{"id":7056,"date":"2022-11-18T20:14:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T04:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2022-11-18T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T04:14:10","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-377","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2022\/11\/18\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-377","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 377"},"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\">This is vol\u00adume 377, the 14th Fibonac\u00adci num\u00adber.<\/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\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ayjay.org\/sprawling-along-the-way-a-polemic-and-an-exhortation\/\" target=\"_blank\">sprawl\u00ading along the way: a polemic and an exhor\u00adta\u00adtion<\/a> (Alan Jacobs, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cWhen\u00adev\u00ader Chris\u00adtians decide that they need a strat\u00ade\u00adgy, they\u2019re writ\u00ading a recipe for dis\u00adobe\u00addi\u00adence to the Lord Jesus. As Stan\u00adley Hauer\u00adwas has always said in response to peo\u00adple who say that the Church needs a social strat\u00ade\u00adgy, \u2018the Church <em>is<\/em> a social strat\u00ade\u00adgy.\u2026\u2019 The Church\u2019s job is to <em>be the Church<\/em>, and the Christian\u2019s task is to <em>be like Christ<\/em>, and strate\u00adgies invari\u00adably get in the way of both.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is insight\u00adful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/how-should-christians-speak-in-public\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Should Chris\u00adtians Speak in Pub\u00adlic<\/a>? (Tim Keller, Mere Ortho\u00addoxy): \u201cThe fruit of the Spir\u00adit includes love, joy and peace, patience and kind\u00adness, and humil\u00adi\u00adty. These must be evi\u00addent as we speak about the gospel pub\u00adlicly. Right now, the most pop\u00adu\u00adlar pub\u00adlic fig\u00adures show con\u00adfi\u00addence and fear\u00adless\u00adness but not love and humil\u00adi\u00adty. We can\u00adnot fol\u00adlow in that train.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to excerpt fair\u00adly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2022\/11\/10\/does-education-cure-people-of-faith-the-data-says-no\/?fbclid=IwAR0Vfd83_bMOtkoYAUEBw8YrifsXSF3cGEIqm2a-6hcu-_jLanCeFg9LJO4\" target=\"_blank\">Does edu\u00adca\u00adtion \u2018cure\u2019 peo\u00adple of faith? The data says no<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Reli\u00adgion News): \u201cThose who are the most like\u00adly to be reli\u00adgious\u00adly unaf\u00adfil\u00adi\u00adat\u00aded are those with the low\u00adest lev\u00adels of for\u00admal edu\u00adca\u00adtion. The group that is the most like\u00adly to align with a faith tra\u00addi\u00adtion? Those who have earned a col\u00adlege degree or more.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is one of those true things that peo\u00adple have a hard time believ\u00ading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/13\/nyregion\/china-iran-private-detectives.html\" target=\"_blank\">Iran and Chi\u00adna Use Pri\u00advate Detec\u00adtives to Spy on Dis\u00adsi\u00addents in Amer\u00adi\u00adca<\/a> (Ben\u00adjamin Weis\u00ader and &amp; William K. Rash\u00adbaum, New York Times): \u201cAcross Amer\u00adi\u00adca, inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtors are increas\u00ading\u00adly being hired by a new kind of client \u2014 author\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan gov\u00adern\u00adments like Iran and Chi\u00adna attempt\u00ading to sur\u00adveil, harass, threat\u00aden and even repa\u00adtri\u00adate dis\u00adsi\u00addents liv\u00ading law\u00adful\u00adly in the Unit\u00aded States, law enforce\u00adment offi\u00adcials said.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/aella-the-futility-of-consent\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ael\u00adla &amp; The Futil\u00adi\u00adty Of \u2018Con\u00adsent\u2019<\/a> (Rod Dreher, The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive): \u201cI\u2019ve heard that \u2018but ani\u00admals can\u2019t con\u00adsent!\u2019 argu\u00adment from peo\u00adple before, as a defense against nor\u00admal\u00adiz\u00ading bes\u00adtial\u00adi\u00adty, and it has nev\u00ader made sense. You think ani\u00admals can con\u00adsent to being eat\u00aden?\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I remem\u00adber when I first talked with a stu\u00addent who seri\u00adous\u00adly claimed that con\u00adsent was the only moral rule applic\u00ada\u00adble to sex. I was so stunned I don\u2019t think I had the where\u00adwith\u00adal to laugh. It\u2019s such an absurd claim.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-63626239\" target=\"_blank\">Lep\u00adrosy: Ancient dis\u00adease able to regen\u00ader\u00adate organs<\/a> (James Gal\u00adlagher, BBC): \u201cAni\u00admal exper\u00adi\u00adments have uncov\u00adered the bac\u00adte\u00adri\u00ada\u2019s remark\u00adable abil\u00adi\u00adty to almost dou\u00adble the size of liv\u00aders by stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading healthy growth. It is a sneak\u00adi\u00adly self\u00adish act that gives the bac\u00adte\u00adria more tis\u00adsue to infect. But work\u00ading out how they do it could lead to new age-defy\u00ading ther\u00ada\u00adpies, the sci\u00aden\u00adtists say.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is super cool! I hope it pans out. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/11\/12\/the-top-10-most-regretted-college-majors.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/11\/12\/the-top-10-most-regretted-college-majors.html\">The top 10 most-regret\u00adted col\u00adlege majors \u2014 and the degrees grad\u00adu\u00adates wish they had pur\u00adsued instead<\/a> (Jes\u00adsi\u00adca Dick\u00adler, CNBC): \u201cCom\u00adput\u00ader sci\u00adence majors, with an aver\u00adage annu\u00adal start\u00ading salary of almost $100,000, were the hap\u00adpi\u00adest over\u00adall, accord\u00ading to ZipRecruiter. Stu\u00addents who majored in crim\u00adi\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy, engi\u00adneer\u00ading, nurs\u00ading, busi\u00adness and finance also felt very good about their choic\u00ades.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/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\">\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jLs_No8qMi0\" target=\"_blank\">Orlan\u00addo Magi\u00adcian Jafo runs the table<\/a> (Penn &amp; Teller Fool Us, YouTube): six and a half sur\u00adpris\u00ading min\u00adutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_m-gO0HSCYk\" target=\"_blank\">Dave Chap\u00adpelle SNL Stand-Up<\/a> (Sat\u00adur\u00adday Night Live, YouTube): fif\u00adteen min\u00adutes about anti\u00adsemitism, the midterms, and racism more gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/americans-fondly-remember-a-time-when-we-finished-one-election-before-starting-another\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amer\u00adi\u00adcans Fond\u00adly Remem\u00adber A Time When We Fin\u00adished One Elec\u00adtion Before Start\u00ading Anoth\u00ader<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<\/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 rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalaffairs.com\/publications\/detail\/religious-liberty-and-the-common-good\" target=\"_blank\">Reli\u00adgious Lib\u00ader\u00adty and the Com\u00admon Good<\/a> (Nation\u00adal Affairs, William Haun): \u201cMany of today\u2019s pro\u00adgres\u00adsives, con\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtives, and lib\u00ader\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adans [can\u00adnot] explain why reli\u00adgion in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar and reli\u00adgious exer\u00adcise in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar should shape the com\u00admon good, even when they go against the grain of sec\u00adu\u00adlar visions adopt\u00aded in law.\u201d Not light read\u00ading but worth\u00adwhile. The author is a lawyer for the Beck\u00adet Fund. From <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/05\/01\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-248\" target=\"_blank\">vol\u00adume 248<\/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:\/\/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>things which grabbed my atten\u00adtion<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"From Alan Jacobs, \"Whenever Christians decide that they need a strategy, they\u2019re writing a recipe for disobedience to the Lord Jesus.\"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[131,124,125,160,133,163],"class_list":["post-7056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-academia","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-china","tag-how-the-church-is-perceived","tag-middle-east","tag-sex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1PO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056","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=7056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7058,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions\/7058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}