{"id":5242,"date":"2018-11-23T17:51:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T01:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5242"},"modified":"2018-11-23T17:51:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T01:51:15","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/11\/23\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-179","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 179"},"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.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2018\/11\/21\/american-believed-dead-after-encounter-with-remote-indian-tribe-hostile-outsiders\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.c702b578783d\">\u2018God, I don\u2019t want to die,\u2019 U.S. mis\u00adsion\u00adary wrote before he was killed by tribe on Indi\u00adan island<\/a> (Joan\u00adna Slater and Annie Gowen, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cAn Amer\u00adi\u00adcan mis\u00adsion\u00adary try\u00ading to meet and con\u00advert one of the most iso\u00adlat\u00aded hunter-and-gath\u00ader\u00ader tribes in the world offered them fish and oth\u00ader small gifts before the tribes\u00admen killed him and buried his body on the beach, jour\u00adnals and emails show.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2018\/november\/missionary-killed-north-sentinel-isolated-island-tribe-chau.html\">US Mis\u00adsion\u00adary Killed by \u2018World\u2019s Most Iso\u00adlat\u00aded\u2019 Tribe<\/a> (Kate Shell\u00adnut, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cSome have declared Chau a mar\u00adtyr and com\u00adpared him to Jim Elliot, who was famous\u00adly killed at age 28 while attempt\u00ading to evan\u00adge\u00adlize an iso\u00adlat\u00aded indige\u00adnous group in Ecuador.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/death-of-a-missionary-john-allen-chau\/\">Death Of A Mis\u00adsion\u00adary<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u201cIf Chau had been a mis\u00adsion\u00adary try\u00ading to sneak into North Korea, I would have thought him insane\u00adly brave. But the law against vis\u00adit\u00ading that island was there <em>for a very good rea\u00adson<\/em>: this tribe has had no expo\u00adsure to out\u00adsiders, and is enor\u00admous\u00adly vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble to com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adble dis\u00adeases. There are only a small num\u00adber of them in exis\u00adtence, and they could be wiped out quick\u00adly by com\u00admon ill\u00adness\u00ades for which they have no immu\u00adni\u00adty\u2026. It is one thing to be will\u00ading to lay down your life for these trib\u00adal peo\u00adple. It is cru\u00adel to expect them to lay down their lives so you can prove your love for God.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionqanda\/2018\/11\/how-do-conservatives-respond-to-archaeologists-skepticism-about-bible-history\/\">How do con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives respond to archae\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgists\u2019 skep\u00adti\u00adcism about Bible his\u00adto\u00adry?<\/a> (Richard Ostling, Patheos): \u201cThere\u2019s vast unex\u00adplored ter\u00adrain in Israel, where only 50 of an esti\u00admat\u00aded 6,000 sites have under\u00adgone thor\u00adough exam\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion, with lim\u00adit\u00aded work at anoth\u00ader 300. Sur\u00adviv\u00ading evi\u00addence from ancient times is nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly spot\u00adty and inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtions can be sub\u00adjec\u00adtive. Schol\u00adars usu\u00adal\u00adly end up with cir\u00adcum\u00adstan\u00adtial plau\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty, not absolute proof or dis\u00adproof.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/11\/13\/666287509\/ex-detainee-describes-torture-in-chinas-xinjiang-re-education-camp\">Ex-Detainee Describes Tor\u00adture In Chi\u00adna\u2019s Xin\u00adjiang Re-Edu\u00adca\u00adtion Camp<\/a> (Rob Schmitz, NPR): \u201cSamarkand says he was trans\u00adferred to a re-edu\u00adca\u00adtion camp, where peo\u00adple were sep\u00ada\u00adrat\u00aded into three groups: those who were reli\u00adgious, those who were sus\u00adpect\u00aded of being crim\u00adi\u00adnals, and those, like him, who had trav\u00adeled abroad. All of them, says Samarkand, had one thing in com\u00admon, though: They had grown up in Mus\u00adlim fam\u00adi\u00adlies and com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/articles\/infographic-you-can-read-more-of-the-bible-than-you-think\/\">Info\u00adgraph\u00adic: You Have More Time for Bible Read\u00ading than You Think<\/a> (Cross\u00adway): \u201cIn just 12 min\u00adutes per day, you could read the whole Bible in a year. Does that still feel a bit ambi\u00adtious? In just 6 min\u00adutes per day, you could read the entire New Tes\u00adta\u00adment over the course of 6 months.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrPJWilliams\/status\/1065768149541363713\">Elisha and the She-bears<\/a> (Peter J Williams, Twit\u00adter): a very insight\u00adful Twit\u00adter thread about a dis\u00adturb\u00ading OT sto\u00adry. The author is the War\u00adden of Tyn\u00addale House at Cam\u00adbridge.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/sir-roger-scruton-is-a-friend-to-muslims-and-jews\/\">Sir Roger Scru\u00adton Is a Friend to Mus\u00adlims and Jews<\/a> (Jibran Khan, Nation\u00adal Review): \u201cThere can be no real dia\u00adlogue with some\u00adone who doesn\u2019t believe in any\u00adthing, and yet this has been the guid\u00ading prin\u00adci\u00adple of lib\u00ader\u00adal \u2018inter\u00adfaith\u2019 dis\u00adcus\u00adsion, to so water down the dis\u00adcourse that no one gets to encounter, let alone tol\u00ader\u00adate and appre\u00adci\u00adate, dif\u00adfer\u00adence.\u201d I did not think I would find this arti\u00adcle inter\u00adest\u00ading.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/betsy-devos-its-time-we-balance-the-scales-of-justice-in-our-schools\/2018\/11\/20\/8dc59348-ecd6-11e8-9236-bb94154151d2_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.fa660de1a071\">It\u2019s time we bal\u00adance the scales of jus\u00adtice in our schools<\/a> (Bet\u00adsy DeVos, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cA fair process treats each par\u00adty with dig\u00adni\u00adty and ensures the integri\u00adty of final deci\u00adsions. Hav\u00ading out\u00adcomes over\u00adturned and relit\u00adi\u00adgat\u00aded because of process con\u00adcerns \u2014 which has hap\u00adpened dozens of times in recent years \u2014 can be coun\u00adter\u00adpro\u00adduc\u00adtive to sur\u00advivors.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2018\/11\/aclu-devos-title-ix\/576142\/\">The ACLU Declines to Defend Civ\u00adil Rights<\/a> (Conor Frieder\u00ads\u00addorf, The Atlantic): \u201cthe ACLU issued a pub\u00adlic state\u00adment that con\u00adsti\u00adtut\u00aded a stark, short\u00adsight\u00aded betray\u00adal of the organization\u2019s his\u00adtoric mis\u00adsion: It vehe\u00adment\u00adly <em>opposed <\/em>stronger due-process rights for the accused.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2018\/11\/scott-greenfield\/575707\/\">Relat\u00aded: One Crim\u00adi\u00adnal-Defense Attorney\u2019s Lament<\/a> (Conor Frieder\u00ads\u00addorf, The Atlantic): \u201cIn cer\u00adtain ways, social con\u00addem\u00adna\u00adtion has become some\u00adthing even worse, the mere accu\u00adsa\u00adtion being all that\u2019s required for a mob of undu\u00adly pas\u00adsion\u00adate peo\u00adple to crush a career. There\u2019s no oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to defend and no means to chal\u00adlenge an accu\u00adsa\u00adtion. While the \u2018pun\u00adish\u00adment\u2019 isn\u2019t levied by gov\u00adern\u00adment, and is there\u00adfore beyond any required involve\u00adment of such niceties as due process, the net result can be as destruc\u00adtive giv\u00aden the cur\u00adrent tide of blind accep\u00adtance and capit\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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=C6PzAWqGsyo\">Broke Peo\u00adple Have The Strongest Prayers<\/a> (KevOn\u00adStage, YouTube) \u2014 brought to my atten\u00adtion by an alum\u00adnus<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JL4j1USzDXA\">45 Sec\u00adonds of Foot\u00adball Mad\u00adness<\/a> (YouTube): I don\u2019t like foot\u00adball and I thought this clip was amaz\u00ading.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicherald.co.uk\/news\/2018\/11\/20\/australian-pro-life-senator-declares-himself-female-so-he-can-speak-out-on-abortion\/\">Aus\u00adtralian sen\u00ada\u00adtor announces gen\u00adder swap so he can speak on abor\u00adtion issues<\/a> (Catholic Her\u00adald)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/18\/11\/the-moon-is-flipped-upside-down-in-the-southern-hemisphere\">The Moon Is Flipped Upside Down in the South\u00adern Hemi\u00adsphere<\/a> (kottke.org): I am amazed that I nev\u00ader real\u00adized this. Cool!<\/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 the<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;provoca\u00adtive&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/In-Defense-of-Flogging\/127208\/?sid=at\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Defense of Flog\u00adging<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Peter Moskos, Chron\u00adi\u00adcle of High\u00ader Edu\u00adca\u00adtion) \u2014 the author is a for\u00admer police offi\u00adcer and now a crim\u00adi\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgist at the City Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of New York. This one was shared back before I start\u00aded send\u00ading these emails in a blog post called <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2011\/05\/05\/punishment\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pun\u00adish\u00adment<\/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 \u2018God, I don\u2019t want to die,\u2019 U.S. mis\u00adsion\u00adary wrote before he was killed by \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/11\/23\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-179\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 179\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":"Links about the recent missionary martyr, the Bible and archaeology, reforming Title IX and more.","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":[124,125,170,159,115,246,147],"class_list":["post-5242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-china","tag-devotional","tag-justice","tag-missions","tag-pluralism","tag-sexual-assault"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1my","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242","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=5242"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5247,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions\/5247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}