{"id":6369,"date":"2020-10-30T21:42:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T05:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6369"},"modified":"2020-10-30T21:42:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T05:42:52","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/10\/30\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-274","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 274"},"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:\/\/religionnews.com\/2020\/10\/26\/white-christian-america-built-a-faith-based-safety-net-what-happens-when-its-gone\/\">White Chris\u00adt\u00adian Amer\u00adi\u00adca built a faith-based safe\u00adty net. What hap\u00adpens when it\u2019s gone?<\/a> (Bob Smi\u00adetana, Reli\u00adgion News Ser\u00advice): \u201c\u2018The aver\u00adage Amer\u00adi\u00adcan doesn\u2019t real\u00adize all the things that church\u00ades do to make soci\u00adety less awful,\u2019 [pro\u00adfes\u00adsor Burge] said. Church\u00ades and oth\u00ader reli\u00adgious groups tutor kids, feed hun\u00adgry peo\u00adple, shel\u00adter the home\u00adless and do a great deal of good, often under the radar, he said. As reli\u00adgious groups shrink, those ser\u00advices could be lost. Burge fears younger Amer\u00adi\u00adcans, in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar, don\u2019t see orga\u00adnized reli\u00adgion as use\u00adful. But \u2018it\u2019s one of those things where you don\u2019t know what you had till it is gone.\u2019\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2020\/10\/the-sins-that-cry-out-to-heaven\">The Sins That Cry Out to Heav\u00aden<\/a> (Eduar\u00addo Andi\u00adno, First Things): \u201cThe Chris\u00adt\u00adian tra\u00addi\u00adtion speaks of four <em>pec\u00adca\u00adta cla\u00adman\u00adtia<\/em>, or sins that cry out to heav\u00aden for vengeance: mur\u00adder, sodomy, oppres\u00adsion of the poor, and defraud\u00ading work\u00aders of their wages\u2026. This is not an arbi\u00adtrary col\u00adlec\u00adtion of sins.\u201d<\/li><li>Vot\u00ading &amp; Faith\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/october\/evangelical-nonvoters-politican-engagement-election.html\">Meet the Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals Who Won\u2019t Vote for Trump, Biden, or Any\u00adbody at All<\/a> (Megan Fowler, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cLike many Chris\u00adt\u00adian non\u00advot\u00aders before her, she saw the act of cast\u00ading a bal\u00adlot as a sign of approval for a polit\u00adi\u00adcal pow\u00ader struc\u00adture that in many ways opposed the way of Christ. She couldn\u2019t do it. If Jesus brought about his king\u00addom by lay\u00ading down his rights and spurn\u00ading polit\u00adi\u00adcal pow\u00ader, Kennedy want\u00aded to fol\u00adlow his exam\u00adple.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/edstetzer\/2020\/october\/of-course-evangelicals-should-vote-for-trump.html\">Of Course Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals Should Vote for Trump<\/a> (Paula White-Cain, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cI\u2019ve seen [Don\u00adald Trump] first\u00adhand as a father, a hus\u00adband, a leader, a busi\u00adness\u00adman and now the Pres\u00adi\u00addent of the Unit\u00aded States of Amer\u00adi\u00adca. I also rec\u00adog\u00adnize most peo\u00adple have sec\u00adond\u00adhand infor\u00adma\u00adtion that mis\u00adchar\u00adac\u00adter\u00adizes the man I know.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/edstetzer\/2020\/october\/christian-case-for-joe-biden.html\">The Chris\u00adt\u00adian Case for Joe Biden<\/a> (Josh Dick\u00adson, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cAs the Nation\u00adal Faith Engage\u00adment Direc\u00adtor for the Biden Cam\u00adpaign, I spend my days talk\u00ading to peo\u00adple of faith about why I believe Joe is the clear moral choice in this elec\u00adtion. But I haven\u2019t always been a Demo\u00adc\u00adrat. Like many Chris\u00adtians, I grew up Repub\u00adli\u00adcan.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/breakingground.us\/a-tale-of-two-evangelicalisms\/\">A Tale of Two Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcalisms<\/a> (Joel Hall\u00addorf, Break\u00ading Ground): \u201cIn the sto\u00adry of Swedish moder\u00adni\u00adty, the demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic wel\u00adfare state trans\u00adformed an unjust and elit\u00adist soci\u00adety into a more just one. But the found\u00ading myth of Unit\u00aded States is not a sto\u00adry about free\u00addom <em>through <\/em>the state, but free\u00addom <em>from <\/em>the state.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li>On the media:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hcTXPT5LrL8\">What Do For\u00adeign Cor\u00adre\u00adspon\u00addents Think of the U.S.?<\/a> (The New York\u00ader, YouTube): thir\u00adteen min\u00adutes. I found the first half more inter\u00adest\u00ading than the last half. It picked back up in the last two min\u00adutes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/religionunplugged.com\/news\/2020\/10\/15\/what-i-wish-my-christian-friends-knew-about-the-news-media\">What I Wish My Chris\u00adt\u00adian Friends Knew About the News Media<\/a> (Rob Vaughn, Reli\u00adgion Unplugged): \u201cAre my friends wrong to see the main\u00adstream media as rot\u00adten and rid\u00adden with \u2018fake news\u2019? Yes. At least in sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant ways, they have that wrong. Sure, we make mis\u00adtakes. We have blind spots and faulty assump\u00adtions. But many of the crit\u00adi\u00adcisms are off the mark: they mis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstand what jour\u00adnal\u00adism is about; they feed a grow\u00ading sense that there is no agreed upon real\u00adi\u00adty and set of facts to which we can all refer; and, as a Chris\u00adt\u00adian I fear they reflect poor\u00adly on peo\u00adple who say they love the truth.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/my-resignation-from-the-intercept\">My Res\u00adig\u00adna\u00adtion From The Inter\u00adcept<\/a> (Glenn Green\u00adwald, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cToday I sent my inten\u00adtion to resign from The Inter\u00adcept, the news out\u00adlet I co-found\u00aded in 2013 with Jere\u00admy Scahill and Lau\u00adra Poitras, as well as from its par\u00adent com\u00adpa\u00adny First Look Media. The final, pre\u00adcip\u00adi\u00adtat\u00ading cause is that The Intercept\u2019s edi\u00adtors, in vio\u00adla\u00adtion of my con\u00adtrac\u00adtu\u00adal right of edi\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal free\u00addom, cen\u00adsored an arti\u00adcle I wrote this week, refus\u00ading to pub\u00adlish it unless I remove all sec\u00adtions crit\u00adi\u00adcal of Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic pres\u00adi\u00adden\u00adtial can\u00addi\u00addate Joe Biden, the can\u00addi\u00addate vehe\u00adment\u00adly sup\u00adport\u00aded by all New-York-based Inter\u00adcept edi\u00adtors involved in this effort at sup\u00adpres\u00adsion.\u201d This is sad.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2020\/10\/30\/how-the-intercept-abandoned-its-truth-seeking-mission-and-lost-its-best-journalist\/\">How The Inter\u00adcept Aban\u00addoned Its Truth-Seek\u00ading Mission\u2014And Lost Its Best Jour\u00adnal\u00adist<\/a> (Zaid Jilani, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cGreen\u00adwald is a con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsial fig\u00adure, but my sense of him is that he\u2019s extreme\u00adly prin\u00adci\u00adpled. Although he\u2019s unabashed\u00adly a man of the liberal-Left\u2014having spent years advo\u00adcat\u00ading for left-wing caus\u00ades from ani\u00admal rights to anti-war activism\u2014he has devel\u00adoped an impres\u00adsive (some would call it inflex\u00adi\u00adble) com\u00admit\u00adment to what he sees as basic fair\u00adness. He doesn\u2019t care about the let\u00adter next to a politician\u2019s name: Green\u00adwald believes every\u00adone in pow\u00ader should be held account\u00adable at all times.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/28\/insider\/religion-reporters.html\">Two Reli\u00adgion Reporters Cov\u00ader Where Faith and Pol\u00adi\u00adtics Meet<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/will-dudding\">Will Dud\u00adding<\/a>, New York Times): \u201cI think [reli\u00adgion and pol\u00adi\u00adtics] seem insep\u00ada\u00adra\u00adble part\u00adly because it\u2019s elec\u00adtion sea\u00adson, and as jour\u00adnal\u00adists we tend to view things through that lens our\u00adselves. For ordi\u00adnary believ\u00aders, the con\u00adnec\u00adtion is not always so clear. Some peo\u00adple clear\u00adly draw a con\u00adnec\u00adtion between their faith and their views on nation\u00adal pol\u00adi\u00adtics; oth\u00aders def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly don\u2019t. I try to keep that in mind as a reporter and not force every sto\u00adry into a polit\u00adi\u00adcal frame.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collaborativefund.com\/blog\/lots-of-overnight-tragedies-no-overnight-miracles\/\">Lots of Overnight Tragedies, No Overnight Mir\u00ada\u00adcles<\/a> (Mor\u00adgan Housel, The Col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtive Fund): \u201cAn impor\u00adtant thing that explains a lot of things is that good news takes time but bad news hap\u00adpens instant\u00adly.\u201d Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by the par\u00adent of an alum\u00adnus.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/10\/americans-have-lost-sight-what-fascism-means\/616846\/\">Amer\u00adi\u00adcans Have Lost Sight of What \u2018Fas\u00adcism\u2019 Means<\/a> (Sha\u00addi Hamid, The Atlantic): \u201cWords mat\u00adter because they help order our under\u00adstand\u00ading of pol\u00adi\u00adtics both at home and abroad. If Cot\u00adton is a fas\u00adcist, then we don\u2019t know what fas\u00adcism is. And if we don\u2019t know what fas\u00adcism is, then we will strug\u00adgle to iden\u00adti\u00adfy it when it threat\u00adens mil\u00adlions of lives\u2014which is pre\u00adcise\u00adly what is hap\u00adpen\u00ading today in areas under Beijing\u2019s con\u00adtrol.\u201d Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2020\/oct\/29\/dave-ramsey-debt-financial-guru\">The man who wants to help you out of debt \u2013 at any cost<\/a> (J Oliv\u00ader Con\u00adroy, The Guardian): \u201cRam\u00adsey has made clear that he regards peo\u00adple like me as over-edu\u00adcat\u00aded, pen\u00adcil-necked idiots. From a finan\u00adcial point of view, I am in some ways his worst night\u00admare. I have more than $80,000 in stu\u00addent debt, most of it from a master\u2019s degree in jour\u00adnal\u00adism. I work at a famous\u00adly lib\u00ader\u00adal news\u00adpa\u00adper whose colum\u00adnists like to advo\u00adcate for all the sorts of bleed\u00ading-heart eco\u00adnom\u00adic poli\u00adcies he hates.\u201d I\u2019m always fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded by news\u00adpa\u00adper arti\u00adcles about high-pro\u00adfile Chris\u00adtians.&nbsp;<\/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:\/\/dutchreview.com\/news\/break-in-at-escape-room-thieves-crack-safe-but-find-only-riddles\/\">Break in at Escape Room: thieves crack safe but find only rid\u00addles<\/a> (Emi\u00adly Burg\u00ader, Dutch Review): haha\u00adha\u00adha<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/v2GSa4m\">Going To Bed Ear\u00adly<\/a> (Imgur)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SyX9w05JHuQ\">A Unique Card Trick<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): eight min\u00adutes<\/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:\/\/stanfordreview.org\/jason-spyres-shares-his-inspiring-story\/\">From Mid\u00adwest Drug Deal\u00ader to The Farm: Jason Spyres Shares His Inspir\u00ading Sto\u00adry<\/a> (Yas\u00admin Sam\u00adrai, Stan\u00adford Review): \u201cTo jus\u00adti\u00adfy his crim\u00adi\u00adnal behav\u00adiour, he told him\u00adself that though sell\u00ading pot was ille\u00adgal, it wasn\u2019t immoral. This the\u00ado\u00adry came crash\u00ading down when two gangs broke into his house, split his head open, and robbed him. When Spyres dis\u00adcov\u00adered that the bur\u00adglars had near\u00adly mis\u00adtak\u00aden his house for his neighbor\u2019s, he real\u00adized that sell\u00ading drugs put oth\u00ader people\u2019s safe\u00adty in jeop\u00adardy. \u2018I was shocked and sick\u00adened with myself,\u2019 he recalled. \u2018I was part of a black mar\u00adket and my actions had unin\u00adtend\u00aded con\u00adse\u00adquences.\u2019\u201d What a wild sto\u00adry. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/05\/24\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-204\">vol\u00adume 204<\/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>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d be hap\u00adpy that this is the last week I\u2019ll share \u201chow to think about vot\u00ading\u201d arti\u00adcles, except next week I\u2019ll have to share elec\u00adtion think\u00adpieces. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"I'd be happy that this is the last week I'll share \"how to think about voting\" articles, except next week I'll have to share election thinkpieces. 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