{"id":5798,"date":"2019-12-06T17:58:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T01:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5798"},"modified":"2019-12-06T18:02:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T02:02:41","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-229","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/12\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-229","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 229"},"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\/news\/2019\/november\/lebanon-christians-viral-sermons-beirut-protests.html\">Should Lebanon\u2019s Chris\u00adtians Join Protests? Viral Ser\u00admons Argue Yes and No.<\/a> (Jayson Casper, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201c\u201dFor the past month, Lebanese evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals have debat\u00aded Scrip\u00adture, shar\u00ading ser\u00admons online. One viral effort urges believ\u00aders to stay away from wide\u00adspread demon\u00adstra\u00adtions in sub\u00admis\u00adsion to author\u00adi\u00adty. Anoth\u00ader licens\u00ades par\u00adtic\u00adi\u00adpa\u00adtion in the pop\u00adu\u00adlar push for jus\u00adtice.\u201d<ul><li>I like this arti\u00adcle because it helps us look at a con\u00adtentious Bib\u00adli\u00adcal issue in a set\u00adting where most of us don\u2019t have a strong bias one way or the oth\u00ader. Decide whose argu\u00adments you find most com\u00adpelling, and then think about how they apply in your own set\u00adting.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/11\/23\/13708996\/argue-better-science\">Most peo\u00adple are bad at argu\u00ading. These 2 tech\u00adniques will make you bet\u00adter.<\/a> (Bri\u00adan Resnick, Vox): \u201c1) If the argu\u00adment you find con\u00advinc\u00ading doesn\u2019t res\u00adonate with some\u00adone else, find out what does\u2026. 2) Lis\u00adten. Your ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal oppo\u00adnents want to feel like they\u2019ve been heard.\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2019\/11\/25\/seeing-like-a-finite-state-machine\/\">See\u00ading Like A Finite State Machine<\/a> (Hen\u00adry Far\u00adrell, Crooked Tim\u00adber): \u201cIn short, there is a very plau\u00adsi\u00adble set of mech\u00ada\u00adnisms under which machine learn\u00ading and relat\u00aded tech\u00adniques may turn out to be a dis\u00adas\u00adter for author\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan\u00adism, rein\u00adforc\u00ading its weak\u00adness\u00ades rather than its strengths, by increas\u00ading its ten\u00adden\u00adcy to bad deci\u00adsion mak\u00ading, and reduc\u00ading fur\u00adther the pos\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of neg\u00ada\u00adtive feed\u00adback that could help cor\u00adrect against errors.\u201d The author is a polit\u00adi\u00adcal sci\u00adence pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at George Wash\u00ading\u00adton Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2019\/december\/fairness-for-all-act-congress-lgbt-religious-liberty.html\">LGBT Rights-Reli\u00adgious Lib\u00ader\u00adty Bill Pro\u00adposed in Con\u00adgress<\/a> (Daniel Sil\u00adli\u00adman, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cCon\u00adgress\u00adman Chris Stew\u00adart doesn\u2019t expect his bill to pass. But he is propos\u00ading the Fair\u00adness for All Act any\u00adway. It\u2019s a step of faith for Stew\u00adart, a Repub\u00adli\u00adcan who rep\u00adre\u00adsents Utah\u2019s sec\u00adond dis\u00adtrict, and a mark\u00ader on the bet that it\u2019s pos\u00adsi\u00adble to find a com\u00adpro\u00admise that pro\u00adtects both reli\u00adgious lib\u00ader\u00adty and LGBT rights.\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/29\/magazine\/ralph-drollinger-white-house-evangelical.html\">How the Trump Cabinet\u2019s Bible Teacher Became a Shad\u00adow Diplo\u00admat<\/a> (Mat\u00adtathias Schwartz, New York Times): \u201cSev\u00aden years ago, Drollinger pub\u00adlished a short book called \u2018Rebuild\u00ading Amer\u00adi\u00adca: The Bib\u00adli\u00adcal Blue\u00adprint,\u2019 which lays out his ambi\u00adtion to \u2018to reach all the cap\u00adi\u00adtals of the world for Christ.\u2019 Drollinger, like many evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals, refers to this God-giv\u00aden glob\u00adal remit as the Great Com\u00admis\u00adsion, a phrase pop\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adized by the 19th-cen\u00adtu\u00adry mis\u00adsion\u00adary James Hud\u00adson Tay\u00adlor; Drollinger traces its man\u00addate to Jesus\u2019 charge, as relat\u00aded by Matthew, to \u2018make dis\u00adci\u00adples of all the nations.\u2019 A chart in \u2018Rebuild\u00ading Amer\u00adi\u00adca\u2019 dia\u00adgrams the \u2018influ\u00adence path\u2019 of a pub\u00adlic ser\u00advant as a base\u00adball dia\u00admond, run\u00adning through local gov\u00adern\u00adment (first base), state gov\u00adern\u00adment (sec\u00adond base) and nation\u00adal gov\u00adern\u00adment (third base) and cul\u00admi\u00adnat\u00ading in \u2018inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal influ\u00adence\u2019 (home plate).\u201d I shared anoth\u00ader arti\u00adcle about Drollinger back in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/04\/13\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-147\">vol\u00adume 147<\/a>.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2019\/12\/chinas-sovereignty-tripwire-in-hong-kong\">China\u2019s Sov\u00ader\u00adeign\u00adty Trip\u00adwire in Hong Kong<\/a> (David P. Gold\u00adman, First Things): \u201cChi\u00adna is a poly\u00adglot, mul\u00adti\u00adeth\u00adnic empire, not a nation-state. Infringe\u00adment of its con\u00adtrol over any part of its ter\u00adri\u00adto\u00adry threat\u00adens the whole. For\u00adeign inter\u00adven\u00adtion and region\u00adal divi\u00adsions is the stuff of China\u2019s his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal night\u00admares. Any loss of sov\u00ader\u00adeign\u00adty, in China\u2019s expe\u00adri\u00adence, begins a slip\u00adpery slope toward impe\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal crack\u00adup. For\u00adeign inva\u00adsion is still a liv\u00ading mem\u00ado\u00adry in Chi\u00adna, and Bei\u00adjing reads the worst into Amer\u00adi\u00adcan inter\u00adven\u00adtion over Hong Kong.\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2019-11-27\/liberals-don-t-need-to-boycott-the-salvation-army\">The Sal\u00adva\u00adtion Army\u2019s Actions Speak Loud\u00ader Than Its The\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/a> (Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg): \u201cVol\u00adun\u00adteers are sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly more like\u00adly than non-vol\u00adun\u00adteers to be reli\u00adgious; and the reli\u00adgious are sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly more like\u00adly than the non-reli\u00adgious to vol\u00adun\u00adteer. As reli\u00adgion declines, so does vol\u00adun\u00adteer\u00ading. If we put the reli\u00adgious vol\u00adun\u00adteers out of busi\u00adness, a lot of peo\u00adple will sud\u00adden\u00adly be unhelped. We need all the vol\u00adun\u00adteers we can get. And we can\u00adnot rea\u00adson\u00adably expect to replace them with paid labor. Accord\u00ading to the Urban Insti\u00adtute, the 8.7 bil\u00adlion hours vol\u00adun\u00adteered in the U.S. in 2016 were worth about $187.4 bil\u00adlion.\u201d The author is a law pro\u00adfes\u00adsor at Yale.<\/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.youtube.com\/watch?v=fg0CC99hVK8\">Magi\u00adcian REVEALS trick and still fools Penn &amp; Teller!!!<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): ten min\u00adutes<\/li><li> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kIpMH6Vq4Vo\">Don\u2019t Take A Bul\u00adlet For Your Dumb Friend. Cam Bertrand<\/a> (Dry Bar Com\u00ade\u00addy, YouTube): five min\u00adutes<\/li><li> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SANTTxV2q2w\">You Laugh, You Lose | Meg vs. Carl (Church Edi\u00adtion)<\/a> (YouTube): four min\u00adutes<\/li><li> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/mimic-2\">Mim\u00adic<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li><li> <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2237\/\">AI Hir\u00ading Algo\u00adrithm<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li><li> <a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/lIuXuYE\">An Opti\u00adcal Illu\u00adsion<\/a> (imgur): this is a thir\u00adty-sec\u00adond ani\u00admat\u00aded gif and it is worth watch\u00ading to the end&nbsp;<\/li><li> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXjs\">The Most Unex\u00adpect\u00aded Answer To A Count\u00ading Puz\u00adzle<\/a> (3Blue1Brown, YouTube): five min\u00adutes. High\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded for math\/physics junkies.  <\/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=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2015\/08\/21\/christian-missions-and-the-spread-of-democracy\/\">Chris\u00adt\u00adian Mis\u00adsions and the Spread of Democ\u00adra\u00adcy<\/a> (Greg Scan\u00addlen, The Fed\u00ader\u00adal\u00adist): This is a sum\u00adma\u00adry of some rather won\u00adder\u00adful research Robert Wood\u00adber\u00adry pub\u00adlished in The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Polit\u00adi\u00adcal Sci\u00adence Review back in 2012: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/2128659\/The_Missionary_Roots_of_Liberal_Democracy\">The Mis\u00adsion\u00adary Roots of Lib\u00ader\u00adal Democ\u00adra\u00adcy<\/a>. If it looks famil\u00adiar it\u2019s because I allude to it from time to time in my ser\u00admons and con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions. (first shared in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/08\/28\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-14\">vol\u00adume 14<\/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 Should Lebanon\u2019s Chris\u00adtians Join Protests? Viral Ser\u00admons Argue Yes and No. (Jayson Casper, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/12\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-229\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 229\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":"","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":[124,219,125,120,160,113,133,117,138],"class_list":["post-5798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-china","tag-famous-christians","tag-how-the-church-is-perceived","tag-lgbtq","tag-middle-east","tag-politics","tag-religious-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1vw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798","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=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5804,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions\/5804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}