{"id":5893,"date":"2020-03-13T19:51:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T03:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5893"},"modified":"2020-03-13T19:51:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T03:51:57","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-241","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/03\/13\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-241","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 241"},"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\">\n<li>Con\u00adcern\u00ading Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus and Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/journal.praxislabs.org\/love-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-26aaeb0396e3\">Love in the Time of Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus \u2014 Andy Crouch<\/a> (Andy Crouch, The Prax\u00adis Jour\u00adnal): \u201c\u2026while gov\u00adern\u00adment at all lev\u00adels can enforce a cer\u00adtain amount of behav\u00adior change, for exam\u00adple through quar\u00adan\u00adtines and \u201clock\u00addowns,\u201d <em>it is almost impos\u00adsi\u00adble for coer\u00adcive author\u00adi\u00adty to increase people\u2019s capac\u00adi\u00adty for love and ser\u00advice to oth\u00aders.<\/em> This is the role of faith and above all, we believe, the Chris\u00adt\u00adian faith. Equip\u00adping Chris\u00adtians for moments like this is the role of Chris\u00adt\u00adian lead\u00aders.\u201d THIS. READ THIS.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2020\/january-web-only\/martin-luther-coronavirus-wuhan-chinese-new-year-christians.html\">What Mar\u00adtin Luther Teach\u00ades Us About Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus<\/a> (Emmy Yang, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cIn a cli\u00admate of fear sur\u00adround\u00ading the out\u00adbreak, I come back to Luther\u2019s let\u00adter for guid\u00adance. As a med\u00adical stu\u00addent and a future physi\u00adcian, I have a clear voca\u00adtion\u00adal com\u00admit\u00adment to car\u00ading for the sick\u2014whether they have coro\u00adn\u00adavirus, tuber\u00adcu\u00adlo\u00adsis, or influen\u00adza. Pre\u00adcau\u00adtions I will take, yes. But I am remind\u00aded by Luther that they are indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals deserv\u00ading of care all the same.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Here is an Eng\u00adlish trans\u00adla\u00adtion of Luther\u2019s orig\u00adi\u00adnal let\u00adter: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lcms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Plague-blogLW.pdf\">Whether One May Flee From A Dead\u00adly Plague<\/a>: \u201cSince it is gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly true of Chris\u00adtians that few are strong and many are weak, one sim\u00adply can\u00adnot place the same bur\u00adden upon every\u00adone. A per\u00adson who has a strong faith can drink poi\u00adson and suf\u00adfer no harm, Mark 16[:18], while one who has a weak faith would there\u00adby drink to his death.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinasource.org\/resource-library\/chinese-church-voices\/wuhan-pastor-pray-with-us\">Wuhan Pas\u00adtor: Pray with Us<\/a> (anony\u00admous, Chi\u00adna\u00adSource): \u201cThus, my broth\u00aders and sis\u00adters, I encour\u00adage you to be strong in Christ\u2019s love. If we more deeply expe\u00adri\u00adence death in this pesti\u00adlence, under\u00adstand\u00ading the gospel, we may more deeply expe\u00adri\u00adence Christ\u2019s love, and grow ever near\u00ader to God.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/how-dc-churches-responded-when-the-government-banned-public-gatherings-during-the-spanish-flu-of-1918\/\">How DC Church\u00ades Respond\u00aded When the Gov\u00adern\u00adment Banned Pub\u00adlic Gath\u00ader\u00adings Dur\u00ading the Span\u00adish Flu of 1918<\/a> (Caleb Morell, 9 Marks): \u201cDur\u00ading one of the worst epi\u00addemics to ever hit our coun\u00adtry, church\u00ades respect\u00aded the direc\u00adtives of the gov\u00adern\u00adment for a lim\u00adit\u00aded time out of neigh\u00adbor\u00adly love and in order to pro\u00adtect pub\u00adlic health. Even when church\u00ades began to dis\u00adagree with the Com\u00admis\u00adsion\u00aders\u2019 per\u00adspec\u00adtive, they con\u00adtin\u00adued to abide by their orders.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2020\/march-web-only\/seattle-churches-stop-meeting-to-slow-covid-19-coronavirus.html\">Should Your Church Stop Meet\u00ading to Slow COVID-19? How 3 Seat\u00adtle Church\u00ades Decid\u00aded.<\/a> (Daniel Chin, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cAfter work\u00ading for WHO and then the Bill and Melin\u00adda Gates Foun\u00adda\u00adtion in Chi\u00adna, my wife and I moved to Seat\u00adtle in 2015 to lead the foundation\u2019s work to con\u00adtrol tuber\u00adcu\u00adlo\u00adsis in sev\u00ader\u00adal coun\u00adtries. For a quar\u00adter of a cen\u00adtu\u00adry, I\u2019ve answered a call\u00ading as a fol\u00adlow\u00ader of Christ to stop the spread of dis\u00adeases and work to elim\u00adi\u00adnate them, and now I heed that call\u00ading to speak to my broth\u00aders and sis\u00adters in Christ to take this epi\u00addem\u00adic seri\u00adous\u00adly and respond.\u201d The author is an evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal and a physi\u00adcian who spe\u00adcial\u00adizes in infec\u00adtious dis\u00adeases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Con\u00adcern\u00ading Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus More Gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/03\/13\/opinion\/coronavirus-trump-response.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">How Much Worse the Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus Could Get, in Charts<\/a> (Nicholas Kristof and Stu\u00adart A. Thomp\u00adson, NY Times): \u201cWhat\u2019s at stake in this coro\u00adn\u00adavirus pan\u00addem\u00adic? How many Amer\u00adi\u00adcans can become infect\u00aded? How many might die? The answers depend on the actions we take \u2014 and, cru\u00adcial\u00adly, on <em>when<\/em> we take them. Work\u00ading with infec\u00adtious dis\u00adease epi\u00addemi\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgists, we devel\u00adoped this inter\u00adac\u00adtive tool that lets you see what may lie ahead in the Unit\u00aded States and how much of a dif\u00adfer\u00adence it could make if offi\u00adcials act quick\u00adly.\u201d Note that this is not pay\u00adwalled. Many promi\u00adnent news orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtions have kind\u00adly made their pan\u00addem\u00adic news freely avail\u00adable.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/03\/06\/why-its-so-hard-pin-down-risk-dying-coronavirus\/?utm_campaign=wp_week_in_ideas&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_ideas\">Why it\u2019s so hard to pin down the risk of dying from coro\u00adn\u00adavirus<\/a> (Marc Lip\u00adsitch, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cSev\u00ader\u00adal esti\u00admates have sug\u00adgest\u00aded that the risk of dying, for those infect\u00aded with covid-19 and show\u00ading its flu-like symp\u00adtoms, is around 1 or 2 per\u00adcent. Elder\u00adly adults have a con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00adably high\u00ader risk of both becom\u00ading infect\u00aded and dying, as do peo\u00adple with com\u00adpro\u00admised immune sys\u00adtems. The esti\u00admates might change as new data arrive, but the range of 1 to 2 per\u00adcent for fatal\u00adi\u00adties among the symp\u00adto\u00admatic seems to be the con\u00adsen\u00adsus for now. The over\u00adall fatal\u00adi\u00adty rate for peo\u00adple infect\u00aded with covid-19 will be low\u00ader \u2014 pos\u00adsi\u00adbly much low\u00ader \u2014 when we know how many peo\u00adple are infect\u00aded but asymp\u00adto\u00admatic.\u201d The author is a Har\u00advard epi\u00addemi\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgist.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2020\/03\/covid-19-event-risk-assessment-planner.html?fbclid=IwAR3iQcs_lYP_HvqwpenINtgPrDXnwtjn2HAODuiacbwmJSMAvnjEV6vAl_A\">COVID-19 Event Risk Assess\u00adment Plan\u00adner<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cNow here is the most impor\u00adtant point. It\u2019s the size of the group, not the num\u00adber of car\u00adri\u00aders that most dri\u00adves the result. For exam\u00adple, sup\u00adpose our esti\u00admate of the num\u00adber of car\u00adri\u00aders if off by a fac\u00adtor of 10\u2013that is instead of 20,000 there are just 2000 car\u00adri\u00aders in the Unit\u00aded States. In this case, the prob\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of at least one car\u00adri\u00ader at a big event of 100,000 drops not by a fac\u00adtor of ten but just to 45%. In oth\u00ader words, large events are a bad idea even in sce\u00adnar\u00adios with just a small num\u00adber of car\u00adri\u00aders.\u201d (source code for the embed\u00added graph is at <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jsweitz\/covid-19-event-risk-planner\">https:\/\/github.com\/jsweitz\/covid-19-event-risk-planner<\/a>) The code and the graph come from a biol\u00ado\u00adgist at Geor\u00adgia Tech and the expla\u00adna\u00adtion comes from an econ\u00ado\u00admist at George Mason Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trackcorona.live\/\">Track\u00adCoro\u00adna \u2014 COVID-19 Track\u00ader and Live Map<\/a> \u2014 one of the peo\u00adple run\u00adning the web\u00adsite is a Stan\u00adford under\u00adgrad.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@tomaspueyo\/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca\">Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus: Why You Must Act Now<\/a> (Tomas Pueyo, Medi\u00adum): \u201cCoun\u00adtries that act fast can reduce the num\u00adber of deaths by a fac\u00adtor of ten. And that\u2019s just count\u00ading the fatal\u00adi\u00adty rate. Act\u00ading fast also dras\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly reduces the cas\u00ades, mak\u00ading this even more of a no-brain\u00ader.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-chinas-bat-woman-hunted-down-viruses-from-sars-to-the-new-coronavirus1\/\">How Chi\u00adna\u2019s \u201cBat Woman\u201d Hunt\u00aded Down Virus\u00ades from SARS to the New Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus<\/a> (Jane Qiu, Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic Amer\u00adi\u00adcan): \u201cShi\u2014a virol\u00ado\u00adgist who is often called China\u2019s \u2018bat woman\u2019 by her col\u00adleagues because of her virus-hunt\u00ading expe\u00addi\u00adtions in bat caves over the past 16 years\u2014walked out of the con\u00adfer\u00adence she was attend\u00ading in Shang\u00adhai and hopped on the next train back to Wuhan.\u201d This is a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading arti\u00adcle.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2020\/03\/1-million-plus-in-emergent-ventures-prizes-for-coronavirus-work.html\">$1 mil\u00adlion plus in Emer\u00adgent Ven\u00adtures Prizes for coro\u00adn\u00adavirus work<\/a> (Tyler Cowen, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cI believe that we should be using prizes to help inno\u00advate and com\u00adbat the coro\u00adn\u00adavirus. When are prizes bet\u00adter than grants? The case for prizes is stronger when you don\u2019t know who is like\u00adly to make the break\u00adthrough, you val\u00adue the final out\u00adput more than the process, there is an urgency to solu\u00adtions (tal\u00adent devel\u00adop\u00adment is too slow), suc\u00adcess is rel\u00ada\u00adtive\u00adly easy to define, and efforts and invest\u00adments are like\u00adly to be under\u00adcom\u00adpen\u00adsat\u00aded. All of these apply to the threat from the coro\u00adn\u00adavirus.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.g-feed.com\/2020\/03\/covid-19-reduces-economic-activity.html\">COVID-19 reduces eco\u00adnom\u00adic activ\u00adi\u00adty, which reduces pol\u00adlu\u00adtion, which saves lives.<\/a> (Mar\u00adshall Burke, G\u2011Feed): \u201c\u2026dis\u00adrup\u00adtion is only like\u00adly to increase in com\u00ading days in regions where the epi\u00addem\u00adic is just begin\u00adning. Strange\u00adly, this dis\u00adrup\u00adtion could also have unex\u00adpect\u00aded health ben\u00ade\u00adfits \u2014 and these ben\u00ade\u00adfits could be quite large in cer\u00adtain parts of the world.\u201d Real\u00adi\u00adty is com\u00adpli\u00adcat\u00aded.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/3\/12\/21173938\/coronavirus-covid-19-social-distancing-elderly-epidemic-isolation-quarantine\">How social dis\u00adtanc\u00ading for coro\u00adn\u00adavirus could cause a lone\u00adli\u00adness epi\u00addem\u00adic<\/a> (Ezra Klein, Vox): \u201cMake no mis\u00adtake: The rapid imple\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion of social dis\u00adtanc\u00ading is nec\u00ades\u00adsary to flat\u00adten the coro\u00adn\u00adavirus curve and pre\u00advent the cur\u00adrent pan\u00addem\u00adic from wors\u00aden\u00ading. But just as the coro\u00adn\u00adavirus fall\u00adout threat\u00adens to cause an eco\u00adnom\u00adic reces\u00adsion, it\u2019s also going to cause what we might call a \u201csocial reces\u00adsion\u201d: a col\u00adlapse in social con\u00adtact that is par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly hard on the pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions most vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble to iso\u00adla\u00adtion and lone\u00adli\u00adness \u2014 old\u00ader adults and peo\u00adple with dis\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adties or pre\u00adex\u00adist\u00ading health con\u00addi\u00adtions.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2020\/03\/05\/science.aba9757.full\">The effect of trav\u00adel restric\u00adtions on the spread of the 2019 nov\u00adel coro\u00adn\u00adavirus (COVID-19) out\u00adbreak<\/a> (Chi\u00adnazzi et al, Sci\u00adence): \u201cThe trav\u00adel quar\u00adan\u00adtine around Wuhan has only mod\u00adest\u00adly delayed the epi\u00addem\u00adic spread to oth\u00ader areas of Main\u00adland Chi\u00adna\u2026. The mod\u00adel indi\u00adcates that while the Wuhan trav\u00adel ban was ini\u00adtial\u00adly effec\u00adtive at reduc\u00ading inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal case impor\u00adta\u00adtions, the num\u00adber of cas\u00ades observed out\u00adside Main\u00adland Chi\u00adna will resume its growth after 2\u20133 weeks from cas\u00ades that orig\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded else\u00adwhere.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2020\/04\/keep-it-simple\">Keep It Sim\u00adple<\/a> (Ed Fes\u00ader, First Things): \u201cMath\u00ade\u00admat\u00adics appears to describe a realm of enti\u00adties with qua\u00adsi-\u00addi\u00advine attrib\u00adut\u00ades. The series of nat\u00adur\u00adal num\u00adbers is infi\u00adnite. That one and one equal two and two and two equal four could not have been oth\u00ader\u00adwise. Such math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal truths nev\u00ader begin being true or cease being true; they hold eter\u00adnal\u00adly and immutably. The lines, planes, and fig\u00adures stud\u00adied by the geome\u00adter have a kind of per\u00adfec\u00adtion that the objects of our \u00adexpe\u00adri\u00adence lack. Math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal objects seem \u00adimma\u00adte\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal and known by pure rea\u00adson rather than through the sens\u00ades.\u201d This is a very inter\u00adest\u00ading review of a book by William Lane Craig.<\/li>\n<li>Con\u00adcern\u00ading Woody Allen:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamcafe.com\/2020\/03\/10\/woody-allen-issues-and-principles\/\">Woody Allen: Issues and Prin\u00adci\u00adples<\/a> (Steven Brust, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cPre\u00adsump\u00adtion of inno\u00adcence in the courts is the legal reflec\u00adtion of the prin\u00adci\u00adple that we need to be cer\u00adtain some\u00adone is guilty before inflict\u00ading pun\u00adish\u00adment, that, \u2018it is bet\u00adter 10 guilty men go free than one inno\u00adcent man be pun\u00adished.\u2019 The prin\u00adci\u00adple pre-dates its legal reflec\u00adtion, which, in West\u00adern soci\u00adety, we can find in sixth Cen\u00adtu\u00adry Rome, as well as both Tal\u00admu\u00addic and Islam\u00adic law. The prin\u00adci\u00adple has always been fought for by the oppressed, and for good rea\u00adson: it is the oppressed who are most vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble, and most like\u00adly to be abused both by the legal sys\u00adtem and bour\u00adgeois pub\u00adlic opin\u00adion. Those who want to chuck the pre\u00adsump\u00adtion of inno\u00adcence, whether in law or in the pub\u00adlic are\u00adna, are doing the work of the oppres\u00adsors.\u201d The author is a social\u00adist, which I men\u00adtion because the next author is very con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive. When thought\u00adful peo\u00adple from dia\u00admet\u00adri\u00adcal\u00adly opposed tribes call foul it is worth pay\u00ading atten\u00adtion.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/hachette-woody-allen-witch-hunt-publishing\/\">The Woody Allen Witch Hunt<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u201cBut we are not sup\u00adposed to live in a soci\u00adety in which some\u00adone who has mere\u00adly been accused of a hor\u00adri\u00adble thing finds him\u00adself unable to pub\u00adlish a book telling his side of the sto\u00adry, or silenced because the cul\u00adtur\u00adal winds have shift\u00aded. Thir\u00adty years ago, or less, chil\u00addren who made accu\u00adsa\u00adtions against pow\u00ader\u00adful men were not believed. Women too. It is not progress to go from dis\u00adbe\u00adliev\u00ading women and chil\u00addren as a mat\u00adter of course to believ\u00ading them reflex\u00adive\u00adly. We think we are advanc\u00ading jus\u00adtice, but real\u00adly we are just rear\u00adrang\u00ading our prej\u00adu\u00addices.\u201d The author is a very con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive, which I men\u00adtion because the pre\u00advi\u00adous author is a social\u00adist. When thought\u00adful peo\u00adple from dia\u00admet\u00adri\u00adcal\u00adly opposed tribes call foul it is worth pay\u00ading atten\u00adtion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/religioninpublic.blog\/2020\/03\/09\/how-many-nones-are-there-maybe-more-than-we-thought\/\">How Many Nones Are There? Maybe More than We Thought<\/a> (Ryan P. Burge, Reli\u00adgion In Pub\u00adlic): \u201cWhen you com\u00adpare those who say they have \u201cno reli\u00adgion\u201d in the GSS, to those who say they are either athe\u00adist, agnos\u00adtic, or noth\u00ading in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar in the CCES, a sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant dif\u00adfer\u00adence emerges\u2026. The upshot is this: the share of Amer\u00adi\u00adcans who have no reli\u00adgious affil\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtion is near\u00adly a third of the Unit\u00aded States, not the 23.1% fig\u00adure which comes from the GSS.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/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:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/Xn4gSpB\">The speed of this lava flow <\/a>&nbsp;(Imgur): this feels like a metaphor for the pan\u00addem\u00adic<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/worship.ai\/\">Arti\u00adfi\u00adcial Intel\u00adli\u00adgence Wor\u00adship Song Gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtor<\/a> (John Dyer) \u2014 amus\u00ading and intrigu\u00ading<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/chick-fil-a-announces-new-bottled-sauces-that-still-wont-open-on-sunday\">Chick-fil\u2011A Announces New Bot\u00adtled Sauces That Still Won\u2019t Open On Sun\u00adday<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/no-greater-love-widow-puts-last-toilet-paper-roll-in-offering-plate\">No Greater Love: Wid\u00adow Puts Last Toi\u00adlet Paper Roll In Offer\u00ading Plate<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/mexican-drug-cartels-switch-to-producing-hand-sanitizer\">Drug Car\u00adtels Switch To Pro\u00adduc\u00ading Hand San\u00adi\u00adtiz\u00ader<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2020-03-07\">Com\u00adpi\u00adla\u00adtion Video<\/a> (Dil\u00adbert):&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/solution\">Solu\u00adtion<\/a> (SMBC)<\/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=\"https:\/\/dougwils.com\/books\/dealing-with-nuisance-lust.html\">Deal\u00ading With Nui\u00adsance Lust<\/a> (Dou\u00adglas Wil\u00adson, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cMin\u00adi\u00admize the seri\u00adous\u00adness of this, but not so that you can feel good about indulging your\u00adself. Min\u00adi\u00admize the seri\u00adous\u00adness of it so that you can walk away from a cou\u00adple of big boobs with\u00adout feel\u00ading like you have just fought a cos\u00admic bat\u00adtle with prin\u00adci\u00adpal\u00adi\u00adties and pow\u00aders in the heav\u00aden\u00adly places, for cry\u00ading out loud. Or, if you like, in anoth\u00ader strat\u00ade\u00adgy of see\u00ading things right\u00adly, you could nick\u00adname these breasts of oth\u00ader woman as the \u2018prin\u00adci\u00adpal\u00adi\u00adties and pow\u00aders.\u2019 What\u00adev\u00ader you do, take this part of life in stride like a grown-up. Stop react\u00ading like a horny and con\u00adflict\u00aded twelve-year-old boy.\u201d (first shared in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/04\/20\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-148\">vol\u00adume 148<\/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. 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