{"id":5765,"date":"2019-11-01T20:15:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T04:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2019-11-01T20:19:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T04:19:44","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/11\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-225","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 225"},"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. 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

Inci\u00adden\u00adtal\u00adly, 225 is a very cool num\u00adber<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. Meet the Min\u00adnie Church<\/a> (Ted Olsen, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cCast Mem\u00adber Church is tru\u00adly a church for Dis\u00adney Cast Mem\u00adbers. It\u2019s not a church to attend on vaca\u00adtion. It\u2019s not a church for Dis\u00adney fans in Cen\u00adtral Flori\u00adda. It\u2019s a church for a cer\u00adtain kind of employ\u00adee from one com\u00adpa\u00adny\u2026. Walt Dis\u00adney World has almost 70,000 employees\u2014a pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion about the size of Can\u00adton, Ohio. It\u2019s the largest sin\u00adgle-site employ\u00ader in the coun\u00adtry. At 40 square miles, it\u2019s about as big as Mia\u00admi or San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco.\u201d I did not think I would find this arti\u00adcle inter\u00adest\u00ading, but it\u2019s thor\u00adough and explores some unex\u00adpect\u00aded angles. <\/li>
  2. \u201cThis Should Be a Wake-up Call to the Whole World\u201d: Inside the Hong Kong Protests<\/a> (Jor\u00addan Rit\u00adter Conn, The Ringer): \u201cThe street goes qui\u00adet. The pro\u00adtest\u00aders crouch and face the police togeth\u00ader, remain\u00ading still. They open their umbrel\u00adlas and hold them aloft. Sec\u00adonds lat\u00ader, the explo\u00adsions begin.\u201d<\/li>
  3. Did Emma Sulkow\u00adicz Get Red\u00adpilled? At the very least, she\u2019s found a new social set.<\/a> (Sylvie McNa\u00adma\u00adra, The Cut): \u201cSulkow\u00adicz is telling me about the \u201cpolit\u00adi\u00adcal jour\u00adney\u201d she\u2019s late\u00adly been on, a lis\u00adten\u00ading tour of ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal posi\u00adtions that she\u2019s always con\u00adsid\u00adered too right-wing to engage: cen\u00adtrists, con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives, lib\u00ader\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adans, and what\u00adev\u00ader Jor\u00addan Peter\u00adson is \u2014 var\u00adi\u00adous and sundry souls that Jeze\u00adbel\u00adhas can\u00adceled, whose names chill din\u00adner con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion across pro\u00adgres\u00adsive New York. Sulkow\u00adicz hasn\u2019t been red\u00adpilled; she\u2019s still a fem\u00adi\u00adnist and an advo\u00adcate for sur\u00advivors of sex\u00adu\u00adal assault. What\u2019s changed is her pos\u00adture.\u201c This arti\u00adcle was fun to read and full of sur\u00adpris\u00ades.<\/li>
  4. Have 1 in 5 Amer\u00adi\u00adcans Been in a Con\u00adsen\u00adsu\u00adal Non-Monog\u00ada\u00admous Rela\u00adtion\u00adship?<\/a> (Charles Fain Lehman, Insti\u00adtute For Fam\u00adi\u00adly Stud\u00adies): \u201cIn pro\u00admot\u00ading the show, the net\u00adwork tweet\u00aded out the eye-catch\u00ading claim that \u20181 in 5 Amer\u00adi\u00adcans have been involved in a con\u00adsen\u00adsu\u00adal\u00adly non-monog\u00ada\u00admous rela\u00adtion\u00adship at some point in their life.\u2019 CBS is far from the only out\u00adlet to push the \u2018one in five\u2019 claim: it\u2019s appeared in Rolling Stone, Quartz (as cit\u00aded by NPR), Time, Men\u2019s Health, and Psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy Today, among oth\u00aders. Where does that num\u00adber come from?\u201d<\/li>
  5. The Glob\u00adal Protest Wave, Explained<\/a> (Max Fish\u00ader and Aman\u00adda Taub, New York Times): \u201cOnly 20 years ago, 70 per\u00adcent of protests demand\u00ading sys\u00adtemic polit\u00adi\u00adcal change got it \u2014 a fig\u00adure that had been grow\u00ading steadi\u00adly since the 1950s. In the mid-2000s, that trend sud\u00adden\u00adly reversed. World\u00adwide, pro\u00adtest\u00aders\u2019 suc\u00adcess rate has since plum\u00admet\u00aded to only 30 per\u00adcent<\/em>, accord\u00ading to a study by Eri\u00adca Chenoweth, a Har\u00advard Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty polit\u00adi\u00adcal sci\u00aden\u00adtist who called the decline \u2018stag\u00adger\u00ading.\u2019\u201d<\/li>
  6. And if you haven\u2019t heard Kanye West is now pro\u00adfess\u00ading Christ and peo\u00adple have opin\u00adions.\n
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    1. Kanye West Air\u00adpool Karaoke<\/a> (The Late Late Show with James Cor\u00adden, YouTube): first some thoughts from the man him\u00adself, 20 min\u00adutes. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/li>\n
    2. \u2018Jesus Is King\u2019 and Kanye West is a tax col\u00adlec\u00adtor<\/a> (Esau McCaul\u00adley, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cAs an African Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Chris\u00adt\u00adian try\u00ading to make sense of West\u2019s deci\u00adsions, I have repeat\u00aded\u00adly reflect\u00aded on the sto\u00adries of Jesus eat\u00ading with tax col\u00adlec\u00adtors that upset many of his con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adraries.\u201d The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Wheaton. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by an alum\u00adnus.<\/li>\n
    3. Yeezus Fol\u00adlows Jesus <\/a>(Nic Rowan, First Things): \u201cI\u2019m good with it. After all, per\u00adfect\u00adly nice peo\u00adple don\u2019t become saints. God tends to pre\u00adfer work\u00ading with jack\u00adass\u00ades.\u201d<\/li>\n
    4. Kanye West\u2019s Con\u00adver\u00adsion Could Be a Cul\u00adtur\u00adal Wreck\u00ading Ball<\/a> (Andrew Walk\u00ader, Nation\u00adal Review): \u201cThe Apos\u00adtle Paul warns in the New Tes\u00adta\u00adment about vest\u00ading too much hope and con\u00adfi\u00addence in new con\u00adverts, fear\u00ading they would be puffed up with pride (some\u00adthing, let\u2019s be hon\u00adest, Kanye has no prob\u00adlem exud\u00ading). We need to let Kanye be a Chris\u00adt\u00adian Kanye with\u00adout mak\u00ading him into a Chris\u00adt\u00adian celebri\u00adty.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>
    5. 11 Places Where Per\u00adse\u00adcut\u00aded Chris\u00adtians Need Our Prayers <\/a> (Megan Fowler, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cOver 245 mil\u00adlion Chris\u00adtians live in the 50 coun\u00adtries ranked on the World Watch List as worst for Chris\u00adtians. Between Novem\u00adber 2017 and Octo\u00adber 2018, 4,136 Chris\u00adtians were killed for their faith in these coun\u00adtries, over 1,266 church\u00ades or Chris\u00adt\u00adian build\u00adings were attacked, and 2,625 believ\u00aders were detained, arrest\u00aded, sen\u00adtenced, or impris\u00adoned \u2014 many of them with\u00adout a tri\u00adal.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n