{"id":6317,"date":"2020-09-25T19:23:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T03:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6317"},"modified":"2020-09-25T19:23:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T03:23:31","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/09\/25\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-269","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 269"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><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 Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"simple-list\"><li>Some thoughts following the Breonna Taylor verdict:&nbsp;<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/09\/24\/correcting-misinformation-about-breonna-taylor\/\">Correcting the misinformation about Breonna Taylor<\/a> (Radley Balko, Washington Post): \u201cWe could prevent the next Breonna Taylor. We could ban forced entry raids to serve drug warrants. We could hold judges accountable for signing warrants that don\u2019t pass constitutional muster. We could demand that police officers wear body cameras during these raids to hold them accountable, and that they be adequately punished when they fail to activate them. We could do a lot to make sure there are no more Breonna Taylors. The question is whether we want&nbsp;to.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>From a month ago, but timely now: <a href=\"https:\/\/frenchpress.thedispatch.com\/p\/supreme-court-precedent-killed-breonna\">Supreme Court Precedent Killed Breonna Taylor<\/a> (David French, The Dispatch): \u201cSomething (or some things) have to give, and those \u2018things\u2019 are no-knock raids and qualified immunity. Individual liberties should not be sacrificed on the altar of police drug raids, and victims of civil rights abuses should be entitled to receive compensation for their losses, including their injuries and wounds.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>My 2 cents: America\u2019s justice system would be greatly improved if no-knock raids and qualified immunity were either eliminated or greatly constrained. And if we get rid of civil asset forfeiture at the same time \u2014&nbsp;wow.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/reviews\/dominion-christian-revolution-tom-holland\/\">Review: \u2018Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World\u2019 by Tom Holland<\/a> (Tim Keller, Gospel Coalition): \u201c\u2026the shame-and-honor cultures of old, pagan Europe\u2014of the Anglo-Saxons, the Franks, and the Germans\u2014thought that the Christian ethic of forgiving one\u2019s enemies and of honoring the poor and weak to be completely unworkable as a basis for society. These ideas would\u2019ve never occurred to anyone unless they held to a universe with a single, personal God who created all beings in his image, and with a Savior who came and died in sacrificial love. The ideas only could\u2019ve grown from such a worldview\u2014they don\u2019t make sense in a different one. If, instead, we believe we\u2019re here by accident through a process of survival of the fittest, then there can be no moral absolutes, and life must be, if anything, about power and the mastery of others, not about love. That, declared Nietzsche, is the only way to live once you are truly willing to admit that the Christian God does not&nbsp;exist.\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/we-are-all-algorithms-now\">We Are All Algorithms Now<\/a> (Andrew Sullivan, SubStack): \u201cIn the past, we might have turned to more reliable media for context and perspective. But the journalists and reporters and editors who are supposed to perform this function are human as well. And they are perhaps the ones most trapped in the social media hellscape\u2026. The press could have been the antidote to the social media trap. Instead they chose to become the profitable pusher of the poison.\u201c This was written before news of RBG\u2019s death and is even more timely now.<\/li><li>Concerning the Supreme Court:&nbsp;<ul>\n<li>Leading Republican politicians have flip-flopped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=itkF6Q7RtDw\">What Senate Republicans have said about filling a Supreme Court vacancy<\/a> (one minute video, YouTube)<\/li>\n<li>Leading Democratic politicians have flip-flopped <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ITGuy1959\/status\/1307877608487628802\">What leading Democrats have said about filling a Supreme Court vacancy<\/a> (two minute video, Twitter)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A thought from the left: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/22\/opinion\/down-with-judicial-supremacy.html\">Down With Judicial Supremacy!<\/a> (Jamelle Bouie, New York Times): \u201cThe Supreme Court has the power to interpret the Constitution and establish its meaning for federal, state and local government alike. But this power wasn\u2019t enumerated in the Constitution and isn\u2019t inherent in the court as an institution. Instead, the court\u2019s power to interpret and bind others to that interpretation was constructed over time by political and legal actors throughout the system, from presidents and lawmakers to the judges and justices themselves.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A thought from the right: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/20\/opinion\/republican-supreme-court.html\">How the G.O.P. Might Get to Yes on Replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cSince I became opposed to abortion, sometime in my later teens, I have never regarded the Supreme Court with warmth, admiration or patriotic trust. What my liberal friends felt after Bush v. Gore or after Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s confirmation or in imagining some future ruling by Amy Coney Barrett, I have felt for my entire adult&nbsp;life.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li>On faith and politics:&nbsp;<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/24\/opinion\/religion-politics.html\">How Faith Shapes My Politics<\/a> (David Brooks, New York Times): \u201cIn a society that is growing radically more secular every day, I\u2019d say we have more to fear from political dogmatism than religious dogmatism.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2020\/9\/21\/evangelicals-are-actually-americasleastpoliticized-group-of-churches\">This just in! Evangelicals are actually America\u2019s least politicized group of churches<\/a> (Richard Ostling, GetReligion): \u201c\u2026the emerging scenario appears to indicate a relatively small and unrepresentative band of evangelical partisans at the national level has \u2014 aided by massive amounts of news coverage \u2014 distorted the public image of grass-roots white evangelicalism.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtowncornerstone.org\/2020\/08\/what-are-your-expectations-of-jesus-local-church\/\">What are your Expectations of Jesus\u2019 Local Church?<\/a> (Adam Sinnett, church website): \u201cOver the last six months the elders of DCC have received numerous questions, recommendations, and criticisms in relation to what we should be <em>doing<\/em> as a church in regards to: our pandemic response, the relationship between church and state, timing and content of communication, growing unemployment, the homelessness crisis, political partisanship, systemic injustice, police brutality, social protests, and&nbsp;more.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Follow-up: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtowncornerstone.org\/2020\/09\/who-does-what-in-the-life-of-the-church\/\">Who Does What in the Life of the Church?<\/a> (Adam Sinnet, church website): \u201cIf we think of the church primarily as \u2018the leaders\u2019 we\u2019ll place the burden of responsibility for the life of the church on the pastors. If we think of the church primarily as \u2018the people\u2019, we\u2019ll place the burden of responsibility on the individuals. If we think of the church primarily as an \u2018institution\u2019, we\u2019ll place the burden of responsibility on the organization, its structures, and processes. Who then is responsible for fulfilling God\u2019s purpose for his church? Is it the leaders, or the people, or the institution? <em>Put simply, everyone is responsible, though in different ways.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/september\/mark-dever-capital-hill-baptist-church-dc-lawsuit-covid-gat.html\">Mark Dever\u2019s Capitol Hill Baptist Sues to Not Forsake the Assembly<\/a> (Kate Shellnut, Christianity Today): \u201c\u2026the DC congregation\u2019s legal fight is uniquely tied to its theological beliefs around how a church should gather. Dever has long resisted multi-site, multi-service models of church, though they are very popular among fellow Southern Baptists. The DC Baptist church does not stream services online, and hasn\u2019t made an exception to that rule during the pandemic.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2020\/09\/22\/dc-mayor-bowser-sued-church-coronavirus-covid-restrictions\/\">Capitol Hill Baptist, a large evangelical church, sues DC Mayor Muriel Bowser over coronavirus restrictions<\/a> (Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post): \u201cThe vote Sunday at a members meeting to pursue litigation was 402 in favor, 35 against, members said, though church leaders would not confirm specific numbers.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li>Two random articles touching on&nbsp;race:&nbsp;<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/18\/opinion\/biden-latino-vote-strategy.html\">This Is How Biden Should Approach the Latino Vote<\/a> (Ian Haney L\u00f3pez and Tory Gavito, New York Times): \u201cProgressives commonly categorize Latinos as people of color, no doubt partly because progressive Latinos see the group that way and encourage others to do so as well. Certainly, we both once took that perspective for granted. Yet in our survey, only one in four Hispanics saw the group as people of&nbsp;color.\u201d&nbsp;<ul>\n<li>I am uninterested in the partisan angle of this op-ed, but the statistic I excerpted stood out to me. I wonder what percentage of Stanford students would have predicted it? I suspect the overwhelming majority of Stanford students would have bet on the opposite.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/09\/pretense-princeton-racist\/616491\/\">The Pretense That Princeton Is Racist<\/a> (Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic): \u201cI object to the entire witch hunt of an investigation, which Republicans would recognize as a flagrant abuse of federal power were it aimed at Liberty University. No reasonable person could conclude that an onerous probe of Princeton for anti-Black racism is the best use, or even a good use, of scarce resources to safeguard civil rights. The decision to grapple with racism should not trigger a federal investigation, whether or not that grappling is totally honest.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plough.com\/en\/topics\/community\/education\/tea-time\">Tea Time: The Christian Mission to Preserve Culture<\/a> (Lyman Stone, The Plough): \u201cAs strange as it may seem for a white American missionary to be teaching an eight-year-old Chinese girl from the tea capital of the world how to pour tea, such I understood to be my Christian duty.\u201d<\/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:\/\/textsfromsuperheroes.com\/post\/629736623755722752\/ironrichest\">The Richest Avenger<\/a> (Text From Superheroes)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2020\/09\/25\">The Magic Word<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/frog-and-toad-tentatively-go-outside-after-months-in-self-quarantine\">Frog and Toad Tentatively Go Outside After Months In Self-Quarantine<\/a> (McSweeney\u2019s): this is beautiful.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/nation-surprised-to-learn-all-politicians-are-hypocrites\/\">Nation Surprised To Learn All Politicians Are Hypocrites<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig-about\/winners\/\">The 2020 Ig Nobel Prizewinners<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While&nbsp;Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/s\/losing-my-religion\/jesus-mary-and-joe-jonas-605c763ce682?platform=hootsuite\">Jesus, Mary, and Joe Jonas<\/a> (Jonathan Parks\u2010Ramage, Medium): \u201cHow, in famously liberal Hollywood and among statistically progressive millennials, had good old\u2010fashioned evangelism [sic] gained popularity? In this context, a church like Reality L.A. seemed like something that could never work. But that evening, as I reflected on the troubled actress and the psychic brutalities inflicted by the entertainment industry, it occurred to me that I had underestimated Hollywood\u2019s biggest product: lost souls.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/03\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-192\">First shared in volume 192<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ideological Turing test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I\u2019ll usually mention it). And to the extent you can discern my opinions, please understand that they are my own and not necessarily those of Chi Alpha or any other organization I may be perceived to represent.\n\nAlso, remember that I\u2019m not reporting news \u2014 I\u2019m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There\u2019s a lot happening in the world that\u2019s not making an appearance here because I haven\u2019t found stimulating articles written about it.\n\nIf this was forwarded 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>I share a few personal thoughts about criminal justice reform in this one. 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