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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 457, the sum of three consecutive primes (149 + 151 + 157) and also apparently the index of a prime Euclid number, but I would be lying if I said I knew what that is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The case for showing up to church\u2014even if you don\u2019t believe in God<\/a> (Emma Camp, America): \u201cBut despite my regular church attendance for almost two years now, I still haven\u2019t developed a rock-solid faith. I\u2019ve joked\u2014and said as much on Twitter\u2014that I only believe in God about 30 percent of the time on a good day. My ambivalence does set me apart from most of my friends from church, a group that includes a few seminarians. But it doesn\u2019t keep me from coming back.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs<\/a> (Ruxandra Teslo, Substack): \u201cTo formalize this: \u2018Any system that is not explicitly pro-Weird Nerd will turn anti-Weird Nerd pretty quickly.\u2019 <\/em>That is because most people, while liking non-conformism in the abstract and post-facto, are not very willing to actually put up with the personality trade-offs of Weird Nerds in practice. There is an increasing number of people right now who are thinking about how to build better intellectual institutions\u2026 it\u2019s worth thinking about what kind of people one wants to attract in these institutions and how to keep them there. And I believe the conversation here starts with accepting a simple truth, which is that Weird Nerds will have certain traits that might be less than ideal, that these traits come \u2018in a package\u2019 with other, very good traits, and if one makes filtering or promotion based on the absence of those traits a priority, they will miss out on the positives.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. An Object Lesson From Covid on How to Destroy Public Trust<\/a> (Zeynep Tufekci, New York Times): \u201cIf the government misled people about how Covid is transmitted, why would Americans believe what it says about vaccines or bird flu or H.I.V.? How should people distinguish between wild conspiracy theories and actual conspiracies?\u2026 As the expression goes, trust is built in drops and lost in buckets, and this bucket is going to take a very long time to refill.\u201d