{"id":5831,"date":"2020-01-10T16:55:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T00:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5831"},"modified":"2020-01-10T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T00:55:52","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/01\/10\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-233","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 233"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a> 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

I had hoped to include some stuff on Iran but that didn\u2019t happen. Too much other interesting stuff came up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. The Historian as Moralist<\/a> (Yuval Levin, National Review): \u201cProperly understood, the moralist calls society to its highest self, perhaps especially by helping a society understand the ways in which what it thinks are its strengths are actually its weaknesses. And an effective moralist would do this in an engaging and compelling way. The ablest moralist is thus almost inevitably a kind of intellectual.\u201d This was much better than I expected.<\/li>
  2. Scam Lures Speakers to Fake UK Church Conferences<\/a> (Kate Shellnut, Christianity Today): \u201cThis email scheme has become the \u201cNigerian prince\u201d offer of the Christian speaking circuit, with hundreds of US Christian leaders invited to events at UK churches by scammers who hope to collect hundreds of dollars in visa fees ahead of the purported conferences.\u201d What a niche scam! I wonder if this exists for other professions.<\/li>
  3. China: Statement from Early Rain Covenant Church regarding Pastor Wang Yi\u2019s severe sentence<\/a> (Adam Ford, Disrn): \u201cIn Christ, we issue the following exhortation and protest against Pastor Wang Yi\u2019s severe sentence. Do you government officials not know that this is a sin against God? Do you not know that this is an abuse of your authority (Rom. 13:3)? Even so, we do not hate you. On the contrary, our merciful and righteous God wants us to love you and to pray for you.\u201d<\/li>
  4. Having Kids<\/a> (Paul Graham, personal blog): \u201cI remember perfectly well what life was like before. Well enough to miss some things a lot, like the ability to take off for some other country at a moment\u2019s notice. That was so great. Why did I never do that? See what I did there? The fact is, most of the freedom I had before kids, I never used. I paid for it in loneliness, but I never used it.\u201d <\/li>
  5. The Big Farmer Bailout Was Never Debated<\/a> (Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution): \u201cThis is a telling example of how politics works\u2013the process rather than the fundamental question determines much of the outcome.\u201d Fascinating. <\/li>
  6. Too much transparency makes the world more opaque.<\/a> (Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution): \u201cThe demand for transparency seems so innocuous. Who could be against greater transparency? But transparency is inimical to privacy. And we care about privacy in part, because we can be more honest and truthful in private than in public.\u201d<\/li>
  7. 1776 Honors America\u2019s Diversity in a Way 1619 Does Not<\/a> (Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic): \u201cMy own judgment diverges somewhat from the main rival factions in this debate. Like many critics, I hope the Times Magazine<\/em>\u2019s work succeeds in causing more Americans to recognize the remarkable faith that African Americans showed in our country\u2019s promise even in eras when America least deserved it. Yet the core reframing that the 1619 Project advocates would unwittingly set back, rather than advance, the causes of equity and racial inclusion.\u201d<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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