{"id":6575,"date":"2021-05-14T17:17:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T01:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6575"},"modified":"2021-05-14T17:17:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T01:17:24","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-301","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/05\/14\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-301","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 301"},"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 301, which is what is known as a Happy Number<\/a>. So there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. The Cross and the Machine<\/a> (Paul Kingsnorth, First Things): \u201cIt kept happening, for months. Christ to the left of me, Christ to the right. It was unnerving. I turned away again and again, but every time I looked back, he was still there. I began to feel I was being \u2026 hunted? I wanted it to stop; at least, I thought I did. I had no interest in Christianity. I was a witch! A Zen witch, in fact, which I thought sounded pretty damned edgy. But I knew who was after me, and I knew it wasn\u2019t over.\u201d A wonderfully-told conversion story.<\/li>
  2. Why We Should Read What We Cite (Because It Matters)<\/a> (Joseph Latham & Gilly Koritzky, Heterodox Academy): \u201cConsider an academic article that came out at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and argues that doctors\u2019 racist biases are a main reason for the higher COVID-19-related hospitalization and mortality rates among African Americans. It says that \u2018there is evidence of medical bias in the testing and treatment of African-Americans with COVID-19\u2019 and cites this report as the source. The problem? The report contains no such evidence.\u201d The excerpt does not do it justice. Highly recommended. The authors are psychologists.<\/li>
  3. How We Got to the Equality Act<\/a> (Matthew Lee Anderson, Christianity Today): \u201cThe story that evangelicals are (merely) victims of progressive aggressors not only fails to account for the ways in which the LGBT movement was shaped by populist evangelical rhetoric and tactics. It also forgets that the gay liberation movement was a direct response to the systemic and pervasive exclusion of lesbian and gay individuals from the structures of our public life\u2014including from America itself. Perfectionism in politics breeds radicalism in response.\u201d<\/li>
  4. When a Famous Literary Critic Unraveled Silicon Valley\u2019s Most Sensational Murder Case<\/a> (Ted Gioia, Substack): \u201cImagine a violent murder at the epicenter of early Santa Clara Valley\u2014soon to be renamed Silicon Valley in the popular imagination\u2014and an innocent man sent to Death Row at San Quentin. But a famous literary critic emerges as the super sleuth who gets him freed, amid dark evocations of scandal involving corrupt politicians and murky underworld figures. You don\u2019t need to imagine it, because it really happened.\u201d A engrossing Stanford story.<\/li>
  5. About the current conflict in Israel: