{"id":7564,"date":"2024-11-29T20:43:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T04:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7564"},"modified":"2024-11-29T20:43:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T04:43:14","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-480","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/11\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-480","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 480"},"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\/i-give-thanks-in-the-bright-darkness-thanksgiving-grief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I Give Thanks in the Bright Darkness<\/a> (Christina Gonzalez Ho, Christianity Today): \u201cIt seems that, historically, Thanksgiving was not meant to be a purely celebratory day, a time to luxuriate in self-satisfaction, but rather a day to hold gratitude in tension with sorrow, suffering, and sin\u2014to acknowledge the brightness and darkness that always exist simultaneously in the&nbsp;world.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Christina is an alumnus of Chi&nbsp;Alpha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oLcFBmjyfx8?feature=shared\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oLcFBmjyfx8?feature=shared\">The Conquest of Canaan Explained in 6 Minutes<\/a> (Gavin Ortlund, YouTube). Recommended by a student. This is a topic I think I explain pretty well, but Ortlund does it better. Worth your time if the destruction of the Canaanite cultures bothers you.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/article\/and-they-began-to-be-merry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">And They Began to Be Merry<\/a> (Kevin D. Williamson, The Dispatch): \u201cThe miracle at Cana isn\u2019t water becoming wine\u2014any old magician could do that sort of thing. Whatever it was that Jesus was about, it wasn\u2019t stupid party tricks. The miracle is that the Ruler of the Universe cared about such a little thing as the social anxieties of a bunch of nobodies in an obscure little corner of the world of no particular importance, and that He loved them the way a father loves his children\u2014and what kind of father offers just enough at a time like that when he has, at his disposal, the very best?\u2026 The supernatural stuff is one thing, but consider the magnificence of that gesture, the sheer audacious <em>style<\/em> of it. I do not care if you are the most cynical atheist walking the Earth\u2014it is impossible not to admire the panache. He bends reality into a new shape, makes the universe follow new rules, to help out a friend, and He does it <em>cool<\/em>\u2014nobody even knows what happened except for the waiters.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/28\/opinion\/motherhood-uncertainty.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Motherhood<\/a> (Daniela J. Lamas, New York Times): \u201cFor my generation\u2014 and, I\u2019d argue, especially for women in my generation \u2014 the decision of whether to have a child has become highly fraught. It\u2019s tied up with our desires for fulfilling careers, our willingness to risk a shift in the identities and lives we have built. It\u2019s tied up in an understanding of all that went into making motherhood a choice that we get to make. With so much at stake, it is so easy to become paralyzed by indecision. But perhaps what I would have wanted to hear when I was dithering was something like this: Having a child has been extraordinary.\u2026 And for some reason, I feel almost embarrassed to admit how much I love being a mother. I spent my adult life until now with this idea that I was different from \u2014 and maybe even a little superior to \u2014 my peers who chose to spend time building their families. I was so worried about what a child would mean for my career. But what I did not anticipate was that what I would want itself would change.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/28\/opinion\/wolfgang-streeck-populism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This Maverick Thinker Is the Karl Marx of Our Time<\/a> (Christopher Caldwell, New York Times): \u201cMr. Streeck has a clear vision of something paradoxical about the neoliberal project: For the global economy to be \u2018free,\u2019 it must be constrained. What the proponents of neoliberalism mean by a free market is a deregulated market. But getting to deregulation is trickier than it looks because in free societies, regulations are the result of people\u2019s sovereign right to make their own rules. The more democratic the world\u2019s societies are, the more idiosyncratic they will be, and the more their economic rules will diverge. But that is exactly what businesses cannot tolerate \u2014 at least not under globalization. Money and goods must be able to move frictionlessly and efficiently across borders. This requires a uniform set of laws. Somehow, democracy is going to have to give&nbsp;way.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Caldwell is an interesting thinker, so as soon as I saw his byline I knew I had to read the article. Worth a ponder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/24\/opinion\/gay-marriage-religion-theology-us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018A God Who Continually Surprises Us\u2019: A Q&amp;A With a Theologian Who Changed His Mind About Gay Marriage<\/a> (Peter Wehner, New York Times): \u201c\u2026I would say that the way I was appealing to the Bible or the way I was interpreting the Bible was too narrowly focused on the few texts in Scripture that do say something explicitly about homosexual relationships. The dictum in Leviticus is that for a man to lie with a man as with a woman is an abomination. And those texts had a certain impact on my opinion. But I think I was I was far too narrow in the way I thought about how the Bible speaks to issues like this. What I came to think over time is that what the Bible shows is not some isolated proof texts or isolated statements of law, but it shows us a much bigger picture of God as a God who continually surprises us, continually surprises his people with the scope of generosity and grace and&nbsp;mercy.\u201d&nbsp;<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is one of many revealing moments in this interview. Hays stopped believing what the Bible actually says in favor of what he takes the deeper message of the Bible to be. It\u2019s as though he subordinates the real text of the Bible to the hypothetical text of the Bible in his&nbsp;head.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This article makes me sad. Sharing because it\u2019s a clearer-than-usual presentation of an argument that I often encounter, and its clarity makes the weaknesses of the revisionist position more evident.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/25\/us\/university-crackdowns-protests-israel-hamas-war.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Universities Cracked Down on Pro-Palestinian Activism<\/a> (Isabelle Taft, New York Times): \u201cUniversities have seen just under 950 protest events this semester so far, compared to 3,000 last semester, according to a log at the Nonviolent Action Lab at Harvard University\u2019s Ash Center. About 50 people have been arrested so far this school year at protests on higher education campuses, according to numbers gathered by The New York Times, compared to over 3,000 last semester. When students have protested this fall, administrators have often enforced \u2014 to the letter \u2014 new rules created in response to last spring\u2019s unrest. The moves have created scenes that would have been hard to imagine previously, particularly at universities that once celebrated their history of student activism.\u201d<\/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=\"wp-block-list simple-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JykQbh0kcjQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The ONE Time Jamie Pranked Adam Savage<\/a> (Adam Savage, YouTube): nine minutes of wisdom on pranks<\/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. Things Glen Found Interesting Less Serious Things Which Also Interested\/Amused Glen Why Do You Send This&nbsp;Email? In the time \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/11\/29\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-480\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Interesting, Volume 480\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":[124,156,250,189,339,113,305],"class_list":["post-7564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-campus-activism","tag-capitalism","tag-family","tag-jesus","tag-lgbtq","tag-thanksgiving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1Y0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564","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=7564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7566,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7564\/revisions\/7566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}