{"id":7412,"date":"2024-04-05T21:16:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T04:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7412"},"modified":"2024-04-05T21:16:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T04:16:36","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-447","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/04\/05\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-447","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 447"},"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 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&nbsp;way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is volume 447, which I kinda hoped would be prime. Alas, 447 = 3 \u00b7&nbsp;149.<\/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:\/\/michaeljkruger.com\/one-of-the-most-overlooked-arguments-for-the-resurrection-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">One of the Most Overlooked Arguments for the Resurrection<\/a> (Michael J. Kruger, blog): \u201c\u2026<em>the earliest Christians came to believe, against all odds and against all expectations, that Jesus of Nazareth had been raised from the dead<\/em>. Notice the distinctive nature of this claim. The claim is not that Jesus rose from the dead (though, I think he did). The claim is that the earliest followers of Jesus <em>came to believe<\/em>\u2014and very strongly believe\u2014 that he did. And that is a wholly other matter. Why? Because it is a historical fact that is not disputed.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/03\/opinion\/sex-assigned-at-birth.html?ugrp=u&amp;unlocked_article_code=1.hk0.jv6K.LWqdgDL1TQ1Y&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Problem With Saying \u2018Sex Assigned at Birth\u2019<\/a> (Alex Byrne and Carole K. Hooven, New York Times): \u201cSexed organisms were present on Earth at least a billion years ago, and males and females would have been around even if humans had never evolved. Sex is not in any sense the result of linguistic ceremonies in the delivery room or other cultural practices. Lonesome George, the long-lived Gal\u00e1pagos giant tortoise, was male. He was not assigned male at birth \u2014 or rather, in George\u2019s case, at hatching. A baby abandoned at birth may not have been assigned male or female by anyone, yet the baby still has a sex. Despite the confusion sown by some scholars, we can be confident that the sex binary is not a human invention.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One author is a philosopher at MIT, the other an evolutionary biologist at Harvard. Unlocked.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rival perspectives on the war between Israel and&nbsp;Hamas&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGHamilton29\/status\/1775980849944539391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGHamilton29\/status\/1775980849944539391<\/a> (Coleman Hughes, Twitter): a two and a half minute video sympathetic to Israel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/bomb-first-ask-questions-later-2ec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bomb First, Ask Questions Later<\/a> (Andrew Sullivan, Substack): \u201cTo hit one car is a misfortune; to destroy three cars consecutively on a <em>pre-approved<\/em> route, not so much. The cars were clearly marked and in a deconfliction zone \u2014 but the IDF policy is to target anywhere Hamas could be present, even if some civilians were killed. As we\u2019ll see, one dead Hamas member and seven dead civilians was well within the margin of error Israel had set for itself. So it appears they methodically took out each car to make sure they finished the job. No, I don\u2019t believe that Israel deliberately murdered the aid workers; but I do think that, in context, the IDF\u2019s effective rules of engagement \u2014 strike places like hospitals and schools because Hamas is there, even though there will be many civilian casualties \u2014 made this kind of indifference to human life possible.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/01\/us\/politics\/trump-2024-religion.html?ugrp=u&amp;unlocked_article_code=1.hE0.KWN1.jVnN6vznp8j4&amp;smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Church of Trump: How He\u2019s Infusing Christianity Into His Movement<\/a> (Michael C. Bender, New York Times): \u201cThe apparent effectiveness of such tactics has made Mr. Trump the nation\u2019s first major politician to successfully separate character from policy for religious voters, said John Fea, a history professor at Messiah University, an evangelical school in Pennsylvania. \u2018Trump has split the atom between character and policy,\u2019 Mr. Fea said. \u2018He did it because he\u2019s really the first one to listen to their grievances and take them seriously. Does he really care about evangelicals? I don\u2019t know. But he\u2019s built a message to appeal directly to&nbsp;them.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Unlocked<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecut.com\/article\/age-gap-relationships-marriage-younger-women-older-man.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Case for Marrying an Older Man<\/a> (Grazie Sophia Christie, The Cut): \u201cVery soon, we will decide to have children, and I don\u2019t panic over last gasps of fun, because I took so many big breaths of it early: on the holidays of someone who had worked a decade longer than I had, in beautiful places when I was young and beautiful, a symmetry I recommend. If such a thing as maternal energy exists, mine was never depleted. I spent the last nearly seven years supported more than I support and I am still not as old as my husband was when he met me. When I have a child, I will expect more help from him than I would if he were younger, for what does professional tenure earn you if not the right to set more limits on work demands \u2014 or, if not, to secure some child care, at the very&nbsp;least?\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A well-written and unusual position. Not the only path to consider, but certainly a path to consider.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-04-breakthrough-prime-theory-primes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Breakthrough in prime number theory demonstrates primes can be predicted<\/a> (Michael Gibb, Phys.org): \u201cContrary to what just about every mathematician on Earth will tell you, prime numbers can be predicted, according to researchers at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) and North Carolina State University, U.S.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The working paper is <code>Han-Lin Li et al, The Periodic Table of Primes, <em>SSRN Electronic Journal<\/em> (2024). DOI: 10.2139\/ssrn.4742238<\/code> check it at <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4742238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4742238<\/a> \u2014 if it holds up this is significant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphsaboutreligion.com\/p\/are-members-of-the-clergy-miserable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Are Members of the Clergy Miserable?<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Substack): \u201cI really wanted to key in on a few questions about job\/life satisfaction. The survey replicates a question from \u2018The Satisfaction with Life Scale.\u2019 The statement is simply: In most ways my life is close to my ideal.\u2026 The mean score for this was 5.6 in the clergy sample. Among members of Israel\u2019s Defense Force it was 4.7, among some university students it was found to 5.23. Among nurses it was 3.81. In a sample of people living in Colombia it was only 3.67. <strong>The long and short of it was this \u2014 I can\u2019t find another population group that scores higher on this metric than clergy.\u2026 I\u2019m pretty confident in saying that clergy seemed pretty content with their station in life (or at least this was the case before the pandemic).\u201d<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Maybe laypeople don\u2019t hear this very often, but I am often in circles where they talk about an epidemic of ministerial dissatisfaction. But I\u2019ve never seen it. I love my job and pretty much all my peers do, too. What we do is amazing. I\u2019m glad to see a scholar vindicating my intuition.<\/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:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=20TAkcy3aBY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI<\/a> (The Daily Show, YouTube): fifteen minutes, at times quite amusing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vuwG8zh9GWc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rod Butch\u2019s Debate Tactics!!!!!!!!<\/a> (Babylon Bee): two and a half minutes, kinda partisan but mostly absurd<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 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 447, which I kinda hoped would be prime. Alas, 447 = 3 \u00b7&nbsp;149. Things Glen Found \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/04\/05\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-447\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 447\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":"Links surprising, interesting, and provocative.","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":[124,195,148,112,308,318],"class_list":["post-7412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-gender","tag-israel","tag-marriage","tag-mathematics","tag-politcs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1Vy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412","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=7412"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7418,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions\/7418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}