{"id":5410,"date":"2019-04-19T18:38:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T02:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2019-04-19T18:42:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T02:42:47","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/04\/19\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-199","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 199"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a> 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. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve been fol\u00adlow\u00ading the news, arti\u00adcles about the Mueller report are con\u00adspic\u00adu\u00adous by their absence in this week\u2019s email. Apolo\u00adgies if you were hop\u00ading for some\u00adthing on that, but I find it dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to over\u00adstate how unin\u00adter\u00adest\u00aded I am in this news cycle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, next week will be vol\u00adume 200. Should I do any\u00adthing spe\u00adcial? Sug\u00adges\u00adtions are wel\u00adcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Is Reli\u00adgious Decline Inevitable in the Unit\u00aded States?<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cThe results are unam\u00adbigu\u00adous: those with the least amount of edu\u00adca\u00adtion are con\u00adsis\u00adtent\u00adly the most like\u00adly to iden\u00adti\u00adfy as reli\u00adgious\u00adly unaf\u00adfil\u00adi\u00adat\u00aded. The far right bar in the graph, indi\u00adcat\u00ading those with a grad\u00adu\u00adate lev\u00adel edu\u00adca\u00adtion are almost always the group that is the most like\u00adly to be reli\u00adgious\u00adly affil\u00adi\u00adat\u00aded.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. The new reli\u00adgion: why try\u00ading to be per\u00adfect is doomed to fail<\/a> (Oliv\u00ader Burke\u00adman, The Guardian): \u201cIt\u2019s one thing to seek sal\u00adva\u00adtion in God, or to stop seek\u00ading sal\u00adva\u00adtion; but the attempt to engi\u00adneer your own sal\u00adva\u00adtion is doomed to fail. We\u2019re flawed and finite, so we lack the capac\u00adi\u00adty to work, par\u00adent or romance our way to per\u00adfec\u00adtion. Try to do so and you\u2019ll only end up strug\u00adgling to exert ever more con\u00adtrol over your life \u2013 where\u00adas deep rela\u00adtion\u00adships, and oth\u00ader mean\u00ading\u00adful expe\u00adri\u00adences, require giv\u00ading up con\u00adtrol.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Now We\u2019re Talk\u00ading: The Excep\u00adtion\u00adal Life of Paul Coates<\/a> (Wil S. Hyl\u00adton, Huff\u00adin\u00adg\u00adton Post): \u201cThere weren\u2019t white cats in hoods, burn\u00ading cross\u00ades and beat\u00ading up on black peo\u00adple, but if you walked through town, the moment you got to the black side, the side\u00adwalks would dis\u00adap\u00adpear, the streets would dis\u00adap\u00adpear, and now you\u2019re walk\u00ading in dirt. So the racism was subtle\u2014but as your con\u00adscious\u00adness expands, the sub\u00adtle\u00adty melts away and the racism becomes more ran\u00adcid to the eyes and nose.\u201d This is a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading inter\u00adview with Ta-Nehisi Coates\u2019 father.<\/li>\n
  4. Mis\u00adsion\u00adar\u00adies are sup\u00adposed to suf\u00adfer \u2026 So am I allowed to buy an air con\u00addi\u00adtion\u00ader?<\/a> (Amy Med\u00adi\u00adna, A Life Over\u00adseas): \u201cIf God has called you to work among the upper-class in India, then you\u2019ll need to live like them, in a lux\u00adu\u00adry apart\u00adment. If God has called you to work among the coastal tribes of Tan\u00adza\u00adnia, then you\u2019ll need to live like them, in a sim\u00adple cin\u00adder-block house with a pit toi\u00adlet. Each life has its set of chal\u00adlenges. Each life has its set of bless\u00adings.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. Broke Mil\u00adlen\u00adni\u00adals Are Flock\u00ading to Finan\u00adcial Guru Dave Ram\u00adsey. Is His Advice Any Good?<\/a> (Kris\u00adten Bahler, Mon\u00adey): \u201c[Young adults are] an audi\u00adence that mar\u00adketers stake their entire bud\u00adgets on, and he\u2019s speak\u00ading to them in all the wrong ways. He quotes scrip\u00adture and Ronald Rea\u00adgan. He calls young peo\u00adple \u2018snowflakes.\u2019 He has absolute\u00adly no chill, what\u00adso\u00adev\u00ader. But for a grow\u00ading swath of millennials\u2014a gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion we\u2019re told is too frag\u00adile, too god\u00adless, too polit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly correct\u2014his word is gospel.\u201d<\/li>\n
  6. Lis\u00adten\u00ading at the Great Awok\u00aden\u00ading<\/a> (Areo, Darel E. Paul): \u201c\u2026this spring the Great Awok\u00aden\u00ading final\u00adly came to my home insti\u00adtu\u00adtion, Williams Col\u00adlege. Admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtors and oth\u00ader cam\u00adpus lead\u00aders have encour\u00adaged white mem\u00adbers of the col\u00adlege com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty like myself to lis\u00adten. Over the past two months, I have striv\u00aden to do exact\u00adly that\u2026. Lis\u00adten\u00ading to these views from mul\u00adti\u00adple cam\u00adpus\u00ades helped me real\u00adize that what seems to be a local dis\u00adcourse respond\u00ading to local issues is actu\u00adal\u00adly a local man\u00adi\u00adfes\u00adta\u00adtion of an inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal social, polit\u00adi\u00adcal and ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnon.\u201d The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Sci\u00adence at Williams Col\u00adlege.\n