{"id":6425,"date":"2020-12-11T17:36:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T01:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6425"},"modified":"2020-12-11T17:36:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T01:36:24","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/12\/11\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-279","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 279"},"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:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2020-12-08\/stanford-volleyball-hayley-hodson-concussions-cte-lawsuit\">Blows to vol\u00adley\u00adball star Hay\u00adley Hod\u00adson\u2019s head changed her life<\/a> (Patrick Hru\u00adby, LA Times): \u201cThe fam\u00adi\u00adly did not trust Stan\u00adford. School doc\u00adtors, Hod\u00adson says, had diag\u00adnosed her foot pain as inflam\u00adma\u00adtion and told her that she wasn\u2019t risk\u00ading fur\u00adther injury by play\u00ading. Med\u00adical records show that an inde\u00adpen\u00addent doc\u00adtor sub\u00adse\u00adquent\u00adly reviewed MRI scans tak\u00aden by Stan\u00adford and deter\u00admined she had a stress frac\u00adture.\u201d Hay\u00adley was a stu\u00addent in Chi Alpha.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2020\/12\/07\/my-white-privilege-didnt-save-me-but-god-did\/\">My White Priv\u00adi\u00adlege Did\u00adn\u2019t Save Me. But God Did<\/a> (Edie Wyatt, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cNot long after, I walked into a sub\u00adur\u00adban Bap\u00adtist church, full of strange, unfash\u00adion\u00adably dressed, con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive Chris\u00adtians. I was a Marx\u00adist, a fem\u00adi\u00adnist, foul-mouthed, a chain-smok\u00ader, and des\u00adper\u00adate. The love I received in that place is the rea\u00adson that I will defend the rights of fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adist Chris\u00adtians to my dying breath.\u201d This is amaz\u00ading. If you only read one thing this week, make it this one. Reminder: titles are rarely cho\u00adsen by the author and often do not reflect the essence of an arti\u00adcle.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2020\/12\/11\/pastors-covid-vaccine-skeptics\/\">A pastor\u2019s life depends on a coro\u00adn\u00adavirus vac\u00adcine. Now he faces skep\u00adtics in his church.<\/a> (Sarah Pul\u00adliam Bai\u00adley, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cBefore the pan\u00addem\u00adic, the 45-year-old min\u00adis\u00adter, who nor\u00admal\u00adly leads near\u00adly 2,000 peo\u00adple, would stand by the entrance to shake hands and offer hugs. Now, before ser\u00advices, he stays seclud\u00aded in a room off\u00adstage until it is time to preach while an armed church mem\u00adber who works for Home\u00adland Secu\u00adri\u00adty watch\u00ades the door.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/327311\/americans-mental-health-ratings-sink-new-low.aspx\">Amer\u00adi\u00adcans\u2019 Men\u00adtal Health Rat\u00adings Sink to New Low<\/a> (Megan Bre\u00adnan, Gallup): \u201cAlthough the major\u00adi\u00adty of U.S. adults con\u00adtin\u00adue to rate their men\u00adtal health as excel\u00adlent (34%) or good (42%), and far few\u00ader say it is only fair (18%) or poor (5%), the lat\u00adest excel\u00adlent rat\u00adings are eight points low\u00ader than Gallup has mea\u00adsured in any pri\u00ador year.\u201d&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent because of one very inter\u00adest\u00ading sta\u00adtis\u00adtic: the <strong>only<\/strong> group that showed an increase in men\u00adtal health was <strong>week\u00adly church\u00adgo\u00aders<\/strong> (the week\u00adly part mat\u00adters \u2014 month\u00adly church\u00adgo\u00aders expe\u00adri\u00adenced a decline). I looked at the more detailed PDF and it was unclear to me how they asked about church atten\u00addance, and of course it is impos\u00adsi\u00adble to iden\u00adti\u00adfy cau\u00adsa\u00adtion from a sur\u00advey like this.<\/li>\n<li>I found this com\u00adment by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lymanstoneky\/status\/1337037502847348738\">an econ\u00ado\u00admist on Twit\u00adter<\/a> fun\u00adny: \u201cThis is absolute\u00adly the least sur\u00adpris\u00ading thing ever. Church folks are like, \u201cThe pan\u00addem\u00adic sucks, but my church did these 57 things and I\u2019m over\u00adwhelmed with peo\u00adple try\u00ading to find ways to sup\u00adport dur\u00ading these times.\u201d Every\u00adbody else is like, \u2018I\u2019M SO ALONE\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/05\/us\/carl-lentz-hillsong-pastor.html\">The Rise and Fall of Carl Lentz, the Celebri\u00adty Pas\u00adtor of Hill\u00adsong Church<\/a> (Ruth Gra\u00adham, New York Times): \u201cSoon the church\u2019s cul\u00adtur\u00adal cachet grew out\u00adside Chris\u00adt\u00adian cir\u00adcles. \u2018I knew peo\u00adple who came to church not because they were Chris\u00adtians but because they thought Carl was hot,\u2019 said Heather McClana\u00adhan, who worked for the church in 2014 and 2015.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/frenchpress.thedispatch.com\/p\/the-crisis-of-christian-celebrity\">The Cri\u00adsis of Chris\u00adt\u00adian Celebri\u00adty<\/a> (David French, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cThe way I\u2019ve put it in speech\u00ades to young Chris\u00adtians is sim\u00adply this, \u2018Make the easy choice so you don\u2019t have to make the hard choice.\u2019 Say\u00ading no to the extra drink is much eas\u00adi\u00ader than halt\u00ading a drunk\u00aden flir\u00adta\u00adtion.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/prominent-evangelicals-are-directing-trumps-sinking-ship-that-feeds-doubts-about-religion\/2020\/12\/07\/5ad8eb0c-38c3-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html\">Promi\u00adnent evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals are direct\u00ading Trump\u2019s sink\u00ading ship. That feeds doubts about reli\u00adgion.<\/a> (Michael Ger\u00adson, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cWhen promi\u00adnent Chris\u00adtians affirm absurd polit\u00adi\u00adcal lies with reli\u00adgious fer\u00advor, non\u00adbe\u00adliev\u00aders have every rea\u00adson to think: \u2018Maybe Chris\u00adtians are prone to swal\u00adlow\u00ading absurd reli\u00adgious lies as well. Maybe they are sim\u00adply cred\u00adu\u00adlous about every\u00adthing.\u2019 If we should encounter some\u00adone who believes \u2014 hon\u00adest\u00adly and adamant\u00adly believes \u2014 in both the exis\u00adtence of the East\u00ader Bun\u00adny and in the res\u00adur\u00adrec\u00adtion of Christ, it would nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adly raise ques\u00adtions about the qual\u00adi\u00adty of his or her believ\u00ading fac\u00adul\u00adties.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/12\/04\/1013068\/algorithms-create-a-poverty-trap-lawyers-fight-back\/\">The com\u00ading war on the hid\u00adden algo\u00adrithms that trap peo\u00adple in pover\u00adty<\/a> (Karen Hao, MIT Tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy Review): Not until they were stand\u00ading in the court\u00adroom in the mid\u00addle of a hear\u00ading did the wit\u00adness rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00ading the state reveal that the gov\u00adern\u00adment had just adopt\u00aded a new algo\u00adrithm. The wit\u00adness, a nurse, couldn\u2019t explain any\u00adthing about it. \u201cOf course not\u2014they bought it off the shelf,\u201d Gilman says. \u201cShe\u2019s a nurse, not a com\u00adput\u00ader sci\u00aden\u00adtist. She couldn\u2019t answer what fac\u00adtors go into it. How is it weight\u00aded? What are the out\u00adcomes that you\u2019re look\u00ading for? So there I am with my stu\u00addent attor\u00adney, who\u2019s in my clin\u00adic with me, and it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, am I going to cross-exam\u00adine an algo\u00adrithm?\u2019\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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BnmkR1NK-nU\">QI\u2019s Gift-Wrap\u00adping Life Hack!<\/a> (QI, YouTube): mind blown in less than three min\u00adutes<\/p>\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:\/\/quillette.com\/2019\/07\/19\/the-problem-with-tourist-journalism\/\">Tourist Jour\u00adnal\u00adism Ver\u00adsus the Work\u00ading Class<\/a> (Kevin Mims, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cTo university-educated media pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adals like Car\u00adole Cad\u00adwal\u00adladr, James Blood\u00adworth, and John Oliv\u00ader, an Ama\u00adzon ware\u00adhouse must seem like the Black Hole of Cal\u00adcut\u00adta. But I\u2019ve done low-paying man\u00adu\u00adal labor for most of my work\u00ading life, and rarely have I appre\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded a job as much as my role as an Ama\u00adzon asso\u00adciate.\u201d I learned many things from this arti\u00adcle. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2019\/07\/26\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-212\">vol\u00adume 212<\/a>, with a fol\u00adlow-up shared the next week: <a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2019\/08\/06\/how-and-why-to-kissass\/\">How (and Why) to KISSASS<\/a> (Kevin Mims, Quil\u00adlette): \u201c\u2026if you\u2019re not a mem\u00adber of the pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal class, the key to get\u00adting your per\u00adson\u00adal essays pub\u00adlished in promi\u00adnent pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtions is KISSASS\u2014Keep It Short, Sad, And Sim\u00adple, Stu\u00adpid.\u201d<\/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>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. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading Blows to vol\u00adley\u00adball star Hay\u00adley Hod\u00adson\u2019s head changed her life (Patrick Hru\u00adby, LA Times): \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/12\/11\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-279\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 279\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_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":"An article about an alumnus, a gripping testimony with an unfortunate title, and good news for weekly church attenders and more!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[124,219,120,160,275,117,135],"class_list":["post-6425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-famous-christians","tag-how-the-church-is-perceived","tag-pandemic","tag-politics","tag-stanford"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1FD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6429,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions\/6429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}