{"id":5352,"date":"2019-03-08T15:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T23:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5352"},"modified":"2019-03-08T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T23:03:55","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/03\/08\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-193","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 193"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" 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 class=\"wp-image-4396\" 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><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2019-03-05\/the-book-of-genesis-is-actually-a-story-about-the-tech-industry\">The Genesis of the Tech Industry, and Vice Versa<\/a> (Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg Opinion): \u201cIn the Book of Genesis, the underlying model of economics is a pretty optimistic one, and that is another way in which Western history draws upon its Judeo-Christian roots.\u201d Fascinating.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2019\/01\/marc-edwards-is-a-sad-microcosm-of-our-modern-political-era\/\">Marc Edwards Is a Sad Victim of Our Modern Political Era<\/a> (Kevin Drum, Mother Jones): \u201c\u2026just as he had honestly exposed Flint\u2019s problems in the first place, he also continued to honestly report the results of the intervention. When the water was once again safe, he said so\u2014and that turned him from a hero into a pariah.\u201d How have I not heard this? I was talking with a friend last week about how shocking it is that the water in Flint is still unsafe.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebulwark.com\/why-did-evangelicals-flock-to-trump-existential-fear\/\">Why Did Evangelicals Flock to Trump? Existential Fear.<\/a> (AJ Nolte, The Bulwark): \u201cDonald Trump appeared at a time during which many evangelicals\u2019 rising expectations had turned, rather rapidly, into existential fear. Trump was uniquely positioned to exploit that moment and win over evangelicals. Yet while that support is very real, I also think it is shallower and more conditional than it appears.\u201d Dr. Nolte is a political science professor at Regent University.&nbsp;<ul><li>Very much related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/trump-christians-the-indecent-american-community\/\">The Indecent-American Community<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The American Conservative): \u201cRemind me again why Christians vote for Trump, despite his personal corruption? You think it might have something to do with the fact that we know what the Democrats have planned for&nbsp;us?\u201d<\/li><li>Related to the above, but not so much to the initial link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennyburk.com\/when-being-a-christian-isnt-decent-anymore\/\">When being a Christian isn\u2019t \u201cdecent\u201d anymore<\/a> (Denny Burk, personal blog): \u201c\u2026it appears as a matter of course that it is open season on Christians who dare to affirm what the Bible teaches about sexual ethics. This is the new reality for Christians who hold the line on biblical sexual ethics, and I don\u2019t see any signs of things letting up. On the contrary, this kind of open animus only seems to be spreading.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/centerforfaith.com\/blog\/gay-vs-same-sex-attraction-a-dialogue\">Gay\u201d vs \u201cSame-Sex Attraction\u201d: A Dialogue<\/a> (Greg Coles &amp; Rachel Gilson, The Center For Faith, Sexuality, and Gender): \u201cBoth Greg and Rachel believe in a historically Christian view of marriage and sexual relationships. Rachel does not identify as gay or lesbian, even though she experiences same-sex attraction. Greg does identify as gay, preferring the term over \u2018same-sex attracted.\u2019\u201d This is an introductory article that links to a seven-part series. It is shorter than it sounds (the second-to-last article is fairly long, however). Recommended.&nbsp;<ul><li>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/interviews\/the-christian-debate-over-sexual-identity\">The Christian Debate Over Sexual Identity<\/a> (Sam Allberry, Desiring God): \u201cAs a Christian, one of the key things for me is realizing that identity as Christians is not something that we discover in ourselves, nor is it something we create. It\u2019s something we receive and are given by the only person who can know our actual identity, which is the God who made us. So my identity as a Christian comes from the fact that I\u2019ve been created by God and redeemed by him through the saving work of Jesus.\u201d This is a bit&nbsp;older.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/top-doctors-award-journalist\">I\u2019m a Journalist. Apparently, I\u2019m Also One of America\u2019s \u201cTop Doctors.\u201d<\/a> (Marshall Allen, ProPublica): \u201cI don\u2019t have a medical degree, and I\u2019m not a physician. But I am an investigative journalist who specializes in health care. So I leaned forward in my seat with some anticipation when I returned the call last year. I spoke to a cheerful saleswoman named Anne at a company on New York\u2019s Long Island that hands out the Top Doctor Awards. For some reason, she believed I was a physician and, even better, worthy of one of their awards. Puzzled and amused, I took&nbsp;notes.\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2019\/03\/trans-men-erase-women\">Trans Men Erase Women<\/a> (Charlotte Allen, First Things): \u201cMale-to-female transgender athletes are vanishingly few in number (like male-to-female trans people in general), but as the above examples indicate, when they compete, they pose a crushing existential threat to women\u2019s sports. That is because the very existence of women\u2019s sports is predicated, as Martina Navratilova recognized, on the now-highly politically incorrect observation that the two sexes are radically different physically.\u201d&nbsp;<ul><li>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/03\/04\/trans-athletes-are-making-a-travesty-of-womens-sports\/\">Trans athletes are making a travesty of women\u2019s sports<\/a> (Rich Lowry, NY Post): \u201cIn sports, the supposed fluidity of gender runs up against the ineluctability of&nbsp;sex.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2019\/02\/the-pell-affair-australia-is-now-on-trial\">The Pell Affair: Australia Is Now On Trial<\/a> (George Weigel, First Things): \u201cIf it is not reversed on appeal, that false verdict will constitute a new indictment: the indictment of a legal system that could not bring itself to render justice in the face of public hysteria, political vendetta, and media aggression.\u201d&nbsp;<ul><li>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2019\/3\/1\/cardinal-pell-story-is-an-extremely-tangled-web-but-readers-need-alternative-media-to-know-that\">Cardinal Pell story is an extremely tangled web, but readers need alternative media to know that<\/a> (Julia Duin, GetReligion): \u201cI hadn\u2019t been following the child abuse charges against Australian Cardinal Pell all that much because I assumed, based on the evidence, that they were somewhat flimsy and would never stick. But they did \u2014 in a series of trials that are as odd as they come. At the heart of the proceedings there was a single witness and what appeared to be \u2018recovered memories\u2019 of abuse. The end result? A cardinal is now in jail and a bunch of journalists have been handed the Aussie equivalent of contempt-of-court charges.\u201d<\/li><li>Related: a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TheMotte\/comments\/auhe14\/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_february_25\/ehafgw6\/\"> reddit thread<\/a> on the&nbsp;case.<\/li><li>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2019\/3\/8\/is-cardinal-pell-a-perpetrator-or-victim-aussie-media-waver-between-the-two\">Is Cardinal Pell a perpetrator or victim? Aussie media keep wavering between the two<\/a> (Julia Duin, GetReligion): \u201c\u2026Pell is the fall guy for an angry public, but he\u2019s hardly a Don Quixote riding to the defense of preyed-upon Catholic children.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\"><li> <a style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/man-defends-his-terrible-political-party-by-pointing-out-how-terrible-other-political-party-is\">Man Defends Own Terrible Political Party By Pointing Out How Terrible Other Political Party Is<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<br><br><\/li><li><a style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/calvinist-church-hosts-bingo-night-just-selects-winners-ahead-of-time\">Calvinist Church Hosts Bingo Night, Just Selects Winners Ahead Of Time<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<br><br><\/li><li> <a style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MnU16GTbxNY\">Steve Harvey\u2019s Smooth Pickup In College<\/a> (Steve Harvey, YouTube): seven minutes. Gentlemen, take notes. #notajoke<br><br><\/li><li><a style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NTyk53q8u08\">Shin Lim Performs a Series of Increasingly Shocking Card Tricks for Jimmy and The Roots<\/a> (The Tonight Show, YouTube): four minutes<br><br><\/li><li><a style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ri61lcjDkG4\">MUST SEE Magician Takumi Takahashi\u2019s Sleek Sleight Of Hand<\/a> (Asia\u2019s Got Talent, YouTube): five minutes<br><br><\/li><li> <a style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qu0h5ThceEw\">Mentalist Lior Suchard\u2019s Trick Freaks Out The Jonas Brothers<\/a> (The Late Late Show, YouTube): thirteen minutes<br><br><\/li><li> <a style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\" href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2019\/03\/injectable-nanoparticles-let-mice-see-near-infrared.html\">Injectable NanoParticles Let Mice See Near InfraRed!<\/a> (Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution): we live in amazing times.<br> <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While&nbsp;Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have <a href=\"https:\/\/stevecoast.com\/2015\/03\/27\/the-world-will-only-get-weirder\/\">The world will only get weirder<\/a> (Steven Coast, personal blog): \u201cWe fixed all the main reasons aircraft crash a long time ago. Sometimes a long, long time ago. So, we are left with the less and less probable events.\u201d The piece is a few years old so the examples are dated, but it remains very intriguing. (first shared in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/09\/16\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-67\">volume 67<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ideological Turing test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I\u2019ll usually mention it). And to the extent you can discern my opinions, please understand that they are my own and not necessarily those of Chi Alpha or any other organization I may be perceived to represent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, remember that I\u2019m not reporting news \u2014 I\u2019m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There\u2019s a lot happening in the world that\u2019s not making an appearance here because I haven\u2019t found stimulating articles written about&nbsp;it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this was forwarded 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 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&nbsp;way. 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