{"id":6661,"date":"2021-07-09T16:36:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T00:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2021-07-09T16:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T00:36:04","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/07\/09\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-309","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 309"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4396\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?resize=1200%2C1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag.png?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\"><\/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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TIL that the num\u00adber 309 is is the small\u00adest num\u00adber whose 5<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;pow\u00ader con\u00adtains every dig\u00adit at least once. 309<sup>5<\/sup>=2,817,036,000,549. I\u2019m real\u00adly stunned that some\u00adone fig\u00adured that out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/06\/us\/sermongate-prompts-a-quandary-should-pastors-borrow-words-from-one-another.html\">\u2018Ser\u00admon\u00adgate\u2019 Prompts a Quandary: Should Pas\u00adtors Bor\u00adrow Words From One Anoth\u00ader?<\/a> (Ruth Gra\u00adham, New York Times): \u201cIn his auto\u00adbi\u00adog\u00adra\u00adphy, Ben\u00adjamin Franklin wrote of his admi\u00adra\u00adtion of a young Pres\u00adby\u00adter\u00adian preach\u00ader much respect\u00aded for his preach\u00ading, which was appar\u00adent\u00adly deliv\u00adered extem\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adne\u00adous\u00adly. When a doc\u00adtri\u00adnal dis\u00adpute erupt\u00aded in the con\u00adgre\u00adga\u00adtion, how\u00adev\u00ader, an adver\u00adsary rec\u00adog\u00adnized that a pas\u00adsage deliv\u00adered by the preach\u00ader had been lift\u00aded from an uncred\u00adit\u00aded source. Franklin stuck by the pla\u00adgia\u00adrist. \u2018I rather approved his giv\u00ading us good ser\u00admons com\u00adposed by oth\u00aders,\u2019 he wrote, \u2018than bad ones of his own man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adture.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d <ul><li>The appro\u00adpri\u00adate prin\u00adci\u00adples seem so obvi\u00adous to me:<\/li><li>Nev\u00ader present some\u00adone else\u2019s per\u00adson\u00adal sto\u00adries as though they hap\u00adpened to you. It\u2019s hard to call that any\u00adthing oth\u00ader than lying.<\/li><li>If you gain an insight from some\u00adone else, why would you deprive your hear\u00aders of that good insight? USE IT. Cred\u00adit it in the way that seems most appro\u00adpri\u00adate, but a ser\u00admon is not a writ\u00adten resource peo\u00adple are going to cite nor one that peo\u00adple are going to track down your ref\u00ader\u00adences on. I don\u2019t even think pla\u00adgia\u00adrism is the right term in this con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion: there\u2019s no stan\u00addard way to cite oth\u00ader ser\u00admons nor should there be. Peo\u00adple who get a bee in their bon\u00adnet about this seem so odd to me.<\/li><li>In fact, you should always assume that the mes\u00adsages I deliv\u00ader have been enriched by insights from oth\u00aders. I love God\u2019s Word and I love my stu\u00addents too much to just give them my own lim\u00adit\u00aded obser\u00adva\u00adtions. My own prac\u00adtice: I copy and paste the text into a Word doc\u00adu\u00adment. Then I begin typ\u00ading my insights and con\u00adstruct\u00ading a rough out\u00adline. Then I con\u00adsult schol\u00adar\u00adly and ser\u00admon\u00adic resources and revise my outline\/notes when I real\u00adize I\u2019ve mis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstood some\u00adthing or that I missed an impor\u00adtant point. Typ\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly that means I read two or three com\u00admen\u00adtaries and will some\u00adtimes skim one or two ser\u00admons from preach\u00aders I respect. If some\u00adone\u2019s phras\u00ading is so good I adopt it, I usu\u00adal\u00adly add, \u201cI heard a pas\u00adtor say\u201d or \u201can aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic com\u00admen\u00adtary real\u00adly helped me out on this point\u201d and some\u00adtimes will even give the pre\u00adcise source. But not always. Some\u00adtimes cit\u00ading some\u00adthing ver\u00adbal\u00adly breaks up the flow too much. Some\u00adtimes after an espe\u00adcial\u00adly fact-laden mes\u00adsage I will send out an email roundup of the most impor\u00adtant sources (that tends to hap\u00adpen after apolo\u00adgetic ser\u00admons when I\u2019m appeal\u00ading to extrascrip\u00adtur\u00adal facts).<\/li><li>It gets com\u00adpli\u00adcat\u00aded with insights I gleaned years ago and have preached mul\u00adti\u00adple times since. Some\u00adtimes I don\u2019t even remem\u00adber that it was\u00adn\u2019t orig\u00adi\u00adnal to me (whether clever phras\u00ading or an entire ser\u00admon out\u00adline). That\u2019s how learn\u00ading works! I\u2019m not try\u00ading to deceive any\u00adone, but I am 100% con\u00adfi\u00addent that I word some things a cer\u00adtain way because some\u00adone else word\u00aded it that way to me and I thought, \u201cthat\u2019s per\u00adfect\u201d and now that I\u2019ve said it 70 times I just know that\u2019s how I think about the sub\u00adject.<\/li><li>If you ever want to know if some\u00adthing I said is orig\u00adi\u00adnal to me, just ask. If I quot\u00aded some\u00adone else (and remem\u00adber that I have), I\u2019ll be thrilled to point you to a resource that helped me!<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/07\/12\/what-makes-a-cult-a-cult\">What Makes a Cult a Cult?<\/a> (Zo\u00eb Heller, New York\u00ader): \u201cThe good news is that ratio\u00adnal objec\u00adtions to flaws in cult doc\u00adtrine or to hypocrisies on the part of a cult leader do have a pow\u00ader\u00adful impact if and when they occur to the cult mem\u00adbers them\u00adselves. The ana\u00adlyt\u00adi\u00adcal mind may be qui\u00adetened by cult-think, but it is rarely dead\u00adened alto\u00adgeth\u00ader. Espe\u00adcial\u00adly if cult life is prov\u00ading unpleas\u00adant, the capac\u00adi\u00adty for crit\u00adi\u00adcal thought can reassert itself.\u201d The focus here is on way-out-there cults. Inter\u00adest\u00ading nonethe\u00adless, even giv\u00aden the author\u2019s blind spots (I think it would have been a stronger arti\u00adcle if she had men\u00adtioned a few sec\u00adu\u00adlar beliefs as par\u00adal\u00adlels).<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/our-unequal-polygamous-past\">Our Unequal Polyg\u00ada\u00admous Past<\/a> (Conn Car\u00adroll, Insti\u00adtute for Fam\u00adi\u00adly Stud\u00adies): \u201cThis brief his\u00adto\u00adry of human sex\u00adu\u00adal rela\u00adtions shows us three things: 1) we are hard\u00adwired to form monog\u00ada\u00admous pair bonds; 2) the priv\u00adi\u00adleged among us will always try to monop\u00ado\u00adlize more mates; and 3) we can check the priv\u00adi\u00adlege of the pow\u00ader\u00adful by enforc\u00ading monog\u00ada\u00admous cul\u00adtur\u00adal norms.\u201d<\/li><li>Wok\u00ade\u00adness:<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2021\/07\/08\/as-a-gay-child-in-a-christian-cult-i-was-taught-to-hate-myself-then-i-joined-the-church-of-social-justice-and-nothing-changed\/\">As a Gay Child in a Chris\u00adt\u00adian Cult, I Was Taught to Hate Myself. Then I Joined the Church of Social Justice\u2014and Noth\u00ading Changed<\/a> (Ben Appel, Quil\u00adlette): \u201cFor years, I feared homo\u00adpho\u00adbic right-wing evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals. But these days, I\u2019m equal\u00adly wary of the pro\u00adgres\u00adsive activists who push a dis\u00adtinct\u00adly homo\u00adpho\u00adbic agen\u00adda that denies the bio\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal real\u00adi\u00adty of sex\u2014and who claim that what we are attract\u00aded to isn\u2019t male or female bod\u00adies <em>per se<\/em>, but rather male or female gen\u00adder iden\u00adti\u00adties. This out\u00adlook effec\u00adtive\u00adly imag\u00adines away the exis\u00adtence of homo\u00adsex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty, which, in the real world, is of course root\u00aded in phys\u00adi\u00adcal attrac\u00adtion based on bio\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal attrib\u00adut\u00ades.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jabberwocking.com\/if-you-hate-the-culture-wars-blame-liberals\/\">If you hate the cul\u00adture wars, blame lib\u00ader\u00adals<\/a> (Kevin Drum, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201c<em>It is not con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives who have turned Amer\u00adi\u00adcan pol\u00adi\u00adtics into a cul\u00adture war bat\u00adtle. It is lib\u00ader\u00adals.<\/em> And this should\u00adn\u2019t come as a sur\u00adprise since pro\u00adgres\u00adsives have been brag\u00adging pub\u00adlicly about push\u00ading the Demo\u00adc\u00adra\u00adt\u00adic Par\u00adty left\u00adward since at least 2004. Now, I\u2019m per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly hap\u00adpy about most of this. But that does\u00adn\u2019t blind me to the fact that \u201cper\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly hap\u00adpy\u201d means noth\u00ading in pol\u00adi\u00adtics. What mat\u00adters is what the medi\u00adan vot\u00ader feels, and Democ\u00adrats have been mov\u00ading fur\u00adther and fur\u00adther away from the medi\u00adan vot\u00ader for years:\u201d Inter\u00adest\u00ading and very dif\u00adfer\u00adent from the mes\u00adsage I usu\u00adal\u00adly hear, which blames polar\u00adiza\u00adtion on con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives who are said to have moved much more to the right than lib\u00ader\u00adals have moved to the left.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/scholars-stage.org\/culture-wars-are-long-wars\/\">Cul\u00adture Wars are Long Wars<\/a> (Tan\u00adner Greer, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cCul\u00adtur\u00adal insur\u00adgents win few con\u00adverts in their own cohort. They can, how\u00adev\u00ader, build up a sys\u00adtem of ideas and insti\u00adtu\u00adtions which will pre\u00adserve and refine the ideals they hope their com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty will adopt in the future. The real tar\u00adget of these ideas are not their con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adraries, but their con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adraries\u2019 chil\u00addren and grand\u00adchil\u00addren. <strong>Cul\u00adture wars are fought for the hearts of the unborn. <\/strong>Future gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions will be open to val\u00adues the cur\u00adrent gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion rejects out\u00adright. This will not be appar\u00adent at first. Beneath the offi\u00adcial com\u00adings and goings of the cohorts above, a new con\u00adsen\u00adsus forms in in the cohorts below. Ideas will fes\u00adter among the young, but their impact will be hid\u00adden by the inabil\u00adi\u00adty and inex\u00adpe\u00adri\u00adence of youth. But the youth do not stay young. Even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly a tran\u00adsi\u00adtion point arrives.\u201d Empha\u00adsis in orig\u00adi\u00adnal.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/what-happened-to-you-e5f?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozODU3OTU1NCwiXyI6Ikhzb2FZIiwiaWF0IjoxNjI1ODU4MjQ0LCJleHAiOjE2MjU4NjE4NDQsImlzcyI6InB1Yi02MTM3MSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.gVnCb6MkPlqWCBlSJsgwh0JtIq3g3SWN_oQq90FjRzU\">What Hap\u00adpened To You?<\/a> (Andrew Sul\u00adli\u00advan, Sub\u00adstack): \u201c[We have wit\u00adnessed a] sud\u00adden, rapid, stun\u00adning shift in the belief sys\u00adtem of the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan elites. It has sent the whole soci\u00adety into a pro\u00adfound cul\u00adtur\u00adal dis\u00adlo\u00adca\u00adtion. It is, in essence, an ongo\u00ading moral pan\u00adic against the specter of \u2018white suprema\u00adcy,\u2019 which is now bizarrely regard\u00aded as an accu\u00adrate descrip\u00adtion of the largest, freest, most suc\u00adcess\u00adful mul\u00adtira\u00adcial democ\u00adra\u00adcy in human his\u00adto\u00adry.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2021\/07\/the-wests-cultural-revolution-is-over\/\">The West\u2019s cul\u00adtur\u00adal rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion is over<\/a> (Ed West, UnHerd): \u201c<em>Life of Bri\u00adan<\/em>&nbsp;couldn\u2019t be made 20 years ear\u00adli\u00ader, and nei\u00adther could it be made now; its satire of Jesus, a prophet of Islam, would risk upset\u00adting Mus\u00adlim sen\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adties, which it\u2019s fair to say peo\u00adple have become slight\u00adly wary of doing. At the very least it would need to cut out the scene point\u00ading fun at a man who, absurd\u00adly to the film\u00admak\u00aders and audi\u00adences, iden\u00adti\u00adfies as a woman; absurd in 1979, as it had been in 1879 and 1779 and in every year before that, but a sacred idea in 2021. It\u2019s sacred in the sense that its believ\u00aders have cap\u00adtured the moral citadel where the most pow\u00ader\u00adful ideas are pro\u00adtect\u00aded by taboo, achieved either by emo\u00adtion\u00adal argu\u00adment or intim\u00adi\u00adda\u00adtion (and both can be effec\u00adtive). This is not some dark new age of can\u00adcel cul\u00adture, how\u00adev\u00ader, it\u2019s just a return to nor\u00admal\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Pan\u00addem\u00adic-relat\u00aded<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2021\/07\/03\/why-didnt-covid-19-kill-the-constitution\/\">Why Did\u00adn\u2019t COVID-19 Kill the Con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion<\/a>? (Jacob Sul\u00adlum. Rea\u00adson): \u201cCOVID-19 did not kill the Con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion. But the cri\u00adsis made it vivid\u00adly clear that we can\u00adnot count on politi\u00adcians or bureau\u00adcrats to wor\u00adry about lim\u00adits on their author\u00adi\u00adty, espe\u00adcial\u00adly when they believe they are doing what is nec\u00ades\u00adsary to pro\u00adtect the pub\u00adlic from a dead\u00adly dan\u00adger. The task of enforc\u00ading those lim\u00adits falls to judges who are will\u00ading to stick their necks out.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dbts.edu\/2021\/07\/07\/what-are-the-limits-to-governmental-authority-over-the-church\/\">What Are the Lim\u00adits to Gov\u00adern\u00admen\u00adtal Author\u00adi\u00adty over the Church<\/a>? (Ben Edwards, Detroit Bap\u00adtist The\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Sem\u00adi\u00adnary): \u201cChristians\/churches must sub\u00admit to every gov\u00adern\u00adment reg\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion unless it would mean dis\u00adobey\u00ading God (i.e., cause them to sin) or the gov\u00adern\u00adment is seek\u00ading to reg\u00adu\u00adlate some\u00adthing out\u00adside its sphere of author\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>On Chi\u00adna<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/05\/opinion\/us-china-covid-lies.html\">Chi\u00adna Won\u2019t Bury Us, Either<\/a> (Bret Stephens, New York Times): \u201cGar\u00adry Kas\u00adparov has a pithy way of sum\u00adming up the past 18 months of tribu\u00adla\u00adtion. \u2018Chi\u00adna gave us the virus,\u2019 the chess and human-rights cham\u00adpi\u00adon told me over a recent break\u00adfast. \u2018And the free world gave us the vac\u00adcines.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jonstokes.com\/p\/why-a-chinese-invasion-of-taiwan\">Why a Chi\u00adnese inva\u00adsion of Tai\u00adwan would be a cat\u00ada\u00adstro\u00adphe for Chi\u00adna and the world<\/a> (Jon Stokes, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cThe world\u2019s largest, most valu\u00adable tech com\u00adpa\u00adnies are depen\u00addent either direct\u00adly or indi\u00adrect\u00adly on the steady out\u00adput of TSMC\u2019s fabs. If those fabs went offline or became unavail\u00adable in the west because they were con\u00adtrolled by PRC, it would imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly dev\u00adas\u00adtate the glob\u00adal econ\u00ado\u00admy. An unknow\u00adable num\u00adber of large com\u00adpa\u00adnies just wouldn\u2019t be able to refill their inven\u00adto\u00adries for an inde\u00adter\u00admi\u00adnate\u00adly long time.\u201d This is about com\u00adput\u00ader chips and how a Chi\u00adnese inva\u00adsion of Tai\u00adwan will be dis\u00adas\u00adtrous for that mar\u00adket (which touch\u00ades on so many oth\u00aders) no mat\u00adter how the inva\u00adsion plays out. Very thought\u00adful.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2021\/07\/08\/us\/scripps-spelling-bee\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2021\/07\/08\/us\/scripps-spelling-bee\">Scripps Spelling Bee 2021: Zaila Avant-garde Wins<\/a> (Mag\u00adgie Astor and Maria Cramer, New York Times): \u201cZaila, who just fin\u00adished eighth grade in her home\u00adtown, Har\u00advey, La., showed a prowess for spelling at 10, when her father, who had been watch\u00ading finals of the Scripps Nation\u00adal Spelling Bee on ESPN, asked her how to spell the win\u00adning word: maro\u00adcain. Zaila spelled it per\u00adfect\u00adly. Then he asked her to spell the win\u00adning words going back to 1999. She spelled near\u00adly all of them cor\u00adrect\u00adly and was able to tell him the books where she had seen them.\u201d Read the whole thing \u2014 this kid is amaz\u00ading at more than spelling! The inter\u00adface is weird \u2014 you\u2019ll have to click \u201cRead more\u201d just before the time\u00adline.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"simple-list wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/02\/uk-pupils-orange-juice-fake-positive-covid-test-results?ref=upstract.com&amp;curator=upstract.com&amp;utm_source=upstract.com\">UK pupils use orange juice to fake \u2018pos\u00adi\u00adtive\u2019 Covid test results<\/a> (Nico\u00adla Davis, The Guardian): \u201cThe phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnon \u2013 which has been ver\u00adi\u00adfied through an exper\u00adi\u00adment by the Guardian \u2013 is not a result of the juice con\u00adtain\u00ading the virus. Rather it appears to be linked to its acid\u00adi\u00adty, which essen\u00adtial\u00adly breaks the test. The effect has alleged\u00adly also been seen with a num\u00adber of oth\u00ader foods and drinks includ\u00ading ketchup and Coca-Cola.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ddlImQbD-sI\">L\u00e9a Kyle Per\u00adforms Stun\u00adning Quick-Change Act<\/a> (Amer\u00adi\u00adca\u2019s Got Tal\u00adent, YouTube): sev\u00aden min\u00adutes. I\u2019ve seen her on Penn &amp; Teller before. Still stun\u00adning.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GvUD9QlCLYw\">Every\u00adone han\u00addled Covid &amp; the vac\u00adcine dif\u00adfer\u00adent\u00adly<\/a> (Dustin Nick\u00ader\u00adson, YouTube): three and a half min\u00adutes<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EOsIn5jdjHw\">Get\u00adting Old\u00ader is Ter\u00adri\u00adble<\/a> (Dustin Nick\u00ader\u00adson, YouTube): five min\u00adutes<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2021-07-07?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DilbertDailyStrip+%28Dilbert+Daily+Strip%29\">A life of crime<\/a> (Dil\u00adbert)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every week I\u2019ll high\u00adlight an old\u00ader link still worth your con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. This week we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevin-deyoung\/preacher-politics-seven-thoughts\/\">The Preach\u00ader And Pol\u00adi\u00adtics: Sev\u00aden Thoughts<\/a> (Kevin DeY\u00adoung, Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cI have plen\u00adty of opin\u00adions and con\u00advic\u00adtions. But that\u2019s not what I want my min\u00adistry to be about. That\u2019s not to say I don\u2019t com\u00adment on abor\u00adtion or gay mar\u00adriage or racism or oth\u00ader issues about the which the Bible speaks clear\u00adly. And yet, I\u2019m always mind\u00adful that I can\u2019t sep\u00ada\u00adrate Blog\u00adger Kevin or Twit\u00adter Kevin or Pro\u00adfes\u00adsor Kevin from Pas\u00adtor Kevin. As such, my com\u00adments reflect on my church, whether I intend them to or not. That means I keep more polit\u00adi\u00adcal con\u00advic\u00adtions to myself than I oth\u00ader\u00adwise would.\u201d First shared in <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/05\/04\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-150\">vol\u00adume 150<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.\n\nAlso, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.\n\nIf this was for\u00adward\u00aded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/\">here<\/a>. 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