{"id":4758,"date":"2017-11-17T22:44:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T06:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2017-11-17T22:44:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T06:44:07","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/11\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-127","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 127"},"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<p>Also, <strong>next issue is vol\u00adume 128,<\/strong> an impor\u00adtant com\u00adput\u00ader sci\u00adence num\u00adber. <strong>I should do some\u00adthing to make it spe\u00adcial. If you have an idea, let me know.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/453729\/roy-moore-christianity-built-on-fear\">The Endur\u00ading Appeal of Creepy Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (David French, Nation\u00adal Review): \u201cThe Bible doesn\u2019t have a clear, spe\u00adcif\u00adic pre\u00adscrip\u00adtion for every life chal\u00adlenge. But rather than seek\u00ading God prayer\u00adful\u00adly and with deep humil\u00adi\u00adty and rev\u00ader\u00adence, we want answers, now. And thus we grav\u00adi\u00adtate to those peo\u00adple who pur\u00adport to offer more than the Bible.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2017\/november\/china-christians-jesus-communist-president-xi-jinping-yugan.html\">Chi\u00adna Tells Chris\u00adtians to Replace Images of Jesus with Com\u00admu\u00adnist Pres\u00adi\u00addent<\/a> (Kate Shell\u00adnut, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201c\u2018Many poor house\u00adholds have plunged into pover\u00adty because of ill\u00adness in the fam\u00adi\u00adly. Some resort\u00aded to believ\u00ading in Jesus to cure their ill\u00adness\u00ades,\u2019 the head of the gov\u00adern\u00adment cam\u00adpaign told SCMP. \u2018But we tried to tell them that get\u00adting ill is a phys\u00adi\u00adcal thing, and that the peo\u00adple who can real\u00adly help them are the Com\u00admu\u00adnist Par\u00adty and Gen\u00ader\u00adal Sec\u00adre\u00adtary Xi.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/magazine\/she-led-trump-to-christ-the-rise-of-the-televangelist-who-advises-the-white-house\/2017\/11\/13\/1dc3a830-bb1a-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html\">She led Trump to Christ: The rise of the tel\u00ade\u00advan\u00adge\u00adlist who advis\u00ades the White House<\/a> (Julia Duin, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): This is an amaz\u00ading pro\u00adfile. \u201cWhite insists that lec\u00adtur\u00ading Trump is not her job. \u2018I don\u2019t preach to any\u00adone on behav\u00adior mod\u00adi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion,\u2019 she says. \u2018There are things I can speak, but that\u2019s not anyone\u2019s busi\u00adness what I say. Why would I as a pas\u00adtor expose that rela\u00adtion\u00adship? Every\u00adone needs a safe place in life, and pas\u00adtors can be people\u2019s safe place. That\u2019s why I have this rela\u00adtion\u00adship, because I don\u2019t talk about it.\u2019\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Speak\u00ading of Trump\u2019s evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal advi\u00adsors\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2017\/november\/what-trump-evangelical-advisers-took-out-of-egypt-sisi.html\">What Trump\u2019s Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Advis\u00aders Took Out of Egypt<\/a> (Jayson Casper, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cRosen\u00adberg thanked [Egypt\u00adian Pres\u00adi\u00addent] Sisi for res\u00adcu\u00ading Egypt and its Chris\u00adtians from the Mus\u00adlim Broth\u00ader\u00adhood. He com\u00admend\u00aded the pres\u00adi\u00addent for reach\u00ading out to Jews and to Roman Catholics. \u2018But there is one group I don\u2019t see: evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals,\u2019 he told Sisi. \u2018It\u2019s not your fault; prob\u00ada\u00adbly we haven\u2019t asked. But would you like us to bring a del\u00ade\u00adga\u00adtion of lead\u00aders to come and vis\u00adit you?\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2017\/11\/a-harvest-of-witnesses\">A Har\u00advest Of Wit\u00adness\u00ades<\/a> (William Mum\u00adma, First Things): \u201cThe fight for reli\u00adgious lib\u00ader\u00adty is not a sub-cat\u00ade\u00adgo\u00adry of the elec\u00adtoral con\u00adtest between Repub\u00adli\u00adcans and Democ\u00adrats. It is a strug\u00adgle over whether the state has the author\u00adi\u00adty to ban\u00adish the great\u00adest rival to tem\u00adpo\u00adral pow\u00ader that exists. It is the age-old con\u00adtest between the King and the Church, between Cae\u00adsar and the Truth. It is a con\u00adtest over who gets to decide: \u2018What is truth?\u2019\u201d The piece is a lit\u00adtle par\u00adti\u00adsan, but makes an impor\u00adtant point.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-politicization-of-motherhood-1509144044\">The Politi\u00adciza\u00adtion of Moth\u00ader\u00adhood<\/a> (James Taran\u00adto, Wall Street Jour\u00adnal): \u201cThe premise of Ms. Komisar\u2019s book\u2014backed by research in psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy, neu\u00adro\u00adscience and epigenetics\u2014is that \u2018moth\u00aders are bio\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly nec\u00ades\u00adsary for babies,\u2019 and not only for the obvi\u00adous rea\u00adsons of preg\u00adnan\u00adcy and birth. \u2018Babies are much more neu\u00adro\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly frag\u00adile than we\u2019ve ever under\u00adstood,\u2019 Ms. Komis\u00adar says.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stanfordreview.org\/stanford-students-pretend-to-support-free-speech-stumble-at-final-hurdle\/\">Stan\u00adford Stu\u00addents Pre\u00adtend to Sup\u00adport Free Speech, Stum\u00adble at Final Hur\u00addle<\/a> (Stan\u00adford Review, Sam Wolfe): \u201c\u2026at 8:40 p.m., 20 min\u00adutes after he began his talk, over 150 mem\u00adbers of the crowd osten\u00adsi\u00adbly gath\u00adered to hear him speak prompt\u00adly stood up and left, while Ara\u00adbic music blared from Blue\u00adtooth speak\u00aders con\u00adcealed around the hall. The stu\u00addents, plant\u00aded by SAI, had arrived at the event ear\u00adly to clog up the venue. As a result, dozens of stu\u00addents, many of whom were pre\u00adsum\u00adably inter\u00adest\u00aded in start\u00ading a gen\u00aduine dia\u00adlogue with Spencer about his views and rebuff\u00ading him, were turned away. I myself arrived at about 7:20 for an event sched\u00aduled to begin an hour lat\u00ader, and was one of the last peo\u00adple admit\u00adted\u2026 imag\u00adine if they had, instead of occu\u00adpy\u00ading the seats and sub\u00adse\u00adquent\u00adly vacat\u00ading them, sim\u00adply blocked oth\u00aders from enter\u00ading, and left the seats unfilled that way. The result would have been the same, the inten\u00adtion large\u00adly the same, and their actions right\u00adly con\u00addemned. This was bet\u00adter than vio\u00adlence, yes, bet\u00adter than shout\u00ading Spencer down. But the protest was a delib\u00ader\u00adate attempt to block stu\u00addents from engag\u00ading with Spencer in any capac\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/special-reports\/human-trafficking\/article183592286.html#storylink=cpy\">Police: \u2018Every 16-year-old girl in Fres\u00adno\u2019 has been tar\u00adget\u00aded by sex trade recruiters<\/a> (Rory Apple\u00adton, Fres\u00adno Bee): the entire sto\u00adry is hor\u00adri\u00adfy\u00ading. This seg\u00adment caught my eye: \u201cIt is rare for boys to be traf\u00adficked, Chas\u00adtain said, but it does hap\u00adpen. It is even more dif\u00adfi\u00adcult for detec\u00adtives to dis\u00adcov\u00ader these vic\u00adtims because it is almost always done in total secre\u00adcy, as even crim\u00adi\u00adnal gangs believe traf\u00adfick\u00ading boys goes too far.\u201d The instinct to con\u00adsid\u00ader your\u00adself an okay per\u00adson because at least you don\u2019t do _______ is present even in very wicked peo\u00adple.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/astrogeo\/article\/58\/5\/5.39\/4159289\">Solar eclipse of 1207 BC helps to date pharaohs<\/a> (Col\u00adin Humphreys and Graeme Wadding\u00adton, Astron\u00ado\u00admy and Geo\u00adphysics): \u201cHow\u00adev\u00ader, a plau\u00adsi\u00adble alter\u00adna\u00adtive mean\u00ading [to the sun and moon stand\u00ading still in Joshua 10] is that the Sun and Moon stopped doing what they nor\u00admal\u00adly do: they stopped shin\u00ading.\u201d File under spec\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtive \u2014 I am not con\u00advinced. If true, how\u00adev\u00ader, this would be evi\u00addence for the lat\u00ader date of the Exo\u00addus (13th cen\u00adtu\u00adry vs 15th cen\u00adtu\u00adry). The authors have been using astron\u00ado\u00admy to study the Bible for some time (see, for exam\u00adple, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asa3.org\/ASA\/PSCF\/1985\/JASA3-85Humphreys.html\">The Date of the Cru\u00adci\u00adfix\u00adion<\/a> writ\u00adten back in 1985).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Amusing<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/another-actress-accuses-kirk-cameron-treating-respect\/\">Anoth\u00ader Actress Accus\u00ades Kirk Cameron Of Treat\u00ading Her With Respect<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theonion.com\/study-90-of-bike-accidents-preventable-by-buying-car-1820403123\">Study: 90% Of Bike Acci\u00addents Pre\u00adventable By Buy\u00ading Car Like A Nor\u00admal Per\u00adson<\/a> (The Onion): as some\u00adone who com\u00admutes by bike, this made me laugh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vaviper.blogspot.com\/2016\/11\/some-of-best-newspaper-corrections-ever.html\">Some of the best news\u00adpa\u00adper cor\u00adrec\u00adtions ever<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll high\u00adlight an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. This week we\u2019re going back to an arti\u00adcle first shared in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/04\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-95\">vol\u00adume 95<\/a>, the long and amaz\u00ading <a href=\"https:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2017\/03\/16\/book-review-seeing-like-a-state\/\">Book Review: See\u00ading Like A State<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Slate Star Codex): \u201cPeas\u00adants didn\u2019t like per\u00adma\u00adnent sur\u00adnames. Their own sys\u00adtem was quite rea\u00adson\u00adable for them: John the bak\u00ader was John Bak\u00ader, John the black\u00adsmith was John Smith, John who lived under the hill was John Under\u00adhill, John who was real\u00adly short was John Short. The same per\u00adson might be John Smith and John Under\u00adhill in dif\u00adfer\u00adent con\u00adtexts, where his sta\u00adtus as a black\u00adsmith or place of ori\u00adgin was more impor\u00adtant. But the gov\u00adern\u00adment insist\u00aded on giv\u00ading every\u00adone a sin\u00adgle per\u00adma\u00adnent name, unique for the vil\u00adlage, and track\u00ading who was in the same fam\u00adi\u00adly as whom. Resis\u00adtance was intense.\u201d<\/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. Also, next issue is vol\u00adume 128, an impor\u00adtant com\u00adput\u00ader sci\u00adence num\u00adber. I should do some\u00adthing to make it \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/11\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-127\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 127\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":"Insanity in China, Trump's favorite pastor, sex trafficking in Fresno, and an interesting theory about Joshua and the sun.","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":[124,125,126,117,138,178,135],"class_list":["post-4758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-china","tag-persecution","tag-politics","tag-religious-freedom","tag-slavery","tag-stanford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1eK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758","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=4758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4763,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions\/4763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}