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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. The Most Momentous Place?<\/a> (Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution): \u201cThe old city of Jerusalem is astonishingly small for a city with so many momentous places. One can walk from Christianity\u2019s holiest site to the holiest site of Judaism, pausing to look at one of the holiest sites of Islam, in less time than it takes to walk from my office on the campus of George Mason University to the campus Starbucks.\u201d Short and provocative.<\/li>\n
  2. Australia\u2019s new Pentecostal prime minister: Try to guess how the press is receiving him<\/a> (Ira Rifkin, GetReligion): \u201c\u2026the new prime minister, Scott Morrison, is an outspoken, politically conservative Pentecostal Christian. This mixing of religion and politics may be old-hat at this point for Americans. But it\u2019s an entirely new experience for Australians.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. My nephew tried to school me on cultural appropriation. It didn\u2019t end well.<\/a>(Jack VanNoord, Chicago Tribune): fictional, amusing, and makes a serious point about global cultural exchange. \u201cMost weeks, his less-woke friends go out for Taco Tuesdays, but not Kyle. No more hummus. No more bagels. No mo\u2019 pho. Poor Kyle. Living the unappropriated life is tough business. Whenever it rains, Kyle gets soaked. No more umbrellas for him. Chinese. Kyle has stopped binge watching \u2018The Walking Dead\u2019 once I mentioned the word for, and the concept of, zombies were appropriated from West Africa. Kyle was taking a summer math course at the community college. But he dropped out. It was just too hard. His homework was taking all evening. He was doing all his assignments using Roman numerals since Arabic numerals are \u2026 well, Arabic.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. The Religious Typology<\/a> (Pew Research Center): \u201c a new Pew Research Center analysis looks at beliefs and behaviors that cut across many denominations \u2013 important traits that unite people of different faiths, or that divide people who have the same religious affiliation \u2013 producing a new and revealing classification, or typology, of religion in America.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. A Prison That\u2019s Also a Loony Bin<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The American Conservative): \u201cA transgender prisoner has admitted sexually assaulting inmates at a women\u2019s jail. Karen White, 51, who was born male but now identifies as a woman, has pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual touching at New Hall Prison, Wakefield.\u201d The story is astounding.<\/li>\n
  6. Better Dead Than Disabled?<\/a> (Charles Camosy, Commonweal): \u201cprolifers are not imagining things: arguments in favor of the autonomous moral and legal choice to commit infanticide are easy to find\u2026. [for example, a] 2012 article by moral philosophers Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva, which appeared in the respected Journal of Medical Ethics<\/em>, was provocatively titled \u2018After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n
  7. Diary of a Concussion: What I Learned About Head Injuries By Having One<\/a> (Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge): \u201cTo have your personality altered by brain trauma seems to upset people more than having it altered by, for instance, emotional trauma. I don\u2019t know why this is! \u2026. If I thought I was my brain, probably I would have found the injury more upsetting. But I didn\u2019t and don\u2019t believe that; my self<\/em> is an interaction between my body and my brain.\u201d This is a year old but I just stumbled upon it. Super interesting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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