{"id":4930,"date":"2018-04-27T20:47:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T04:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2018-04-27T20:47:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T04:47:20","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/04\/27\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-149","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 149"},"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. The Ugly Cod\u00aded Cri\u00adtique of Chick-Fil-A\u2019s Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty<\/span><\/a> (Stephen Carter, Bloomberg View): \u201cA few years ago, a well-known pro\u00adgres\u00adsive com\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtor mused to his large Twit\u00adter fol\u00adlow\u00ading that some\u00adtimes he wish\u00ades all the Chris\u00adtians would just dis\u00adap\u00adpear. I would like to believe he was sim\u00adply too unin\u00adformed to real\u00adize that he was wish\u00ading for a whiter world.\u201d This arti\u00adcle makes an impor\u00adtant point that you may find use\u00adful in cam\u00adpus dis\u00adcus\u00adsions. It is in response to the very odd <\/span>Chick-Fil\u2011A\u2019s Creepy Infil\u00adtra\u00adtion Of New York City<\/span><\/a> (Dan Piepen\u00adbring, New York\u00ader). Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded to me by an alum\u00adnus.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Church Of The Don\u00adald<\/span><\/a> (Ruth Gra\u00adham, Politi\u00adco): \u201cTrump per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly has appeared 11 times on CBN since his cam\u00adpaign began; in 2017 alone, he gave more inter\u00adviews to CBN than to CNN, ABC or CBS\u2026. Chris\u00adt\u00adian broad\u00adcast\u00aders offer an unmedi\u00adat\u00aded chan\u00adnel to the liv\u00ading rooms of a remark\u00adably wide swath of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan believ\u00aders, an audi\u00adence more polit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly and racial\u00adly diverse than you might expect. TBN alone has more local sta\u00adtions to its name than Fox or the three major net\u00adworks.\u201d Insight\u00adful and rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. When the Rohingya Came, This Chris\u00adt\u00adian Hos\u00adpi\u00adtal Was Ready<\/span><\/a> (Sarah Eekhof Zyl\u00adstra, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): this is a grip\u00adping sto\u00adry and dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to excerpt. Wow.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Alfie Evans and Our Moral Cross\u00adroads<\/span><\/a> (Charles Camosy, First Things): \u201cAlfie Evans\u2019s death is being aimed by the very peo\u00adple whose voca\u00adtion it is to help and pro\u00adtect him. The dif\u00adfer\u00adence in Alfie\u2019s case is that, because he has con\u00adtin\u00adued to breathe, the pre\u00adtense of \u2018removal of bur\u00adden\u00adsome treat\u00adment\u2019 is patent\u00adly absurd. In a sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion that was no doubt dis\u00adtress\u00ading to those who hoped he would die, Alfie\u2019s con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading to breathe has clar\u00adi\u00adfied the true object of the act of remov\u00ading his ven\u00adti\u00adla\u00adtor.\u201d The more I read about this case the angri\u00ader I become. <\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Alan Jacobs: a Chris\u00adt\u00adian intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal for the inter\u00adnet age<\/span><\/a> (David J. Michael, Amer\u00adi\u00adca): \u201c\u2026he was pub\u00adlish\u00ading schol\u00adar\u00adly work with\u00adin his field but was increas\u00ading\u00adly devot\u00ading time to writ\u00ading essays and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal pieces for Chris\u00adt\u00adian mag\u00ada\u00adzines and jour\u00adnals. Switch\u00ading back and forth could be dis\u00adori\u00adent\u00ading, and he spent sev\u00ader\u00adal years debat\u00ading and pray\u00ading about which audi\u00adence he should focus on. \u2018At one point, I just had an epiphany: You don\u2019t get to choose.You\u2019re gonna have to write for your schol\u00adar\u00adly peers, and you\u2019re gonna have to write for your fel\u00adlow Chris\u00adtians because you have things to say to both audi\u00adences. So, that means, you got\u00adta learn to code switch.\u2019\u201d I am a big fan of Alan Jacobs\u2019 writ\u00ading. <\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Dear Human\u00adi\u00adties Profs: We Are The Prob\u00adlem<\/span><\/a> (Eric Ben\u00adnett, Chron\u00adi\u00adcle of High\u00ader Edu\u00adca\u00adtion): \u201cThree gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions ago, lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture pro\u00adfes\u00adsors exchanged a rig\u00ador\u00adous\u00adly defined sphere of exper\u00adtise, to which they could speak with author\u00adi\u00adty, for a much wider field to which they could speak with vir\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly no pow\u00ader at all\u2026. Lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture pro\u00adfes\u00adsors have affect\u00aded Amer\u00adi\u00adca more by sleep\u00ading in its down\u00adtown hotels and eat\u00ading in its fast-food restau\u00adrants than by telling one anoth\u00ader where real prospects for free\u00addom lay. \u201d Oof. That\u2019s a sol\u00adid blow, right there. The author is an Eng\u00adlish pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Prov\u00adi\u00addence Col\u00adlege.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Uncan\u00adny Vul\u00advas<\/span><\/a> (Diana Fleis\u00adchman, Jaco\u00adbite Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cVideo games and social media already under\u00admine the native psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal mech\u00ada\u00adnisms that make us work towards sta\u00adtus \u2014 they sup\u00adply more imme\u00addi\u00adate rewards and take far less effort than any\u00adthing we work towards out in the real world. Sex robots are only going to make that worse, espe\u00adcial\u00adly for young men.\u201d Def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly not a Chris\u00adt\u00adian arti\u00adcle. From a some\u00adwhat relat\u00aded Chris\u00adt\u00adian stand\u00adpoint: <\/span>The Eco\u00adnom\u00adics of Sex\u00adu\u00adal Puri\u00adty<\/span><\/a> (Dou\u00adglas Wil\u00adson, per\u00adson\u00adal blog).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n