{"id":4970,"date":"2018-06-01T20:13:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T04:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4970"},"modified":"2018-06-01T20:13:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T04:13:25","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-154","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/06\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-154","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 154"},"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<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<p><!-- ######## This is a comment ######## --><\/p>\n<ol class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/30\/opinion\/paige-patterson-southern-baptist-convention.html\">The Bap\u00adtist Apoc\u00ada\u00adlypse<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cWe\u2019re a long way from any final judg\u00adment on God\u2019s pur\u00adpos\u00ades in the Trump era. But so far the Trump pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adcy has clear\u00adly been a kind of apoc\u00ada\u00adlypse \u2014 not (yet) in the \u2018world-his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal calami\u00adty\u2019 sense of the word, but in the orig\u00adi\u00adnal Greek mean\u00ading: an unveil\u00ading, an uncov\u00ader\u00ading, an expo\u00adsure of truths that had hereto\u00adfore been hid\u00adden.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/experimentaltheology.blogspot.com\/2018\/05\/on-gender-power-and-sin-evangelical.html\">On Gen\u00adder, Pow\u00ader, and Sin: The Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal #MeToo Moment<\/a> (Richard Beck, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cA the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal and bib\u00adli\u00adcal way to say all this is that men\u2019s dom\u00adi\u00adnance over women is a part of the Fal\u00adl\u2019s curse upon human\u00adi\u00adty. The wound of sin upon gen\u00adder rela\u00adtions is clear in Gen\u00ade\u00adsis 3: \u2018He will rule over you.\u2019 So if that\u2019s a part of the curse, why do evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals think that build\u00ading the curse into the system\u2013gender subordination\u2013is going to pro\u00adduce any\u00adthing oth\u00ader than cursed out\u00adcomes?\u201d I wish the author spent more time build\u00ading the Bib\u00adli\u00adcal case for his per\u00adspec\u00adtive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2018\/05\/one-parameter-equation-can-exactly-fit-scatter-plot.html\">A One Para\u00adme\u00adter Equa\u00adtion That Can Exact\u00adly Fit Any Scat\u00adter Plot<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cOver\u00adfit\u00adting is pos\u00adsi\u00adble with just one para\u00adme\u00adter and so mod\u00adels with few\u00ader para\u00adme\u00adters are not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly prefer\u00adable even if they fit the data as well or bet\u00adter than mod\u00adels with more para\u00adme\u00adters.\u201d Researchers take note.\n<ul>\n<li>The under\u00adly\u00ading math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adics paper is well-writ\u00adten and inter\u00adest\u00ading: <a href=\"https:\/\/colala.bcs.rochester.edu\/papers\/piantadosi2018one.pdf\">One Para\u00adme\u00adter Is Always Enough<\/a> (Steven T. Pianta\u00addosi) \u2014 among oth\u00ader things, it points out that you can smug\u00adgle in arbi\u00adtrar\u00adi\u00adly large amounts of data into an equa\u00adtion through a sin\u00adgle para\u00adme\u00adter because a num\u00adber can have infi\u00adnite dig\u00adits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.russellmoore.com\/2015\/05\/27\/what-ive-learned-in-twenty-years-of-marriage-2\/\">What I\u2019ve Learned in Twen\u00adty Years of Mar\u00adriage<\/a> (Rus\u00adsell Moore, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cMy grand\u00admoth\u00ader wise\u00adly asked one night when I was final\u00adly going to ask \u2018that girl from Ocean Springs\u2019 to mar\u00adry me. I answered, \u2018When I can afford it.\u2019 She laughed. \u2018Hon\u00adey, I mar\u00adried your grand\u00adpa in the mid\u00addle of a Great Depres\u00adsion,\u2019 she said. \u2018We made it work. Nobody can afford to get mar\u00adried. You just mar\u00adry, and make it work.\u2019 Apart from the gospel, those were, and remain, the most lib\u00ader\u00adat\u00ading words I ever heard. I bought a ring that wouldn\u2019t impress any\u00adone, then or now, but we were head\u00aded for the altar. My only regret is that we aren\u2019t today cel\u00ade\u00adbrat\u00ading our twen\u00adty-first anniver\u00adsary instead of our twen\u00adti\u00adeth.\u201d This is from a few years back and is full of wis\u00addom.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2018\/06\/title-ix-is-too-easy-to-abuse\/561650\/?utm_source=feed\">Title IX Is Too Easy To Abuse<\/a> (Cait\u00adlyn Flana\u00adgan, The Atlantic): \u201cIs it pos\u00adsi\u00adble for two peo\u00adple to simul\u00adta\u00adne\u00adous\u00adly sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly assault each oth\u00ader? This is the question\u2014rife with legal, anatom\u00adi\u00adcal, and emo\u00adtion\u00adal improbabilities\u2014to which the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Cincin\u00adnati now address\u00ades itself, and with some urgency, as the insti\u00adtu\u00adtion and three of its employ\u00adees are cur\u00adrent\u00adly being sued over an encounter that was sex\u00adu\u00adal for a brief moment, but that just as quick\u00adly entered the realm of eter\u00adnal return. \u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2018\/may\/andrew-wilson-language-prophecy-healing.html\">What\u00adev\u00ader Hap\u00adpened to Gifts of Lan\u00adguage, Prophe\u00adcy, and Heal\u00ading?<\/a> (Andrew Wil\u00adson, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201ctak\u00ading a longer view by trac\u00ading our roots back to the ear\u00adly church fathers leads to some sur\u00adpris\u00ades. We dis\u00adcov\u00ader that some things, though rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly unusu\u00adal in recent times, are actu\u00adal\u00adly very nor\u00admal across the broad\u00ader sweep of human his\u00adto\u00adry. Angels and demons would be an obvi\u00adous exam\u00adple. Or, more sur\u00adpris\u00ading\u00adly, mirac\u00adu\u00adlous gifts.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/opinion\/2018\/05\/25\/i-was-jordan-petersons-strongest-supporter-now-i-think-hes-dangerous.html\">I was Jor\u00addan Peterson\u2019s strongest sup\u00adport\u00ader. Now I think he\u2019s dan\u00adger\u00adous<\/a> (Bernard Schiff, The Star): \u201cWhen he was ren\u00ado\u00advat\u00ading his house I invit\u00aded his fam\u00adi\u00adly to live with mine. For five months, they occu\u00adpied the third floor of our large house. We had meals togeth\u00ader in the evening and long, colour\u00adful con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions. There, away from cam\u00adpus, I saw a man who was devot\u00aded to his wife and his chil\u00addren, who were love\u00adly and gen\u00adtle and for whom I still feel affec\u00adtion. He was atten\u00adtive and thought\u00adful, stern and kind, play\u00adful and warm. His wife, Tam\u00admy, appeared to be the keel, the bal\u00adlast and the rud\u00adder, and Jor\u00addan ran the ship.\u201d This is a long pro\u00adfile, by turns infor\u00adma\u00adtive and puz\u00adzling.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/27\/us\/politics\/franklin-graham-evangelicals-california.html\">The Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Fight to Win Back Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia<\/a> (Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth Dias, New York Times): \u201cThough the state has one of the high\u00adest per\u00adcent\u00adages of reli\u00adgious\u00adly unaf\u00adfil\u00adi\u00adat\u00aded adults, the fast grow\u00ading reli\u00adgious group in the coun\u00adtry, that large\u00adly blue sea is dot\u00adted with evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal islands that are large\u00adly red. One in five adults in the state are evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Chris\u00adtians, accord\u00ading to the Pew Research Cen\u00adter, and there are more megachurch\u00ades in Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia than in any oth\u00ader state.\u201d This arti\u00adcle is most\u00adly about pol\u00adi\u00adtics, but is inter\u00adest\u00ading nonethe\u00adless.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/help-2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Help<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SMBC)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0hQnX_StoDA\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Magi\u00adcian Dan White astounds Jim\u00admy Fal\u00adlon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (YouTube)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/local-charismatic-declares-the-gift-of-discernment-has-ceased\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Local Charis\u00admat\u00adic Declares The Gift of Dis\u00adcern\u00adment Has Ceased<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Baby\u00adlon Bee) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/d3mN9Tw\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Best Thing To Paint On The Roof Of Your House<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Imgur)<\/span><\/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 have&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/articles\/spiritual-shape-political-ideas_819707.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal Shape of Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Ideas (Joseph Bot\u00adtum, The Week\u00adly Stan\u00addard)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: many mod\u00adern polit\u00adi\u00adcal ideas are derived from Chris\u00adt\u00adian the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal con\u00adcepts. (first shared in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/05\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vol\u00adume 1<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/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>If this was for\u00adward\u00aded 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 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. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading The Bap\u00adtist Apoc\u00ada\u00adlypse (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cWe\u2019re a long way from any \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/06\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-154\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 154\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":"A very interesting critique of complementarian theology, a math paper that blew my mind a little, and other fascinating morsels.","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":[131,218,195,179,112,117,176,137],"class_list":["post-4970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-california","tag-gender","tag-holy-spirit","tag-marriage","tag-politics","tag-science","tag-thinking-clearly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1ia","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970","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=4970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4972,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4970\/revisions\/4972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}