00adian Proud Of Him\u00adself For Lov\u00ading Peo\u00adple Who Are Exact\u00adly Like Him<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2017-10-06\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Per\u00adils of Dat\u00ading Apps<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Dil\u00adbert)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 Exchanged Life (J. Hus\u00addon Tay\u00adlor, a let\u00adter to his sis\u00adter): \u201cIt lit\u00adtle mat\u00adters \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/10\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-121\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 121\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":"Experiencing spiritual breakthrough, guns, the rule of law, and Roy Moore.","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":[170,120,144,179,117],"class_list":["post-4717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-devotional","tag-famous-christians","tag-guns","tag-holy-spirit","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1e5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717","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=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4724,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions\/4724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}