{"id":6511,"date":"2021-02-26T17:23:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T01:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6511"},"modified":"2021-02-26T17:23:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T01:23:39","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-290","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/02\/26\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-290","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 290"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/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. I welcome your suggestions. If you read something fascinating please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is volume 290, which is an interesting number because it is both the product of three primes (= 2 \u22c5 5 \u22c5 29) as well as the sum of consecutive primes (= 67 + 71+ 73 +79).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. Evangelicals in America: The Stats May Surprise You<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Gospel Coalition): \u201c\u2026after looking at the data for the last 10 years as a quantitative social scientist, I can say with certainty that although there are clear reasons for concern, evangelical presence in the United States is stronger than ever before.\u201d The author is a political science professor at Eastern Illinois University and also a pastor in a non-evangelical denomination.<\/li>
  2. Religious Community and Human Flourishing<\/a> (Tyler J. VanderWeele, Psychology Today): \u201cIn some cases, our results closely replicated past work. For example, we found that, even after controlling for the factors above, individuals who attended religious services weekly or more were 16% less likely to become depressed, and saw a 29% reduction in smoking and 34% reduction in heavy drinking. These results match reasonably closely results from several prior studies, including the prior meta-analyses mentioned above. Somewhat strikingly, but again in line with prior analysis, weekly service attendees were 26% less likely to die<\/em> during the follow-up period.\u201d VanderWeele , himself a Christian, is an epidemiologist at Harvard and I have shared some of his work before.<\/a><\/li>
  3. When Amazon Erased My Book<\/a> (Ryan T. Anderson, First Things): \u201cAmazon never informed me or my publisher that it was removing my book. And Amazon\u2019s representatives haven\u2019t responded to our inquiries about it. Perhaps they\u2019re citing a religious objection to selling my book? Or maybe they only sell books with which they agree? (If so, they have a lot of explaining to do about why they carry Adolf Hitler\u2019s Mein Kampf<\/em>.) If there\u2019s a religious or speech objection, let\u2019s hear it.\u201d His book is quite good and is still available at Barnes & Noble<\/a>. Amazon, however, sells 5\/6 of the books in America. Being delisted by them seriously affects the marketplace of ideas.