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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 is volume 320, which is 28<\/sup> + 26<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. The Mistakes We Cannot Make Again<\/a> (David French, The Dispatch): \u201c\u2026if people of faith are to be concerned about justice (and they are!), then justice is rarely more immediate and important than when confronting both the scourge of crime and the tragedy of excess enforcement and mass incarceration.\u201d<\/li>
  2. A Cog in the College Admissions Scandal Speaks Out<\/a> (Billy Witz, New York Times): \u201cVandemoer, unlike the others accused in the plot, did not personally gain in the transactions. He handed checks totaling $770,000 from Singer to Stanford development officers, who planned to use the money for new boats.\u2026 So as he told his story to Stanford\u2019s investigators, he wondered why no one had ever come to him when the indictments came down, noting that even federal prosecutors had acknowledged he did not enrich himself from the scheme. It reinforced the notion that he was simply an asset \u2014 a nameless, expendable cog in a corporation with a $29 billion endowment.\u201d Recommended by a student. Stanford does not come off looking good at all. <\/li>
  3. Stanford students are more likely to wear masks on bicycles than helmets<\/a> (Maxwell Meyer, Stanford Review): \u201cIn April of this year, I witnessed something on the Stanford campus that will be seared into my memory forever: a student on a bicycle, wearing flip-flops, AirPods in ear, going the wrong way through a roundabout in an active construction zone, with no helmet. But like any good follower of science, the student was<\/em> wearing a disposable blue face mask \u2014 for safety, I guess.\u201d Should he desire to, Meyer will become a well-known national commentator someday. He\u2019s quite good.<\/li>
  4. Why I Am a Conspiracy Theorist<\/a> (Hans Boersma, First Things): \u201cWhen rulers mandate vaccine passports and establish elaborate electronic systems to police compliance, it doesn\u2019t take a great deal of imagination to see how the same system might be used\u2014and in the eyes of many should<\/em> be used\u2014to regulate carbon emissions, expenditures, and even opinions. After all, it\u2019s not just the coronavirus that is dangerous. So are climate change, social inequality, and certain moral and religious convictions. Technologically, traveling from vaccine passports to a social credit system\u2014the kind that China already has in place\u2014takes no time at all.\u2026 This is not an argument against vaccination per se. It is an argument to take conspiracy theorists\u2014David foremost among them\u2014seriously.\u201d The author is an Anglican theologian.<\/li>
  5. The Public Continues to Underestimate COVID\u2019s Age Discrimination<\/a> (David Wallace-Wells, NY Magazine): \u201cAfter 18 months of public-health guidance promoting universal vigilance, I think hardly any American has a clear view of just how dramatic these differentials are. All else being equal, an unvaccinated 66-year old is about 30 times more likely to die, given a confirmed case, than an unvaccinated 36-year-old, and someone over 85 is over 10,000 times more at risk of dying than a child under 10.\u2026 a vaccinated 80-year-old has about the same mortality risk as an unvaccinated 50-year-old, and an unvaccinated 30-year-old has a lower risk than a vaccinated 45-year-old.\u201d<\/li>
  6. Inside the Church That Preaches \u2018Wives Need to Be Led with a Firm Hand\u2019<\/a> (Sarah Stankorb, Vice): \u201cMother Kirk can be a joyous, faithful community. But the conservative congregation also is at odds with Moscow\u2019s more liberal population (surrounding Latah county voted for President Biden in 2020). Depending upon whom you ask, the town either hosts a Calvinist utopia or a patriarchal cult in which women must submit or face discipline at home and at church. At the center of it all is notoriously controversial Douglas Wilson, the firebrand pastor who has been presiding over his Mother Kirk fiefdom for more than 40 years.\u201d Many of the details in this story are very bad.