{"id":6539,"date":"2021-04-02T15:52:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6539"},"modified":"2021-04-02T15:52:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:52:57","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-295","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/04\/02\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-295","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 295"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a> 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

This vol\u00adume 295, which is not a ter\u00adri\u00adbly inter\u00adest\u00ading num\u00adber. Accord\u00ading to one web\u00adsite<\/a> it is a \u201cstruc\u00adtured del\u00adtoidal hexa\u00adcon\u00adta\u00adhe\u00addral num\u00adber\u201d but that sounds sil\u00adly and is even less inter\u00adest\u00ading to me than the sim\u00adple fact that 295 = 59 \u00e2\u2039\u2026 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. Ten\u00adnant on Aquinas\u2019s Sec\u00adond Way<\/a> (Ed Fes\u00ader, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201c\u2026I don\u2019t mean to be too hard on Ten\u00adnant, specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly. There is noth\u00ading unique about his objec\u00adtions. On the con\u00adtrary, vari\u00ada\u00adtions on them are con\u00adstant\u00adly<\/em> raised against Aquinas by main\u00adstream aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic philoso\u00adphers and by main\u00adstream aca\u00add\u00ade\u00admics and intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adals from oth\u00ader fields (not to men\u00adtion count\u00adless ama\u00adteurs). And yet they are all demon\u00adstra\u00adbly<\/em> based on egre\u00adgious errors and mis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstand\u00adings. Which, while it tells you noth\u00ading about Aquinas, says much about what you should think of main\u00adstream aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic and intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal opin\u00adion.\u201d <\/li>
  2. From the Emp\u00adty Tomb to Today\u2019s Abuse: Believe Women<\/a> (Amy Orr-Ewing, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cIf we don\u2019t believe women, then we have to dis\u00admiss the eye\u00adwit\u00adness\u00ades to the Incar\u00adna\u00adtion, Atone\u00adment, and Res\u00adur\u00adrec\u00adtion. If we won\u2019t lis\u00adten, we don\u2019t have access to the evi\u00addence for the cen\u00adtral truths of the Chris\u00adt\u00adian faith.\u201d<\/li>
  3. Is Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty a White Man\u2019s Reli\u00adgion?<\/a> (Claude Atcho, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201c[This] exam\u00adple and exhor\u00adta\u00adtion show how to dis\u00aden\u00adtan\u00adgle<\/em> rather than decon\u00adstruct<\/em>. Through care\u00adful dis\u00aden\u00adtan\u00adgling and patient recov\u00adery, we find that Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty unique\u00adly speaks to the con\u00adcerns of Black peo\u00adple with expe\u00adri\u00aden\u00adtial and his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal foun\u00adda\u00adtions that have empow\u00adered our peo\u00adple for cen\u00adturies.\u201d<\/li>
  4. He\u2019s a Famous Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Preach\u00ader, but His Kids Wish He\u2019d Pipe Down<\/a> (Nicholas Kristof, New York Times): \u201cI told Rick Joyn\u00ader that I thought his strug\u00adgles with his chil\u00addren reflect\u00aded a larg\u00ader gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion gap and dwin\u00addling of influ\u00adence of the reli\u00adgious right. To my sur\u00adprise, he agreed. \u2018The church in Amer\u00adi\u00adca has been tremen\u00addous\u00adly weak\u00adened,\u2019 he acknowl\u00adedged. If the Joyn\u00aders are a micro\u00adcosm of a nation divid\u00aded, per\u00adhaps they also offer a ray of hope in their abil\u00adi\u00adty to bridge dif\u00adfer\u00adences. They remain close and get togeth\u00ader for hol\u00adi\u00addays, even if gath\u00ader\u00adings are tense.\u201d Real\u00adly inter\u00adest\u00ading.<\/li>
  5. How America\u2019s sur\u00adveil\u00adlance net\u00adworks helped the FBI catch the Capi\u00adtol mob<\/a> (Drew Har\u00adwell & Craig Tim\u00adberg, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cWhen\u00adev\u00ader you see this tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy used on some\u00adone you don\u2019t like, remem\u00adber it\u2019s also being used on a social move\u00adment you sup\u00adport,\u201d said Evan Greer, direc\u00adtor of the dig\u00adi\u00adtal rights advo\u00adca\u00adcy group Fight for the Future. \u201cOnce in a while, this tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy gets used on real\u00adly bad peo\u00adple doing real\u00adly bad stuff. But the rest of the time it\u2019s being used on all of us, in ways that are pro\u00adfound\u00adly chill\u00ading for free\u00addom of expres\u00adsion.\u201d<\/li>
  6. Wel\u00adcome to the Decade of Con\u00adcern<\/a> (Tan\u00adner Greer, Schol\u00adar\u2019s Stage): \u201cThe 2020s will see both the growth of Chi\u00adnese mil\u00adi\u00adtary pow\u00ader to new heights and a tem\u00adpo\u00adrary nadir in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan capac\u00adi\u00adty to inter\u00advene in any con\u00adflict in China\u2019s near abroad. The \u2018tem\u00adpo\u00adrary\u2019 part of that equa\u00adtion is impor\u00adtant. His\u00adto\u00adri\u00adans of the First World War and the Pacif\u00adic War trace the ori\u00adgins of those con\u00adflicts to pes\u00adsimistic assess\u00adments of the chang\u00ading bal\u00adance of pow\u00ader. The bel\u00adligeren\u00adcy of impe\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal Japan and Wil\u00adhelmine Ger\u00admany rest\u00aded on a belief that their posi\u00adtion vis a vis<\/em> their ene\u00admies could only decline with time. Any states\u00adman who believes that a tem\u00adpo\u00adrary mil\u00adi\u00adtary advan\u00adtage over an ene\u00admy will soon erode will have a strong incen\u00adtive to fight it out before ero\u00adsion has begun.\u201d