{"id":6521,"date":"2021-03-12T22:10:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T06:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6521"},"modified":"2021-03-12T22:13:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T06:13:11","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-292","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/03\/12\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-292","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 292"},"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 292, which is the number of ways you can break a dollar into two or more coins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. Growing My Faith in the Face of Death<\/a> (Tim Keller, The Atlantic): \u201cMost particularly for me as a Christian, Jesus\u2019s costly love, death, and resurrection had become not just something I believed and filed away, but a hope that sustained me all day. I pray this prayer daily. Occasionally it electrifies, but ultimately it always calms: And as I lay down in sleep and rose this morning only by your grace, keep me in the joyful, lively remembrance that whatever happens, I will someday know my final rising, because Jesus Christ lay down in death for me, and rose for my justification.\u201d<\/li>
  2. The Empty Religions of Instagram<\/a> (Leigh Stein, New York Times): \u201cI have hardly prayed to God since I was a teenager, but the pandemic has cracked open inside me a profound yearning for reverence, humility and awe. I have an overdraft on my outrage account. I want moral authority from someone who isn\u2019t shilling a memoir or calling out her enemies on social media for clout.\u201d<\/li>
  3. Do Liberals Care if Books Disappear?<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cIn the last stages of the same-sex marriage debate, I never encountered a flicker of private doubt from liberal friends. But in the gender-identity debate, there are pervasive liberal doubts about the current activist position. Yet without liberal objection, that position appears to set rules for what Amazon will sell.\u201d<\/li>
  4. The Miseducation of America\u2019s Elites<\/a> (Bari Weiss, City Journal): \u201cSo children learn how the new rules of woke work. The idea of lying in order to please a teacher seems like a phenomenon from the Soviet Union. But the high schoolers I spoke with said that they do versions of this, including parroting views they don\u2019t believe in assignments so that their grades don\u2019t suffer.\u2026 One English teacher in Los Angeles tacitly acknowledges the problem: she has the class turn off their videos on Zoom and asks each student to make their name anonymous so that they can have uninhibited discussions.\u201d