{"id":7356,"date":"2024-01-12T14:15:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T22:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7356"},"modified":"2024-01-12T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T22:15:10","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-435","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/01\/12\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-435","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 435"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/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 435, a triangular number<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. The Ground of Our Assurance<\/a> (D. A. Carson, YouTube): three and a half excellent minutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. No, Not Everyone Needs Therapy<\/a> (Freya India, Substack): \u201c\u2026 there are people who now feel pressured <\/em>to get professional help for normal negative emotions\u2014teens and pre-teens convinced the reason they\u2019re sad sometimes is because they\u2019re broken <\/em>and haven\u2019t paid enough to be healed. Now not going <\/em>to therapy is a red flag. Seeking support from friends and family is exploiting their \u2019emotional labour\u2019. And men are shamed for preferring to chat to their mates about their problems than pay a stranger, like that one BetterHelp ad where a woman dismisses a guy she\u2019s dating because he \u2018doesn\u2019t do therapy\u2019. Think about that! <\/em>How have we reached the point where we\u2019re stigmatising people for not<\/em> needing mental health support?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. What If There Is No Such Thing as \u2018Biblical\u2019 Productivity?<\/a> (Brady Bowman, Mere Orthodoxy): \u201c\u2026the \u2018productivity mindset\u2019 seems to me, at least in some ways, deeply incongruent with the Bible\u2019s vision of reality. To say it more simply, to adopt an outlook dominated by speed and efficiency and productivity is to adopt a perspective that is alien to the writers of Scripture.\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. New technology interprets archaeological findings from Biblical times<\/a> (Tel Aviv University, Phys.org): \u201cApplying their method to findings from ancient Gath (Tell es-Safi in central Israel), the researchers validated the Biblical account, \u2018About this time Hazael King of Aram went up and attacked Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem\u2019 (2 Kings 12, 18). They explain that, unlike previous methods, the new technique can determine whether a certain item (such as a mud brick) underwent a firing event even at relatively low temperatures, from 200\u00b0C and up.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. US Intelligence Shows Flawed China Missiles Led Xi to Purge Army<\/a> (Peter Martin and Jennifer Jacobs, Bloomberg): \u201cThe corruption inside China\u2019s Rocket Force and throughout the nation\u2019s defense industrial base is so extensive that US officials now believe Xi is less likely to contemplate major military action in the coming years than would otherwise have been the case, according to the people, who asked not to be named discussing intelligence.\u201d