{"id":4812,"date":"2017-12-22T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4812"},"modified":"2017-12-22T00:55:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T08:55:17","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/12\/22\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-132","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 132"},"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

There will prob\u00ada\u00adbly be no email next Fri\u00adday \u2014 I\u2019m going to be vis\u00adit\u00ading fam\u00adi\u00adly and won\u2019t do much read\u00ading on the inter\u00adnet.<\/p>\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. Not-So-White Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adism: How Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Denom\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtions Actu\u00adal\u00adly Fare Bet\u00adter on Diver\u00adsi\u00adty<\/span><\/a> (Rebec\u00adca Ran\u00addall, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): <\/span>\u201cIn the Unit\u00aded States today, 1 in 3 self-iden\u00adti\u00adfied evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals is non\u00adwhite, accord\u00ading to a Sep\u00adtem\u00adber study from PRRI. This ris\u00ades to 4 in 10 evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals when mea\u00adsured by the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal belief, accord\u00ading to a Decem\u00adber study from Life\u00adWay Research. Of those that are white, 1 in 3 attends a mul\u00adtira\u00adcial church, report\u00aded anoth\u00ader study, pub\u00adlished in June in the <\/span>Review of Reli\u00adgious Research<\/span><\/i>. Researchers Joseph Yi and Christo\u00adpher Graz\u00adi\u00adul dug into the more than 3,000 respons\u00ades to the 2006 Faith Mat\u00adters Sur\u00advey, and found that more than a quar\u00adter of white evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals report\u00aded hav\u00ading a close His\u00adpan\u00adic friend. Even more\u2014about 2 out of 5\u2014said they have a close friend that is African Amer\u00adi\u00adcan\u2026<\/span> In oth\u00ader words, evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals are now more like\u00adly than main\u00adline Protes\u00adtants to attend mul\u00adtira\u00adcial con\u00adgre\u00adga\u00adtions and to report African Amer\u00adi\u00adcan and His\u00adpan\u00adic friends.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The Zeal\u00adous Faith Of Sec\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adism<\/a> (Mary Eber\u00adstadt, First Things): \u201cPagani\u00adza\u00adtion as we now know it is dri\u00adven by a new his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnon: the devel\u00adop\u00adment of a rival faith\u2014a rival, sec\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adist <\/i>faith which sees Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty as a com\u00adpeti\u00adtor to be van\u00adquished, rather than as an alter\u00adna\u00adtive set of beliefs to be tol\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded in an open soci\u00adety. How do we know this? We know it in part because today\u2019s sec\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adist faith behaves in ways that only a faith can.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Is Trump a Bless\u00ading or Curse for Reli\u00adgious Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives?<\/a> (Ross Douthat, David French, John Zmi\u00adrak): \u201cA year in, Trump has deliv\u00adered on many of his spe\u00adcif\u00adic promis\u00ades, par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly where judi\u00adcial appoint\u00adments are con\u00adcerned. At the same time, there\u2019s a great deal of angst with\u00adin reli\u00adgious cir\u00adcles about what his per\u00adson\u00adal moral defects and his administration\u2019s deep unpop\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty mean for Chris\u00adt\u00adian cul\u00adtur\u00adal wit\u00adness, and (among evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals, espe\u00adcial\u00adly) whether the Trump era is set\u00adting up a kind of gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtional schism that will con\u00adtribute to insti\u00adtu\u00adtion\u00adal Christianity\u2019s cri\u00adsis going for\u00adward.\u201d\n