{"id":5474,"date":"2019-06-21T14:46:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T22:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2019-06-21T14:46:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T22:46:33","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/06\/21\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-208","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 208"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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>\n\n    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\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.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2019\/june-web-only\/i-pray-for-refugees-because-i-was-one-and-god-was-faithful.html\">I Pray for Refugees Because I Was One. And God Was Faith\u00adful.<\/a> (Sun\u00adday Htoo, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cWhen I was in the jun\u00adgle and run\u00adning for my life, I felt that I would be safe. I felt that some\u00adone I did not know was pray\u00ading for me. Some\u00adone is run\u00adning for their life right now in Bur\u00adma, or anoth\u00ader coun\u00adtry torn by war. Please pray for him, for her, for the chil\u00addren, for the elder\u00adly, and for a woman who may be preg\u00adnant. Your prayer is full of mean\u00ading.\u201d If you ignore every oth\u00ader arti\u00adcle to which I link this week, read this.<ul>\n<li>Rel\u00ade\u00advant: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/46da2dbe04f54adbb875cfbc06bbc615\">Migrant chil\u00addren describe neglect at Texas bor\u00adder facil\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (Cedar Attana\u00adsio, Garance Burke and Martha Men\u00addoza, AP News): \u201c\u2018In my 22 years of doing vis\u00adits with chil\u00addren in deten\u00adtion I have nev\u00ader heard of this lev\u00adel of inhu\u00adman\u00adi\u00adty,\u2019 said Hol\u00adly Coop\u00ader, who co-directs Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia, Davis\u2019 Immi\u00adgra\u00adtion Law Clin\u00adic and rep\u00adre\u00adsents detained youth\u2026. the Bor\u00adder Patrol is hold\u00ading 15,000 peo\u00adple, and the agency con\u00adsid\u00aders 4,000 to be at capac\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2019\/06\/16\/scott-warren-tucson-trial-deepens-religious-freedom-divides-column\/1435497001\/\">Is it Chris\u00adt\u00adian or ille\u00adgal to aid migrants? A hung Tuc\u00adson jury, a fork in the road of faith<\/a> (Bri\u00adan McLaren, USA Today): \u201creli\u00adgious lib\u00ader\u00adty means the free\u00addom to save refugees in the desert.\u201d I met McLaren once and had a nice con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion with him. There is zero chance he remem\u00adbers me. There are parts of this op-ed with which I stren\u00adu\u00adous\u00adly dis\u00adagree, rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded nonethe\u00adless.<\/li>\n  <\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/06\/ahmari-french-orban\/591697\/\">The Illib\u00ader\u00adal Right Throws a Tantrum<\/a> (Adam Ser\u00adw\u00ader, The Atlantic): \u201cThe Amer\u00adi\u00adcan creed has no more devot\u00aded adher\u00adents than those who have been his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly denied its promis\u00ades, and no more fair-weath\u00ader friends than those who have tak\u00aden them for grant\u00aded.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>In response: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/18\/opinion\/religion-race-liberalism.html\">Is The Reli\u00adgious Right Priv\u00adi\u00adleged?<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cPolit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, lib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adism has imposed via the judi\u00adcia\u00adry, the least demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic branch, a con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion\u00adal right to abor\u00adtion, a form of lethal vio\u00adlence that the church oppos\u00ades for the same rea\u00adsons it oppos\u00ades infan\u00adti\u00adcide \u2014 and after 50 years of small\u2011d demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic activism by pro-lif\u00aders, the pro-choice side seems to be hard\u00aden\u00ading into a view that such activism is as un-Amer\u00adi\u00adcan as racism. Legal\u00adly, elite lib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adism is increas\u00ading\u00adly embrac\u00ading argu\u00adments that would make it dif\u00adfi\u00adcult or impos\u00adsi\u00adble for the church to oper\u00adate hos\u00adpi\u00adtals and adop\u00adtion agen\u00adcies today, and per\u00adhaps col\u00adleges and gram\u00admar schools tomor\u00adrow. And in its inter\u00adnal life, beneath the post-Protes\u00adtant ten\u00adden\u00adcy I\u2019ve just described, pro\u00adgres\u00adsive pol\u00adi\u00adtics is also nur\u00adtur\u00ading a fash\u00adion\u00adable occultism, whose rit\u00adu\u00adals may be prac\u00adticed some\u00adwhat iron\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly or per\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtive\u00adly but whose anti-Catholi\u00adcism seems quite sin\u00adcere.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/06\/two-painful-truths-of-americas-religious-culture-war\/\">Two Painful Truths of America\u2019s Reli\u00adgious Cul\u00adture War<\/a> (David French, Nation\u00adal Review): \u201cHere are two painful truths: Sec\u00adu\u00adlar gov\u00adern\u00adment is break\u00ading its promise of lib\u00ader\u00adty, and the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan church is break\u00ading its promise of virtue.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2019\/07\/mh370-malaysia-airlines\/590653\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&amp;utm_content=20190617&amp;silverid-ref=MzQzMTE1ODcwNzI1S0\">What Real\u00adly Hap\u00adpened to Malaysia\u2019s Miss\u00ading Air\u00adplane<\/a> (William Langewi\u00adesche, The Atlantic): \u201cThe idea that a sophis\u00adti\u00adcat\u00aded machine, with its mod\u00adern instru\u00adments and redun\u00addant com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtions, could sim\u00adply van\u00adish seems beyond the realm of pos\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty. It is hard to per\u00adma\u00adnent\u00adly delete an email, and liv\u00ading off the grid is near\u00adly unachiev\u00adable even when the attempt is delib\u00ader\u00adate. A Boe\u00ading 777 is meant to be elec\u00adtron\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly acces\u00adsi\u00adble at all times\u2026. All sorts of the\u00ado\u00adrists have made claims, ampli\u00adfied by social media, that ignore the satel\u00adlite data, and in some cas\u00ades also the radar tracks, the air\u00adcraft sys\u00adtems, the air-traf\u00adfic-con\u00adtrol record, the physics of flight, and the basic con\u00adtours of plan\u00ade\u00adtary geog\u00adra\u00adphy. \u201d Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent (and, it seems, half the inter\u00adnet \u2014 this is wide\u00adly con\u00adsid\u00adered a must-read arti\u00adcle). The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal pilot and a vet\u00ader\u00adan jour\u00adnal\u00adist<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/shanghaiist.com\/2019\/06\/16\/sing-hallelujah-to-the-lord-has-become-the-unofficial-anthem-of-the-anti-extradition-protest-movement\/\">\u2018Sing Hal\u00adlelu\u00adjah to the Lord\u2019 has become the unof\u00adfi\u00adcial anthem of the anti-extra\u00addi\u00adtion protest move\u00adment<\/a> (Ken\u00adneth Tan, Shang\u00adhai\u00adist): \u201cAlarmed by reports of police bru\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adty, many church groups gal\u00adva\u00adnized to par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpate in peace protests, call\u00ading on the author\u00adi\u00adties to stop the vio\u00adlence. Their pres\u00adence on the front lines of the protests were help\u00adful in mak\u00ading the demon\u00adstra\u00adtions look more like an out\u00addoor wor\u00adship ser\u00advice rather than the \u2018orga\u00adnized riots\u2019 the gov\u00adern\u00adment said it had to crack down on to bring back law and order.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/asia\/la-fg-hong-kong-youth-activism-decentralized-protests-20190614-story.html\">A new kind of Hong Kong activism emerges as pro\u00adtest\u00aders mobi\u00adlize with\u00adout any lead\u00aders<\/a> (Alice Su, LA Times): \u201cThis time around, pro\u00adtest\u00aders are delib\u00ader\u00adate\u00adly lead\u00ader\u00adless, Leung said. \u2018It looks quite orga\u00adnized and well-dis\u00adci\u00adplined. But I\u2019m quite sure you can\u00adnot find any\u00adone man\u00adag\u00ading the whole thing,\u2019 Leung said, adding that the pro\u00adtest\u00aders\u2019 logis\u00adti\u00adcal prac\u00adtices \u2014 bring\u00ading sup\u00adplies, set\u00adting up med\u00adical sta\u00adtions, rapid mass com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion \u2014 were \u2018in-built\u2019 from the last few years of prac\u00adtice. \u2018It\u2019s just like a machine or a self-learn\u00ading AI that can run by them\u00adselves,\u2019 he said.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PCyrJTmUpNQ\">drone footage of the protests<\/a> (3 min\u00adutes, YouTube).<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li>Repa\u00adra\u00adtions came up in the House of Rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtives on June\u00adteenth. Here are two tes\u00adti\u00admonies that caught a lot of atten\u00adtion:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2019\/06\/ta-nehisi-coates-testimony-house-reparations-hr-40\/592042\/\">Read Ta-Nehisi Coates\u2019s Tes\u00adti\u00admo\u00adny on Repa\u00adra\u00adtions<\/a> (Olivia Paschal &amp; Madeleine Carlisle, The Atlantic): \u201cThe typ\u00adi\u00adcal black fam\u00adi\u00adly in this coun\u00adtry has one-tenth the wealth of the typ\u00adi\u00adcal white fam\u00adi\u00adly. Black women die in child\u00adbirth at four times the rate of white women. And there is, of course, the shame of this land of the free boast\u00ading the largest prison pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion on the plan\u00adet, of which the descen\u00addants of the enslaved make up the largest share. The mat\u00adter of repa\u00adra\u00adtions is one of mak\u00ading amends and direct redress, but it is also a ques\u00adtion of cit\u00adi\u00adzen\u00adship.\u201d (or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kcCnQ3iRkys\">the five minute video on YouTube<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2019\/06\/20\/my-testimony-to-congress-on-reparations\/\">My Tes\u00adti\u00admo\u00adny On Repa\u00adra\u00adtions<\/a> (Cole\u00adman Hugh\u00ades, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cBut the peo\u00adple who were owed for slav\u00adery are no longer here, and we\u2019re not enti\u00adtled to col\u00adlect on their debts. Repa\u00adra\u00adtions, by def\u00adi\u00adn\u00adi\u00adtion, are only giv\u00aden to vic\u00adtims. So the moment you give me repa\u00adra\u00adtions, you\u2019ve made me into a vic\u00adtim with\u00adout my con\u00adsent. Not just that: you\u2019ve made one-third of black Americans\u2014who con\u00adsis\u00adtent\u00adly poll against reparations\u2014into vic\u00adtims with\u00adout their con\u00adsent, and black Amer\u00adi\u00adcans have fought too long for the right to define them\u00adselves to be spo\u00adken for in such a con\u00adde\u00adscend\u00ading man\u00adner.\u201d (or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QAaiqFUUPBo&amp;t=29s\">the six minute video on YouTube<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Some\u00adwhat, kin\u00adda relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/interactives\/2019-06-17-loury?key=mi0Bff1vaLHL09_no2Emg763kABYwcI4qI50iF6Ind1oVqktW864PH9Jw9W5DR_EdW5PenlmOTV0R1VScTNDRUJsS2dOOUlXQ21rRDJpQkhiOVlSUTBBbGd5VQ&amp;fbclid=IwAR2O4Dfl5_SqF0Jbo8if8kg_KyqfKiIiMBCiFNwsbP_MgsTWPLVzaFl5vKs\">\u2018Affir\u00adma\u00adtive Action Is Not About Equal\u00adi\u00adty. It\u2019s About Cov\u00ader\u00ading Ass.\u2019<\/a> (Evan Goldstein,Chronicle Review): \u201cWhat hap\u00adpened is that I went through a trau\u00adma. I was accused of assault\u00ading a woman with whom I was hav\u00ading an extra\u00admar\u00adi\u00adtal affair. I was pub\u00adlicly humil\u00adi\u00adat\u00aded. I had to with\u00addraw an appoint\u00adment as under\u00adsec\u00adre\u00adtary of edu\u00adca\u00adtion in the last years of Reagan\u2019s sec\u00adond term. I was a crack-cocaine addict; it almost killed me. My wife at the time, God bless her, stayed with me, and we sub\u00adse\u00adquent\u00adly had two fine sons. But at the time, I was dying. I found Jesus. I got my life togeth\u00ader. They stuck with me at the Kennedy School, but I just couldn\u2019t bear the feel\u00ading of con\u00adde\u00adscen\u00adsion.\u201d This is an inter\u00adview with Glenn Loury, who was the first black tenured econ pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Har\u00advard. He is now an econ\u00ado\u00admist at Brown.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2019\/06\/20\/ideology-and-facts-collide-at-oberlin-college\/\">Ide\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy and Facts Col\u00adlide at Ober\u00adlin Col\u00adlege<\/a> (Daniel McGraw, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cIt slow\u00adly became evi\u00addent that this case was not about free expres\u00adsion and assem\u00adbly or racial injus\u00adtice and civ\u00adil rights. It was about some\u00adthing more banal. A cow\u00adard\u00adly col\u00adlege admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion picked on a small and vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble busi\u00adness in an attempt to fend off accu\u00adsa\u00adtions of racism it was fac\u00ading from its own stu\u00addents.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Hon\u00adest\u00adly, this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegInsurrection\/status\/1139886390706130944\">Twit\u00adter thread about it<\/a> is even bet\u00adter. Jaw-drop\u00adping details. Read it first and then the above arti\u00adcle if you want a more well-round\u00aded nar\u00adra\u00adtive. <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/15\/opinion\/sunday\/sex-christian.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&amp;smtyp=cur\">How Should Chris\u00adtians Have Sex?<\/a> (Kate\u00adlyn Beaty, New York Times): \u201cI long for more robust cat\u00ade\u00adgories of right and wrong besides con\u00adsent \u2014 a base\u00adline, but only that \u2014 and more than a gen\u00ader\u00adal reminder not to be a jerk. I can get that from Dan Sav\u00adage, but I also want to know what Jesus thinks.\u201d<\/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 href=\"https:\/\/blogs.spectator.co.uk\/2019\/06\/my-boris-story\/\">My Boris John\u00adson Sto\u00adry<\/a> (Jere\u00admy Vine, Spec\u00adta\u00adtor): \u201cBril\u00adliant. The whole room is hoot\u00ading and cheer\u00ading. It no longer mat\u00adters that Boris has no script, no plan, no idea of what event he is attend\u00ading, and that he seems to be tak\u00ading the whole thing off the top of his head. I realise that I am in the pres\u00adence of genius.\u201d Amaz\u00ading and hilar\u00adi\u00adous. You have to read to the end.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MsqZP4blAGs\">GIANCARLO BERNINI on FOOL US \u2014 THE TIME MACHINE!<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): 10 min\u00adutes. I was par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly inter\u00adest\u00aded by the fact that the per\u00adformer is both a Chris\u00adt\u00adian and a uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty stu\u00addent.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TrKoMO0DdZg\">Penn and Teller Fool Us Ondrej Psenic\u00adka<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): 10 min\u00adutes.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3_X61FEvmLI\">Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us Jan Rein\u00adder<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): 9 min\u00adutes<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/jesus-reminds-nation-he-will-one-day-burn-all-the-american-flags-and-also-everything-else\">Jesus Reminds Nation He Will One Day Burn All The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Flags And Also Every\u00adthing Else<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/harvard-teaches-incoming-students-valuable-life-lesson-that-people-can-never-change\">Har\u00advard Teach\u00ades Incom\u00ading Stu\u00addents Valu\u00adable Life Les\u00adson That Peo\u00adple Can Nev\u00ader Change<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/people-who-tweet-in-support-of-foreign-wars-to-be-automatically-enlisted-in-armed-forces\">Report: Inter\u00adnet Users Who Call For Attack\u00ading Oth\u00ader Coun\u00adtries Will Now Be Enlist\u00aded In The Mil\u00adi\u00adtary Auto\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee): this reminds me of Star\u00adship Troop\u00aders (the book).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every week I\u2019ll high\u00adlight an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. This week we have  <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2018\/05\/one-parameter-equation-can-exactly-fit-scatter-plot.html\">A One Para\u00adme\u00adter Equa\u00adtion That Can Exact\u00adly Fit Any Scat\u00adter Plot<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cOver\u00adfit\u00adting is pos\u00adsi\u00adble with just one para\u00adme\u00adter and so mod\u00adels with few\u00ader para\u00adme\u00adters are not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly prefer\u00adable even if they fit the data as well or bet\u00adter than mod\u00adels with more para\u00adme\u00adters.\u201d Researchers take note. The under\u00adly\u00ading math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adics paper is well-written and inter\u00adest\u00ading: <a href=\"https:\/\/colala.bcs.rochester.edu\/papers\/piantadosi2018one.pdf\">One Para\u00adme\u00adter Is Always Enough<\/a> (Steven T. Pianta\u00addosi) \u2014 among oth\u00ader things, it points out that you can smug\u00adgle in arbi\u00adtrar\u00adi\u00adly large amounts of data into an equa\u00adtion through a sin\u00adgle para\u00adme\u00adter because a num\u00adber can have infi\u00adnite dig\u00adits. Obvi\u00adous once stat\u00aded, but I don\u2019t know that it ever would have occurred to me. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/06\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-154\">vol\u00adume 154<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.\n\nAlso, 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.\n\nIf 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 I Pray for Refugees Because I Was One. And God Was Faith\u00adful. (Sun\u00adday Htoo, \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/06\/21\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-208\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 208\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":"Some pretty amazing articles this week. 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