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On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my way.<\/p>\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n
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  1. Inside the White House Bible Study group<\/a> (Owen Amos, BBC): \u201cBut is a bible study for Cabinet members, with political themes, not a merging of church and state? \u2018I believe in institutional separation, but not influential separation,\u2019 [Drollinger] says. \u2018No matter what the institution is \u2014 the family, commerce, education \u2014 it needs the bulwark precepts of the word of God in order to function correctly\u2026 But the minute I start to amalgamate the church and the state institutionally, then I\u2019m into theocracy.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. Why you stink at fact-checking <\/a>(Lisa Fazio, The Conversation): \u201cFirst, people have a general bias to believe that things are true. (After all, most things that we read or hear are true.) In fact, there\u2019s some evidence that we initially process all statements as true and that it then takes cognitive effort to mentally mark them as false. Second, people tend to accept information as long as it\u2019s close enough to the correct information. Natural speech often includes errors, pauses and repeats. (\u2018She was wearing a blue \u2013 um, I mean, a black, a black dress.\u2019) One idea is that to maintain conversations we need to go with the flow \u2013 accept information that is \u2018good enough\u2019 and just move on.\u201d The author is a psych professor at Vanderbilt.<\/li>\n
  3. One extra glass of wine \u2018will shorten your life by 30 minutes\u2019<\/a> (Sarah Bosely, The Guardian): \u201cThe risks for a 40-year-old of drinking over the recommended daily limit were comparable to smoking, said one leading scientist. \u2018Above two units a day, the death rates steadily climb,\u2019 said David Spiegelhalter, Winton professor for the public understanding of risk at the University of Cambridge.\u201d This is certainly going to be contested research, but it caught my eye.<\/li>\n
  4. The 10-Year Baby Window That Is the Key to the Women\u2019s Pay Gap<\/a> (Claire Cain Miller, NY Times): \u201cWhen women have their first child between age 25 and 35, their pay never recovers, relative to that of their husbands. Yet women who have their first baby either before 25 or after 35 \u2014 before their careers get started or once they\u2019re established \u2014 eventually close the pay gap with their husbands.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. Two different analyses of California\u2019s state politics: