{"id":5206,"date":"2018-11-02T16:36:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T00:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2018-11-02T16:36:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T00:36:58","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/11\/02\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-176","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 176"},"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<ol class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/27\/us\/mass-shootings-church-synagogue-temple.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes\">Mass Shoot\u00adings at Hous\u00ades of Wor\u00adship: Pitts\u00adburgh Attack Was Among the Dead\u00adliest<\/a> (Sarah Mer\u00advosh, NY Times): \u201cMass shoot\u00adings have become a recur\u00adring part of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan life, and reli\u00adgious insti\u00adtu\u00adtions a recur\u00adring set\u00adting. In each case, the shock is com\u00adpound\u00aded by the vio\u00adlence at what is sup\u00adposed to be a safe space for peace and heal\u00ading.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.russellmoore.com\/2018\/10\/28\/if-you-hate-jews-you-hate-jesus\/\">If You Hate Jews, You Hate Jesus<\/a> (Rus\u00adsell Moore, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cI will often hear Chris\u00adtians say, \u2018Remem\u00adber that Jesus was Jew\u00adish.\u2019 That\u2019s true enough, but the past tense makes it sound as though Jesus\u2019 Jew\u00adish\u00adness were some\u00adthing he sloughed off at the res\u00adur\u00adrec\u00adtion. Jesus is alive now, enthroned in heav\u00aden\u2026. When Jesus appeared before Saul of Tar\u00adsus on the Road to Dam\u00adas\u00adcus, the res\u00adur\u00adrect\u00aded Christ intro\u00adduced him\u00adself as \u2018Jesus of Nazareth\u2019 (Acts 22:8). Jesus is Jew\u00adish, present tense.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/holiness-dr-cohen-pittsburgh-bowers\/\">Holi\u00adness &amp; Dr. Cohen<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u201cWhat Dr. Cohen \u2014 who is a mem\u00adber of Tree of Life syn\u00ada\u00adgogue \u2014 and his Jew\u00adish staff showed is moral courage, but more than that, it is holi\u00adness.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2018\/10\/pittsburgh-jews-prepare-bury-eleven-killed-gunman\/574342\/\">The Jews of Pitts\u00adburgh Bury Their Dead<\/a> (Emma Green, The Atlantic): \u201c\u2018We, the Jews, are good at death,\u2019 says Rab\u00adbi Seth Adel\u00adson, whose syn\u00ada\u00adgogue, Beth Shalom, is less than a mile from Tree of Life. \u2018The cus\u00adtoms that we ful\u00adfill at this time are real\u00adly help\u00adful for those who have suf\u00adfered a loss.\u2019 In the face of extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnary tragedy\u2014the dead\u00adliest attack on Jews in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan his\u00adto\u00adry, accord\u00ading to the Anti-Defama\u00adtion League\u2014ordinary rit\u00adu\u00adals help Jews grieve.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/01\/us\/young-evangelicals-politics-midterms.html\">\u2018God Is Going to Have to For\u00adgive Me\u2019: Young Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals Speak Out<\/a> (Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth Dias, New York Times): \u201cWith just days left before the midterm elec\u00adtions \u2014 two years after Pres\u00adi\u00addent Trump won the White House with a record share of white, evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal sup\u00adport \u2014 we asked young evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals to tell The Times about the rela\u00adtion\u00adship between their faith and their pol\u00adi\u00adtics.\u201d These are inter\u00adest\u00ading inter\u00adviews, although I sus\u00adpect a skew in the sam\u00adple.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justin-taylor\/big-small-world-bible-geography\/\">The Big and Small World of Bible Geog\u00adra\u00adphy<\/a> (David Bar\u00adrett, The Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cAs I have stud\u00adied and mapped the events of Scrip\u00adture over the years, I have been struck by an intrigu\u00ading para\u00addox: <em>The world of the Bible was at the same time very small and very large<\/em>.\u201d Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded for the pic\u00adtures even more than the text.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2018\/10\/michael-avenattis-remarks-on-white-male-candidates\/574072\/\">What Pro\u00adgres\u00adsives Can Learn From Michael Avenatti\u2019s Mis\u00adtake<\/a> (Conor Frieder\u00ads\u00addorf, The Atlantic): \u201cInso\u00adfar as Democ\u00adrats are con\u00advinced that Amer\u00adi\u00adca is a white-suprema\u00adcist patri\u00adarchy, that racism and sex\u00adism were the deci\u00adsive fac\u00adtors cost\u00ading Democ\u00adrats the 2016 elec\u00adtion, and that fas\u00adcism is nigh, you can see how they would con\u00adclude that a Cory Book\u00ader or an Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth War\u00adren can\u2019t real\u00adly best Trump, or would face much longer odds than a white man, and that win\u00adning should be the pri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adty. Con\u00adjure in your mind an insti\u00adtu\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly racist, white-suprema\u00adcist patri\u00adarchy. Does its pop\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly elect\u00aded pres\u00adi\u00addent look like Kamala Har\u00adris?\u201d This is the most provoca\u00adtive\u00adly insight\u00adful thing I read this week.\n<ul>\n<li>Not real\u00adly relat\u00aded, just sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adly provoca\u00adtive: <a href=\"https:\/\/outline.com\/TFnHMu\">The Real Rea\u00adson They Hate Trump<\/a> (David Gel\u00adern\u00adter, Wall Street Jour\u00adnal): \u201cThe dif\u00adfer\u00adence between cit\u00adi\u00adzens who hate Mr. Trump and those who can live with him\u2014whether they love or mere\u00adly tol\u00ader\u00adate him\u2014comes down to their views of the typ\u00adi\u00adcal Amer\u00adi\u00adcan: the farmer, fac\u00adto\u00adry hand, auto mechan\u00adic, machin\u00adist, team\u00adster, shop own\u00ader, clerk, soft\u00adware engi\u00adneer, infantry\u00adman, truck dri\u00adver, house\u00adwife.\u201d The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of com\u00adput\u00ader sci\u00adence at Yale..<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/real-estate\/free-rent-in-seattle-no-catch-a-landlord-couples-faith-inspired-a-gift-for-tenants\/\">Free rent in Seat\u00adtle, no catch: Land\u00adlords\u2019 faith inspired a gift for ten\u00adants<\/a> (Mike Rosen\u00adberg, Seat\u00adtle Times): \u201cThey\u2019re also devout Pen\u00adte\u00adcostal Chris\u00adtians. When Slaatthaug, a 74-year-old retired car\u00adpen\u00adter, does repairs at the build\u00ading, he dri\u00adves there in a Jeep with a 4\u2011foot-tall Bible on top. The Old Tes\u00adta\u00adment has a pas\u00adsage about the year of jubilee \u2014 every 50 years, debts are to be for\u00adgiv\u00aden. So Slaatthaug and Bam\u00adbrick are cel\u00ade\u00adbrat\u00ading the family\u2019s 50 years as prop\u00ader\u00adty own\u00aders by doing some\u00adthing unheard of for a land\u00adlord: For the month of Novem\u00adber, every\u00adone in the 11-unit build\u00ading goes rent-free.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2018\/11\/kissing-purity-culture-goodbye\">Kiss\u00ading Puri\u00adty Cul\u00adture Good\u00adbye<\/a> (Abi\u00adgail Rine Favale, First Things): \u201cChris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty does not offer mere pre\u00adscrip\u00adtions; it offers a world\u00adview, one cen\u00adtered on a God who descend\u00aded into our bod\u00adi\u00adly nature and there\u00adby viv\u00adi\u00adfied it. With\u00adin the con\u00adtext of this world\u00adview, the sex\u00adu\u00adal mores of Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty become com\u00adpelling, con\u00adnect\u00aded as they are to the cos\u00admos as a whole. Removed from this con\u00adtext, they enslave.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/10\/29\/lack-attention-chinese-interpol-chiefs-disappearance-shows-khashoggi-furors-fakery\/\">Lack Of Atten\u00adtion To Chi\u00adnese Inter\u00adpol Chief\u2019s Dis\u00adap\u00adpear\u00adance Shows The Khashog\u00adgi Furor\u2019s Fak\u00adery<\/a> (Ben Wein\u00adgarten, The Fed\u00ader\u00adal\u00adist): \u201cWhy do cer\u00adtain indi\u00advid\u00adual vic\u00adtims of tyran\u00adni\u00adcal regimes become cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bres, wor\u00adthy of dra\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly alter\u00ading U.S. for\u00adeign pol\u00adi\u00adcy, while oth\u00aders dis\u00adap\u00adpear into the ether? \u2026con\u00adcur\u00adrent with the Khashog\u00adgi affair, Meng, the pres\u00adi\u00addent of Inter\u00adpol, also dis\u00adap\u00adpeared, and may have suc\u00adcumbed to a sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adly grim fate at the hands of Chi\u00adnese hench\u00admen. Let me repeat that: <em>The pres\u00adi\u00addent of Inter\u00adpol, the world\u2019s largest inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal police orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion, dis\u00adap\u00adpeared.<\/em>\u201d I dis\u00adlike the title of this piece and the way it frames a few things, but it rais\u00ades a very impor\u00adtant point.<\/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.youtube.com\/watch?v=CvzMqIQLiXE\">Rib\u00adbon<\/a> (Eric Chien, YouTube): this act won the World Cham\u00adpi\u00adonship of Mag\u00adic award for close-up mag\u00adic this year. Wild.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/YkaIAul\">Great Hal\u00adloween Cos\u00adtumes<\/a> (imgur)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/nation-almost-has-brief-moment-of-solidarity-after-tragedy\/\">Nation Almost Has Brief Moment Of Sol\u00adi\u00addar\u00adi\u00adty After Tragedy<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/uh-oh-the-migrant-caravan-just-announced-a-plan-to-march-around-the-us-seven-times-blowing-trumpets\">Uh-Oh: The Migrant Car\u00ada\u00advan Just Announced A Plan To March Around The US Sev\u00aden Times Blow\u00ading Trum\u00adpets<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee): I laughed out loud at this head\u00adline.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/churchs-haunted-house-just-2-hours-of-greeting-time\">Church\u2019s Haunt\u00aded House Just Two Hours Of Greet\u00ading Time<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/wants\">Wants<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pvponline.com\/comic\/2018-11-01\">Pot\u00adty Humor<\/a> (PVP)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2018\/11\/02\">Reli\u00adgious Wars<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine) \u2014 bad his\u00adto\u00adry and the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy, fun\u00adny nonethe\u00adless<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/XIJlA5H\">Jesus drops some truth<\/a> (Imgur)<\/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:\/\/teampyro.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/sister-show-mercy.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sis\u00adter\u2026 Show Mer\u00adcy!<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Dan Phillips, Team Pyro): \u201cSis\u00adter, if there\u2019s one thing you and I can cer\u00adtain\u00adly 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 prob\u00ada\u00adbly 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 (first shared in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/04\/20\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-148\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vol\u00adume 148<\/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). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.<\/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 Mass Shoot\u00adings at Hous\u00ades of Wor\u00adship: Pitts\u00adburgh Attack Was Among the Dead\u00adliest (Sarah Mer\u00advosh, \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/11\/02\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-176\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 176\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 lot more insidery-evangelical links than normal. 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