{"id":7028,"date":"2022-10-15T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T14:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7028"},"modified":"2022-10-15T06:47:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T14:47:10","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-372","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2022\/10\/15\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-372","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 372"},"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 <s>Fridays <\/s>(apparently some Saturdays) 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 372, a number I think is cool because it can be expressed as the sum of successive primes: 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47 + 53 + 59 + 61 =&nbsp;372.<\/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\" href=\"https:\/\/freddiedeboer.substack.com\/p\/how-convenient-that-kanye-wests-behavior?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=295937&amp;post_id=77224332&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">How Convenient, That Kanye West\u2019s Behavior Could Not Possibly Be Influenced by His Mental Illness<\/a> (Freddie deBoer, Substack): \u201cTwo things I really hate: morals of convenience and false friends. The types of people who say \u2018mental illness doesn\u2019t do that\u2019 are the types to profess support for those with psychiatric disorders, but only when it\u2019s easy, when the mentally ill are doing the socially approved things like talking to themselves on the subway. Which of course means that they are no friend to the mentally ill at all; support only means something when it comes at a&nbsp;cost.\u201d<ul><li>Somewhat related: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2022\/october-web-only\/kanye-west-socia-media-breakdown-makes-sense-crisis.html\" target=\"_blank\">How Kanye West\u2019s Breakdown Makes Sense of Our Social Crisis<\/a> (Russell Moore, Christianity Today): \u201cInstability from this artist is hardly surprising. Several years ago, I noted that I was worried for the rapper\u2014not because of his mental health challenges but because of what American evangelicals often do to celebrities who profess faith. Too often we claim them as, at best, mascots for \u2018our side\u2019 and, at worst, as trophies from the culture wars. Over and over, the church has expected things from these figures that they do not have the maturity, wisdom, or even stability to handle.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/samueldjames.substack.com\/p\/free-version-review-when-narcissism?utm_source=%2Finbox&amp;utm_medium=reader2\" target=\"_blank\">Review: When Narcissism Comes to Church<\/a> (Samuel D. James, Substack): \u201cBut this book makes a monumental decision: a decision to put the Bible\u2019s moral language to the side, to call a disorder what the Bible calls sin, to call self-actualization what the Bible calls repentance. This book\u2019s aversion to biblical categories does not empower readers to confront spiritually abusive systems. It instead makes those systems harder to disrupt.\u201d<ul><li>This is an outstanding book review that puts its finger on a problem I frequently notice \u2014 when we disregard Biblical analysis we make it needlessly hard to bring Biblical solutions to&nbsp;bear.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2022\/october\/linguist-katharine-barnwell-bible-translation-jesus-film.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Woman Who Gave the World a Thousand Names for God<\/a> (Jordan K. Monson, Christianity Today): \u201cHas there been a single translator in church history with Barnwell\u2019s sway? We could talk about Jerome and his Latin Vulgate, used by the Roman Catholic Church as its principal translation for over 1,500 years. There was Luther and his German-language Bible. There was England\u2019s King James I, if you credit him for commissioning his KJV\u2014or William Tyndale if you feel like the KJV was mostly cribbed from his work.\u201d The claim feels like hyperbole until you read the article. Wowsers. What a legacy!<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/09\/us\/california-high-speed-rail-politics.html\" target=\"_blank\">How California\u2019s Bullet Train Went Off the Rails<\/a> (Ralph Vartabedian, New York Times): \u201c&nbsp;\u2018There were so many things that went wrong,\u2019 Mr. McNamara said. \u2018[The rail company] was very angry. They told the state they were leaving for North Africa, which was less politically dysfunctional. They went to Morocco and helped them build a rail system.\u2019 Morocco\u2019s bullet train started service in&nbsp;2018.\u201d&nbsp;<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justin-taylor\/10-affirmations-and-denials-on-ethnic-harmony-justice-and-the-church\/\" target=\"_blank\">10 Affirmations and Denials on Ethnic Harmony, Justice, and the Church <\/a>(Justin Taylor, The Gospel Coalition): \u201cWe simply cannot allow politics or secular culture to define our terms or determine our beliefs. Jesus puts his finger on ethnic harmony and says, \u2018Mine.\u2019 Therefore, the aim of these affirmations and denials is to rightly represent the voice of Jesus Christ. The One who designed ethnic diversity has unparalleled authority and has the final word on the whole&nbsp;issue.\u201d<ul><li>Somewhat related: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/the-placebo-of-affirmative-action-b41\" target=\"_blank\">The Placebo Of Affirmative Action<\/a> (Andrew Sullivan, Substack): \u201cA recent David Shor analysis found that, among Democratic policies, affirmative action was among the most unpopular \u2014 with even less support than \u2018defund the police.\u2019 More tangibly: on the nine occasions the policy has been put to the electoral test since 1996, it has lost eight times, most recently in super-liberal California in&nbsp;2020.\u201d<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/shenviapologetics.com\/three-paradoxes-of-atheism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Three Paradoxes of&nbsp;Atheism<\/a> (Neil Shenvi, personal website): \u201cHistorically, one of the most attractive features of atheism has been its claim to stark realism. No matter how unappealing a godless universe may turn out to be, atheists claim to be committed to adhering to the truth at all costs. However, in this essay I would like to show that at the very heart of atheism are several extremely unexpected paradoxes, areas in which atheism is shown to be in tension with a commitment to realism and a life consistent with truth.\u201d Recommended by a student.<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/10\/10\/abortion-catholic-hospitals-birth-control\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spread of Catholic hospitals limits reproductive care across the U.S<\/a>. (Frances Stead Sellers and Meena Venkataramanan, Washington Post): \u201cCatholic systems now control about 1 in 7 U.S. hospital beds, requiring religious doctrine to guide treatment, often to the surprise of patients.\u201d<ul><li>The above article annoyed me and I was pleased to see this response: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/as-the-washington-post-targets-catholic-hospitals-every-religious-institution-needs-to-build-its-defenses\" target=\"_blank\">As Washington Post targets Catholic hospitals, every religious institution needs to build defenses<\/a> (Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner):&nbsp; \u201cThese journalists write as if the baseline is total acceptance of abortion, gay marriage, and transgender ideology and that the scary<em> new<\/em> thing is the religious hospitals or teachings that have been around for centuries or millennia. \u2018Spread of Catholic hospitals\u2019 is a funny headline because Catholics were the ones <em>who invented hospitals<\/em>. If you wanted to write a trend piece, you should really write about the spread of laws and lawsuits <em>threatening<\/em> Catholic hospitals, which are actually new.\u201d<\/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\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Oc0GiglIF0A\" target=\"_blank\">Artist covers entire house with doodles<\/a> (BBC, YouTube): three minutes. This is wild. Check out some images at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/notthebee.com\/article\/this-british-artist-covered-his-entire-mansion-in-doodles\" target=\"_blank\">Not The&nbsp;Bee<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefarside.com\/2022\/10\/10\/0\" target=\"_blank\">Dog Heaven<\/a> (The Far&nbsp;Side)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stanfordflipside.com\/2022\/10\/op-ed-fighting-tap-inflation-is-easy-we-just-need-to-print-more-cardinal-dollars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Op-ed: Fighting TAP Inflation is Easy. We Just Need to Print More Cardinal Dollars<\/a> (Stanford Flipside)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/entire-professional-soccer-team-dead-after-team-bus-goes-over-slight-speedbump\/\" target=\"_blank\">Entire Professional Soccer Team Dead After Team Bus Goes Over Slight Speed Bump<\/a> (Babylon Bee)<\/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 rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.logos.com\/grow\/is-joshuas-altar-on-mount-ebal-in-israel-myth-or-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\">Is Joshua\u2019s Altar on Mount Ebal in Israel Myth? Or Reality?<\/a> (Ralph Hawkins, Logos): \u201cWhen I was working on my doctoral dissertation about the Ebal site, I spent a week with Zertal. One morning while we were driving to the site, he told me his critics had accused him of trying to prove the Bible. They said he imposed a cultic interpretation onto the stone structure he had found. He explained, though, that he had been born and raised in Ein Shemer, Israeli kibbutz that was affiliated with a secular movement. He said he had grown up believing that the Bible was full of myths. When he did his graduate work in archaeology, he did it at Tel Aviv, the most liberal university in Israel, where those views were reinforced. He insisted he had not embarked on his excavation at Mount Ebal in order to prove the Bible. What he found there, however, had a profound effect on him. He said, \u2018I became a believer at Mount Ebal.\u2019\u201d I love stories like this. Archaeology and the Bible is fascinating to me. From <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/03\/27\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-243\" target=\"_blank\">volume 243<\/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:\/\/theglendavis.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Fridays (apparently some Saturdays) 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. This is volume 372, a number I think is cool because it can be expressed as \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2022\/10\/15\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-372\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 372\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[121,124,204,220,218,160,296,183,116],"class_list":["post-7028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-abortion","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-atheism","tag-bible","tag-california","tag-how-the-church-is-perceived","tag-mental-health","tag-psychology","tag-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1Pm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7030,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028\/revisions\/7030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}