{"id":5371,"date":"2019-03-22T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T23:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2019-03-22T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T23:20:18","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-195","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/03\/22\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-195","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 195"},"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 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<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2019\/03\/privileged-poor-navigating-elite-university-life\/585100\/\">Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students That They Do Not Belong<\/a> (Clint Smith, The Atlantic): \u201cThe privileged poor are students who come from low-income backgrounds but attended wealthy private high schools, giving them a level of familiarity with and access to the social and cultural capital that tend to make people successful at elite universities. The doubly disadvantaged are students who arrive at these top institutions from neighborhood public schools, many of which are overcrowded and underfunded. They are schools where these students have excelled, but that are ill-equipped to give them the sociocultural tools necessary to understand the nuances of how these elite colleges operate.\u201d&nbsp;<ul>\n<li>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/16\/opinion\/sunday\/the-scandals-of-meritocracy.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">The Scandals of Meritocracy<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cThe \u2018more meritocracy\u2019 argument against both legacies and racial quotas implicitly assumes that aptitude \u2014 some elixir of I.Q. and work ethic \u2014 is what our elite primarily lacks. But is that really our upper class\u2019s problem?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2019\/march\/evangelical-nones-mainline-us-general-social-survey-gss.html\">Evangelicals Show No Decline, Despite Trump and Nones<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Christianity Today): \u201cThe fact that evangelicals\u2019 share of the population remains relatively stable over the last decade is striking given the continued rise of the nones. Evangelicals have been able to replace losses as fast as they are occurring, at least for&nbsp;now.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2019\/03\/21\/study-leaving-religion-sex-abuse-scandals-affects-public-health-column\/3224575002\/\">Religion\u2019s health effects should make doubting parishioners reconsider leaving<\/a> (John Siniff and Tyler J. VanderWeele, USA Today): \u201cSimply from a public health perspective, the continuing diminution of religious upbringing in America would be bad for health. This is not proselytizing; this is science.\u201d The Harvard epidemiology professor&nbsp; last made an appearance here back in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/09\/02\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-65\">volume 65<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tobyjsumpter.com\/why-the-bible-aint-woke\/\">Why The Bible Ain\u2019t Woke<\/a> (Toby Sumpter, personal blog): \u201c\u2026it is simply not enough to note that Jonathan Edwards, the puritans, or the founders of Southern Seminary <em>owned<\/em> slaves. Far more work must be done to demonstrate that these men <em>sinned<\/em> in their treatment of their slaves. And furthermore, even where sin can be clearly demonstrated, there must be a bright and shining light of demarcation between disqualifying sin and the endemic sins of the human race.\u201d He has undeniably interesting things to say, but read his article in conjunction with the content from Peter Williams and Glenn Miller I shared back in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/11\/18\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-76\">volume 76<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/the-reckoning-of-morris-dees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center\">The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a> (Bob Moser, New Yorker): \u201cFor those of us who\u2019ve worked in the Poverty Palace, putting it all into perspective isn\u2019t easy, even to ourselves. We were working with a group of dedicated and talented people, fighting all kinds of good fights, making life miserable for the bad guys. And yet, all the time, dark shadows hung over everything: the racial and gender disparities, the whispers about sexual harassment, the abuses that stemmed from the top-down management, and the guilt you couldn\u2019t help feeling about the legions of donors who believed that their money was being used, faithfully and well, to do the Lord\u2019s work in the heart of Dixie. We were part of the con, and we knew&nbsp;it.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cognition.2019.03.006\">The need for intellectual diversity in psychological science: Our own studies of actively open-minded thinking as a case study<\/a> (Stanovich and Toplak, Cognition): \u201cit is important that psychology maintain its credibility as a neutral arbiter\u2014a credibility that has been vastly eroded in recent years by empirical evidence of the ideological bias in our science (Ceci and Williams, 2018, Crawford and Jussim, 2018, Duarte et al., 2015). There is a need for greater intellectual diversity in all areas of psychology, but particularly in those that interface with politics and sociocultural beliefs. Greater intellectual diversity in our own lab years ago might have prevented us from continuing to use items in our AOT scale that inflated negative correlations with religiosity.\u201d&nbsp;<ul>\n<li>tl;dr \u2014 researchers realized that a well-known psychological tool they developed years ago was biased against religious believers, and they concluded this probably happened because their lab was \u201coverwhelmingly secular.\u201d They humbly repented and wrote a paper about their mistake. Kudos to&nbsp;them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/atheism-is-inconsistent-with-the-scientific-method-prizewinning-physicist-says\/\">Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says<\/a> (Lee Billings, Scientific American): \u201cI honestly think atheism is inconsistent with the scientific method. What I mean by that is, what is atheism? It\u2019s a statement, a categorical statement that expresses belief in nonbelief.\u201d This is from an interview with Marcelo Gleiser, Dartmouth physics prof. Recommended by a student.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n<p>Sadly, I got nothing this week. In lieu of awesome links, here\u2019s a mediocre joke: \u201cWhat\u2019s the best thing to put in a cookie? Your&nbsp;teeth!\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Things Glen Found Interesting A While&nbsp;Ago<\/h3>\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have <a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanscholar.org\/on-political-correctness\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Political Correctness<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (William Deresiewicz, The American Scholar): a long and thoughtful article. \u201cSelective private colleges have become religious schools. The religion in question is not Methodism or Catholicism but an extreme version of the belief system of the liberal elite: the liberal professional, managerial, and creative classes, which provide a large majority of students enrolled at such places and an even larger majority of faculty and administrators who work at them. To attend those institutions is to be socialized, and not infrequently, indoctrinated into that religion\u2026. I say this, by the way, as an atheist, a democratic socialist, a native northeasterner, a person who believes that colleges should not have sports teams in the first place\u2014and in case it isn\u2019t obvious by now, a card-carrying member of the liberal elite.\u201d (first shared in <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2017\/03\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-92\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">volume 92<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\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<h3><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\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<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<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. Things Glen Found Interesting Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students That They Do Not Belong (Clint Smith, The Atlantic): \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/03\/22\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-195\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 195\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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A physicist disses atheism, a Harvard epidemiologist prescribes religion, and some psychologists realize that having an overwhelmingly secular lab gives them blind spots.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[131,124,204,140,240,183,172,178],"class_list":["post-5371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-atheism","tag-culture","tag-elite-colleges","tag-psychology","tag-racism","tag-slavery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1oD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371","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=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5376,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}