{"id":6692,"date":"2021-08-20T17:34:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T01:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6692"},"modified":"2021-08-20T17:34:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T01:34:21","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/08\/20\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-314","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 314"},"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

314 is roughly \u03c0 times 100, and that makes me happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afghanistan links are at the bottom and are well worth reading, but other stuff is up top in case you\u2019re overwhelmed already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. A Guide to Finding Faith<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201c\u2026the world in 2021, no less than the world in 1521 or 321, presents considerable evidence of an originating intelligence presiding over a law-bound world well made for our minds to understand, and at the same time a panoply of spiritual forces that seem to intervene unpredictably in our existence.\u201d This is a wonderful thing to have printed in the New York Times.<\/li>
  2. The Real College Scandal<\/a> (Agnes Callard, The Point Magazine): \u201cIf I had to measure the worth of my classes in my students\u2019 subsequent civic virtue or life satisfaction, I couldn\u2019t afford to lose touch with most of them after graduation. I am sometimes saddened when I lose touch with them, but it never causes me to wonder whether their education was worthwhile.\u201d Enthusiastically recommended by an alumnus.<\/li>
  3. OpenAI Codex Live Demo<\/a> (OpenAI, YouTube): thirty astounding minutes. This technology is going to change SO MUCH. I\u2019m honestly blown away. Sign up for beta access at https:\/\/openai.com\/join<\/a><\/li>
  4. Unmarried Sex Is Worse Than You Think<\/a> (Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra & Collin Hansen, Gospel Coalition): \u201cAmericans talk a lot about sex. Anyone would think they\u2019re having a lot of it.\u2026 Instead, the opposite has happened. Young people are having less sex\u2014and are less happy\u2014than the married, churchgoing generation before them.\u201d<\/li>
  5. Does Canada have a religion problem<\/a>? (Ray Pennings, Substack): \u201cIn partnership with the Angus-Reid Institute, Cardus has been measuring Canadian spirituality. We asked about seven practices \u2014 belief in God\u2019s existence, prayer, reading a scripture, participating in worship, believing in an afterlife, having religious experiences, teaching your kids about faith. We termed the 16 percent who do at least six of these \u2018religiously committed\u2019 and the 19 percent who do zero or one \u2018non-believers.\u2019 That leaves the 64 per cent of Canadians in the middle \u2014 neither devoutly religious, nor religiously indifferent. They\u2019re a big chunk of the 86 per cent of Canadians who pray at least monthly.  But many religious Canadians, of various faiths, don\u2019t necessarily feel it\u2019s safe to be public about their beliefs.\u201d The author is the co-founder of Cardus, a Canadian think tank. Recommended by a friend of the ministry.<\/li>
  6. Who Tells Them Things They Don\u2019t Want to Hear<\/a>? (Freddie deBoer, Substack): \u201c\u2026I don\u2019t think and have never suggested that crowdfunded media can replace the basic newsgathering function of newspapers and that the NYT in particular still serves a vital function in its fundamental reportorial duties. This is, in fact, precisely why I am so disturbed by the paper\u2019s takeover by a fringe ideology embraced by a tiny sliver of the American public and by behind-the-scenes high school bullshit.\u201d