{"id":6212,"date":"2020-08-07T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T00:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6212"},"modified":"2020-08-07T16:16:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T00:16:02","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/08\/07\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-262","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 262"},"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:\/\/quarterly.gospelinlife.com\/a-biblical-critique-of-secular-justice-and-critical-theory\/\">A Bib\u00adli\u00adcal Cri\u00adtique of Sec\u00adu\u00adlar Jus\u00adtice and Crit\u00adi\u00adcal The\u00ado\u00adry<\/a> (Tim Keller, Gospel In Life): \u201cIn the Bible Chris\u00adtians have an ancient, rich, strong, com\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsive, com\u00adplex, and attrac\u00adtive under\u00adstand\u00ading of jus\u00adtice. Bib\u00adli\u00adcal jus\u00adtice dif\u00adfers in sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant ways from all the sec\u00adu\u00adlar alter\u00adna\u00adtives, with\u00adout ignor\u00ading the con\u00adcerns of any of them. Yet Chris\u00adtians know lit\u00adtle about bib\u00adli\u00adcal jus\u00adtice, despite its promi\u00adnence in the Scrip\u00adtures.\u201d The read of the week.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8fGe-CPWZlE\">The Church Forests of Ethiopia<\/a> (YouTube): nine min\u00adutes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/the-amazing-church-forests-of-ethiopia\/\">This com\u00admen\u00adtary by Rod Dreher<\/a> was what brought the video to my atten\u00adtion. Watch the video before you read the com\u00admen\u00adtary. These forests are a beau\u00adti\u00adful pic\u00adture of the way the Church bless\u00ades the world around it, and what the Church must do to thrive in the envi\u00adron\u00adment we find our\u00adselves in.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/thomas-sowell-race-poverty-culture\">Lis\u00adten to Thomas Sow\u00adell<\/a> (Cole\u00adman Hugh\u00ades, City Jour\u00adnal): \u201c\u2026peo\u00adple pre\u00addictably line up on oppo\u00adsite sides of polit\u00adi\u00adcal issues that seem\u00ading\u00adly have noth\u00ading in com\u00admon. For instance, know\u00ading someone\u2019s posi\u00adtion on cli\u00admate change some\u00adhow allows you to pre\u00addict their views on tax\u00ading the rich, gun con\u00adtrol, and abor\u00adtion. It\u2019s tempt\u00ading to dis\u00admiss this as mere polit\u00adi\u00adcal trib\u00adal\u00adism. But Sow\u00adell con\u00adtends that more is at work: that there are two fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal ways of think\u00ading about the social world, two sets of basic assump\u00adtions about human nature, and two con\u00adflict\u00ading \u2018visions,\u2019 from which most polit\u00adi\u00adcal dis\u00adagree\u00adments fol\u00adlow.\u201d Sow\u00adell is a senior fel\u00adlow at the Hoover Insti\u00adtu\u00adtion.<\/li><li>Some reflec\u00adtions on the media:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.currentaffairs.org\/2020\/08\/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free\/\">The Truth Is Pay\u00adwalled But The Lies Are Free<\/a> (Nathan J. Robin\u00adson, Cur\u00adrent Affairs): \u201cYou want \u2018Port\u00adland Pro\u00adtest\u00aders Burn Bibles, Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Flags In The Streets,\u2019 \u2018The Moral Case Against Mask Man\u00addates And Oth\u00ader COVID Restric\u00adtions,\u2019 or an arti\u00adcle sug\u00adgest\u00ading the Nation\u00adal Insti\u00adtutes of Health has admit\u00adted 5G phones cause coronavirus\u2014they\u2019re yours. You want the detailed Times reports on neo-Nazis infil\u00adtrat\u00ading Ger\u00adman insti\u00adtu\u00adtions, the rea\u00adsons con\u00adtact trac\u00ading is fail\u00ading in U.S. states, or the Trump administration\u2019s under\u00adcut\u00adting of the USPS\u2019s effectiveness\u2014well, if you\u2019ve clicked around the web\u00adsite a bit you\u2019ll run straight into the pay\u00adwall.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>This is a good arti\u00adcle. For the record, I agree with his assess\u00adment of the New York Times: it often con\u00adtains the facts, but some\u00adtimes incor\u00adrect\u00adly framed with fool\u00adish infer\u00adences built upon them. That burn\u00ading Bibles and flags thing Robin\u00adson knocks, though? That real\u00adly hap\u00adpened: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/portland-protesters-burn-bibles\/\">Did Port\u00adland Pro\u00adtest\u00aders Burn Bibles and Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Flags?<\/a> (Snopes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/02\/business\/media\/election-coverage.html?smid=tw-share\">How the Media Could Get the Elec\u00adtion Sto\u00adry Wrong<\/a> (Ben Smith, New York Times): \u201cThe coro\u00adn\u00adavirus cri\u00adsis means that states like Penn\u00adsyl\u00adva\u00adnia may be count\u00ading mail-in bal\u00adlots for weeks, while Pres\u00adi\u00addent Trump tweets false alle\u00adga\u00adtions about fraud. And the last bar\u00adri\u00aders between Amer\u00adi\u00adcan democ\u00adra\u00adcy and a deep polit\u00adi\u00adcal cri\u00adsis may be tele\u00advi\u00adsion news and some ver\u00adsion of that mad\u00adden\u00ading nee\u00addle on The New York Times web\u00adsite.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>This is ter\u00adri\u00adfy\u00ading and is 100% worth using up one of your pay\u00adwall arti\u00adcles for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/media-great-racial-awakening\">How the Media Led the Great Racial Awak\u00aden\u00ading<\/a> (Zach Gold\u00adberg, Tablet): \u201cDur\u00ading this same peri\u00adod, while exot\u00adic new phras\u00ades were enter\u00ading the dis\u00adcourse, uni\u00adver\u00adsal\u00adly rec\u00adog\u00adniz\u00adable words like \u2018racism\u2019 were being rad\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly rede\u00adfined. Along with the new lan\u00adguage came ideas and beliefs ani\u00admat\u00ading a new moral-polit\u00adi\u00adcal frame\u00adwork to apply to pub\u00adlic life and Amer\u00adi\u00adcan soci\u00adety.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>On the divi\u00adsions in Amer\u00adi\u00adca:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2020\/07\/15\/opinion\/unite-country-we-need-honesty-courage\/\">To unite the coun\u00adtry, we need hon\u00adesty and courage<\/a> (Robert George and Cor\u00adnell West, Boston Globe): \u201cHon\u00adesty and courage alone can save our wound\u00aded, dis\u00adunit\u00aded coun\u00adtry now. We need the hon\u00adesty and courage to speak the truth \u2014 includ\u00ading painful truths that unset\u00adtle not only our foes but also our friends and, most espe\u00adcial\u00adly, our\u00adselves.\u201d The authors (both Chris\u00adt\u00adian) are pro\u00adfes\u00adsors at Prince\u00adton and Har\u00advard, respec\u00adtive\u00adly.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/frenchpress.thedispatch.com\/p\/remembering-john-lewis-and-the-political\">Remem\u00adber\u00ading John Lewis, and the Polit\u00adi\u00adcal The\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy that Changed a Nation<\/a> (David French, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cWhat looks inevitable in hind\u00adsight was any\u00adthing but cer\u00adtain. In fact, if you were plac\u00ading con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary bets on a polit\u00adi\u00adcal out\u00adcome, would you guess that some ver\u00adsion of a three-cen\u00adtu\u00adry sta\u00adtus quo would pre\u00advail, or that the civ\u00adil rights move\u00adment would achieve a legal rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion near\u00adly on par with eman\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adtion itself? At the same time, can we even recall a mod\u00adern Chris\u00adt\u00adian polit\u00adi\u00adcal move\u00adment so con\u00adsis\u00adtent with the upside-down log\u00adic of bib\u00adli\u00adcal Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholars-stage.blogspot.com\/2020\/08\/this-is-not-american-cultural-revolution.html\">This is Not The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Cul\u00adtur\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion<\/a> (Tan\u00adner Greer, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cAmer\u00adi\u00adcans are extreme\u00adly fond of exag\u00adger\u00adat\u00ading the threat their polit\u00adi\u00adcal ene\u00admies pose. Histri\u00adon\u00adics about Don\u00adald Trump end\u00ading Amer\u00adi\u00adcan democ\u00adra\u00adcy are every\u00adwhere to be found; read\u00aders will no doubt remem\u00adber the pro\u00adtes\u00adtors who claimed that Dick Cheney was the sec\u00adond com\u00ading of Hitler, or that Barack Oba\u00adma was a stealth author\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan social\u00adist.\u201d This is a reas\u00adsur\u00ading essay.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lawliberty.org\/secularism-cannot-sustain-liberty\/\">Sec\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adism Can\u00adnot Sus\u00adtain Lib\u00ader\u00adty, a Response to Greg Forster<\/a> (Al Mohler, Law &amp; Lib\u00ader\u00adty): \u201cI believe that the project of civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion in the West, and in the Eng\u00adlish-speak\u00ading world in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar, has brought the great\u00adest flow\u00ader\u00ading of lib\u00ader\u00adties and the great\u00adest oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adties for human flour\u00adish\u00ading in human his\u00adto\u00adry. I also believe that this civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion\u00adal project has arrived at this moment of max\u00adi\u00admum dan\u00adger after decades of both neglect and mount\u00ading oppo\u00adsi\u00adtion. The most fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal prob\u00adlem is the loss of the intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal and moral pre\u00adcon\u00addi\u00adtions that make the project of ordered lib\u00ader\u00adty pos\u00adsi\u00adble.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/928371\/could-america-split\">Could Amer\u00adi\u00adca split up?<\/a> (Damon Link\u00ader, The Week): \u201cI often catch myself pon\u00adder\u00ading exact\u00adly what it is that keeps our coun\u00adtry togeth\u00ader. What do we hold in com\u00admon? What do we share?\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Church\u00ades and the pan\u00addem\u00adic:<br>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/august\/california-church-worship-covid-john-macarthur-greg-laurie.html\">How Two Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia Megachurch\u00ades Kept Wor\u00adship\u00ading<\/a> (Kate Shell\u00adnutt and Nicole Shanks, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cTwo Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia church\u00ades were so eager to meet last week\u00adend that when their ser\u00advices began, wor\u00adshipers erupt\u00aded in applause. In Sun Val\u00adley, con\u00adgre\u00adgants fill\u00ading Grace Com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty Church\u2019s 3,500-seat sanc\u00adtu\u00adary rose and cheered, some doc\u00adu\u00adment\u00ading the moment with their iPhones, when pas\u00adtor John MacArthur opened the sec\u00adond week in a row of in-per\u00adson ser\u00advices\u2026. An hour away in River\u00adside, Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia, wor\u00adship\u00adpers at Har\u00advest Chris\u00adt\u00adian Fel\u00adlow\u00adship were greet\u00aded with cheeky pink and pur\u00adple signs that said, \u2018Smile with your eyes (and wear a mask)\u2019 and \u2018Just leave room for your Bible\u2014and anoth\u00ader 5\u00bd feet.\u2019 It was the third Sun\u00adday that Har\u00advest met in a white tent half the size of a foot\u00adball field to com\u00adply with state orders restrict\u00ading indoor wor\u00adship.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gavinortlund.com\/2020\/08\/02\/should-churches-in-california-defy-government-restrictions-a-response-to-john-macarthur\/\">Should Church\u00ades in Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia Defy Gov\u00adern\u00adment Restric\u00adtions? A Response to John MacArthur<\/a> (Gavin Ortlund, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cTo my mind, there are at least four bib\u00adli\u00adcal val\u00adues that should inform our deci\u00adsion-mak\u00ading in this sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion: 1. the impor\u00adtance of wor\u00adship (Hebrews 10:25), 2. love for neigh\u00adbor (Mark 12:31), 3. obe\u00addi\u00adence to gov\u00adern\u00adment (Romans 13:1\u20137), and 4. main\u00adtain\u00ading a good wit\u00adness (Colos\u00adsians 4:5\u20136). What con\u00adcerns me about defy\u00ading the state order right now is that it seems to pri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adtize 1 at the expense of 2\u20134.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dougwils.com\/books-and-culture\/s7-engaging-the-culture\/masking-and-masks-a-hypothetical-interview.html\">Mask\u00ading and Masks: A Hypo\u00adthet\u00adi\u00adcal Inter\u00adview<\/a> (Doug Wil\u00adson, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cA free peo\u00adple should be jeal\u00adous of their lib\u00ader\u00adty. And one of the best ways to be jeal\u00adous of your lib\u00ader\u00adty is to require the gov\u00adern\u00adment, when\u00adev\u00ader it exer\u00adcis\u00ades its author\u00adi\u00adty coer\u00adcive\u00adly, to be able to give a very spe\u00adcif\u00adic rea\u00adson. A gen\u00ader\u00adal rea\u00adson is not good enough. The law should pro\u00adhib\u00adit steal\u00ading, for exam\u00adple, and when the cops arrest a thief, they should be able to say that they arrest\u00aded him because he was \u2018steal\u00ading.\u2019 Neg\u00ada\u00adtive pro\u00adhi\u00adbi\u00adtions are the foun\u00adda\u00adtion of civic lib\u00ader\u00adty, and broad, gen\u00ader\u00adal feel-good direc\u00adtives are the foun\u00adda\u00adtion of tyran\u00adny.\u201c I am not opposed to manda\u00adto\u00adry masks, but this is a good defense of the oppo\u00adsi\u00adtion.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>Con\u00adcern\u00ading Chi\u00adna:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2020\/the-tiktok-war\/\">The Tik\u00adTok War<\/a> (Ben Thomp\u00adson, Strat\u00ade\u00adch\u00adery): \u201cTikTok\u2019s algo\u00adrithm, unmoored from the con\u00adstraints of your social net\u00adwork or pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal con\u00adtent cre\u00adators, is free to pro\u00admote what\u00adev\u00ader videos it likes, with\u00adout any\u00adone know\u00ading the dif\u00adfer\u00adence. Tik\u00adTok could pro\u00admote a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar can\u00addi\u00addate or a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar issue in a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar geog\u00adra\u00adphy, with\u00adout any\u00adone \u2014 except per\u00adhaps the can\u00addi\u00addate, now indebt\u00aded to a Chi\u00adnese com\u00adpa\u00adny \u2014 know\u00ading. You may be skep\u00adti\u00adcal this might hap\u00adpen, but again, Chi\u00adna has already demon\u00adstrat\u00aded a will\u00ading\u00adness to cen\u00adsor speech on a plat\u00adform banned in Chi\u00adna; how much of a leap is it to think that a Par\u00adty com\u00admit\u00adted to ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal dom\u00adi\u00adnance will for\u00adev\u00ader leave a route direct\u00adly into the hearts and minds of mil\u00adlions of Amer\u00adi\u00adcans untouched?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/aug\/02\/books-pulled-from-library-shelves-songs-bannedits-the-new-normal-in-hong-kong\">Books pulled from the library shelves, songs banned\u2026it\u2019s the new nor\u00admal in Hong Kong<\/a> (Louisa Lim, The Guardian): \u201cPut sim\u00adply, with\u00adin a sin\u00adgle month, Bei\u00adjing has dis\u00adman\u00adtled a par\u00adtial\u00adly free soci\u00adety and is try\u00ading to use its new law to enforce glob\u00adal cen\u00adsor\u00adship on speech regard\u00ading Hong Kong.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/august\/hong-kong-christian-china-law-foreign-missions.html\">Chris\u00adtians Wor\u00adry Hong Kong\u2019s New Law Will Ham\u00adper Mis\u00adsions<\/a> (D. Cheng, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201c\u2026Chris\u00adtians liv\u00ading out\u00adside of Chi\u00adna now won\u00adder: Is it still safe for them to com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcate open\u00adly with friends and col\u00adleagues in Hong Kong? For years, the ter\u00adri\u00adto\u00adry has served as a stag\u00ading ground for min\u00adistry orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtions oper\u00adat\u00ading across the region. But now, will they face pres\u00adsure or per\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adtion, as those in the main\u00adland do? If they are crit\u00adi\u00adcal of Bei\u00adjing on social media or in an arti\u00adcle such as this, will they be denied entry to Hong Kong\u2014or worse, detained and pos\u00adsi\u00adbly impris\u00adoned upon land\u00ading in Hong Kong?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/02\/world\/asia\/china-hong-kong-national-security-law.html\">\u2018Clean Up This Mess\u2019: The Chi\u00adnese Thinkers Behind Xi\u2019s Hard Line<\/a> (Chris Buck\u00adley, New York Times): \u201cWhile China\u2019s Com\u00admu\u00adnist Par\u00adty has long nur\u00adtured legions of aca\u00add\u00ade\u00admics to defend its agen\u00adda, these author\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan thinkers stand out for their unabashed, often flashily eru\u00addite advo\u00adca\u00adcy of one-par\u00adty rule and assertive sov\u00ader\u00adeign\u00adty, and their turn against the lib\u00ader\u00adal ideas that many of them once embraced.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/07\/world\/asia\/trump-china-hong-kong-sanctions.html\">Trump Admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion Penal\u00adizes Chi\u00adnese Offi\u00adcials for Hong Kong Crack\u00addown<\/a> (Pran\u00adshu Ver\u00adma and Edward Wong, New York Times): \u201cThe action is anoth\u00ader in a series of mea\u00adsures the Trump admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion has tak\u00aden in recent months to ratch\u00adet up pres\u00adsure on Bei\u00adjing. Last month, the admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion imposed sanc\u00adtions on the Chi\u00adnese gov\u00adern\u00adment, includ\u00ading a senior mem\u00adber of the Com\u00admu\u00adnist Par\u00adty, over human rights abus\u00ades against the large\u00adly Mus\u00adlim Uighur minor\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/ball\">Ball<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/experts-predict-winner-of-election-will-be-candidate-who-talks-the-least\/\">Experts Pre\u00addict Win\u00adner Of Elec\u00adtion Will Be Can\u00addi\u00addate Who Talks The Least<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/294513\/beetle-has-brilliant-gross-method-of-escape.html\">Bee\u00adtle Has an Amaz\u00ading Way of Escap\u00ading Death<\/a> (News\u00ader): this is real and awe\u00adsome. Also kind of a metaphor for 2020.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/8\/6\/21355674\/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates\">Sci\u00aden\u00adtists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from mis\u00adread\u00ading them as dates<\/a> (James Vin\u00adcent, The Verge): also real.&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/down-with-nazis-cries-protester-burning-bibles\/\">\u2018Down With Fas\u00adcism!\u2019 Cries Pro\u00adtest\u00ader Burn\u00ading Bibles<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/p0PWkDv\">my new favorite way to read Emi\u00adly Dick\u00adin\u00adson<\/a> (Imgur)<\/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:\/\/iasc-culture.org\/THR\/THR_article_2018_Summer_Christman.php\">What Is It Like to Be a Man?<\/a> (Phil Christ\u00adman, The Hedge\u00adhog Review): \u201cI live out my mas\u00adculin\u00adi\u00adty most often as a per\u00adverse avoid\u00adance of com\u00adfort: the refusal of good clothes, mois\u00adtur\u00adiz\u00ader, painkillers; hard phys\u00adi\u00adcal train\u00ading, pur\u00adsued for its own sake and not because I enjoy it; a sense that there is a set amount of phys\u00adi\u00adcal pain or self-imposed dis\u00adci\u00adpline that I owe the uni\u00adverse.\u201d Very well-written. Every\u00adone will like\u00adly find parts they res\u00adonate with and parts they reject. The author is a lec\u00adtur\u00ader at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Michi\u00adgan and based on his CV seems to be a fair\u00adly devot\u00aded Epis\u00adco\u00adpalian. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/11\/16\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-178\">vol\u00adume 178<\/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>. 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