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<\/a> On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. If you read something fascinating please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve been following the news, articles about the Mueller report are conspicuous by their absence in this week\u2019s email. Apologies if you were hoping for something on that, but I find it difficult to overstate how uninterested I am in this news cycle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, next week will be volume 200. Should I do anything special? Suggestions are welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Is Religious Decline Inevitable in the United States?<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Christianity Today): \u201cThe results are unambiguous: those with the least amount of education are consistently the most likely to identify as religiously unaffiliated. The far right bar in the graph, indicating those with a graduate level education are almost always the group that is the most likely to be religiously affiliated.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. The new religion: why trying to be perfect is doomed to fail<\/a> (Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian): \u201cIt\u2019s one thing to seek salvation in God, or to stop seeking salvation; but the attempt to engineer your own salvation is doomed to fail. We\u2019re flawed and finite, so we lack the capacity to work, parent or romance our way to perfection. Try to do so and you\u2019ll only end up struggling to exert ever more control over your life \u2013 whereas deep relationships, and other meaningful experiences, require giving up control.\u201d<\/li>\n
  3. Now We\u2019re Talking: The Exceptional Life of Paul Coates<\/a> (Wil S. Hylton, Huffington Post): \u201cThere weren\u2019t white cats in hoods, burning crosses and beating up on black people, but if you walked through town, the moment you got to the black side, the sidewalks would disappear, the streets would disappear, and now you\u2019re walking in dirt. So the racism was subtle\u2014but as your consciousness expands, the subtlety melts away and the racism becomes more rancid to the eyes and nose.\u201d This is a fascinating interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates\u2019 father.<\/li>\n
  4. Missionaries are supposed to suffer \u2026 So am I allowed to buy an air conditioner?<\/a> (Amy Medina, A Life Overseas): \u201cIf God has called you to work among the upper-class in India, then you\u2019ll need to live like them, in a luxury apartment. If God has called you to work among the coastal tribes of Tanzania, then you\u2019ll need to live like them, in a simple cinder-block house with a pit toilet. Each life has its set of challenges. Each life has its set of blessings.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. Broke Millennials Are Flocking to Financial Guru Dave Ramsey. Is His Advice Any Good?<\/a> (Kristen Bahler, Money): \u201c[Young adults are] an audience that marketers stake their entire budgets on, and he\u2019s speaking to them in all the wrong ways. He quotes scripture and Ronald Reagan. He calls young people \u2018snowflakes.\u2019 He has absolutely no chill, whatsoever. But for a growing swath of millennials\u2014a generation we\u2019re told is too fragile, too godless, too politically correct\u2014his word is gospel.\u201d<\/li>\n
  6. Listening at the Great Awokening<\/a> (Areo, Darel E. Paul): \u201c\u2026this spring the Great Awokening finally came to my home institution, Williams College. Administrators and other campus leaders have encouraged white members of the college community like myself to listen. Over the past two months, I have striven to do exactly that\u2026. Listening to these views from multiple campuses helped me realize that what seems to be a local discourse responding to local issues is actually a local manifestation of an international social, political and ideological phenomenon.\u201d The author is a professor of Political Science at Williams College.