{"id":7109,"date":"2023-01-17T09:45:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T17:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7109"},"modified":"2023-01-17T09:45:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T17:45:15","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-385","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/01\/17\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-385","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 385"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a> On Fridays<\/s> (this did go to my Substack on Friday, but my website crashed and I only just got it back up) 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 385, which is 5 x 7 x 11. That feels cool to me and I don\u2019t know exactly why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. How Tall Would a Stack of New Testament Manuscripts Be?<\/a> (Daniel B. Wallace, personal blog): \u201cIf you could stack up all handwritten manuscripts of the New Testament\u2014Greek, Syriac, Latin, Coptic, all languages\u2014how tall would the stack be? I  was recently challenged on my numbers in a Facebook discussion in the group \u2018New Testament Textual Criticism.\u2019 I have said in many lectures that it would be the equivalent of c. 4 & 1\/2 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other. How did I come up with that number?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. A Poet for \u2018Bruised Evangelicals\u2019<\/a> (Kara Bettis, Christianity Today): \u201cMy publisher was very reluctant to take on my book, because \u2018Nobody\u2019s writing sonnets now, and young people won\u2019t like that,\u2019\u2009\u201d Guite told me at a sandwich shop in Vancouver. \u201cBut actually, it turns out that\u2019s exactly what they like, because it\u2019s precisely not a tweet.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. What\u2019s Up with Weird Bible Sex<\/a>? (Dru Johnson, Christianity Today): \u201cAnyone who reads the Bible today may be tempted to skip over the sex. It can seem too crude, too impolite, or at least not spiritually edifying for our morning devotions. But I want to argue that we should read the Bible that we have and take it seriously. Even the R\u2011rated bits. When you read Genesis, pay attention to the details of the sex. They are trying to teach us about the nature of our bodies and communities before God.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. How Stanford Failed the Academic Freedom Test<\/a> (Jay Battacharya, Tablet Magazine): \u201cFaculty at Stanford should rightly worry whether their professional work will lead to deplatforming, excommunication, and political targeting. In this environment, professors and students alike would be wise to look over their shoulders at all times, in the knowledge that the university no longer has your back. And members of the public should understand that many of those urging them to \u2018trust the science\u2019 on complicated matters of public concern are also those working to ensure that \u2018the science\u2019 never turns up answers that they don\u2019t like.\u201d Dr. Battacharya is both a believer and a professor at Stanford.