{"id":5585,"date":"2019-07-26T21:55:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T05:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2019-07-26T21:55:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T05:55:16","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/07\/26\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-212","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 212"},"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:\/\/quillette.com\/2019\/07\/19\/the-problem-with-tourist-journalism\/\">Tourist Jour\u00adnal\u00adism Ver\u00adsus the Work\u00ading Class<\/a> (Kevin Mims, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cTo uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty-edu\u00adcat\u00aded media pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adals like Car\u00adole Cad\u00adwal\u00adladr, James Blood\u00adworth, and John Oliv\u00ader, an Ama\u00adzon ware\u00adhouse must seem like the Black Hole of Cal\u00adcut\u00adta. But I\u2019ve done low-pay\u00ading man\u00adu\u00adal labor for most of my work\u00ading life, and rarely have I appre\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded a job as much as my role as an Ama\u00adzon asso\u00adciate.\u201d I learned many things from this arti\u00adcle.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2019\/07\/willow-creek-church-evangelical-teens-grow-up.html\">Six\u00adteen and Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal<\/a> (Lau\u00adra Turn\u00ader, Slate): \u201cA world with\u00adout God wouldn\u2019t make sense to me. But it now makes sense to many of my friends. I final\u00adly under\u00adstand that we nev\u00ader had a shared faith struc\u00adture. We went to the same church, some of us for years. We heard the same ser\u00admons, slept in the same cab\u00adins at camp, read the same books of the Bible, lis\u00adtened to the same music. But we went home to dif\u00adfer\u00adent fam\u00adi\u00adlies.\u201d The author is John &amp; Nan\u00adcy Ortberg\u2019s daugh\u00adter.\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nextshark.com\/stanford-martial-arts-banned\/\">Stan\u00adford Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty Report\u00aded\u00adly Bans All Mar\u00adtial Arts Groups With\u00adout Warn\u00ading Over Email<\/a> (Jin Hyun, NextShark): \u201cAccord\u00ading to Choi, the university\u2019s jus\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion behind the shut\u00addown can be sum\u00adma\u00adrized in four points: \u2018the groups like to unof\u00adfi\u00adcial\u00adly prac\u00adtice dur\u00ading dead week, they recruit pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal, inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly renowned coach\u00ades to run their prac\u00adtices, they com\u00adpete and reg\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly win nation\u00adal cham\u00adpi\u00adonships with\u00adout Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty help, they par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpate heav\u00adi\u00adly in the local com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty by teach\u00ading stu\u00addents, alum\u00adni, and com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty mem\u00adbers.\u2019\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Stan\u00adford often seems con\u00adflict\u00aded about whether its under\u00adgrads are future lead\u00aders to be empow\u00adered or lia\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adties to be micro\u00adman\u00adaged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2019\/07\/26\/noose-may-have-been-on-campus-since-march-sudps-reports\/\">As admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtors walk back \u2018insuf\u00adfi\u00adcient\u2019 response, police reveal noose may have been on cam\u00adpus since March<\/a> (Ele\u00adna Shao and Daniel Mar\u00adtinez-Krams, Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly): \u201cThe new infor\u00adma\u00adtion comes amid crit\u00adi\u00adcism of Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtors\u2019 response to the inci\u00addent, and one day after they held a sol\u00adi\u00addar\u00adi\u00adty ral\u00adly and town hall. A self-care event is sched\u00aduled to take place Fri\u00adday after\u00adnoon.\u201d There have been a lot of arti\u00adcles about this \u2014 but this once grabbed me with the tid\u00adbit in the head\u00adline. SINCE MARCH?<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2019\/july-web-only\/prophets-trump-nathan-david-john-baptist.html\">On Court Prophets and Wilder\u00adness Prophets <\/a>&nbsp;(Tim\u00ado\u00adthy Dal\u00adrym\u00adple, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cWhether you view Trump as a David or an Antipas, whether you serve at the court of the resplen\u00addent king or stand over against the court from the wilder\u00adness, one thing Nathan and John the Bap\u00adtist held in com\u00admon was that both were will\u00ading to con\u00addemn unright\u00adeous\u00adness in their rulers\u2014even if it cost them every\u00adthing.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Also polit\u00adi\u00adcal: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/24\/opinion\/2020-progressive-candidates.html\">The Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic Par\u00adty Is Actu\u00adal\u00adly Three Par\u00adties<\/a> (Thomas Edsall, New York Times): \u201cWhat the data demon\u00adstrates is that the group con\u00adtain\u00ading the largest pro\u00adpor\u00adtion of minor\u00adi\u00adty vot\u00aders is the most skep\u00adti\u00adcal of some of the most pro\u00adgres\u00adsive poli\u00adcies embraced by Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic can\u00addi\u00addates like Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth War\u00adren, Bernie Sanders and Kamala Har\u00adris.\u201d Per\u00adhaps the most inter\u00adest\u00ading part of this op-ed is when he talks about the unin\u00adtend\u00aded con\u00adse\u00adquences of favor\u00ading small donors over large donors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/26\/technology\/hong-kong-protests-facial-recognition-surveillance.html\">In Hong Kong Protests, Faces Become Weapons<\/a> (Paul Mozur, New York Times): \u201cThe police offi\u00adcers wres\u00adtled with Col\u00adin Che\u00adung in an unmarked car. They need\u00aded his face. They grabbed his jaw to force his head in front of his iPhone. They slapped his face. They shout\u00aded, \u2018Wake up!\u2019 They pried open his eyes. It all failed: Mr. Che\u00adung had dis\u00adabled his phone\u2019s facial-recog\u00adni\u00adtion login with a quick but\u00adton mash as soon as they grabbed him.\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2019\/07\/19\/canadas-bizarre-trans-waxing-controversy\/\">Canada\u2019s bizarre trans-wax\u00ading con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsy<\/a> (Bren\u00addan O\u2019Neill, Spiked): \u201cYaniv says if the case is lost then a dan\u00adger\u00adous prece\u00addent will be set for trans peo\u00adple. In truth, the real dan\u00adger is if Yaniv wins the case, because that would set a prece\u00addent where\u00adby the law could require that women must touch penis\u00ades or risk los\u00ading their jobs. It would be pro\u00adfound\u00adly misog\u00ady\u00adnis\u00adtic.\u201d The lan\u00adguage in this piece is vul\u00adgar at times but in my esti\u00adma\u00adtion not reck\u00adless\u00adly so. Rod Dreher sums things up pith\u00adily with the head\u00adline: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/jessica-yaniv-transgender-from-bake-my-cake-to-wax-my-balls\/\">From \u2018Bake My Cake\u2019 to \u2018Wax My Tes\u00adti\u00adcles\u2019<\/a> (The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive)\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/852090\/liberals-astonishingly-radical-shift-gender\">Lib\u00ader\u00adals\u2019 aston\u00adish\u00ading\u00adly rad\u00adi\u00adcal shift on gen\u00adder<\/a> (Damon Link\u00ader, The Week): \u201cSlaves every\u00adwhere pre\u00adsum\u00adably know that they are unfree, even if they accept the legit\u00adi\u00adma\u00adcy of the sys\u00adtem and the mas\u00adter that keeps them enslaved. But what is this bondage we could\u00adn\u2019t even begin to per\u00adceive in 2009 that in under a decade has become a bur\u00adden so oner\u00adous that it pro\u00adduces a demand for the over\u00adturn\u00ading of well-set\u00adtled rules and assump\u00adtions, some of which (\u2018the gen\u00adder bina\u00adry\u2019) go all the way back to the ear\u00adli\u00adest ori\u00adgins of human civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2019\/07\/26\">What Would Face\u00adbook Do?<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ELfyMpPgvVA\">Rab\u00adby Yang and a Rubik\u2019s Cube<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): an eight-minute trick by a Berke\u00adley under\u00adgrad<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0pGiBWXSS4g\">Sebastien Dethise and a Duck<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): a nine-minute trick, fair\u00adly amus\u00ading<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lWJz1NMT638\">Jim\u00admy Ichi\u00adhana and a Deck<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): a nine-minute trick<\/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:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2018\/6\/29\/are-the-satanists-of-the-ms-13-gang-an-under-covered-religion-beat-story\">Are Satanists of the MS-13 gang an under-covered sto\u00adry on the reli\u00adgion beat?<\/a> (Julia Duin, GetRe\u00adli\u00adgion): this is a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading bit of news com\u00admen\u00adtary. My favorite bit: \u201cHow does one get out of MS-13? An opin\u00adion piece in the New York Times this past April gives a sur\u00adpris\u00ading response: Go to a Pen\u00adte\u00adcostal church.\u201d High\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/06\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-158\">vol\u00adume 158<\/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 Tourist Jour\u00adnal\u00adism Ver\u00adsus the Work\u00ading Class (Kevin Mims, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cTo uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00ad\u00adty-edu\u00ad\u00adcat\u00aded media pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adals like \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/07\/26\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-212\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 212\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":"From the absurd to the scary to the demoralizing to the awesome.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[125,160,221,113,117,172,135],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-china","tag-how-the-church-is-perceived","tag-journalism","tag-lgbtq","tag-politics","tag-racism","tag-stanford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1s5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585","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=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5591,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions\/5591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}