{"id":6774,"date":"2021-12-03T19:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T03:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6774"},"modified":"2021-12-03T19:55:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T03:55:15","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/12\/03\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-328","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 328"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><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 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&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is volume 328, which is the year that one of my favorite church leaders became a bishop: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Athanasius_of_Alexandria\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Athanasius_of_Alexandria\">Athanasius<\/a>.<\/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>The Supreme Court reconsiders abortion:<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2021\/12\/01\/us\/abortion-mississippi-supreme-court?referringSource=articleShare#abortion-supreme-court-mississippi-law\">The Supreme Court seems poised to uphold Mississippi\u2019s abortion law.<\/a> (Adam Liptak, New York Times): \u201cThe Supreme Court seemed poised on Wednesday to uphold a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, based on sometimes tense and heated questioning at a momentous argument in the most important abortion case in decades. Such a ruling would be flatly at odds with what the court has said was the central holding of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion and prohibited states from banning the procedure before fetal viability, or around 23 weeks. But the court\u2019s six-member conservative majority seemed divided about whether to stop at 15 weeks, for now at least, or whether to overrule Roe entirely, allowing states to ban abortions at any time or entirely.\u201d<\/li><li>For a free, nonpaywalled analysis check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2021\/12\/majority-of-court-appears-poised-to-uphold-mississippis-ban-on-most-abortions-after-15-weeks\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2021\/12\/majority-of-court-appears-poised-to-uphold-mississippis-ban-on-most-abortions-after-15-weeks\/\">Majority of court appears poised to roll back abortion rights<\/a> (Amy Howe, SCOTUSblog)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/why-roe-will-fall-and-obergefell-77a?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxMzIyMjQyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NDg0NDkwMCwiXyI6Inc2aGJiIiwiaWF0IjoxNjM4NTg3NjIzLCJleHAiOjE2Mzg1OTEyMjMsImlzcyI6InB1Yi02MTM3MSIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.UFm08jB1MAgL7vyEeY_qXUXYxTMfRHmif7XxeYMnsag\">Why Roe Will Fall And Obergefell Won\u2019t<\/a> (Andrew Sullivan, Substack): \u201cIn <em>Roe<\/em>, the Court tried to jumpstart a consensus and failed to secure it, with public opinion very similar now to where it was half a century ago. In&nbsp;<em>Obergefell<\/em>, the Court waited&nbsp;<em>until<\/em>&nbsp;there was majority support, which arrived, according to Gallup, in 2011, and the Court then validated a still-growing societal consensus four years&nbsp;later.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.undergroundthomist.org\/lowering-the-voting-age\">Lowering the Voting Age<\/a> (J. Budziszewski, personal blog): \u201cPeople who discuss lowering the voting age \u2013 not only those for it but also those against \u2013 assume that it would mean a transfer of political influence to the young. That is absurd.&nbsp;It would mean no such thing. Although the very young are often very sure of their opinions and convinced that they have made up their own minds, they lack the maturity to form their minds independently.&nbsp;So to lower the voting age would not mean increasing the political influence of the young.&nbsp;It would only mean increasing the political clout of those who have influence <em>through <\/em>the young.\u201d<ul><li>That\u2019s a really good point I hadn\u2019t considered. The author is a professor of philosophy and of government at UT Austin.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/29\/us\/evangelical-churches-baptism.html?referringSource=articleShare\">Horse Troughs, Hot Tubs and Hashtags: Baptism Is Getting Wild<\/a> (Ruth Graham, New York Times): \u201cContemporary evangelical baptisms are often raucous affairs. Instead of subdued hymns and murmurs, think roaring modern worship music, fist pumps, tears and boisterous cheering. There are photographers, selfie stations and hashtags for social media. One church in Texas calls its regular mass baptism event a \u2018plunge party.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<ul><li>This is an interesting article mostly for how interesting utterly normal things can seem to NY Times readers.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/projects\/2021\/rescuing-jessica-san-francisco-fentanyl-addiction\/\">She set out to save her daughter from fentanyl. She had no idea what she would face on the streets of San Francisco<\/a> (Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle): \u201cI asked Jessica if she thought she would ever leave San Francisco. \u2018It\u2019s like a vortex,\u2019 she said. \u2018I want to get out of here. But why the f\u2014 would I leave here if I have everything I need given to me? It might be enabling or it might be keeping you in a cycle, but at least you can survive,\u2019 she continued. \u2018That\u2019s better than a lot of places.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<ul><li> The wages of sin is death. What a gut-punch of a&nbsp;story.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stanfordreview.org\/race-panic-stanford\/\">Race Panic! Stanford investigates \u201ccords with loops that may represent nooses\u201d<\/a> (Maxwell Meyer, Stanford Review): \u201cCalling out and addressing racism? No, these Stanford administrators are committed to <em>inventing<\/em> racism. Though, I must hand it to them: Dean Hicks and her \u2018institutional equity\u2019 sidekick Mr. Dunkley might not realize it, but there is a beautiful, almost poetic irony to the timing of their email. They rushed to inform Stanford students of an alleged race incident on the very day that the criminal trial of Jussie Smollett, the greatest of all race hoaxers, began in Chicago. That little coincidence is the cherry on top of this giant&nbsp;farce.\u201d<ul><li>Meyer\u2019s take is, as far as I can tell, entirely correct. If those loops looked at all like nooses we\u2019d have photos.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wyss.harvard.edu\/news\/team-builds-first-living-robots-that-can-reproduce\/\">Team builds first living robots\u2014that can reproduce<\/a> (Joshua Brown, University of Vermont press release): \u201cSome people may find this exhilarating. Others may react with concern, or even terror, to the notion of a self-replicating biotechnology. For the team of scientists, the goal is deeper understanding.\u201d<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/markusstrasser.org\/p\/bcd8bded-7136-4bb4-8f97-e8a3a7b6d926\/\">The Business of Extracting Knowledge from Academic Publications<\/a> (Markus Strasser, personal blog): \u201cI had to wrap my head around the fact that close to <strong>nothing of what makes science actually work is published as text on the web. <\/strong>Research questions that can be answered logically through just reading papers and connecting the dots don\u2019t require a biotech corp to be formed around them. There\u2019s much less logic and deduction happening than you\u2019d expect in a scientific discipline.\u201d&nbsp;<ul><li>Long and poorly formatted, but with an interesting core idea. Emphasis in original.<\/li><\/ul><\/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.reddit.com\/r\/interestingasfuck\/comments\/r58vbx\/adam_rainer_is_the_only_person_in_history_that\/\">Adam Rainer is the only person in history that has been classed as a dwarf and a giant. In 1918, when Adam was 18 years old, his height was measured at 3\u2019 7.9\u201d tall. But by the time Adam was 31, his height had grown to a staggering 7\u20321\u2033.<\/a> (Reddit)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/morality\">Morality<\/a> (SMBC): the author means this as a slam on theism, but I think his core insight is correct. He just points it in the wrong direction.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dilbert.com\/strip\/2021-12-01\">Hiking<\/a> (Dilbert)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/laid-off-journalist-trying-to-learn-to-code-horrified-to-discover-the-code-is-binary\/\">Laid-Off Journalist Trying To Learn To Code Horrified To Discover The Code Is Binary<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stanforddaily.com\/2021\/12\/02\/stanford-divorce-pact-results-announced\/\">Stanford Divorce Pact results announced<\/a> (Seamus Allen, Stanford Daily): \u201cLuckily, the Stanford Divorce Pact offers a better way. It matches you up with the least compatible person on campus, so you can skip right to the bitter fighting and resentment.\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting A While&nbsp;Ago<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Every week I\u2019ll highlight an older link still worth your consideration. This week we have <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrPJWilliams\/status\/1065768149541363713\">Elisha and the She\u2010bears<\/a> (Peter J Williams, Twitter): an insightful Twitter thread about a disturbing OT story. The author is the Warden of Tyndale House at Cambridge. First shared in <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2018\/11\/23\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-179\">volume 179<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar produced shrewd warriors \u201cwho understood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a similar way, we need to become wise people whose faith interacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may continue the tradition of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Chi Alpha is not a partisan organization. To paraphrase another minister: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agenda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agenda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agenda. Having said that, I read widely (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ideological Turing test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fairly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI disagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI understand\u201d) and may at times share articles that have a strong partisan bias simply because I find the article stimulating. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with everything an author says in an article I mention, much less things the author has said in other articles (although if I strongly disagree with something in the article I\u2019ll usually mention it). And to the extent you can discern my opinions, please understand that they are my own and not necessarily those of Chi Alpha or any other organization I may be perceived to represent.\n\nAlso, remember that I\u2019m not reporting news \u2014 I\u2019m giving you a selection of things I found interesting. There\u2019s a lot happening in the world that\u2019s not making an appearance here because I haven\u2019t found stimulating articles written about it.\n\nIf this was forwarded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/\">here<\/a>. 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