{"id":6590,"date":"2021-05-28T14:37:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T22:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6590"},"modified":"2021-05-28T14:37:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T22:37:49","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-303","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/05\/28\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-303","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 303"},"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 the 303rd edition, which is fun because 303 is a lucky number<\/a>, a category of numbers that gives us insight into prime numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. Dr. Francis Collins Discusses The Complexities Of Herd Immunity<\/a> (Colbert Report, YouTube): seven minutes. Dr. Collins is a fellow believer and eminent scientist. He flat-out shares his testimony! Recommended by an alumnus.<\/li>
  2. Why I Didn\u2019t \u201cJust Bake the Cake\u201d<\/a> (Jack Phillips, First Things): \u201cMy commitment to God and to the truth of a book I believe to be his holy Word is the defining premise of my life, the focus of my faith, and the guiding directive for my actions. If you ask me to separate all of that from my work, from my decisions, from my art \u2026 I simply can\u2019t do that. Not just won\u2019t\u2014can\u2019t. It\u2019s like asking a contractor to build a great building, but first remove the foundation.\u201d<\/li>
  3. It\u2019s Time to Develop a Biblical Ufology<\/a> (Kyle Beshears, Theology in the Middle): \u201cWhat is the relationship, if any, between UAP phenomena and Christian angelologies and demonologies? How does the doctrine of the imago Dei fit in? Can our theology of the fall address extraterrestrials? What if they arrive denying the lordship of Christ (Gal 1:8; 1 John 2:22)? What if they arrive proclaiming the lordship of Christ (Rom 10:9)?\u201d<\/li>
  4. The Myth of the Value-Neutral Market<\/a> (Mark Movsesyian, First Things): \u201cThe neutral market does not create tolerance for diverse views; rather, it\u2019s the other way around. Tolerance for diverse views creates the neutral market; when tolerance disappears, the market becomes as polarized as everything else.\u201d<\/li>
  5. The future of war is bizarre and terrifying<\/a> (Noah Smith, Substack): \u201cThe world may yet explode into another WW2-style conflagration, or the kind of nuclear holocaust we feared during the Cold War. If so, then my bet is that drones will dominate that battlefield. But most of the modern military technologies led themselves to a very different kind of great-power war \u2014 a war of constant sniping and harassment. Assassin drones, cyberattacks, info ops, and bioweapons raise the possibility of never-ending low-grade attacks that are below the threshold of massive retaliation.\u201d<\/li>
  6. For Cosmopolitan Christians, Secular Approval Is a Common Temptation<\/a> (Justin E. Giboney, Christianity Today): \u201cWe need Christians who aren\u2019t smitten with the culture or merely proficient at regurgitating its liturgy. We need believers who can wrestle with secular thought, affirming the merits and opposing the lies. Christians must be confident and distinctly Christian in our fields\u2014boldly speaking up when the emperor is striding around with no clothes. When change is necessary, we must correct the mistakes of our elders by moving closer to the Bible, not further from it.\u201d<\/li>
  7. Some thoughts about Wuhan: