{"id":7547,"date":"2024-11-15T18:02:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T02:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7547"},"modified":"2024-11-15T18:02:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T02:02:45","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-478","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/11\/15\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-478","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 478"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/issachar-update-logo-wordswag\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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 width=\"300\" height=\"300\" 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>\n\n    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<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2024\/11\/artificial-intelligence-college-admissions-essay\/?utm_medium=widgetsocial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">When a Stanford Bible Study Led to an AI Startup<\/a> (Emily Belz, Christianity Today): \u201cHadassah Betapudi and Elijah Kim met at a Christian fellowship at Stanford in 2022 and got to know each other by leading a Bible study together. Soon the duo\u2014with their backgrounds in data organizing and computer science\u2014was building an artificial intelligence startup.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The article never names Chi Alpha, but they are both leaders in our ministry. Super cool! Their startup is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esslo.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.esslo.org\/\">Esslo<\/a>, which helps students with their college application essays.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/14\/opinion\/christianity-spirituality-psychedelics-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I Believe in Miracles. Just Not All of Them.<\/a> (David French, New York Times): \u201cAs the surgery date approached, I got a call from a dear friend, Ruth Okediji. Ruth was the leader of my law school Christian fellowship, and she\u2019s now a professor at Harvard Law School. I\u2019ll never forget her first words. \u2018It\u2019s over,\u2019 she said. \u2018The Lord has healed you.\u2019 My initial reaction was frustration. I was resigned to the surgery, and I wanted encouragement, not false hope. As a Christian, I believe that God is real and works miracles. But I didn\u2019t consider that he would work a miracle on me. My prayers were of the conventional kind that I grew up with \u2014 prayers that doctors would have wisdom and that I\u2019d have the courage to face the challenge of the surgery. But Ruth\u2019s prayer was different. She asked God for healing, and she said that God had granted her prayer. I woke up the next morning without any pain at all. I had no pain the entire day. The next day was pain-free as well, and so was the next. The doctors reintroduced bland, solid food to my diet, and I consumed it voraciously. By Thanksgiving, I\u2019d gained most of my weight back, and a colonoscopy later showed no evidence of the disease at all. My doctor was surprised. I was surprised (and overjoyed). I knew that ulcerative colitis could have remission periods, but this one stuck. And in the 29 years since, I\u2019ve never had a recurrence.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thezvi.substack.com\/p\/the-online-sports-gambling-experiment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Online Sports Gambling Experiment Has Failed<\/a> (Zvi Mowshowitz, Substack): \u201cWhen sports gambling was legalized in America, I was hopeful it too could prove a net positive force, far superior to the previous obnoxious wave of daily fantasy sports. It brings me no pleasure to conclude that this was not the case. The results are in. Legalized mobile gambling on sports, let alone casino games, has proven to be a huge mistake. The societal impacts are far worse than I expected.\u2026 The impacts include a 28% overall increase in bankruptcies (!).\u2026 When the home team suffers an upset loss while sports betting is legal, domestic violence that day goes up by 9% for the day, with lingering effects.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/artificial-intelligence-and-relationships-1-in-4-young-adults-believe-ai-partners-could-replace-real-life-romance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Artificial Intelligence and Relationships: 1 in 4 Young Adults Believe AI Partners Could Replace Real-life Romance<\/a> (Wendy Wang and Michael Toscano, Institute for Family Studies): \u201cYoung men are more likely than young women to believe that AI has the potential to replace real-life romantic relationships (28% vs. 22%). As shown earlier, young men are generally more open to AI friendships than young women, which parallels the gender difference in their views of AI\u2019s potential for romance.\u2026 Among single young adults, those who watch porn online at least once a day are twice as likely as those who rarely, if ever watch porn to say they are open to an AI romance.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2024\/10\/the-right-without-wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Right Without Wrong<\/a> (Dustin Guastella, Jacobin): \u201cFor secular liberals who have made \u2018believing science\u2019 their own kind of religion, the possible waning of Christian conservatism may seem like a blessing long overdue. What if it isn\u2019t?\u2026 In the Christian story, we are all equally fallen. Our original sin unites us in a kind of negative equilibrium. By recasting Christianity as a unique perversion, a cancerous growth that destroyed the glorious Roman Empire from within (or a virus introduced by Jews, that ancient enemy of the Right, from without), reactionaries can freely reject our primordial equality to instead embrace the supposedly natural hierarchies evident in the outcome of market competition, the body-obsessed \u2018vitalism\u2019 that privileges physical strength over the effete idealism of the Enlightenment, and also, seemingly without fail, an aggressive, unashamed form of scientific racism.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jacobin is a socialist magazine \u2014 fascinating to see how one of their authors feels about the rise of the post-religious right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2024\/11\/we-need-to-fix-voting-in-america-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">We Need to Fix Voting in America Now<\/a> (Wilfred Reilly, National Review): \u201cSimply put, there is no way to know the real rate of voter fraud in America, <em>so long as the U.S.A. does not require citizens to vote in person or show an ID when they vote<\/em>.\u2026 Recall that a competently done scan-and-purge of the rolls in Iowa alone turned up almost two orders of magnitude more registered noncitizens than the number that The Experts\u2122 discovered nationwide \u2014 fully 0.5 percent\u20131 percent of the state\u2019s electorate in some off-year races. Saying that these folks do not exist because they have never been jailed is like saying that there cannot really be 1 million-plus daily users of The Pirate Bay and similar sites, because there are so few annual prosecutions for internet crimes.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is a political science professor. He presents data I\u2019ve never heard before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/musaalgharbi.substack.com\/p\/a-graveyard-of-bad-election-narratives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Graveyard of Bad Election Narratives<\/a> (Musa al-Gharbi, Substack): \u201cAccording to Forbes, more than 50 other billionaires also threw their weight behind Trump. So far so good for the preferred narrative. But here\u2019s the twist: even more billionaires \u2014 83 to be precise \u2014 supported the Democratic nominee. Kamala had 60 percent more billionaire backers than Donald Trump did. And billionaires like Oprah and Mark Cuban hit the campaign trail serving as surrogates for Harris in much the same way as Musk supported Trump. If we want to look at who \u2018big money\u2019 tried to push into office this cycle, the answer is disconcerting.\u2026 Overall, this cycle, Democrats raised roughly twice as much money as their opponents. In the months after Joe Biden dropped out, Democrats raised more than $1 billion \u2013 more than three times as much as Republicans brought in over the same period \u2013 largely thanks to enthusiastic support for Kamala Harris within Wall Street, Silicon Valley and Big&nbsp;Law.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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. Things Glen Found Interesting Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email? In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/11\/15\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-478\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 478\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":"","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":[219,243,120,322,117,257],"class_list":["post-7547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chi-alpha","tag-famous-christians","tag-gambling","tag-politics","tag-secularism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1XJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547","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=7547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7548,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions\/7548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}