{"id":5921,"date":"2020-03-27T14:50:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T22:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2020-03-27T15:14:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:14:55","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-243","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/03\/27\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-243","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 243"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2020\/03\/60961\/\">Recov\u00ader\u00ading Friend\u00adship<\/a> (Devo\u00adrah Gold\u00adman, Pub\u00adlic Dis\u00adcourse): \u201cAnd then you go at it, ham\u00admer and tongs, far into the night, night after night; or walk\u00ading through fine coun\u00adtry that nei\u00adther gives a glance to, each learn\u00ading the weight of the other\u2019s punch\u00ades, and often more like mutu\u00adal\u00adly respect\u00adful ene\u00admies than friends. Actu\u00adal\u00adly (though it nev\u00ader seems so at the time) you mod\u00adi\u00adfy one another\u2019s thought; out of this per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal dog\u00adfight a com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty of mind and a deep affec\u00adtion emerge.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/25\/opinion\/religion-democrats-republicans.html?action=click&amp;module=Opinion&amp;pgtype=Homepage\">In God We Divide<\/a> (Thomas Edsall, New York Times): \u201cThe more reli\u00adgious\u00adly engaged a white vot\u00ader is, the more like\u00adly he or she will be a Repub\u00adli\u00adcan; the less reli\u00adgious the vot\u00ader, the more like\u00adly to be a Demo\u00adc\u00adrat. But, as we shall see it\u2019s not that sim\u00adple: The deep\u00ader you go, the more com\u00adplex it gets.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Note the adjec\u00adtive \u201cwhite\u201d in the first sen\u00adtence \u2014 almost all dis\u00adcus\u00adsion about the pol\u00adi\u00adtics of reli\u00adgious peo\u00adple focus\u00ades on white vot\u00aders. The piece lat\u00ader acknowl\u00adedges vot\u00aders of col\u00ador but doesn\u2019t explore how their faith influ\u00adences their votes. Instead non-white evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals are usu\u00adal\u00adly treat\u00aded as though faith is irrel\u00ade\u00advant to their polit\u00adi\u00adcal views, which is absurd. All that to say: the arti\u00adcle has inter\u00adest\u00ading insights but bear in mind its crip\u00adpling lim\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtion.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.logos.com\/2020\/03\/is-joshuas-altar-on-mount-ebal-in-israel-myth-or-reality\/\">Is Joshua\u2019s Altar on Mount Ebal in Israel Myth? Or Real\u00adi\u00adty?<\/a> (Ralph Hawkins, Logos): \u201cWhen I was work\u00ading on my doc\u00adtor\u00adal dis\u00adser\u00adta\u00adtion about the Ebal site, I spent a week with Zer\u00adtal. One morn\u00ading while we were dri\u00adving to the site, he told me his crit\u00adics had accused him of try\u00ading to prove the Bible. They said he imposed a cul\u00adtic inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtion onto the stone struc\u00adture he had found. He explained, though, that he had been born and raised in Ein She\u00admer, Israeli kib\u00adbutz that was affil\u00adi\u00adat\u00aded with a sec\u00adu\u00adlar move\u00adment. He said he had grown up believ\u00ading that the Bible was full of myths. When he did his grad\u00adu\u00adate work in archae\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy, he did it at Tel Aviv, the most lib\u00ader\u00adal uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty in Israel, where those views were rein\u00adforced. He insist\u00aded he had <em>not <\/em>embarked on his exca\u00adva\u00adtion at Mount Ebal in order to prove the Bible. What he found there, how\u00adev\u00ader, had a pro\u00adfound effect on him. He said, \u2018I became a believ\u00ader at Mount Ebal.\u2019\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>I love sto\u00adries like this. Archae\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy and the Bible is fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading to me.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<li>Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty &amp; Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thinktheology.co.uk\/blog\/article\/when_corona_makes_us_more_like_the_new_testament#When:07:12:00Z\">When Coro\u00adna Makes Us More Like The New Tes\u00adta\u00adment<\/a> (Andrew Wil\u00adson, Think The\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy): \u201cIn a num\u00adber of curi\u00adous ways, the Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus out\u00adbreak is mak\u00ading us more like the New Tes\u00adta\u00adment church.\u201d See also Sam Allberry\u2019s Twit\u00adter thread about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamAllberry\/status\/1243366568395812867\">God\u2019s Pur\u00adpos\u00ades In Pan\u00addem\u00adic<\/a>. It reminds me of Num\u00adbers 11:18\u201320.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/frenchpress.thedispatch.com\/p\/coronavirus-courage-and-the-second\">Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus, Courage, and the Sec\u00adond Temp\u00adta\u00adtion of Christ<\/a> (David French, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cShun per\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtive reck\u00adless\u00adness. Do not pre\u00adsume that our faith makes us immune to the laws of biol\u00ado\u00adgy and viral trans\u00admis\u00adsion. At the same time, believ\u00aders should not shrink from pur\u00adpose\u00adful and sac\u00adri\u00adfi\u00adcial per\u00adson\u00adal risk. There may come a time when you must care for those who are sick. Do so with\u00adout reser\u00adva\u00adtion, but do so pru\u00addent\u00adly with the knowl\u00adedge that you should not impute your risks to oth\u00aders.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/march\/canceled-mission-trips-covid-19-cru-missio-nexus-travel.html\">Can\u00adceled Mis\u00adsion Trips Expect\u00aded to Have Long-Term Fall\u00adout<\/a> (David Roach, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cApprox\u00adi\u00admate\u00adly 20 per\u00adcent of all US-based inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal mis\u00adsion work each year is done by short-term vol\u00adun\u00adteers, accord\u00ading to an analy\u00adsis by soci\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgist of reli\u00adgion Robert Wuth\u00adnow. That trans\u00adlates to 1.6 mil\u00adlion US church mem\u00adbers annu\u00adal\u00adly going on inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal mis\u00adsion trips and doing work val\u00adued at $1.1 bil\u00adlion (not count\u00ading prepa\u00adra\u00adtion time and trav\u00adel days).\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2020\/03\/church-as-a-non-essential-service\">Church as a Non-Essen\u00adtial Ser\u00advice<\/a> (Matthew Schmitz, First Things): \u201cJudg\u00ading by the response of many reli\u00adgious lead\u00aders, church is a non-essen\u00adtial ser\u00advice. We are capa\u00adble of tak\u00ading pru\u00addent mea\u00adsures to keep our super\u00admar\u00adkets open, but not our sanc\u00adtu\u00adar\u00adies. Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus has shown what we val\u00adue. In Penn\u00adsyl\u00adva\u00adnia, beer dis\u00adtrib\u00adu\u00adtors are deemed essen\u00adtial. In San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco and New York, cannabis dis\u00adpen\u00adsaries are.\u201d This is actu\u00adal\u00adly a con\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adtion to an online dust\u00adup but I find it more inter\u00adest\u00ading than the dis\u00adpute itself.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/j.hn\/digital-communion-summary-of-theology-practices\/\">Dig\u00adi\u00adtal Com\u00admu\u00adnion: His\u00adto\u00adry, The\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy, and Prac\u00adtices<\/a> (John Dyer, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cA few weeks ago, I post\u00aded a graph\u00adic that attempts to show that the ele\u00adments of a ser\u00advice that are trans\u00adac\u00adtion\u00adal or broad\u00adcast ori\u00adent\u00aded are usu\u00adal\u00adly the eas\u00adi\u00adest to move online, but the rela\u00adtion\u00adal parts of church are often the most challenging\u2014and most overlooked\u2014elements of dig\u00adi\u00adtal church.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/life\/442514\/in-leviticus-an-unexpected-lesson-in-surviving-quarantine\/\">In Leviti\u00adcus, an unex\u00adpect\u00aded les\u00adson in sur\u00adviv\u00ading quar\u00adan\u00adtine<\/a> (Rachel Sha\u00adran\u00adsky Danziger, For\u00adward): \u201cBefore, I could nev\u00ader under\u00adstand why we should learn in so much detail about every lit\u00adtle rit\u00adu\u00adal in the Taber\u00adna\u00adcle, and who does what, and when. Now, as I work hard to make our new\u00adly claus\u00adtro\u00adpho\u00adbic home into a place of calm and pro\u00adduc\u00adtiv\u00adi\u00adty, I under\u00adstand the book\u2019s insis\u00adtence on such details.\u201d A Jew\u00adish per\u00adspec\u00adtive.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<li>Gen\u00ader\u00adal Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus Com\u00admen\u00adtary\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2020\/03\/that-discomfort-youre-feeling-is-grief\">That Dis\u00adcom\u00adfort You\u2019re Feel\u00ading Is Grief<\/a> (Scott Beri\u00adna\u00adto, Har\u00advard Busi\u00adness Review): \u201cThere is some\u00adthing pow\u00ader\u00adful about nam\u00ading this as grief. It helps us feel what\u2019s inside of us. So many have told me in the past week, \u2018I\u2019m telling my cowork\u00aders I\u2019m hav\u00ading a hard time,\u2019 or \u2018I cried last night.\u2019 When you name it, you feel it and it moves through you. Emo\u00adtions need motion. It\u2019s impor\u00adtant we acknowl\u00adedge what we go through.\u201d <ul><li>Pas\u00adtoral aside: this is (some of) you. Paula and I have both talked to peo\u00adple who have been mourn\u00ading with\u00adout real\u00adiz\u00ading what they were doing. You are griev\u00ading. A few days ago I uploaded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KoJ6VCGWbos\">two-minute video reflect\u00ading on Psalm 137:1<\/a> which touch\u00ades on this.<\/li><\/ul><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2020\/03\/61513\/\">Leisure in a Time of Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus<\/a> (Nathan Schlueter, Pub\u00adlic Dis\u00adcourse): \u201cSchools are closed. Sports and music lessons are can\u00adcelled. Every\u00adone is at home. What are you going to do? Instead of allow\u00ading coro\u00adn\u00adavirus con\u00adtrol your life, why not <em>plan for leisure<\/em>? Use this time to do the things you are always wish\u00ading you had the time to do\u2014or do bet\u00adter. Now you have that time, so do those things.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2020\/03\/23\/face-masks-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know\/\">Face Masks: Much More Than You Want\u00aded To Know<\/a> (Scott Alexan\u00adder, Slate Star Codex): \u201cSome peo\u00adple with swine flu trav\u00adelled on a plane from New York to Chi\u00adna, and many fel\u00adlow pas\u00adsen\u00adgers got infect\u00aded. Some researchers looked at whether pas\u00adsen\u00adgers who wore masks through\u00adout the flight stayed health\u00adi\u00ader. The answer was very much yes. They were able to track down 9 peo\u00adple who got sick on the flight and 32 who didn\u2019t. 0% of the sick pas\u00adsen\u00adgers wore masks, com\u00adpared to 47% of the healthy pas\u00adsen\u00adgers. Anoth\u00ader way to look at that is that 0% of mask-wear\u00aders got sick, but 35% of non-wear\u00aders did. This was a sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant dif\u00adfer\u00adence, and of obvi\u00adous applic\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty to the cur\u00adrent ques\u00adtion.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/03\/fog-pandemic\/608764\/\">The Fog of Pan\u00addem\u00adic<\/a> (Derek Thomp\u00adson, The Atlantic): \u201cThe U.S. is fight\u00ading a war with extreme uncer\u00adtain\u00adties. It may be weeks before we know whether we are flat\u00adten\u00ading the coro\u00adn\u00adavirus curve, and months before we know what kind of econ\u00ado\u00admy we\u2019ll have in the sec\u00adond half of this year.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/03\/25\/coronavirus-experts-craft-strategies-to-relax-lockdowns\/\">When can we let up? Explor\u00ading how to relax coro\u00adn\u00adavirus lock\u00addowns<\/a> (Stat News): \u201cThe approach get\u00adting the most sup\u00adport is one that experts have long doubt\u00aded could work with a res\u00adpi\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry virus: aggres\u00adsive case find\u00ading, con\u00adtact trac\u00ading, com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty sur\u00adveil\u00adlance, iso\u00adla\u00adtion of cas\u00ades, and quar\u00adan\u00adti\u00adning of con\u00adtacts. Both Sin\u00adga\u00adpore and South Korea used that, allow\u00ading them to make tac\u00adti\u00adcal deci\u00adsions about schools (most\u00adly open in both coun\u00adtries) and pub\u00adlic move\u00adment, spar\u00ading them from shut\u00adting down to the extent that the U.S. and many coun\u00adtries in Europe have.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-pandemic-we-need-skeptics\/\">Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus Pan\u00addem\u00adic: We Need the Skep\u00adtics<\/a> (Michael Bren\u00addan Dougher\u00adty, Nation\u00adal Review): \u201cWhen a bad thing hap\u00adpens to a good per\u00adson, we are tempt\u00aded to rage at God. When innu\u00admer\u00adable bad things hap\u00adpen to half of every\u00adone we know, we rage at each oth\u00ader.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/coronavirus-reason-to-hope\/\">On Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus, Rea\u00adson To Hope<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): This week we saw FDA approval of new test\u00ading sys\u00adtems from Roche and from Abbott labs that run tests ten times faster than cur\u00adrent meth\u00adods. To give you an idea of what this means, Roche brags that their Cobas 8800 machine can process over 3000 tests per day. Until today, Louisiana hadn\u2019t had a total of 3000 peo\u00adple test\u00aded. Roche is now mak\u00ading and ship\u00adping 400,000 test kits per week in the US, while Abbott is mak\u00ading a mil\u00adlion of their test kits each week. Those sys\u00adtems will be com\u00ading online this com\u00ading week\u2026. And there are more com\u00adpa\u00adnies in the process of get\u00adting approval. In two weeks, we should be able to test 150,000 \u2013 200,000 Amer\u00adi\u00adcans dai\u00adly, and that means that we don\u2019t all need to stay home any\u00admore.\u201d<ul><li>You can see the num\u00adber of tests admin\u00adis\u00adtered so far at <a href=\"https:\/\/covidtracking.com\/us-daily\/\">The COVID Track\u00ading Project<\/a> \u2014 this is one of the best indi\u00adca\u00adtors to keep an eye on because it deter\u00admines the reli\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of every oth\u00ader sta\u00adtis\u00adtic.<\/li><\/ul><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/19d90308-6858-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcca75\">The World After Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus<\/a> (Yuval Noah Harari, Finan\u00adcial Times): \u201cBut tem\u00adpo\u00adrary mea\u00adsures have a nasty habit of out\u00adlast\u00ading emer\u00adgen\u00adcies, espe\u00adcial\u00adly as there is always a new emer\u00adgency lurk\u00ading on the hori\u00adzon. My home coun\u00adtry of Israel, for exam\u00adple, declared a state of emer\u00adgency dur\u00ading its 1948 War of Inde\u00adpen\u00addence, which jus\u00adti\u00adfied a range of tem\u00adpo\u00adrary mea\u00adsures from press cen\u00adsor\u00adship and land con\u00adfis\u00adca\u00adtion to spe\u00adcial reg\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions for mak\u00ading pud\u00adding (I kid you not). The War of Inde\u00adpen\u00addence has long been won, but Israel nev\u00ader declared the emer\u00adgency over, and has failed to abol\u00adish many of the \u2018tem\u00adpo\u00adrary\u2019 mea\u00adsures of 1948 (the emer\u00adgency pud\u00adding decree was mer\u00adci\u00adful\u00adly abol\u00adished in 2011).\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2020\/03\/cost-benefit-not-essentialism.html\">Safe\u00adty Pro\u00adto\u00adcols and Zones of Quar\u00adan\u00adtine<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cIn oth\u00ader words, this part of the virus response should tran\u00adsi\u00adtion to a health and safe\u00adty reg\u00adu\u00adla\u00adto\u00adry con\u00adcern that is impor\u00adtant, but han\u00addled like most of the oth\u00aders. For exam\u00adple, poor food hygiene can also kill you, but gov\u00adern\u00adments gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly don\u2019t respond by decid\u00ading which cuisines are essen\u00adtial and which are not. Rather, any\u00adone will\u00ading to fol\u00adlow the safe\u00adty rules can put up any menu they want. So it should be for eco\u00adnom\u00adic activ\u00adi\u00adties of all kinds.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/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>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sageboggs\/status\/1242968530250870786?utm_campaign=The%20Path%20Before%20Us&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\">A sur\u00adpris\u00ading Twit\u00adter thread about Triscuits<\/a> (Sage Bog\u00adgs, Twit\u00adter)<\/p>\n<\/li><li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/20\/03\/ikea-instructions-for-covid-19-quarantine\">IKEA instruc\u00adtions for COVID quar\u00adan\u00adtine<\/a> (kottke.org)<\/p>\n<\/li><li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/china-announces-that-theyve-completely-cured-coronavirus-and-everything-is-fine-there-and-no-one-is-allowed-in-to-check\">Chi\u00adna: \u2018We\u2019ve Com\u00adplete\u00adly Cured Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus And Every\u00adthing Is Fine Here An<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/china-announces-that-theyve-completely-cured-coronavirus-and-everything-is-fine-there-and-no-one-is-allowed-in-to-check\">d No One Is Allowed In To Check\u2019<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/p>\n<\/li><li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/hallmark-channel-announces-19-new-coronavirus-themed-movies\">Hall\u00admark Chan\u00adnel Announces 19 New Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus-Themed Movies<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee): nor\u00admal\u00adly with the Bee read\u00ading the title is enter\u00adtain\u00adment enough. This one you should click through to read the names of the fake movies.<\/p>\n<\/li><li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3521798\">The Col\u00adlege Admis\u00adsions Con\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adtion to the Labor Mar\u00adket Beau\u00adty Pre\u00admi\u00adum<\/a> (Ong, Zie, and Zhang: SSRN): per\u00adhaps you will find this less amus\u00ading than I did.<\/p>\n<\/li><li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8KPbJ0-DxTc\">Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus Rhap\u00adsody<\/a> (YouTube): six clever min\u00adutes.<\/p>\n<\/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:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevin-deyoung\/preacher-politics-seven-thoughts\/\">The Preach\u00ader And Pol\u00adi\u00adtics: Sev\u00aden Thoughts<\/a> (Kevin DeY\u00adoung, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cI have plen\u00adty of opin\u00adions and con\u00advic\u00adtions. But that\u2019s not what I want my min\u00adistry to be about. That\u2019s not to say I don\u2019t com\u00adment on abor\u00adtion or gay mar\u00adriage or racism or oth\u00ader issues about the which the Bible speaks clear\u00adly. And yet, I\u2019m always mind\u00adful that I can\u2019t sep\u00ada\u00adrate Blog\u00adger Kevin or Twit\u00adter Kevin or Pro\u00adfes\u00adsor Kevin from Pas\u00adtor Kevin. As such, my com\u00adments reflect on my church, whether I intend them to or not. That means I keep more polit\u00adi\u00adcal con\u00advic\u00adtions to myself than I oth\u00ader\u00adwise would.\u201d First shared in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/05\/04\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-150\">vol\u00adume 150<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/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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