{"id":6350,"date":"2020-10-16T18:14:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T02:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2020-10-16T18:14:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T02:14:53","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-272","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/10\/16\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-272","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 272"},"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:\/\/frenchpress.thedispatch.com\/p\/a-dc-church-shows-how-to-fight-for\">A DC Church Shows How to Fight for Reli\u00adgious Free\u00addom<\/a> (David French, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cLate Fri\u00adday night a fed\u00ader\u00adal dis\u00adtrict court judge in Wash\u00ading\u00adton, D.C., hand\u00aded down a reli\u00adgious lib\u00ader\u00adty rul\u00ading that I hope will echo through\u00adout the nation\u2026. It demon\u00adstrates how thought\u00adful Chris\u00adtians can engage in the pub\u00adlic square and defend their lib\u00ader\u00adty with con\u00advic\u00adtion while also car\u00ading for their com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties and demon\u00adstrat\u00ading extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnary patience with pub\u00adlic offi\u00adcials. In oth\u00ader words, in one court case we\u2019re watch\u00ading what it\u2019s like when Chris\u00adt\u00adian legal ends are pur\u00adsued through Chris\u00adt\u00adian moral means.\u201d Excel\u00adlent news with typ\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly insight\u00adful com\u00admen\u00adtary by David French.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/stop-being-shocked\">Stop Being Shocked<\/a> (Bari Weiss, Tablet): \u201cThe hatred we expe\u00adri\u00adence on cam\u00adpus has noth\u00ading to do with the Israeli-Pales\u00adtin\u00adian con\u00adflict. It\u2019s because Jews defy anti-racist ide\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy sim\u00adply by exist\u00ading. So it\u2019s not so much that Zion\u00adism is racism. It\u2019s that Jew\u00adish\u00adness is.\u201c\n<ul>\n<li>Out\u00adstand\u00ading. There are SO MANY quotable bits in this essay.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/why-is-wokeness-winning\">Why Is Wok\u00ade\u00adness Win\u00adning?<\/a> (Andrew Sul\u00adli\u00advan, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cCrit\u00adi\u00adcal the\u00ado\u00adry was once an eso\u00adteric aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic pur\u00adsuit. Now it has become the core, under\u00adly\u00ading phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy of the major\u00adi\u00adty of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan cul\u00adtur\u00adal insti\u00adtu\u00adtions, uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties, media, cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtions, lib\u00ader\u00adal church\u00ades, NGOs, phil\u00adan\u00adthropies, and, of course, main\u00adstream jour\u00adnal\u00adism.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/2020\/10\/the-fundamentalist-war-on-wokeness-is-a-war-on-christian-love\/\">The Fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adist War on Wok\u00ade\u00adness is a War on Chris\u00adt\u00adian Love<\/a> (Michael Bird, Patheos): \u201cThe whole anti-woke and anti-crit\u00adi\u00adcal race the\u00ado\u00adry trope strike me as not so much inter\u00adest\u00aded in oppos\u00ading pro\u00adgres\u00adsive author\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan\u00adism and its divi\u00adsive racial pol\u00adi\u00adtics, as much as it serves to deny eth\u00adnic minori\u00adties have any griev\u00adances and white church\u00ades have any respon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty to do any\u00adthing about it.\u201d Bird is a respect\u00aded evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal the\u00adolo\u00adgian.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li>Some Stan\u00adford-relat\u00aded arti\u00adcles I saw:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2020\/10\/08\/the-prescience-of-shelby-steele\/\">The Pre\u00adscience of Shel\u00adby Steele<\/a> (Samuel Kro\u00adnen, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cShel\u00adby was the only sib\u00adling to reject the tenets of mod\u00adern lib\u00ader\u00adal\u00adism, and although he and his [twin] broth\u00ader work on the same cam\u00adpus and occa\u00adsion\u00adal\u00adly pass each oth\u00ader (Shel\u00adby is at Stanford\u2019s Hoover Insti\u00adtu\u00adtion), the two are not on speak\u00ading terms.\u201d Not the most reveal\u00ading excerpt, but prob\u00ada\u00adbly the most inter\u00adest\u00ading to this audi\u00adence.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2020\/10\/11\/an-open-letter-from-a-stanford-wrestling-parent-to-the-university-president\/\">An open let\u00adter from a Stan\u00adford wrestling par\u00adent to the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty pres\u00adi\u00addent<\/a> (Sarah Traxler, Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly): \u201cWhen address\u00ading the rea\u00adsons that the 11 sports in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar are being dis\u00adcon\u00adtin\u00adued, wrestling was cit\u00aded only in the cat\u00ade\u00adgo\u00adry of com\u00adpet\u00ading <em>\u2018with\u00adout a full com\u00adple\u00adment of schol\u00adar\u00adships.\u2019<\/em> One over-looked rea\u00adson for this is that wrestlers often come from low\u00ader income groups. As such, wrestling stu\u00addent-ath\u00adletes often qual\u00adi\u00adfy for need-based finan\u00adcial aid, reduc\u00ading the demand for the full com\u00adple\u00adment of ath\u00adlet\u00adic-based schol\u00adar\u00adships.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2020\/10\/14\/my-brief-spell-as-an-activist\/\">My Brief Spell as an Activist<\/a> (Lucy Kross Wal\u00adlace, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cThis was my first intox\u00adi\u00adcat\u00ading taste of empow\u00ader\u00adment born from vic\u00adtim\u00adhood. I was vin\u00addi\u00adcat\u00aded; exu\u00adber\u00adant. None of it had been my fault. All my doubts and self-hatred and guilt could be laid to rest. I had been the vic\u00adtim not only of cir\u00adcum\u00adstance and mis\u00adfor\u00adtune, but of oppres\u00adsion. The prob\u00adlem was sim\u00adple, the solu\u00adtion equal\u00adly so. I didn\u2019t have to change\u2014society did.\u201d The author is a sopho\u00admore at Stan\u00adford.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li>A reminder that there are some hor\u00adri\u00adble things hap\u00adpen\u00ading in this world:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/15\/opinion\/armenia-azerbaijan-conflict.html\">How Turkey\u2019s Mil\u00adi\u00adtary Adven\u00adtures Decrease Free\u00addom at Home<\/a> (Garo Pay\u00adlan, New York Times): \u201cAfter a decades-long fit\u00adful truce, the con\u00adflict over the sta\u00adtus of Nagorno-Karabakh \u2014 a break\u00adaway Armen\u00adian enclave in Azer\u00adbai\u00adjan \u2014 between Azer\u00adbai\u00adjan and Arme\u00adnia resumed last month, lead\u00ading to a large mil\u00adi\u00adtary deploy\u00adment, destruc\u00adtion of civil\u00adian cen\u00adters and thou\u00adsands of casu\u00adal\u00adties. In this war, Turkey strong\u00adly sup\u00adports Azer\u00adbai\u00adjan, with which it shares eth\u00adnic bonds, and Pres\u00adi\u00addent Recep Tayyip Erdo\u00adgan dis\u00admissed glob\u00adal calls for a cease-fire.\u201d The author is a mem\u00adber of the Turk\u00adish Par\u00adlia\u00adment. Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by an alum\u00adnus.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/international\/520437-azerbaijans-assault-against-armenia-threatens-democracy-everywhere\">Azer\u00adbai\u00adjan\u2019s assault against Arme\u00adnia threat\u00adens democ\u00adra\u00adcy every\u00adwhere<\/a> (Chris\u00adtos Makridis &amp; Alex Gal\u00adit\u00adsky, The Hill): \u201cWhile Azer\u00adbai\u00adjan has attempt\u00aded to shield itself from inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal scruti\u00adny by rid\u00ading on the pres\u00adence of tense domes\u00adtic pol\u00adi\u00adtics in the Unit\u00aded States and a glob\u00adal pan\u00addem\u00adic, we can\u00adnot ignore it any longer. The inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty must rec\u00adog\u00adnize that fail\u00adure to stand up for reli\u00adgious minori\u00adties any\u00adwhere is a threat to them every\u00adwhere. Inac\u00adtion cre\u00adates prece\u00addent and embold\u00adens dic\u00adta\u00adtors.\u201d One of the authors, Chris\u00adtos, is an alum\u00adnus of Chi Alpha.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/16\/china-ambassador-makes-veiled-threat-to-hong-kong-based-canadians\">Chi\u00adna ambas\u00adsador makes veiled threat to Hong Kong-based Cana\u00addi\u00adans<\/a> (Helen David\u00adson, The Guardian): \u201cCana\u00adda is among sev\u00ader\u00adal coun\u00adtries that sus\u00adpend\u00aded extra\u00addi\u00adtion agree\u00adments with Hong Kong in response to Beijing\u2019s impo\u00adsi\u00adtion of a sweep\u00ading nation\u00adal secu\u00adri\u00adty law in June. Dozens of MPs recent\u00adly called for Cana\u00adda to offer \u2018safe har\u00adbour\u2019 to pro-democ\u00adra\u00adcy pro\u00adtest\u00aders flee\u00ading Hong Kong, prompt\u00ading the warn\u00ading from Cong.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Relat\u00aded from a few weeks ago: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2020-09-21\/matthew-carney-foreign-journalist-china-intimidation-birtles\/12678610\">\u2018You will be put into deten\u00adtion\u2019: For\u00admer ABC bureau chief tells sto\u00adry of flee\u00ading Chi\u00adna for first time<\/a> (Matthew Car\u00adney, Aus\u00adtralia Broad\u00adcast\u00ading Cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtion): \u201cWe were instruct\u00aded to report to a facil\u00adi\u00adty in north Bei\u00adjing and told to bring my daugh\u00adter Yas\u00admine, who was 14 at the time, as she was now part of the inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtion. This felt like a line in the sand for me. I could not accept that they would involve my chil\u00addren. At the same time I was fright\u00adened. It felt like part of the Chi\u00adnese play\u00adbook: to go after fam\u00adi\u00adly mem\u00adbers as a way to exact pun\u00adish\u00adment and revenge.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/13\/handmaid-reality-deeply-religious-marriages-have-more-spousal-equality\/\">\u2018Hand\u00admaid\u2019 real\u00adi\u00adty: Deeply reli\u00adgious mar\u00adriages have more spousal equal\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (New York Post): \u201cReli\u00adgious, home-wor\u00adship\u00adping cou\u00adples also report greater rela\u00adtion\u00adship qual\u00adi\u00adty and sta\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty, and they are three times more like\u00adly than less-reli\u00adgious peers to report a sex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly sat\u00adis\u00adfy\u00ading rela\u00adtion\u00adship. The women don\u2019t appear to be repressed; in fact, they\u2019re gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly more like\u00adly to say they\u2019re hap\u00adpy and that their life has mean\u00ading and pur\u00adpose.\u201d And yet again research con\u00adfirms Bib\u00adli\u00adcal pre\u00adcepts. Allow me to take his oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to offer a friend\u00adly pas\u00adtoral reminder to mar\u00adry anoth\u00ader Chris\u00adt\u00adian, should you mar\u00adry.&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/13\/opinion\/amy-coney-barrett-motherhood.html\">Why Only Amy Coney Bar\u00adrett Gets to Have It All<\/a> (Kate\u00adlyn Beaty, New York Times): \u201c\u2026to set the record straight, on hand\u00admaids and beyond, con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Chris\u00adtians must do their part to imag\u00adine a broad\u00ader and more human\u00adiz\u00ading vision for women\u2019s place in the pub\u00adlic square. Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty has always con\u00adtained a lib\u00ader\u00ada\u00adto\u00adry seed: one that tells women that the human desire to work, cre\u00adate and shape insti\u00adtu\u00adtions is as impor\u00adtant, even as holy, as their abil\u00adi\u00adty to bear chil\u00addren. If Chris\u00adtians don\u2019t like the hand\u00admaid stereo\u00adtypes, now is the time to be clear on all that Chris\u00adt\u00adian women can do and be.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/reclaiminghope.substack.com\/p\/how-christians-should-think-about\">How Chris\u00adtians Should Think About Vot\u00ading<\/a> (Michael &amp; Melis\u00adsa Wear, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cWhen you vote in an elec\u00adtion, with the excep\u00adtion of a write-in bal\u00adlot, you are not vot\u00ading for your dream can\u00addi\u00addate. Your vote is not an unmedi\u00adat\u00aded expres\u00adsion of your iden\u00adti\u00adty, your vote is a choice between options you did not choose your\u00adself. If you view your vote as an unmedi\u00adat\u00aded, pure expres\u00adsion of your will, it can be debil\u00adi\u00adtat\u00ading.\u201d The author is a for\u00admer Oba\u00adma White House staffer. The arti\u00adcle itself is very non\u00adpar\u00adti\u00adsan.&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/11\/us\/politics\/hispanic-evangelical-trump.html\">Lati\u00adno, Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal and Polit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly Home\u00adless<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/jennifer-medina\">Jen\u00adnifer Med\u00adi\u00adna<\/a>, New York Times): \u201cWhen Pas\u00adtor Rivera looks at his con\u00adgre\u00adga\u00adtion of 200 fam\u00adi\u00adlies he sees a micro\u00adcosm of the Lati\u00adno vote in the Unit\u00aded States: how com\u00adplex it is, and how each party\u2019s attempt to solid\u00adi\u00adfy cru\u00adcial sup\u00adport can fall short. There are not clear ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal lines here between lib\u00ader\u00adals and con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives. Peo\u00adple care about immi\u00adgra\u00adtion, but are equal\u00adly con\u00adcerned about reli\u00adgious lib\u00ader\u00adty and abor\u00adtion.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Putting this one here is kind of cheat\u00ading, but I like hav\u00ading only 7 major top\u00adics. This is polit\u00adi\u00adcal enough that I\u2019m jus\u00adti\u00adfy\u00ading it to myself. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/09\/opinion\/nyt-1619-project-criticisms.html\">The 1619 Chron\u00adi\u00adcles<\/a> (Bret Stephens, New York Times): \u201cJour\u00adnal\u00adists are, most often, in the busi\u00adness of writ\u00ading the first rough draft of his\u00adto\u00adry, not try\u00ading to have the last word on it. We are best when we try to tell truths with a low\u00ader\u00adcase t, fol\u00adlow\u00ading evi\u00addence in direc\u00adtions unseen, not the capital\u2011T truth of a pre-estab\u00adlished nar\u00adra\u00adtive in which incon\u00adve\u00adnient facts get dis\u00adcard\u00aded.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/1619-project-took-over-2020-inside-story\/2020\/10\/13\/af537092-00df-11eb-897d-3a6201d6643f_story.html\">How the 1619 Project took over 2020<\/a> (Sarah Elli\u00adson, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cHan\u00adnah-Jones has fierce\u00adly defend\u00aded the 1619 Project. But today, she acknowl\u00adedges that for all the experts she con\u00adsult\u00aded, she should have sat down with addi\u00adtion\u00adal schol\u00adars with par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar focus on colo\u00adnial his\u00adto\u00adry, the Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adary War and the Civ\u00adil War, to bet\u00adter reflect the con\u00adtention in the field.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2020\/10\/06\/forget-what-gender-activists-tell-you-heres-what-medical-transition-looks-like\/\">For\u00adget What Gen\u00adder Activists Tell You. Here\u2019s What Med\u00adical Tran\u00adsi\u00adtion Looks Like<\/a> (Scott New\u00adgent, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cI write all this as a 47-year-old trans\u00adgen\u00adder man who tran\u00adsi\u00adtioned five years ago. I\u2019m also a par\u00adent to three teenagers. Though I admire the good inten\u00adtions of par\u00adents who seek to sup\u00adport their chil\u00addren, I have seri\u00adous con\u00adcerns about reck\u00adless acqui\u00ades\u00adcence to a child\u2019s Inter\u00adnet-medi\u00adat\u00aded self-diag\u00adno\u00adsis. Many old\u00ader trans\u00adgen\u00adder folks share these con\u00adcerns, too.\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\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TN7s0-FuIEM\">How the Left and Right Fight<\/a> (Awak\u00aden With JP, YouTube): five spot-on min\u00adutes<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/Zi1RDE8\">How They X\u2011Ray Babies<\/a> (Imgur)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/VmrtQYh\">Bad Deci\u00adsions<\/a> (Imgur) \u2014 does not start out fun\u00adny \u2014 stick with it<\/li><li>Title pulled from the com\u00adments: <a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/56eMG4G\">Can con\u00adfirm 100% this is authen\u00adtic Chi\u00adnese fam\u00adi\u00adly.<\/a> (Imgur): one-minute video<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2020-10-07\">Every Group Has A Ted<\/a> (Dil\u00adbert)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/pudding.cool\/2020\/10\/kpop\/\">Why are K\u2011pop groups so big?<\/a> (Isabel\u00adla Chua and Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth de Luna, The Pud\u00adding)&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/11\/us\/politics\/babylon-bee-conservative-satire.html\">What \u2018The Baby\u00adlon Bee\u2019 Thinks Is So Fun\u00adny About Lib\u00ader\u00adals<\/a> (Emma Gold\u00adberg, New York Times): this is real, just feels like it belongs here<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/big-tech-counters-election-interference-with-their-own-election-interference\/\">Big Tech Fights Elec\u00adtion Inter\u00adfer\u00adence By Inter\u00adfer\u00ading In Elec\u00adtion<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/salt\">Lot\u2019s Wife<\/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:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2019\/03\/21\/study-leaving-religion-sex-abuse-scandals-affects-public-health-column\/3224575002\/\">Religion\u2019s health effects should make doubt\u00ading parish\u00adioners recon\u00adsid\u00ader leav\u00ading<\/a> (John Siniff and Tyler J. Van\u00adder\u00adWeele, USA Today): \u201cSim\u00adply from a pub\u00adlic health per\u00adspec\u00adtive, the con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00ading diminu\u00adtion of reli\u00adgious upbring\u00ading in Amer\u00adi\u00adca would be bad for health. This is not pros\u00ade\u00adly\u00adtiz\u00ading; this is sci\u00adence.\u201d The Har\u00advard epi\u00addemi\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy pro\u00adfes\u00adsor&nbsp; last made an appear\u00adance here back in<a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/09\/02\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-65\"> vol\u00adume 65<\/a>. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/03\/22\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-195\">vol\u00adume 195<\/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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