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<\/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 way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. What Does Religion Look Like At Elite Universities?<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Substack): \u201cYeah, again, I am not bowled over by any huge differences in the religious attendance of students at Ivy league schools versus non-selective institutions. 49% of students who attend prestigious schools attend church less than once a year compared to 46% of students who go to a non-selective school. So, those at the top end are slightly less religiously active, but three points is certainly not a chasm. That\u2019s the general trend here when comparing across all types of attendance levels. For students at non-selective schools, 19% say they attend religious services about weekly or more. It\u2019s 14% of those at selective schools. Again, a gap, but a relatively small one.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Did God create logic?<\/a> (J. Budziszewski, blog): \u201cTo say that He created<\/em> logic would be to suggest that He could have done differently and created illogic <\/em>\u2013 that He could have allowed contradictions such as a man who is a donkey, or a two which is a three. But if I make a sentence by placing the words \u2018God can\u2019 before a string of nonsense, that doesn\u2019t make the sentence true, would it? Sentences like \u2018Can God make a man who is not a man but a donkey?\u2019 or \u2018Can God make a two which is a three?\u2019 wouldn\u2019t even rise to the level of being meaningful questions. They would be like asking \u2018Can God moongoggle tweedledee?\u2019 So we shouldn\u2019t say that God cannot do these things, but that they cannot be done. A lot of things are excluded from divine omnipotence not because God doesn\u2019t have the power to do them, but because in their very nature they are not \u2018doable\u2019 or possible.\u201d