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<\/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 volume 295, which is not a terribly interesting number. According to one website<\/a> it is a \u201cstructured deltoidal hexacontahedral number\u201d but that sounds silly and is even less interesting to me than the simple fact that 295 = 59 \u22c5 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. Tennant on Aquinas\u2019s Second Way<\/a> (Ed Feser, personal blog): \u201c\u2026I don\u2019t mean to be too hard on Tennant, specifically. There is nothing unique about his objections. On the contrary, variations on them are constantly<\/em> raised against Aquinas by mainstream academic philosophers and by mainstream academics and intellectuals from other fields (not to mention countless amateurs). And yet they are all demonstrably<\/em> based on egregious errors and misunderstandings. Which, while it tells you nothing about Aquinas, says much about what you should think of mainstream academic and intellectual opinion.\u201d <\/li>
  2. From the Empty Tomb to Today\u2019s Abuse: Believe Women<\/a> (Amy Orr-Ewing, Gospel Coalition): \u201cIf we don\u2019t believe women, then we have to dismiss the eyewitnesses to the Incarnation, Atonement, and Resurrection. If we won\u2019t listen, we don\u2019t have access to the evidence for the central truths of the Christian faith.\u201d<\/li>
  3. Is Christianity a White Man\u2019s Religion?<\/a> (Claude Atcho, Gospel Coalition): \u201c[This] example and exhortation show how to disentangle<\/em> rather than deconstruct<\/em>. Through careful disentangling and patient recovery, we find that Christianity uniquely speaks to the concerns of Black people with experiential and historical foundations that have empowered our people for centuries.\u201d<\/li>
  4. He\u2019s a Famous Evangelical Preacher, but His Kids Wish He\u2019d Pipe Down<\/a> (Nicholas Kristof, New York Times): \u201cI told Rick Joyner that I thought his struggles with his children reflected a larger generation gap and dwindling of influence of the religious right. To my surprise, he agreed. \u2018The church in America has been tremendously weakened,\u2019 he acknowledged. If the Joyners are a microcosm of a nation divided, perhaps they also offer a ray of hope in their ability to bridge differences. They remain close and get together for holidays, even if gatherings are tense.\u201d Really interesting.<\/li>
  5. How America\u2019s surveillance networks helped the FBI catch the Capitol mob<\/a> (Drew Harwell & Craig Timberg, Washington Post): \u201cWhenever you see this technology used on someone you don\u2019t like, remember it\u2019s also being used on a social movement you support,\u201d said Evan Greer, director of the digital rights advocacy group Fight for the Future. \u201cOnce in a while, this technology gets used on really bad people doing really bad stuff. But the rest of the time it\u2019s being used on all of us, in ways that are profoundly chilling for freedom of expression.\u201d<\/li>
  6. Welcome to the Decade of Concern<\/a> (Tanner Greer, Scholar\u2019s Stage): \u201cThe 2020s will see both the growth of Chinese military power to new heights and a temporary nadir in American capacity to intervene in any conflict in China\u2019s near abroad. The \u2018temporary\u2019 part of that equation is important. Historians of the First World War and the Pacific War trace the origins of those conflicts to pessimistic assessments of the changing balance of power. The belligerency of imperial Japan and Wilhelmine Germany rested on a belief that their position vis a vis<\/em> their enemies could only decline with time. Any statesman who believes that a temporary military advantage over an enemy will soon erode will have a strong incentive to fight it out before erosion has begun.\u201d