{"id":6375,"date":"2020-11-06T17:04:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T01:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6375"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:04:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T01:04:40","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-275","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/11\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-275","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 275"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" 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 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>     On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Election stuff is at the bottom. I\u2019d say read at your peril, but there\u2019s some genuinely fascinating stuff in there. There will be a TON of analysis pieces next week, so please forward me any that you find insightful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicscientists.org\/idea\/on-what-atheists-say-there-is\">On What Atheists Say There Is<\/a> (M. Anthony Mills, Society of Catholic Scientists): \u201cAccording to the atheist, the theist\u2019s error is believing in one too many things. Yet, for the theist, the disagreement is not about the existence of one particular thing, but \u2018about everything,\u2019 as MacIntyre puts it.\u201d The beginning and end are excellent. The middle muddles unless you have very precise philosophical interests. The author has a Ph.D. in philosophy.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2020\/11\/1\/attention-sean-feucht-and-evangelical-leaders-hatred-of-the-press-is-hurting-your-cause\">Attention Sean Feucht and evangelical leaders: Hatred of the press is hurting your cause<\/a> (Julia Duin, GetReligion): \u201cGetting rebuffed whenever I tried to interview him got rather tiring when I noticed how he was tweeting his vexation with media coverage while planning a huge Christian concert on the Mall that day. Note to public figures: When you continually refuse to give reporters access, don\u2019t be surprised when their coverage isn\u2019t what you\u2019d&nbsp;like.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/magazine\/2020\/11\/16\/future-of-christian-marriage-mark-regnerus-in-new-book-studies-it-advises\/\">Future of Christian Marriage: Mark Regnerus in New Book Studies It &amp; Advises<\/a> (Rachel Lu, National Review): \u201cThis is the book to read if you\u2019ve wondered whether young Chris\u00adtians around the world are more success\u00adful than their secular counterparts at finding love.\u201d&nbsp;<ul>\n<li>Related but not directly: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2012\/01\/a-case-for-later-marriage\">A Case for Later Marriage<\/a> (Elise Ehrhard, First Things): \u201cThe later marrying age in the United States is here to stay, and there is no reason for people of faith to fear it. In fact, we should embrace it as a good&nbsp;thing.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/november\/supreme-court-fulton-catholic-foster-care-religious-liberty.html\">Supreme Court Reconsiders Religious Liberty Rule in Foster Care Case<\/a> (Daniel Silliman, Christianity Today): \u201cThe city is reaching out and telling a private religious ministry\u2014which has been doing this work for two centuries\u2014how to run its internal affairs. And trying to coerce it to make statements that are contrary to its religious beliefs as a condition of continuing to participate in the religious exercise that they have carried out in Philadelphia for two centuries.\u201d Honestly, this case could be far more important than the presidential election. I am cautiously hopeful.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/02\/magazine\/greta-thunberg-interview.html\">Greta Thunberg Hears Your Excuses. She Is Not Impressed.<\/a> (David Marchese, New York Times): \u201cIt sometimes gets awkward: In Sweden we have this phenomenon called <em>Jantelagen. <\/em>It\u2019s when someone is famous, and the people around use up all their energy to ignore the fact that the person is famous.\u201d This is a fun interview. I suspect I would like Greta but I doubt she would like&nbsp;me.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Some election stuff:<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/06\/opinion\/evangelicals-republicans.html\">Why Evangelicals Aren\u2019t What They Used to Be<\/a> (Elizabeth Bruenig, New York Times): \u201cThere has recently been talk of abandoning the label \u2018evangelical\u2019 among those who answer to the descriptor, largely because of its transformation into a mainly political term.\u201d Bruenig is a Roman Catholic and a consistently interesting writer.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2020\/november-web-only\/trump-election-politics-church-kingdom.html\">Why Evangelicals Disagree on the President<\/a> (Tim Dalrymple, Christiantiy Today): \u201cOur inability to understand the rationality of an opposing viewpoint is more often a failure of imagination on our part than a failure of rationality on theirs. The difference between the camps cannot be that one side is truly Christian while the other is not, or that either side possesses a monopoly on good ideas and good intentions.\u201d Recommended to me by a Stanford administrator. I think the author correctly identifies the two camps in evangelicalism, but is wrong in his assessment of their cause. The author is, incidentally, a Stanford grad.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/magazine\/2020\/10\/26\/gene-weingarten-divided-country-healing\/\">In Search Of Healing<\/a> (Gene Weingarten, Washington Post): \u201cThe current political climate has riven families, destroyed ancient friendships, tested marriages. The stakes are so elevated, the alternatives so stark, the consequences so potentially dire, that the principal emotion generated \u2014 inflamed by highly partisan media, and social media, on the left and the right \u2014 is something that very much resembles hatred.\u201d This might honestly be my favorite read of the week. The end is amazing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-election-trump-families\/you-are-no-longer-my-mother-how-the-election-is-dividing-american-families-idUSKBN27I16E\">\u2018You are no longer my mother\u2019: A divided America will struggle to heal after Trump era<\/a> (Tim Reid, Gabriella Borter, &amp; Michael Martina, Reuters): \u201cShe is not sure those rifts with friends and family will ever mend, because each believes the other to have a totally alien value system.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/05\/opinion\/trump-biden-voters.html\">What the Voters Are Trying to Tell Us<\/a> (David Brooks, New York Times): \u201c\u2026elections are educational events. Voters are not always wise, but they are usually comprehensible. They know more about their own lives than we in our information bubbles do, and they almost always tell us something important.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2020\/11\/04\/taking-new-seats-and-retaining-old-ones-a-string-of-congressional-victories-for-stanford-alums\/\">Taking new seats and retaining old ones, a string of congressional victories for Stanford alums<\/a> (Sarina Deb and Yash Dalmia, Stanford Daily): \u201cTen Stanford alumni were re-elected to their positions in Congress in Tuesday\u2019s elections \u2014 seven in the House of Representatives and three in the Senate.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Three perspectives on race and the election:<ol><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/november\/latino-evangelical-voters-trump-biden-fl-tx-az.html\">Latino Evangelicals Boost Trump in Florida and Texas<\/a> (Kate Shellnutt, Christianity Today): \u201cThis year, Americans saw the contrast between Latino voters from different backgrounds play out in two major metro areas in US swing states\u2014Maricopa County in Arizona and Miami-Dade County in Florida.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/11\/5\/21548677\/trump-hispanic-vote-latinx\">Trump\u2019s gains with Hispanic voters should prompt some progressive rethinking<\/a> (Matthew Yglesias, Vox): \u201cWhat if many US Hispanics simply don\u2019t see the racial politics of the Trump era the way intellectuals \u2014 whose thinking and writing on structural racism and white supremacy have gained broad influence in recent years \u2014 think they should?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/trump-vote-rising-among-blacks-hispanics-despite-conventional-wisdom-ncna1245787\">The Trump vote is rising among Blacks and Hispanics, despite the conventional wisdom<\/a> (Musa al-Gharbi, NBC News): \u201cPerceptions of Trump as racist seem to be a core driving force pushing whites toward the Democrats. Why would the opposite pattern be holding among minority voters \u2014 i.e. the very people the president is purportedly being racist against?\u201d The author is a sociologist at Columbia and wrote this before the election.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/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.youtube.com\/watch?v=wbL6prdcGes\">A Lego Magic Trick<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): seven minutes<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/tZG1Bv7oDGI\">A Dating Magic Trick<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): eight minutes<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uQtZ67a_5EQ\">A Card Magic Trick<\/a> (Asia\u2019s Got Talent, YouTube): five minutes<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/soccer\/2020\/10\/30\/21541962\/soccer-match-ai-camera-bald-head-ball\">Soccer match ruined when AI-controlled camera mistakes ref\u2019s bald head for ball<\/a> I feel&nbsp;seen.<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.basicinstructions.net\/basic-instructions\/2020\/11\/5\/how-to-kill-a-joke\">How to Kill a Joke<\/a> (Basic Instructions)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mli3FmTK060\">Serial Killers Are Always White<\/a> (Kabir Singh, YouTube): four minutes<\/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:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2019\/05\/22\/the-apa-meeting-a-photo-essay\/\">The APA Meeting: A Photo\u2010Essay<\/a> (Scott Alexander, Slate Star Codex): \u201cWere there really more than twice as many sessions on global warming as on obsessive compulsive disorder? Three times as many on immigration as on ADHD? As best I can count, yes. I don\u2019t want to exaggerate this. There was still a lot of really meaty scientific discussion if you sought it out. But overall the balance was pretty striking\u2026. If you want to model the APA, you could do worse than a giant firehose that takes in pharmaceutical company money at one end, and shoots lectures about social justice out the other.\u201d This is funny, rambling, insightful commentary on the American Psychiatric Association\u2019s annual meeting. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/05\/24\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-204\">volume 204<\/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>On Fridays I share articles\/resources about broad cultural, societal and theological issues. Be sure to see the explanation and disclaimers at the bottom. Things Glen Found Interesting Election stuff is at the bottom. I\u2019d say read at your peril, but there\u2019s some genuinely fascinating stuff in there. There will be a TON of analysis pieces \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/11\/06\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-275\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 275\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"As much non-election stuff as I could find. 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