{"id":5641,"date":"2019-08-23T18:33:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T02:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2019-08-23T18:33:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T02:33:57","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/08\/23\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-215","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 215"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a>\n\n 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 way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. The 1619 Project<\/a> (many authors, New York Times Magazine): \u201c\u2026[many believe] that 1776 is the year of our nation\u2019s birth. What if, however, we were to tell you that this fact, which is taught in our schools and unanimously celebrated every Fourth of July, is wrong, and that the country\u2019s true birth date, the moment that its defining contradictions first came into the world, was in late August of 1619? Though the exact date has been lost to history (it has come to be observed on Aug. 20), that was when a ship arrived at Point Comfort in the British colony of Virginia, bearing a cargo of 20 to 30 enslaved Africans. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country\u2019s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country\u2019s very origin.\u201d The link is to a PDF of the entire issue.