{"id":7402,"date":"2024-03-15T16:27:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T23:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7402"},"modified":"2024-03-15T16:27:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T23:27:57","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-444","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/03\/15\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-444","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 444"},"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 444, which is just the same dig\u00adit repeat\u00aded. I like that. Clean. Classy. Ele\u00adgant.<\/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 href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2010\/08\/rant-worship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rant About Wor\u00adship Songs<\/a> (Jere\u00admy Pierce, First Things): \u201cHere are some of the things I real\u00adly hate in a wor\u00adship song.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is bril\u00adliant, from back in 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/notthebee.com\/article\/top-onlyfans-creator-making-300000-a-month-turns-back-to-christ-walks-away-from-porn-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Top Only\u00adFans cre\u00adator mak\u00ading $300,000 a month turns to Christ, walks away from porn indus\u00adtry<\/a> (John Knox, Not The Bee): \u201cFrom what I can tell, Nala here isn\u2019t going through a Lil\u2019 Nas X \u2018Chris\u00adt\u00adian era\u2019 where she\u2019s aging out of porn and wants to rebrand her\u00adself as a good girl again before piv\u00adot\u00ading to anoth\u00ader grift. All I see is gen\u00aduine joy, like the pros\u00adti\u00adtute who wept and was for\u00adgiv\u00aden at Jesus\u2019 feet.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Includes a video of her shar\u00ading her tes\u00adti\u00admo\u00adny. I love this part: \u201cThe dev\u00adil can tru\u00adly give you things in this life. He has a bud\u00adget, though. He can only go so far.\u2026 The dev\u00adil has a bud\u00adget, but God does not.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/latinos-are-flocking-to-evangelical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lati\u00adnos Are Flock\u00ading to Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty<\/a> (Marie Arana, The Free Press): \u201cIn fact, some researchers project that by 2030, half of the entire pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Lati\u00adnos will iden\u00adti\u00adfy as Protes\u00adtant evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals. Com\u00adpare that growth with white evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Protes\u00adtants, whose num\u00adbers have declined from 23 per\u00adcent of the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion in 2006 to 14 per\u00adcent in 2020. With the His\u00adpan\u00adic population\u2019s pro\u00adject\u00aded growth, in less than a decade, we may see forty mil\u00adlion Latinos\u2014a con\u00adgre\u00adga\u00adtion the size of California\u2014heading to Amer\u00adi\u00adcan evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal church\u00ades every Sun\u00adday.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/is-rome-a-true-church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Is Rome a True Church<\/a>? (Chris Castal\u00addo, Mere Ortho\u00addoxy): \u201cProtes\u00adtants tend to answer the ques\u00adtion of Roman Catholicism\u2019s sta\u00adtus in one of two ways. Look\u00ading through the lens of the ear\u00adly creeds (i.e., Nicene and Apos\u00adtles\u2019), some under\u00adstand it to be fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtal\u00adly ortho\u00addox. The ratio\u00adnale is sim\u00adple: because the creeds uphold the basic tenets of Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty, and Rome upholds those creeds, her apos\u00adtolic\u00adi\u00adty is affirmed. Roman Catholi\u00adcism is thus regard\u00aded as \u2018inside the pale.\u2019 An alter\u00adna\u00adtive read\u00ading, one that prob\u00ada\u00adbly informed the Face\u00adbook com\u00adment, is to view the Roman Catholic Church through the lens of the six\u00adteenth-cen\u00adtu\u00adry Ref\u00ador\u00adma\u00adtion in which the Coun\u00adcil of Trent anath\u00ade\u00adma\u00adtized (pro\u00adnounced to be cursed) the doc\u00adtrine of jus\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtion by faith alone. Because such faith is rec\u00adog\u00adnized as the dri\u00adving cen\u00adter of the bib\u00adli\u00adcal gospel, and Rome force\u00adful\u00adly repu\u00addi\u00adates the doc\u00adtrine, the Roman Church is there\u00adfore con\u00adsid\u00adered incom\u00adpat\u00adi\u00adble with bib\u00adli\u00adcal faith.&nbsp; I rec\u00adog\u00adnize the log\u00adic in these posi\u00adtions, but in my opin\u00adion, both are incom\u00adplete.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2024\/03\/journalism-has-a-religion-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jour\u00adnal\u00adism Has a Reli\u00adgion Prob\u00adlem<\/a> (Andrew T. Walk\u00ader, Nation\u00adal Review): \u201cJour\u00adnal\u00adism has a reli\u00adgion prob\u00adlem. More specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, jour\u00adnal\u00adists are either unaware or unwill\u00ading to admit that their own views, pre\u00adsum\u00adably untouched by \u2018reli\u00adgion,\u2019 are nonethe\u00adless pas\u00adsion\u00adate\u00adly held con\u00advic\u00adtions ground\u00aded, well, <em>some\u00adwhere<\/em>. What do I mean by that? Well, jour\u00adnal\u00adism that touch\u00ades on reli\u00adgion and pol\u00adi\u00adtics tends to see reli\u00adgious view\u00adpoints as car\u00adry\u00ading a spe\u00adcial bur\u00adden. It goes some\u00adthing like this: \u2018Tell me, Mr. Pious, why a diverse pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion should accept your views on moral\u00adi\u00adty, con\u00adsid\u00ader\u00ading they come from reli\u00adgion.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/harvard-tramples-the-truth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Har\u00advard Tram\u00adples the Truth<\/a> (Mar\u00adtin Kulldorff,City Jour\u00adnal): \u201c\u2026as I dis\u00adcov\u00adered, truth can get you fired. This is my story\u2014a sto\u00adry of a Har\u00advard bio\u00adsta\u00adtis\u00adti\u00adcian and infec\u00adtious-dis\u00adease epi\u00addemi\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgist, cling\u00ading to the truth as the world lost its way dur\u00ading the Covid pan\u00addem\u00adic.\u2026 Two Har\u00advard col\u00adleagues tried to arrange a debate between me and oppos\u00ading Har\u00advard fac\u00adul\u00adty, but just as with Stan\u00adford, there were no tak\u00aders. The invi\u00adta\u00adtion to debate remains open. The pub\u00adlic should not trust sci\u00aden\u00adtists, even Har\u00advard sci\u00aden\u00adtists, unwill\u00ading to debate their posi\u00adtions with fel\u00adlow sci\u00aden\u00adtists.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How the Gaza Min\u00adistry of Health Fakes Casu\u00adal\u00adty Num\u00adbers<\/a> (Abra\u00adham Wyn\u00ader, Tablet Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cIf Hamas\u2019 num\u00adbers are faked or fraud\u00adu\u00adlent in some way, there may be evi\u00addence <em>in the num\u00adbers them\u00adselves<\/em> that can demon\u00adstrate it. While there is not much data avail\u00adable, there is a lit\u00adtle, and it is enough: From Oct. 26 until Nov. 10, 2023, the Gaza Health Min\u00adistry released dai\u00adly casu\u00adal\u00adty fig\u00adures that include both a total num\u00adber and a spe\u00adcif\u00adic num\u00adber of women and chil\u00addren.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is a pro\u00adfes\u00adsor of sta\u00adtis\u00adtics at the Whar\u00adton School, and I find his analy\u00adsis com\u00adpelling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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 href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/mpierce\/p\/i-cant-wait-until-you-die-so-jesus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I Can\u2019t Wait Until You Die, So Jesus Can Tell You that I was Right<\/a> (Matthew Pierce, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cNow, I know what you are think\u00ading: if peo\u00adple who dis\u00adagree with me will even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly learn the truth in heav\u00aden, wouldn\u2019t it be bet\u00adter if they just went ahead and died? This is a good thought, yes. I am always think\u00ading this, too.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2024\/03\/06\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Time<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine) \u2014 I feel attacked<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/textsfromsuperheroes.com\/post\/744255018299015168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI Art<\/a> (Texts from Super\u00adheroes)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/pastor-confident-that-his-state-of-the-hypostatic-union-sermon-joke-will-finally-get-a-laugh-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pas\u00adtor Con\u00adfi\u00addent That His \u2018State Of The Hypo\u00adsta\u00adt\u00adic Union\u2019 Ser\u00admon Joke Will Final\u00adly Get a Laugh This Year<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2904\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Physics vs. Mag\u00adic<\/a> (xkcd)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-00690-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meet the real-life ver\u00adsions of Dune\u2019s epic sand\u00adworms<\/a> (Julian Nowogrodz\u00adki inter\u00adview\u00ading Luke Par\u00adry, Nature): \u201cThere are annelid worms that get up to sev\u00ader\u00adal metres in length called euni\u00adcid worms, a type of bris\u00adtle worm. They\u2019re pret\u00adty gnarly \u2014 they have big jaws, they look a bit like Graboids from the 1990 film <em>Tremors<\/em>. Some of them are ambush preda\u00adtors. They eat octo\u00adpus\u00ades, squid, ver\u00adte\u00adbrates. There are some earth\u00adworms that get real\u00adly big, as well<em>. Megas\u00adcol\u00adides<\/em> reach\u00ades up to 2 metres. The biggest ones are from Aus\u00adtralia.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>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. This is vol\u00adume 444, which is just the same dig\u00adit repeat\u00aded. I like that. Clean. Classy. Ele\u00adgant. Things \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/03\/15\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-444\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 444\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_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":"Links for the week - more religion-centric than some other weeks.","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":[170,240,334,148,221,275,136,333,175],"class_list":["post-7402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-devotional","tag-elite-colleges","tag-hispanic","tag-israel","tag-journalism","tag-pandemic","tag-pornography","tag-roman-catholic-church","tag-worship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1Vo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402","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=7402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7404,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions\/7404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}