{"id":4732,"date":"2017-10-20T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4732"},"modified":"2017-10-20T05:17:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:17:31","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/10\/20\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-123","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 123"},"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. Meet The \u201cYoung Saints\u201d Of Bethel Who Go To Col\u00adlege To Per\u00adform Mir\u00ada\u00adcles<\/span><\/a> (Mol\u00adly Hens\u00adley-Clan\u00adcy, Buz\u00adzfeed): \u201cBehind Bethel\u2019s rise is the enor\u00admous tal\u00adent and ambi\u00adtion of the church\u2019s mag\u00adne\u00adtiz\u00ading lead\u00aders, Bill John\u00adson and Kris Val\u00adlot\u00adton, who cofound\u00aded BSSM in 1998. Depend\u00ading on who you ask, Val\u00adlot\u00adton and John\u00adson are genius\u00ades, false prophets, or both. What\u2019s unde\u00adni\u00adable is that with Val\u00adlot\u00adton at his side, John\u00adson, a fifth-gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion pas\u00adtor, has trans\u00adformed a small, unre\u00admark\u00adable local church into what Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today called \u2018a hub of a glob\u00adal revival move\u00adment.\u2019\u201d Fair and inter\u00adest\u00ading \u2014 much bet\u00adter than oth\u00ader sto\u00adries I have seen. I know a lot about Bethel and I learned sev\u00ader\u00adal things from this piece.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. A Let\u00adter to Jamie Dimon (and any\u00adone else still strug\u00adgling to under\u00adstand cryp\u00adtocur\u00adren\u00adcies)<\/span><\/a> (Adam Lud\u00adwin, com\u00adpa\u00adny blog): this is a gen\u00aduine\u00adly help\u00adful expla\u00adna\u00adtion of what Bit\u00adcoin and oth\u00ader cryp\u00adtocur\u00adren\u00adcies are good for. \u201cThey\u2019re a new mod\u00adel for cre\u00adat\u00ading, financ\u00ading, and oper\u00adat\u00ading soft\u00adware ser\u00advices in a way that is decen\u00adtral\u00adized top-to-bot\u00adtom. That doesn\u2019t make them <\/span>bet\u00adter <\/span><\/i>or <\/span>worse<\/span><\/i> than exist\u00ading soft\u00adware mod\u00adels or the cor\u00adpo\u00adrate enti\u00adties that cre\u00adate them. As we\u2019ll see lat\u00ader, there are major trade-offs. What we can say is sim\u00adply that they are <\/span>rad\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly <\/span><\/i>dif\u00adfer\u00adent from soft\u00adware as we know it today and <\/span>rad\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly <\/span><\/i>dif\u00adfer\u00adent from the forms of orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion we are used to.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Meet\u00ading Mid\u00addle East Chris\u00adtians is where West\u00adern stereo\u00adtypes go to die<\/span><\/a> (John Allen, Crux): \u201cSpend\u00ading time among the Chris\u00adtians of the Mid\u00addle East is always an edi\u00adfy\u00ading expe\u00adri\u00adence, but for West\u00adern\u00aders it packs a spe\u00adcial punch. That\u2019s because the Chris\u00adt\u00adian pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion of this peren\u00adni\u00adal\u00adly trou\u00adbled region often is where West\u00adern stereo\u00adtypes about the Mid\u00addle East go to die.\u201d The more you fol\u00adlow glob\u00adal news the more sur\u00adpris\u00ading you will con\u00adsid\u00ader the author\u2019s claims to be.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Chi\u00adnese House Church Lead\u00aders and Tod\u00addler Arrest\u00aded After Singing in Pub\u00adlic Park<\/span><\/a> (Sarah Eekhoff Zyl\u00adstra, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cOth\u00ader provinces have been com\u00ading down espe\u00adcial\u00adly hard on reli\u00adgious edu\u00adca\u00adtion for chil\u00addren. In Zhe\u00adjiang province\u2014where hun\u00addreds of cross\u00ades were torn off church\u00ades over the past sev\u00ader\u00adal years\u2014elementary and mid\u00addle school chil\u00addren weren\u2019t allowed to attend church or Sun\u00adday school this sum\u00admer.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. 4 Spe\u00adcif\u00adic Things You Lose When You Leave Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (Kristi Har\u00adri\u00adson, Cracked) \u2014 this is well-writ\u00adten and heart\u00adbreak\u00ading. \u201cI have no idea why any\u00adone thinks church is bor\u00ading. In my expe\u00adri\u00adence, church was not a slog through old songs, tired rit\u00adu\u00adals, or heavy-hand\u00aded ser\u00admons; it was an addic\u00adtive, engag\u00ading expe\u00adri\u00adence where I felt like I had a seat at the table with the cre\u00adator of the Uni\u00adverse.\u201d<\/li>\n
  6. Sci\u00adence v. Sci\u00adence+<\/span><\/a> (David Hed\u00addle, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cSo sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, at least, sci\u00adence and faith are not incompatible\u2013unless you devise a way to measure\/detect the incom\u00adpat\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty. I have pro\u00adposed two exper\u00adi\u00adments: 1. I\u2019ll give you ten papers from tier\u20111 peer-reviewed jour\u00adnals. Five from athe\u00adists, five from the\u00adists, with the names redact\u00aded. Detect the incom\u00adpat\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty and accu\u00adrate\u00adly sep\u00ada\u00adrate the papers into the two groups. 2. Design an exper\u00adi\u00adment that can be done by an athe\u00adis\u00adtic sci\u00aden\u00adtist and not a the\u00adis\u00adtic sci\u00aden\u00adtist.\u201d The author is a physics pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Christo\u00adpher New\u00adport Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Free\u00addom not to choose is a faith worth believ\u00ading in<\/span><\/a> (David Mitchell, The Guardian):  \u201cI always say I\u2019m agnos\u00adtic because I\u2019d like there to be a God \u2013 a nice lib\u00ader\u00adal one \u2013 but I can\u2019t be sure there is and the idea of reg\u00adu\u00adlar reli\u00adgious obser\u00advance unnerves me because it would be unusu\u00adal in my peer group. Not a very well thought-through phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy, I know. But in the absence of fam\u00adi\u00adly or soci\u00adetal pres\u00adsures, in a con\u00adtext of almost com\u00adplete reli\u00adgious free\u00addom, many of us rely on sim\u00adi\u00adlar back-of-an-enve\u00adlope answers to eter\u00adnal ques\u00adtions, because adopt\u00ading the answers thou\u00adsands of full-time pon\u00adder\u00aders have come up with over thou\u00adsands of years feels like squan\u00adder\u00ading that free\u00addom.\u201d David Mitchell is a British comedian\/public intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal (sort of) \u2014 if you\u2019re unfa\u00admil\u00adiar with him, watch some clips from the British game show Would I Lie To You? A good first clip is <\/span>David Mitchell\u2019s Code For Note\u00adwor\u00adthi\u00adness<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Things Glen Found Entertaining\/Amusing<\/h3>\n