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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

This one is coming to you from Seoul. I\u2019ve been super busy on this mission trip, so these are selected from a less wide range than normal.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Ideological Blindness at the Heart of Media Bias<\/a> (David French, National Review): \u201cIt is consistently interesting to me that mainstream media outlets have somehow convinced themselves of two contradictory things at once: 1) They cannot<\/em> fairly cover America without a newsroom that more or less looks<\/em> like America, but 2) they can<\/em> cover American without a newsroom that thinks<\/em> like America.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. God Doesn\u2019t Turn A Blind Eye To Abuse, Neither Should The Church<\/a> (Russell Moore, Gospel Coalition): \u201cMany throughout the centuries have sought to protect the reputation of God by downplaying his wrath. To some degree, the impulse here is good, because many have a false view of God as an angry, sullen, punitive deity, not as the God of overflowing love Jesus revealed to us. God\u2019s wrath isn\u2019t a temper tantrum. On the other hand, those who point us away from the wrath of God do so at the peril of eclipsing God\u2019s own revelation of himself as holy and just, the One who \u2018does not leave the guilty unpunished\u2019 (Ex. 34:7). At the cross, the apostle Paul wrote, God \u2018condemned sin in the flesh\u2019 (Rom. 8:3). This is important for us to know, especially those who have survived awful things\u2026. At the cross, God\u2019s wrath and God\u2019s love come together. They don\u2019t cancel one another out.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Remember those articles I shared about the horrific China crackdown on Muslims? Now they are turning their attention to Christians (although much less intensely \u2014 the situation with the Muslims has echoes of concentration camps).