{"id":5269,"date":"2018-12-07T18:34:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T02:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2018-12-07T18:34:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T02:34:43","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-181","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/12\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-181","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 181"},"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=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2018\/12\/andrew-sullivan-americas-new-religions.html\">America\u2019s New Reli\u00adgions<\/a> (Andrew Sul\u00adli\u00advan, New York Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cThe need for mean\u00ading hasn\u2019t gone away, but with\u00adout Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty, this yearn\u00ading looks to pol\u00adi\u00adtics for sat\u00adis\u00adfac\u00adtion. And reli\u00adgious impuls\u00ades, once anchored in and tamed by Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty, find expres\u00adsion in var\u00adi\u00adous polit\u00adi\u00adcal cults. These polit\u00adi\u00adcal man\u00adi\u00adfes\u00adta\u00adtions of reli\u00adgion are new and crude, as all new cults have to be. They haven\u2019t been expe\u00adri\u00adenced and refined and mod\u00adeled by mil\u00adlen\u00adnia of prac\u00adtice and thought. They are evolv\u00ading in real time. And like almost all new cultish impuls\u00ades, they demand a total and imme\u00addi\u00adate com\u00admit\u00adment to save the world.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.com\/podcast\/religiosity\/\">Is the Protes\u00adtant Work Eth\u00adic Real?<\/a> (Stephen J. Dub\u00adn\u00ader, Freako\u00adnom\u00adics): \u201cThe ran\u00addom\u00adized con\u00adtrolled tri\u00adal of a mis\u00adsion\u00adary project in the Philip\u00adpines found that very poor peo\u00adple earned more mon\u00adey as a result of receiv\u00ading reli\u00adgious instruc\u00adtion. Why? The researchers sus\u00adpect there were two pri\u00adma\u00adry dri\u00advers: opti\u00admism and grit.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>The researchers in ques\u00adtion wrote up their research in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/papers\/w24278\">Ran\u00addom\u00adiz\u00ading Reli\u00adgion: The Impact of Protes\u00adtant Evan\u00adge\u00adlism on Eco\u00adnom\u00adic Out\u00adcomes<\/a> (Gharad T. Bryan, James J. Choi, Dean Kar\u00adlan, NBER): \u201cTo study the causal impact of reli\u00adgios\u00adi\u00adty, we part\u00adnered with Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Care Min\u00adistries (ICM), an evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Protes\u00adtant anti-pover\u00adty orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion that oper\u00adates in the Philip\u00adpines, to con\u00adduct an eval\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion that ran\u00addom\u00adly assigned invi\u00adta\u00adtions to attend Chris\u00adt\u00adian the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy and val\u00adues train\u00ading.\u201d The authors are affil\u00adi\u00adat\u00aded with the Lon\u00addon School of Eco\u00adnom\u00adics, Yale, and North\u00adwest\u00adern. The sec\u00adond author, Choi, is an evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Chris\u00adt\u00adian.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2018\/december\/dutch-asylum-worship-service-netherlands-kinderpardon-hague.html\">Dutch Asy\u00adlum Ser\u00advice Nears 1,000 Hours, With Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals\u2019 Sup\u00adport<\/a> (Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cA marathon wor\u00adship ser\u00advice held by a church in the Nether\u00adlands to shield a fam\u00adi\u00adly of asy\u00adlum seek\u00aders has gar\u00adnered world\u00adwide atten\u00adtion. The feat has proved impres\u00adsive for its longevi\u00adty alone\u2014now going on six weeks\u2014but also rep\u00adre\u00adsents a unique ecu\u00admeni\u00adcal moment among Chris\u00adtians in the tiny Euro\u00adpean nation.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2018\/12\/05\/former-stanford-postdoc-criticized-for-creating-the-worlds-first-gene-edited-babies\/\">For\u00admer Stan\u00adford post\u00addoc crit\u00adi\u00adcized for cre\u00adat\u00ading the world\u2019s first gene-edit\u00aded babies<\/a> (Ele\u00adna Shao, Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly): \u201cOn Nov. 28, He Jianku \u2014 a post\u00addoc\u00adtor\u00adal fel\u00adlow at Stan\u00adford from 2011\u20132012 \u2014 announced to hun\u00addreds of sci\u00aden\u00adtists, col\u00adleagues and jour\u00adnal\u00adists that he had cre\u00adat\u00aded the world\u2019s first genet\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly edit\u00aded babies: twin girls with the pseu\u00addo\u00adnyms Lulu and Nana whose DNA he claims to have altered to make them HIV-resis\u00adtant.\u201d FYI Bill Hurl\u00adburt, one of the Stan\u00adford bioethics experts inter\u00adviewed in this arti\u00adcle, is a sol\u00adid believ\u00ader.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/200206468\">God\u00adspeed: The Pace Of Being Known<\/a> (Vimeo): a frosh brought this 30 minute video to my atten\u00adtion and said it made her think about how she should be liv\u00ading in her dorm. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded.<\/li>\n<li>I read two inter\u00adest\u00ading pro\u00adfiles of famous Chris\u00adtians from the past this week:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/evangelical-history\/phillis-wheatley-evangelical-first-published-african-american-female-poet\/\">Phillis Wheat\u00adley: An Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal and the First Pub\u00adlished African Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Female Poet<\/a> (Thomas Kidd, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cPhillis Wheat\u00adley, the first pub\u00adlished African Amer\u00adi\u00adcan female poet and a devout Chris\u00adt\u00adian, died on Decem\u00adber 5, 1784. We can\u2019t be sure of her birth\u00addate, because she was born in West Africa and sold into slav\u00adery by 1761.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2018\/12\/04\/evangelical-retailer-john-wanamaker-built-fortune-by-blending-faith-with-business\/\">Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal retail\u00ader John Wana\u00admak\u00ader built for\u00adtune by blend\u00ading faith with busi\u00adness<\/a> (Mark Kell\u00adner, Reli\u00adgion News Ser\u00advice): \u201cWana\u00admak\u00ader, who also served four years as post\u00admas\u00adter gen\u00ader\u00adal of the Unit\u00aded States, was fore\u00admost an evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Chris\u00adt\u00adian who meld\u00aded faith and works, specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly the work\u00ading of his retail empire. While build\u00ading the first depart\u00adment store in Philadel\u00adphia, he also fund\u00aded the growth of the city\u2019s first megachurch, which fea\u00adtured a range of social ser\u00advices under\u00adgird\u00aded by a strong evan\u00adge\u00adlis\u00adtic out\u00adreach. He offered young male employ\u00adees of his store guid\u00adance through a YMCA-like pro\u00adgram aimed at pro\u00admot\u00ading spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal dis\u00adci\u00adpline. All employ\u00adees could spend a sum\u00admer vaca\u00adtion at a church-run resort, albeit with strict behav\u00adioral codes.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionqanda\/2018\/11\/have-u-s-protestants-gone-soft-on-alcohol\/\">Have U.S. Protes\u00adtants gone soft on alco\u00adhol?<\/a> (Richard Ostling, Patheos): \u201c\u2026from 2007 to 2017 U.S. deaths attrib\u00aduted to alco\u00adhol increased 35 per\u00adcent, and 67 per\u00adcent among women (while teen deaths declined 16 per\u00adcent). These fatal\u00adi\u00adties well out\u00adnum\u00adber those from opi\u00adoid over\u00addos\u00ades that have roused such pub\u00adlic con\u00adcern\u2026. Only 2 per\u00adcent of evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals admit\u00adted they some\u00adtimes over-indulge.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/premillennialist-driving-convertible-just-to-be-on-the-safe-side\">Pre\u00admil\u00adlen\u00adni\u00adal\u00adist Dri\u00adving Con\u00advert\u00adible Just To Be On The Safe Side<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee) \u2014 I think that\u2019s com\u00adpelling log\u00adic<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/theorem\">The\u00ado\u00adrem<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/nations-christians-shocked-that-popular-ccm-artist-doesnt-have-robust-theology\">Nation\u2019s Chris\u00adtians Shocked That Pop\u00adu\u00adlar CCM Artist Does\u00adn\u2019t Have Robust The\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=48firFVloK0\">Big Narstie\u2019s Ukabong!<\/a> (Would I Lie To You?, YouTube)<\/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=\"https:\/\/sourcetext.com\/the-gift-of-fire-chapter-three\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Land of We All (Richard Mitchell, The Gift of Fire)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an essay &nbsp;built on this insight: \u201cThink\u00ading can not be done cor\u00adpo\u00adrate\u00adly. Nations and com\u00admit\u00adtees can\u2019t think. That is not only because they have no brains, but because they have no selves, no cen\u00adters, no souls, if you like. Mil\u00adlions and mil\u00adlions of per\u00adsons may hold the same thought, or con\u00advic\u00adtion or sus\u00adpi\u00adcion, but each and every per\u00adson of those mil\u00adlions must hold it all alone.\u201d (first shared in<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/06\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-2\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vol\u00adume 2<\/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 America\u2019s New Reli\u00adgions (Andrew Sul\u00adli\u00advan, New York Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cThe need for mean\u00ading hasn\u2019t gone \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/12\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-181\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 181\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":"Things of interest to the sort of person who preaches the gospel to students at Stanford University.","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":[143,124,170,120,161,117,135],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-alcohol","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-devotional","tag-famous-christians","tag-global-christianity","tag-politics","tag-stanford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1mZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","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=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5273,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions\/5273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}