{"id":4919,"date":"2018-04-20T17:51:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T01:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2018-04-20T17:51:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T01:51:56","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-148","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/04\/20\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-148","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 148"},"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 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&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"simple-list\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/soloish\/wp\/2018\/04\/16\/this-college-professor-gives-her-students-extra-credit-for-going-on-dates\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.baf0bd26f9bb\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This college professor gives her students extra credit for going on dates<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Lisa Bonos, Washington Post): \u201cShe sees conversations about dating as part of the big questions her classes tackle, such as: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How should I live my life? What kinds of relationships help me to become the kind of person I want to be? <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If students don\u2019t learn how to date while they\u2019re in college, while surrounded by thousands of peers all in a similar stage in life, Cronin says, it only gets harder to build those skills after graduation.\u201d The professor in question, Kerry Cronin, is a philosopher at Boston College.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She has these rules for a first date: \u201cThe student has to ask in person (\u201ctexting is the devil; stop it,\u201d she says in one of her YouTube videos), and the recipient has to know it\u2019s a date. And if they say they\u2019re busy and to check back with them later, don\u2019t. Just move on. \u2018That\u2019s a great skill to build, so that you can have a thicker skin,\u2019 Cronin says. She believes that the person who asks, pays. And the first date shouldn\u2019t cost more than $10, include drugs or alcohol, or last longer than 90 minutes\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those are good guidelines. Read them&nbsp;again.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I think the following two articles will prove to be among the most controversial I\u2019ve ever shared. I also think they both contain much practical wisdom that will prove relevant as the weather warms:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the gents: <a href=\"https:\/\/dougwils.com\/books\/dealing-with-nuisance-lust.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dealing With Nuisance Lust<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Douglas Wilson, personal blog): \u201cMinimize the seriousness of this, but not so that you can feel good about indulging yourself. Minimize the seriousness of it so that you can walk away from a couple of big boobs without feeling like you have just fought a cosmic battle with principalities and powers in the heavenly places, for crying out loud. Or, if you like, in another strategy of seeing things rightly, you could nickname these breasts of other woman as the \u2018principalities and powers.\u2019 Whatever you do, take this part of life in stride like a grown-up. Stop reacting like a horny and conflicted twelve-year-old boy.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the ladies: <a href=\"http:\/\/teampyro.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/sister-show-mercy.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sister\u2026 Show Mercy!<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Dan Phillips, Team Pyro): \u201cSister, if there\u2019s one thing you and I can certainly agree on, it\u2019s this: I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to be a woman, and you don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to be a man. We\u2019re both probably wrong where we\u2019re sure we\u2019re right, try as we might. So let me try to dart a telegram from my camp over to the distaff side.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li>I am aware that these two articles only deal with things from a male perspective. Sadly, I haven\u2019t come across any insightful articles that help ladies deal with their own lust or give gentlemen advice on how to be helpful to them. Ladies, if you\u2019ve read something you found truly helpful, let me&nbsp;know.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2018\/april\/southwest-pilot-tammie-jo-shults-flying-christian-ministry.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesus, Take the Control Wheel: Southwest Pilot Saw Flying as Ministry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (David Roach, Christianity Today): \u201cTammie Jo Shults\u2014the pilot who guided Flight 1380 to the ground April 17 after a midflight engine failure shot debris through a window, killing one passenger\u2014is a recognizable figure at the Texas Hill Country church, which averages 900 in worship\u2026. Multiple media reports have cited a blog post in which Shults stated being a pilot gave her \u2018the opportunity to witness for Christ on almost every flight.\u2019\u201d You can glorify God in almost any profession \u2014 make it your ambition.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/evangelical-history\/five-great-books-african-american-evangelical-history\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five Great Books on African American Evangelical History<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Thomas Kidd, The Gospel Coalition): \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I had to pick one African American church leader I wish more Christians knew about, it would probably be [Lemuel] Haynes. A Revolutionary War soldier, Haynes went on to become a pastor of a largely white church in New England, a critic of American slavery, and an advocate of the New Divinity theology of Jonathan Edwards\u2019s successors.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/magazine\/2018\/04\/30\/donald-trump-tragic-hero\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Donald Trump, Tragic Hero<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Victor Davis Hanson, National Review): \u201cTragic heroes, as they have been portrayed from Sophocles\u2019 plays (e.g.,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Ajax, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) to the modern western film, are not intrinsically noble. Much less are they likeable. Certainly, they can often be obnoxious and petty, if not dangerous, especially to those around them.\u201d Hanson is a fellow at Stanford\u2019s Hoover Institution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2018\/04\/facebook-trials-not-data.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Facebook Trials: It\u2019s Not \u201cOur\u201d Data<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution): \u201c\u2026I have hundreds of friends on Facebook, most of whom I don\u2019t know well and have never met. But my Facebook friends are friends. We share common interests and, most of the time, I\u2019m happy to see what they are thinking and doing and I\u2019m pleased when they show interest in what I\u2019m up to. If, before Facebook existed, I had been asked to list \u2018my friends,\u2019 I would have had a hard time naming ten friends, let alone hundreds. My Facebook friends didn\u2019t exist before Facebook. My Facebook friendships are not simply my data\u2014they are a unique co-creation of myself, my friends, and, yes, Facebook.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2018\/04\/google-will-now-answer-your-theological-questions\/\">Google Will Now Answer Your Theological Questions<\/a> (OpenBible.info): \u201cGoogle just announced an AI-powered experiment called Talk to Books, which lets you enter a query and find passages in books that are semantically similar to your query, not merely passages that happen to match the keywords you chose. For theology- and Bible-related questions, it often presents an evangelical perspective, perhaps because U.S. evangelical publishers have been eager for Google to index their&nbsp;books.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2018\/04\/15\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Divided Country<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Pearls Before Swine): this one actually made me laugh and not merely chortle sensibly.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/johnbcrist\/photos\/a.732000196935062.1073741828.730672763734472\/1298708640264212\/?type=3&amp;theater&amp;ifg=1\">Christ Chella<\/a> (John Crist, Facebook): this is amazingly detailed and the more you know the evangelical culture the funnier it&nbsp;is<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting A While&nbsp;Ago<\/h3>\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanscholar.org\/on-political-correctness\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Political Correctness<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (William Deresiewicz, The American Scholar): a long and thoughtful article. \u201cSelective private colleges have become religious schools. The religion in question is not Methodism or Catholicism but an extreme version of the belief system of the liberal elite: the liberal professional, managerial, and creative classes, which provide a large majority of students enrolled at such places and an even larger majority of faculty and administrators who work at them. To attend those institutions is to be socialized, and not infrequently, indoctrinated into that religion\u2026. I say this, by the way, as an atheist, a democratic socialist, a native northeasterner, a person who believes that colleges should not have sports teams in the first place\u2014and in case it isn\u2019t obvious by now, a card-carrying member of the liberal elite.\u201d (first shared in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/03\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-92\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">volume 92<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ideological Turing test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I\u2019ll usually mention it).<\/p>\n<p>Also, remember that I\u2019m not reporting news \u2014 I\u2019m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There\u2019s a lot happening in the world that\u2019s not making an appearance here because I haven\u2019t found stimulating articles written about&nbsp;it.<\/p>\n<p>If this was forwarded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&nbsp;way. 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