{"id":6234,"date":"2020-08-14T14:38:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T22:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6234"},"modified":"2020-08-14T14:40:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T22:40:03","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-263","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/08\/14\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-263","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 263"},"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:\/\/blog.logos.com\/2020\/08\/9-plagues-in-the-bible-that-affirm-pandemics-arent-new\/\">Pan\u00addemics Aren\u2019t New\u2014Just Look at Plagues in the Bible<\/a> (Karen Engle, Logos): \u201cWith coro\u00adn\u00adavirus on everyone\u2019s mind, ques\u00adtions abound of whether the word \u2018pan\u00addem\u00adic\u2019 appears in the Bible, too. The short answer is no\u2014\u2019pandemic\u2019 is not in the Bible. How\u00adev\u00ader, the words \u201cplague\u201d and \u2018pesti\u00adlence\u2019 are (no less than 122 times) and often ref\u00ader\u00adence indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals or nations afflict\u00aded with a ter\u00adri\u00adble ill\u00adness.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/09\/us\/evangelicals-trump-christianity.html\">\u2018Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Will Have Pow\u00ader\u2019<\/a> (Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth Dias, New York Times): \u201c\u2018Trump\u2019s an out\u00adsider, like the rest of us,\u2019 he said. \u2018We might not respect Trump, but we still love the guy for who he is. Is he a man of integri\u00adty? Absolute\u00adly not,\u2019 he went on. \u2018Does he stand up for some of our moral Chris\u00adt\u00adian val\u00adues? Yes.\u2019 The guys agreed. \u2018I\u2019m not going to say he\u2019s a Chris\u00adt\u00adian, but he just doesn\u2019t attack us,\u2019 his friend Jason Mul\u00adder said.\u201d Need\u00adless\u00adly snarky at times, but one of the rare mus\u00adings on evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Trump sup\u00adport in a promi\u00adnent media source that gets a lot of things right.\n<ul>\n<li>An inter\u00adest\u00ading counter-per\u00adspec\u00adtive: <a href=\"https:\/\/religionunplugged.com\/news\/2020\/8\/12\/christians-want-power-sioux-center-iowan-pushes-back-on-nyt-story\">Chris\u00adtians want pow\u00ader? Sioux Cen\u00adter push\u00ades back on New York Times sto\u00adry<\/a> (Lee Pitts, Reli\u00adgion Unplugged): \u201cOur church small group [in Sioux Cen\u00adter] is more diverse than my small groups in Wash\u00ading\u00adton, D.C. We enjoy the com\u00adpa\u00adny of three peo\u00adple from Mex\u00adi\u00adco, a gen\u00adtle\u00adman from Paraguay, a woman from Japan, an engi\u00adneer\u00ading pro\u00adfes\u00adsor from Ghana and a cou\u00adple orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly from that exot\u00adic place called South Car\u00adoli\u00adna (that\u2019s me). In fact, out of our 12-mem\u00adber small group, only two orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly hail from North\u00adwest Iowa. Mean\u00adwhile my D.C. small groups fea\u00adtured all upper mid\u00addle-class White peo\u00adple most\u00adly sport\u00ading advanced degrees and flashy jobs inside the Belt\u00adway. But the stereo\u00adtype would reverse that. My Sioux Cen\u00adter small group should be all White and my D.C. one would sure\u00adly be full of diver\u00adsi\u00adty, right? Wrong.\u201d This arti\u00adcle doesn\u2019t real\u00adly rebut many of the reli\u00adgious claims of the NY Times arti\u00adcle, but it does under\u00adcut some of the cul\u00adtur\u00adal ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2020\/08\/14\/wokeness-old-religion-in-new-bottle\/\">Wok\u00ade\u00adness: old reli\u00adgion in a new bot\u00adtle<\/a> (Sean Collins, Spiked): \u201cWhat we\u2019re see\u00ading now is an ampli\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion of what I wrote about five years ago: an intense spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal hunger that has no out\u00adlet. There\u2019s no way to see peo\u00adple kneel\u00ading, or singing \u2018Hands up, don\u2019t shoot\u2019, or sway\u00ading while they hold up can\u00addles, and avoid acknowl\u00adedg\u00ading that it\u2019s dri\u00adven by a spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal desire. I per\u00adceived this when I wrote about Occu\u00adpy Wall Street, and it\u2019s become even more like this. It is an intense spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal hunger that is man\u00adi\u00adfest\u00ading itself more vio\u00adlent\u00adly. Because to the post-Protes\u00adtants, the world is an out\u00adrage and we are all sin\u00adners.\u201d<ul><li> The inter\u00advie\u00adwee, Joseph Bot\u00adtum, authored and specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly ref\u00ader\u00adences the very first arti\u00adcle I ever shared way back in the <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2015\/05\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-1\">first email of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/august\/coronavirus-cares-act-ppp-loan-sba-trump-megachurches.html\">How Megachurch\u00ades Spent Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus Relief Funds<\/a> (Luke Scorziell, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cAccord\u00ading to Vaughn\u2019s account\u00ading, the church spent 93 per\u00adcent of the mon\u00adey on pay\u00adroll. The addi\u00adtion\u00adal 7 per\u00adcent went to rent and util\u00adi\u00adties. The PPP rules say loans will be con\u00advert\u00aded to grants if 75 per\u00adcent of the funds are used for pay\u00adroll and the rest for spec\u00adi\u00adfied needs, includ\u00ading rent and util\u00adi\u00adties. The mon\u00adey helped with more than just pay\u00ading the bills, how\u00adev\u00ader. Because Palm Valley\u2019s staff didn\u2019t have to wor\u00adry about their job secu\u00adri\u00adty, they were able to focus ful\u00adly on car\u00ading for the church in the pan\u00addem\u00adic, Vaughn said.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/07\/us\/defund-police-seattle-protests.html\">Abol\u00adish the Police? Those Who Sur\u00advived the Chaos in Seat\u00adtle Aren\u2019t So Sure<\/a> (Nel\u00adlie Bowles, New York Times): \u201cFaizel Khan was being told by the news media and his own may\u00ador that the protests in his home\u00adtown were peace\u00adful, with \u2018a block par\u00adty atmos\u00adphere.\u2019 But that was not what he saw through the win\u00addows of his Seat\u00adtle cof\u00adfee shop.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/jessacrispin.substack.com\/p\/replacing-police-with-social-workers\">replac\u00ading police with social work\u00aders<\/a> (Jes\u00adsi\u00adca Crispin, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cIf we do not have police, an armed squadron of men and women asked to inter\u00advene in sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions we our\u00adselves can\u00adnot man\u00adage, whether that be crime, acute men\u00adtal ill\u00adness, or vio\u00adlence, then who will we turn to in those sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions? One such pro\u00adpos\u00adal is to replace police with social work\u00aders. But as my friend R. said to me as we dis\u00adcussed these ideas, \u2018I don\u2019t think these peo\u00adple have inter\u00adact\u00aded with social work\u00aders.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d This is a per\u00adspec\u00adtive I had not heard before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/publicsquaremag.org\/editorials\/injustice-outrage-and-the-problem-of-atheodicy\/\">Injus\u00adtice, Out\u00adrage, and the Prob\u00adlem of Atheod\u00adi\u00adcy<\/a> (Pub\u00adlic Square): \u201cIn a world with\u00adout God, there is no ulti\u00admate pur\u00adpose in the injus\u00adtice. And there is no pos\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of any ulti\u00admate prov\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial redemp\u00adtion. It is just raw, rank, irra\u00adtional injus\u00adtice. And so what is the appro\u00adpri\u00adate reac\u00adtion? Out\u00adrage! (And per\u00adhaps also despair.)\u201d The author is a law prof at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of San Diego. Also, bear in mind that Pub\u00adlic Square is the Mor\u00admon equiv\u00ada\u00adlent of First Things.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/bill-gates-on-covid-most-us-tests-are-completely-garbage\/\">Bill Gates on Covid: Most US Tests Are \u2018Com\u00adplete\u00adly Garbage\u2019<\/a> (Steven Levy, Wired): \u201cThe major\u00adi\u00adty of all US tests are com\u00adplete\u00adly garbage, wast\u00aded. If you don\u2019t care how late the date is and you reim\u00adburse at the same lev\u00adel, of course they\u2019re going to take every cus\u00adtomer. Because they are mak\u00ading ridicu\u00adlous mon\u00adey, and it\u2019s most\u00adly rich peo\u00adple that are get\u00adting access to that. You have to have the reim\u00adburse\u00adment sys\u00adtem pay a lit\u00adtle bit extra for 24 hours, pay the nor\u00admal fee for 48 hours, and pay noth\u00ading [if it isn\u2019t done by then]. And they will fix it overnight.\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:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2020\/08\/11\">Evil Genius<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2020\/08\/13\">I Can\u2019t Take This Any\u00admore<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=txJtMaKcs70\">Come\u00addi\u00adans Against Com\u00ade\u00addy<\/a> (Ryan Long, YouTube): two and a half min\u00adutes<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/most-american-churches-remain-closed-spiritual-impact-on-society-unchanged\/\">Chris\u00adt\u00adian Who Nev\u00ader Went To Church Before Pan\u00addem\u00adic Out\u00adraged Now That Gov\u00adern\u00adment Says He Can\u2019t<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/nations-churches-temporarily-become-spirit-halloween-stores\/\">Nation\u2019s Emp\u00adty Church\u00ades To Become Spir\u00adit Hal\u00adloween Stores<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/V361Amx\">Now that\u2019s a mask<\/a> (Imgur)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/294792\/cows-with-butt-eyes-ward-off-deadly-attacks.html\">Experts Paint Eyes on Cow Butts\u2014and It Works<\/a> (News\u00ader): this is real<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/semi-rad.com\/2020\/07\/running-is-so-simple\/\">Run\u00adning Is So Sim\u00adple<\/a> (Semi Rad)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/10-irrefutable-atheist-arguments-that-will-explode-your-feeble-christian-brain\/\">10 Irrefutable Athe\u00adist Argu\u00adments That Will Explode Your Fee\u00adble Chris\u00adt\u00adian Brain<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee): usu\u00adal\u00adly with the Bee the head\u00adline is enough, but you need to read the arti\u00adcle for this one. It\u2019s not real\u00adly fair, but it\u2019s def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly fun\u00adny.<\/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:\/\/twitter.com\/DrPJWilliams\/status\/1065768149541363713\">Elisha and the She\u2010bears<\/a> (Peter J Williams, Twit\u00adter): an insight\u00adful Twit\u00adter thread about a dis\u00adturb\u00ading OT sto\u00adry. The author is the War\u00adden of Tyn\u00addale House at Cam\u00adbridge. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/11\/23\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-179\">vol\u00adume 179<\/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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