{"id":7596,"date":"2024-12-27T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7596"},"modified":"2024-12-27T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T00:00:54","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-484","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2024\/12\/27\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-484","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 484"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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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

As the year comes to a close, remem\u00adber that this post is the over\u00adflow of a non\u00adprof\u00adit min\u00adistry. Com\u00adpil\u00ading these links is some\u00adthing I do for the stu\u00addents I min\u00adis\u00adter to at Stan\u00adford Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty, shar\u00ading it here is just me mak\u00ading it avail\u00adable more broad\u00adly. You can donate to sup\u00adport the min\u00adistry<\/a> if you are ever so inclined (you can even make gifts via a DAF or with stock<\/a>). Don\u2019t give to pay for the con\u00adtent \u2014 it only takes me five min\u00adutes a week to take the email I send to the Chi Alpha stu\u00addents and refor\u00admat it for this plat\u00adform. If you choose to give, give because you believe in the mis\u00adsion of reach\u00ading Stan\u00adford stu\u00addents with a thought\u00adful gospel mes\u00adsage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s the last time I\u2019ll share about that until next Decem\u00adber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether you choose to give or not, I hope this email bless\u00ades you and helps you think about God and our world more clear\u00adly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Tom Hol\u00adland on How Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Remade the World<\/a> (Bari Weiss, The Free Press): \u201cIt is very dif\u00adfi\u00adcult to overem\u00adpha\u00adsize how com\u00adplete\u00adly mad it was for every\u00adbody in the ancient world that some\u00adone who suf\u00adfers cru\u00adci\u00adfix\u00adion could in any way be the Mes\u00adsi\u00adah, let alone part of the one God.\u2026 The fact that such a per\u00adson could con\u00adceiv\u00adably be raised up by cit\u00adi\u00adzens of the Roman Empire as some\u00adone greater than Cae\u00adsar him\u00adself, greater than Augus\u00adtus, is a com\u00adplete\u00adly shock\u00ading maneu\u00adver. Judeans, Greeks, Romans\u2014it\u2019s shock\u00ading to them all. The rad\u00adi\u00adcal mes\u00adsage of the cru\u00adci\u00adfix\u00adion is that, in Christ\u2019s own words, the last shall be first, and the first shall be last.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. How his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adan Niall Fer\u00adgu\u00adson became a reli\u00adgious believ\u00ader<\/a> (Greg Sheri\u00addan, The Week\u00adend Aus\u00adtralian): \u201cI have embraced Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty,\u201d he tells me. \u201cWe were all bap\u00adtised, Ayaan and our two sons, togeth\u00ader in Sep\u00adtem\u00adber (2023). It was the cul\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion of a quite pro\u00adtract\u00aded process. My jour\u00adney was from athe\u00adism. My par\u00adents had left the Church of Scot\u00adland, I think even before I was born. I grew up in a house\u00adhold of sci\u00adence-mind\u00aded reli\u00adgious scep\u00adtics. I didn\u2019t go to church and felt quite sure of the wis\u00addom of that when I was young. How\u00adev\u00ader, in two phas\u00ades, I lost my faith in athe\u00adism.\u2026 The first phase was that as a his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adan I realised no soci\u00adety had been suc\u00adcess\u00adful\u00adly organ\u00adised on the basis of athe\u00adism. All attempts to do that have been cat\u00ada\u00adstroph\u00adic. That was an insight that came from study\u00ading 18th, 19th and 20th-cen\u00adtu\u00adry his\u00adto\u00adry. But then the next stage was real\u00adis\u00ading that no indi\u00advid\u00adual can in fact be ful\u00adly formed or eth\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly secure with\u00adout reli\u00adgious faith. That insight has come more recent\u00adly and has been born of our expe\u00adri\u00adence as a fam\u00adi\u00adly.\u201d\n