{"id":5827,"date":"2020-01-03T22:55:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T06:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5827"},"modified":"2020-01-03T22:55:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T06:55:12","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/01\/03\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-232","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 232"},"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\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" 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 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>     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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve missed send\u00ading this email due to hol\u00adi\u00adday trav\u00adels for a while, and I\u2019ve got noth\u00ading on Iran yet. Too much is hap\u00adpen\u00ading and I\u2019m in a remote place with lim\u00adit\u00aded inter\u00adnet access. Any\u00adthing you find great please send 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=\"http:\/\/scholars-stage.blogspot.com\/2019\/12\/the-problem-isnt-merit-its-ocracy.html\">The Prob\u00adlem Isn\u2019t the \u2018Mer\u00adit,\u2019 It\u2019s the \u2018Ocra\u00adcy\u2019<\/a> (Tan\u00adner Greer, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cThe Amer\u00adi\u00adcan sys\u00adtem of gov\u00adern\u00adment was built on the assump\u00adtion that the most salient polit\u00adi\u00adcal divides would reflect geog\u00adra\u00adphy, not ide\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy or class. The sen\u00ada\u00adtor from Mass\u00ada\u00adchu\u00adsetts would share bonds in com\u00admon with the lay cit\u00adi\u00adzen\u00adry of Boston that he did not share with a sen\u00ada\u00adtor from South Car\u00adoli\u00adna. On the nation\u00adal sphere this would allow him to rep\u00adre\u00adsent the inter\u00adests of his con\u00adstituents as if they were his own. This has proven more true at some times in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan his\u00adto\u00adry than oth\u00aders; yet because of the way Amer\u00adi\u00adcan politi\u00adcians are elect\u00aded, this sense of rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00ading the inter\u00adests of a geo\u00adgraph\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly bound\u00aded group of peo\u00adple is more true in the polit\u00adi\u00adcal are\u00adna than in most oth\u00aders.\u201d High\u00adly rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2020\/01\/01\/decade-same-sex-gay-marriage-timeline-transgender-consequences-column\/2776564001\/\">Decade in review: Mar\u00adi\u00adtal norms erode<\/a> (Ryan T. Ander\u00adson and Robert P. George, USA Today): \u201cLaw shapes cul\u00adture; cul\u00adture shapes beliefs; beliefs shape action. The law now effec\u00adtive\u00adly teach\u00ades that moth\u00aders and fathers are replace\u00adable, that mar\u00adriage is sim\u00adply about con\u00adsent\u00ading adult rela\u00adtion\u00adships, of what\u00adev\u00ader for\u00adma\u00adtion the par\u00adties hap\u00adpen to pre\u00adfer. This under\u00admines the truth that chil\u00addren deserve a moth\u00ader and a father \u2014 one of each.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Fol\u00adlow-up by Rod Dreher: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/family-memory-fight-against-power\/\">Fam\u00adi\u00adly, Mem\u00ado\u00adry, Pow\u00ader<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u201cIf you\u2019re one of those peo\u00adple with a habit of say\u00ading, <em>nobody has ever explained how all this is going to hurt het\u00adero\u00adsex\u00adu\u00adal me<\/em>, this is a good basic place to start. Moral\u00adi\u00adty is an ecol\u00ado\u00adgy. This is the equiv\u00ada\u00adlent of inject\u00ading some\u00adthing into the ground\u00adwa\u00adter. It may be a good thing, or it may be a bad thing, but it does affect every\u00adbody. Peo\u00adple who say it doesn\u2019t are lying \u2014 per\u00adhaps to them\u00adselves.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>That fol\u00adlow-up inspired Pro\u00adfes\u00adsor George to reply: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/shame-of-the-conformists-christians-marriage\/\">The Shame Of The Con\u00adformists<\/a> (this is on Dreher\u2019s blog): \u201cSome\u00adone might say, \u2018this is no time for recrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtions.\u2019 Well, I don\u2019t agree. This is pre\u00adcise\u00adly the time for recrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtions. Indeed, there was nev\u00ader a bet\u00adter time. Stand\u00ading bold\u00adly for what is true and good and right and just is everybody\u2019s job. It\u2019s not just \u2018oth\u00ader people\u2019s\u2019 job. Espe\u00adcial\u00adly to my fel\u00adlow Chris\u00adtians I say, it is OUR job. It comes with the Gospel ter\u00adri\u00adto\u00adry. You say \u2018it\u2019s hard\u2019? Of course, it\u2019s hard. But who ever told you that Chris\u00adt\u00adian dis\u00adci\u00adple\u00adship was not going to be hard? Or risky? Or cost\u00adly? Not Jesus, that\u2019s for sure. He told us\u2013in the most explic\u00adit terms\u2013that it was going to be hard\u2013very hard\u2013and risky, and cost\u00adly. \u201c<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/relevantmagazine.com\/current\/yes-jesus-was-a-refugee-he-still-is\/\">Yes, Jesus Was a Refugee. He Still Is.<\/a> (Tyler Huck\u00adabee, Rel\u00ade\u00advant): \u201cWhen most peo\u00adple talk about Jesus being a refugee, they\u2019re not talk\u00ading about Beth\u00adle\u00adhem but the family\u2019s flight to Egypt. Some time after his birth, Herod got pan\u00adicky about rumors of a new king and sent sol\u00addiers to kill all the new\u00adborns in Beth\u00adle\u00adhem. An angel warned Joseph and Mary to high\u00adtail it to Egypt where they could safe\u00adly lay low. Egypt made for an ide\u00adal hid\u00ading place, con\u00adnect\u00aded to Judea via a well-trav\u00adeled and rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly safe trade route known as the Via Maris. The argu\u00adment for Mary and Joseph\u2019s refugee sta\u00adtus here is about as strong as it could be under the cir\u00adcum\u00adstances.\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2019\/december\/biblical-archaeologys-top-10-discoveries-of-2019.html\">Bib\u00adli\u00adcal Archaeology\u2019s Top 10 Dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00adies of 2019<\/a> (Gor\u00addon Govi\u00ader, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201c\u2026many of the main\u00adstream media sto\u00adries announc\u00ading these dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00adies acknowl\u00adedged that the Bible was right all along or right after all in these instances. Archae\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgist Nel\u00adson Glueck\u2019s dec\u00adla\u00adra\u00adtion that \u2018no archae\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal dis\u00adcov\u00adery has ever con\u00adtro\u00advert\u00aded a Bib\u00adli\u00adcal ref\u00ader\u00adence\u2019 still stands.\u201d<\/li><li>Some fol\u00adlow-ups to the Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today arti\u00adcle I shared last time call\u00ading for Trump\u2019s removal from office:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2019\/december-web-only\/trump-evangelicals-editorial-christianity-today-president.html\">The Flag in the Whirl\u00adwind: An Update from CT\u2019s Pres\u00adi\u00addent<\/a> (Tim Dal\u00adrym\u00adple, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cIn a polit\u00adi\u00adcal land\u00adscape dom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded by polar\u00adiza\u00adtion, hos\u00adtil\u00adi\u00adty, and mis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstand\u00ading, we believe it\u2019s crit\u00adi\u00adcal for Chris\u00adtians to mod\u00adel how to have a firm opin\u00adion and host free dis\u00adcus\u00adsion at the same time. Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals of dif\u00adfer\u00adent stripes can\u00adnot con\u00adtin\u00adue to shout one anoth\u00ader down, bul\u00adly those who dis\u00adagree, or exclude one anoth\u00ader and refuse to lis\u00adten. We hold fast to our view that the whole\u00adheart\u00aded evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal embrace of Trump has been enor\u00admous\u00adly costly\u2014but we are com\u00admit\u00adted to irenic con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion with men and women of good faith who believe oth\u00ader\u00adwise.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Side note: the author was a gym\u00adnast at Stan\u00adford who was active\u00adly involved in cam\u00adpus min\u00adistry while here (his time pre\u00adced\u00aded my tenure at Chi Alpha, to my knowl\u00adedge we have nev\u00ader met or even been in the same ZIP code). There\u2019s an arti\u00adcle about his sto\u00adry back in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/02\/22\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-191\">vol\u00adume 191<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/on-religion\/what-it-would-take-for-evangelicals-to-turn-on-president-trump?verso=true\">What It Would Take for Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals to Turn on Pres\u00adi\u00addent Trump<\/a> (Michael Luo, New York\u00ader): \u201c\u2026though greater reli\u00adgios\u00adi\u00adty is cor\u00adre\u00adlat\u00aded with Chris\u00adt\u00adian-nation\u00adal\u00adist beliefs, once those beliefs are account\u00aded for, Amer\u00adi\u00adcans who engaged in more fre\u00adquent reli\u00adgious practice\u2014church atten\u00addance, prayer, and bible reading\u2014were less like\u00adly than their less obser\u00advant peers to sub\u00adscribe to polit\u00adi\u00adcal views nor\u00admal\u00adly asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with Chris\u00adt\u00adian nation\u00adal\u00adism, such as believ\u00ading that refugees from the Mid\u00addle East pose a ter\u00adror\u00adist threat to the Unit\u00aded States, or that ille\u00adgal immi\u00adgrants from Mex\u00adi\u00adco are most\u00adly dan\u00adger\u00adous crim\u00adi\u00adnals. In oth\u00ader words, White\u00adhead and Per\u00adry find that the threat to demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic plu\u00adral\u00adism is not evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adism itself but the cul\u00adture around evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adism.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2019\/12\/leith-anderson-silence-moderate-evangelicals\/604120\/\">Evangelicalism\u2019s Silent Major\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (Emma Green, The Atlantic): \u201cOne of my big take\u00adaways from report\u00ading on evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties is that, con\u00adtrary to some stereo\u00adtypes, evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals are some of the most glob\u00adal\u00adly mind\u00aded peo\u00adple in Amer\u00adi\u00adca. They donate to char\u00adi\u00adties that do exten\u00adsive aid work over\u00adseas. They\u2019re exposed to oth\u00ader coun\u00adtries through mis\u00adsion work or human\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan trips.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/waynegrudem\/2019\/12\/30\/trump-should-not-be-removed-from-office-a-response-to-mark-galli-and-christianity-today-n2558657\">Trump Should Not Be Removed from Office: A Response to Mark Gal\u00adli and Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today<\/a> (Wayne Gru\u00addem, Town\u00adhall): \u201cIf evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals fail to sup\u00adport Don\u00adald Trump after he has deliv\u00adered on so many issues impor\u00adtant to Chris\u00adt\u00adian val\u00adues, many peo\u00adple will con\u00adclude that we real\u00adly do not care about con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive judges, the pro\u00adtec\u00adtion of the unborn, the pro\u00adtec\u00adtion of gen\u00adder dis\u00adtinc\u00adtions, reli\u00adgious free\u00addom, con\u00adscience pro\u00adtec\u00adtions for Chris\u00adtians in the work\u00adplace, a strong enough mil\u00adi\u00adtary to pro\u00adtect us against threats from Chi\u00adna, North Korea, Rus\u00adsia, and Iran, jobs,wages, eco\u00adnom\u00adic oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adties for minori\u00adties, a secure bor\u00adder, Israel, afford\u00adable ener\u00adgy (espe\u00adcial\u00adly for the poor), ener\u00adgy inde\u00adpen\u00addence, the pro\u00adtec\u00adtion of prop\u00ader\u00adty rights, expand\u00ading parental choice for schools, revi\u00adtal\u00adiz\u00ading NATO, pro\u00adtect\u00ading free\u00addom of speech on cam\u00adpus\u00ades, and many oth\u00ader things. Gal\u00adli dis\u00admiss\u00ades these con\u00adcerns with the label \u2018polit\u00adi\u00adcal expe\u00addi\u00aden\u00adcy,\u2019 but all of these issues affect people\u2019s ordi\u00adnary lives. These issues real\u00adly do mat\u00adter. On issue after issue, Pres\u00adi\u00addent Trump is chang\u00ading the direc\u00adtion of the coun\u00adtry for the bet\u00adter. When I weigh these results against his some\u00adtimes impre\u00adcise and coarse speech, there is no com\u00adpar\u00adi\u00adson.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dougwils.com\/books-and-culture\/s7-engaging-the-culture\/where-cain-got-his-wife-and-other-issues-related-to-the-2020-election.html\">Where Cain Got His Wife, and Oth\u00ader Issues Relat\u00aded to the 2020 Elec\u00adtion<\/a> (Dou\u00adglas Wil\u00adson, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cAs men\u00adtioned above, I did not vote for the pres\u00adi\u00addent in 2016. I did not vote for him because char\u00adac\u00adter mat\u00adters, and because I did not <em>trust <\/em>him to do what he was promis\u00ading to do\u2026. And with that said, I have to acknowl\u00adedge I was wrong\u2026 If any\u00adthing, the great mass of evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal vot\u00aders have demon\u00adstrat\u00aded that they actu\u00adal\u00adly have a bet\u00adter set of polit\u00adi\u00adcal instincts than their lead\u00aders, me includ\u00aded.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/gen.medium.com\/my-semester-with-the-snowflakes-888285f0e662?\">My Semes\u00adter With the Snowflakes<\/a> (James Hatch, Medi\u00adum): \u201cIn May of 2019, I was accept\u00aded to the Eli Whit\u00adney stu\u00addent pro\u00adgram at Yale Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty. At 52, I am the old\u00adest fresh\u00adman in the class of 2023. Before I was accept\u00aded, I didn\u2019t real\u00adly know what to expect. I had seen the infa\u00admous YouTube video of stu\u00addents scream\u00ading at a fac\u00adul\u00adty mem\u00adber. I had seen the news sto\u00adries regard\u00ading the admis\u00adsions scan\u00addal and that Yale was includ\u00aded in that unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate busi\u00adness. I had also heard the stu\u00addents at Yale referred to as \u2018snowflakes\u2019 in var\u00adi\u00adous social media dump\u00adsters and occa\u00adsion\u00adal\u00adly I\u2019d seen ref\u00ader\u00adences to Ivy League stu\u00addents as snowflakes in a few news sources.\u201d (there\u2019s an inter\u00adest\u00ading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/12\/30\/792456855\/52-year-old-former-navy-seal-james-hatch-on-his-first-semester-at-yale\">fol\u00adlow-up inter\u00adview with him on NPR<\/a>)<\/li><li>Two aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41562-019-0787-z\">Com\u00adpar\u00ading meta-analy\u00adses and pre\u00adreg\u00adis\u00adtered mul\u00adti\u00adple-lab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry repli\u00adca\u00adtion projects<\/a> (Aman\u00adda Kvar\u00adven, Eirik Str\u00f8m\u00adland &amp; Mag\u00adnus Johan\u00adnes\u00adson, Nature Human Behav\u00adior): \u201cWe com\u00adpare the results of meta-analy\u00adses to large-scale pre\u00adreg\u00adis\u00adtered repli\u00adca\u00adtions in psy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy car\u00adried out at mul\u00adti\u00adple lab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adto\u00adries. The mul\u00adti\u00adple-lab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry repli\u00adca\u00adtions pro\u00advide pre\u00adcise\u00adly esti\u00admat\u00aded effect sizes that do not suf\u00adfer from pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtion bias or selec\u00adtive report\u00ading. We searched the lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture and iden\u00adti\u00adfied 15\u2009meta-analy\u00adses on the same top\u00adics as mul\u00adti\u00adple-lab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry repli\u00adca\u00adtions. We find that meta-ana\u00adlyt\u00adic effect sizes are sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly dif\u00adfer\u00adent from repli\u00adca\u00adtion effect sizes for 12 out of the 15\u2009meta-repli\u00adca\u00adtion pairs. These dif\u00adfer\u00adences are sys\u00adtem\u00adat\u00adic and, on aver\u00adage, meta-ana\u00adlyt\u00adic effect sizes are almost three times as large as repli\u00adca\u00adtion effect sizes.\u201d uh-oh.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2019\/12\/21\/the-many-faces-of-scientific-fraud\/\">The Many Faces of Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic Fraud<\/a> (Nico\u00adlas Chevas\u00adsus-au-Louis, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cIs every sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic arti\u00adcle a fraud? This ques\u00adtion may seem puz\u00adzling to those out\u00adside the sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty. After all, any\u00adone who took a phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy course in col\u00adlege is like\u00adly to think of lab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry work as emi\u00adnent\u00adly ratio\u00adnal. The assump\u00adtion is that a researcher faced with an enig\u00adma posed by nature for\u00admu\u00adlates a hypoth\u00ade\u00adsis, then con\u00adceives an exper\u00adi\u00adment to test its valid\u00adi\u00adty\u2026. How\u00adev\u00ader, as every researcher knows, it is pure false\u00adhood. In real\u00adi\u00adty, noth\u00ading takes place the way it is described in a sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic arti\u00adcle. The exper\u00adi\u00adments were car\u00adried out in a far more dis\u00ador\u00addered man\u00adner, in stages far less log\u00adi\u00adcal than those relat\u00aded in the arti\u00adcle. If you look at it that way, a sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic arti\u00adcle is a kind of trick.\u201d The author has a Ph.D. in biol\u00ado\u00adgy and this is an excerpt from a book he is pub\u00adlish\u00ading with Har\u00advard Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><\/ol>\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:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/1\/13\/10759874\/republicans-democrats-different\">This Is What Makes Repub\u00adli\u00adcans and Democ\u00adrats So Dif\u00adfer\u00adent<\/a> (Vox, Ezra Klein): the title made me skep\u00adti\u00adcal, but there are some good insights in this arti\u00adcle (first shared in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/01\/15\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-32\">vol\u00adume 32<\/a> back in 2016).<\/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>. 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Too much is hap\u00adpen\u00ading and I\u2019m in a remote place with lim\u00adit\u00aded inter\u00adnet \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/01\/03\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-232\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 232\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":"After a holiday hiatus, the roundup of links is back. 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