{"id":7645,"date":"2025-03-28T21:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T04:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7645"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T04:03:33","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-497-christianity-in-space-redeeming-turkish-delight-and-how-to-sneeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/03\/28\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-497-christianity-in-space-redeeming-turkish-delight-and-how-to-sneeze","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 497: Christianity in Space, Redeeming Turkish Delight, and How To Sneeze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 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<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:\/\/julieroys.com\/stranded-astronaut-wilmore-held-faith-darkest-moments-god-was-there\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Strand\u00aded Astro\u00adnaut Held Onto Faith in Dark\u00adest Moments: \u2018God Was There\u2019<\/a> (Sylvia St. Cyr, The Roys Report): \u201cAfter being strand\u00aded for nine months in space, vet\u00ader\u00adan NASA astro\u00adnaut Bar\u00adry \u2018Butch\u2019 Wilmore is shar\u00ading how his faith in God kept him going.\u2026 Wilmore, a mem\u00adber and elder of Prov\u00adi\u00addence Bap\u00adtist Church in Pasade\u00adna, Texas, stayed con\u00adnect\u00aded with his church through\u00adout his time in space. He even made a few calls to some elder\u00adly church mem\u00adbers through\u00adout his time strand\u00aded on the sta\u00adtion, to encour\u00adage them.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2025\/03\/what-follows-from-lab-leak.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Fol\u00adlows from Lab Leak?<\/a> (Alex Tabar\u00adrok, Mar\u00adgin\u00adal Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion): \u201cFirst, and most impor\u00adtant\u00adly, the high\u00ader the prob\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty that SARS-CoV\u00ad\u20112 leaked from a lab the high\u00ader the prob\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty we should expect anoth\u00ader pan\u00addem\u00adic. Research at Wuhan was not espe\u00adcial\u00adly unusu\u00adal or high-tech. Mod\u00adi\u00adfy\u00ading virus\u00ades such as coro\u00adn\u00adavirus\u00ades (e.g., insert\u00ading spike pro\u00adteins, adapt\u00ading recep\u00adtor-bind\u00ading domains) is com\u00admon prac\u00adtice in virol\u00ado\u00adgy research and gain-of-func\u00adtion exper\u00adi\u00adments with virus\u00ades have been wide\u00adly con\u00adduct\u00aded. Thus, man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtur\u00ading a virus capa\u00adble of killing ~20 mil\u00adlion human beings or more is well with\u00adin the capa\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of say ~500\u20111000 labs world\u00adwide. The num\u00adber of such labs is grow\u00ading in num\u00adber and such research is becom\u00ading less cost\u00adly and eas\u00adi\u00ader to con\u00adduct. Thus, lab-leak means the risks are larg\u00ader than we thought and increas\u00ading.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Some very prac\u00adti\u00adcal sug\u00adges\u00adtions in this short piece.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/credohouse.org\/blog\/the-hidden-hands-amanuenses-and-the-letters-behind-the-letters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Hid\u00adden Hands: Amanu\u00adenses and the Let\u00adters Behind the Let\u00adters<\/a> (C. Michael Pat\u00adton, Cre\u00addo House): \u201cYes, the sec\u00adre\u00adtaries could write com\u00adpe\u00adtent Greek. But often, due to the per\u00adson\u00adal addi\u00adtions at the end of these let\u00adters, I was able to com\u00adpare the hand\u00adwrit\u00ading and style of the author him\u00adself. And get this: <strong>in many cas\u00ades, the author\u2019s own Greek was bet\u00adter than the scribe\u2019s.<\/strong> More refined. More flu\u00adid. More leg\u00adi\u00adble. This shat\u00adtered my assump\u00adtions. It meant that we can\u2019t assume that peo\u00adple used sec\u00adre\u00adtaries <em>only<\/em> because they were illit\u00ader\u00adate, une\u00add\u00adu\u00adcat\u00aded, or of low sta\u00adtus. On the con\u00adtrary, peo\u00adple who were clear\u00adly capa\u00adble writers\u2014sometimes <em>bet\u00adter<\/em> writers\u2014still made use of amanu\u00adenses.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading look at the way ancient let\u00adters were writ\u00adten with the help of assis\u00adtants \u2014 includ\u00ading let\u00adters in the New Tes\u00adta\u00adment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vague\u00adly relat\u00aded (in the sense that it\u2019s about the his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal back\u00adground for Bible stuff): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psephizo.com\/biblical-studies\/did-jesus-teach-in-greek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Did Jesus teach in Greek<\/a>? (Ian Paul, blog): \u201cThe argu\u00adment about Jesus and Greek has sev\u00ader\u00adal lay\u00aders, start\u00ading with the most gen\u00ader\u00adal. Were the regions Jesus taught in mul\u00adti\u00adlin\u00adgual (poly\u00adglot), and how do we know? Is it like\u00adly that Jesus him\u00adself was mul\u00adti\u00adlin\u00adgual? And is there spe\u00adcif\u00adic evi\u00addence of this in the New Tes\u00adta\u00adment, in exam\u00adples of his teach\u00ading?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalliturgies.net\/p\/why-christian-men-need-friendship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why Chris\u00adt\u00adian Men Need Friend\u00adship, Not Just \u201cAccount\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty\u201d<\/a> (Samuel D. James, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cAccount\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty is a fruit from a much larg\u00ader tree. In an age in which mil\u00adlions of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan men are so lone\u00adly it\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly killing them, the urgent issue is not find\u00ading some\u00adone to receive a report of your web activ\u00adi\u00adty. It\u2019s find\u00ading some\u00adone who\u2019ll talk to you at all. Why? Because friend\u00adship has a sanc\u00adti\u00adfy\u00ading pow\u00ader. Not only is it eas\u00adi\u00ader to be hon\u00adest and trans\u00adpar\u00adent with some\u00adone whom you\u2019re con\u00advinced is a true friend, but the friend\u00adship itself is a means of grace in the fight against lust.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2025\/03\/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans\/682151\/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ2YMi_b3Wu2jLKUeoI_W4F8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Trump Admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion Acci\u00adden\u00adtal\u00adly Texted Me Its War Plans<\/a> (Jef\u00adfrey Gold\u00adberg, The Atlantic): \u201cI had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because I could not believe that the nation\u00adal-secu\u00adri\u00adty lead\u00ader\u00adship of the Unit\u00aded States would com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adcate on Sig\u00adnal about immi\u00adnent war plans. I also could not believe that the nation\u00adal secu\u00adri\u00adty advis\u00ader to the pres\u00adi\u00addent would be so reck\u00adless as to include the edi\u00adtor in chief of <em>The Atlantic<\/em> in such dis\u00adcus\u00adsions with senior U.S. offi\u00adcials, up to and includ\u00ading the vice pres\u00adi\u00addent.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A wild sto\u00adry. Lots of fol\u00adlow-up in the news. Just google for it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/newsletter\/boilingfrogs\/trump-national-security-signal-atlantic-goldberg-hegseth-waltz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sev\u00aden Ways of Look\u00ading at a Group Chat<\/a> (Nick Cat\u00adto\u00adgio, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cThere are three dis\u00adtinct scan\u00addals here and dif\u00adfer\u00adent cul\u00adprits in each one. The first is using Sig\u00adnal instead of secure gov\u00adern\u00adment chan\u00adnels to dis\u00adcuss some\u00adthing as sen\u00adsi\u00adtive as mil\u00adi\u00adtary strikes. Every\u00adone involved, save Jef\u00adfrey Gold\u00adberg, bears respon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty for that. The sec\u00adond is mis\u00adtak\u00aden\u00adly includ\u00ading Gold\u00adberg in the dis\u00adcus\u00adsion, for which Waltz would seem to be at fault. And the third is going so far as to share \u2018oper\u00ada\u00adtional details\u2019 in the chat, poten\u00adtial\u00adly plac\u00ading peo\u00adple in the field at risk, which sure sounds like reck\u00adless mis\u00adhan\u00addling of clas\u00adsi\u00adfied information\u2014a sub\u00adject on which Repub\u00adli\u00adcans have had a <em>lot<\/em> to say in recent years. The blame for that would appear to land on Hegseth.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/horrible-doge-had-just-laid-off-the-guy-whose-job-it-was-to-make-sure-jeffrey-goldberg-wasnt-in-the-war-group-chat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtion Reveals DOGE Had Just Laid Off The Guy Whose Job It Was To Make Sure Jef\u00adfrey Gold\u00adberg Wasn\u2019t In The War Group Chat<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Inklings:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/pearce-tolkien-and-march-25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why JRR Tolkien Made March 25 the Day the Ring Was Destroyed<\/a> (Joseph Pearce, Nation\u00adal Catholic Reg\u00adis\u00adter): \u201cFro\u00addo Bag\u00adgins, as the one cho\u00adsen to be the Ring bear\u00ader, is the Cross bear\u00ader. He is, there\u00adfore, a Christ fig\u00adure. This is why Tolkien has him leav\u00ading Riven\u00addell on Dec. 25 and arriv\u00ading at Mount Doom (Gol\u00adgo\u00adtha) on March 25 (Good Fri\u00adday). Frodo\u2019s jour\u00adney, or pil\u00adgrim\u00adage, begins on Christ\u2019s birth\u00adday and ends on the date of Christ\u2019s death.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/firstthings.com\/in-search-of-turkish-delight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In Search of Turk\u00adish Delight<\/a> (Valerie Stivers, First Things): \u201cI\u015fin quotes Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Naval physi\u00adcian James McK\u00aday, writ\u00ading in 1830: Turk\u00adish delight was \u2018a deli\u00adcious pasty-mass which melts away in the mouth, and leaves a fra\u00adgrant fla\u00advor behind.\u2019 The French artist and writer Pre\u00adtex\u00adtat Lecomte described it as \u2018beau\u00adti\u00adful\u2019 in col\u00ador and \u2018warm and trans\u00adpar\u00adent.\u2019 To make it, Turk\u00adish con\u00adfec\u00adtion\u00aders used hand-sift\u00aded wheat starch (pro\u00adduced by a domes\u00adtic process with a long local tra\u00addi\u00adtion), and employed a labo\u00adri\u00adous tech\u00adnique that called for sev\u00ader\u00adal hours of con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adous stir\u00adring. They used musk and rose water as fla\u00advor\u00adings, and also sprin\u00adkled musk on the pow\u00addered sug\u00adar coat\u00ading. They rubbed the trays used to mold it and the scis\u00adsors used to cut it with fra\u00adgrant almond oil. By the 1880s, I\u015fin says, the fla\u00advors had mul\u00adti\u00adplied to include clot\u00adted cream, mas\u00adtic, almond, and pis\u00adta\u00adchio. In the 1900s came pine nut and hazel\u00adnut, and fla\u00advors from essences or syrups such as vio\u00adlet, lemon, and bit\u00adter orange. This starts to sound like a dessert a child could dream of, or that an open-mind\u00aded and plea\u00adsure-lov\u00ading adult like C. S. Lewis would find tempt\u00ading. It seems like\u00adly that very few mod\u00adern eaters have ever tast\u00aded true Turk\u00adish delight, at least out\u00adside the Grand Bazaar. All con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary recipes use corn starch. Musk oil is ille\u00adgal.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I am both per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00aded that I can\u2019t taste it and thrilled that Lewis was\u00adn\u2019t crazy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/405158\/trump-deportation-detention-visa-green-card-airport-travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How wor\u00adried should legal immi\u00adgrants be about Trump\u2019s depor\u00adta\u00adtions?<\/a> (Nicole Narea, Vox): \u201cThese are uncer\u00adtain times for many immi\u00adgrants in the US. There have been reports of indi\u00advid\u00adual visa and green card hold\u00aders and tourists who have been detained and deport\u00aded. How\u00adev\u00ader, the Trump admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion does not seem to be indis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adnate\u00adly tar\u00adget\u00ading legal immi\u00adgrants who have autho\u00adriza\u00adtion to be in the US on a large scale. Some have report\u00aded\u00adly been tar\u00adget\u00aded based on their polit\u00adi\u00adcal activism.\u2026&nbsp; And it\u2019s not just immi\u00adgrants who have been affect\u00aded. A US cit\u00adi\u00adzen said he was walk\u00ading down the streets of Chica\u00adgo when he was arrest\u00aded by immi\u00adgra\u00adtion agents, who con\u00adfis\u00adcat\u00aded his ID and held him for 10 hours before releas\u00ading him. Even though lim\u00adit\u00aded in num\u00adber, these cas\u00ades have been going viral \u2014 and are under\u00adstand\u00adably caus\u00ading fear in immi\u00adgrant com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties.\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.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2025\/03\/25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gulf of Amer\u00adi\u00adca<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/after-years-of-debate-theologians-now-agree-that-lying-to-your-dentist-about-flossing-is-not-a-sin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">After Years of Debate, The\u00adolo\u00adgians Now Agree That Lying To Your Den\u00adtist About Floss\u00ading Is Not A Sin<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/pearlsbeforeswine\/2025\/03\/26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lessons of His\u00adto\u00adry<\/a> (Pearls Before Swine)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/interactive\/2025\/sneeze-reflex-loud-sound\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sneeze smarter, not loud\u00ader: The sci\u00adence of a qui\u00adeter sneeze<\/a> (Ted\u00addy Amenabar, \u00c1lvaro Val\u00adi\u00f1o &amp; Artur Galocha, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cA sneeze can come on in a flash. The more air in the lungs, the loud\u00ader it might be, Pic\u00adcir\u00adil\u00adlo said. If pos\u00adsi\u00adble, exhale before your sneeze bursts forth to release some of the pres\u00adsure in the lungs and bleed the bal\u00adloon.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This was way longer and more inter\u00adac\u00adtive than it need\u00aded to be. Besides exhal\u00ading first, the oth\u00ader big tips are to relax your vocal cords and to shove your tongue against the top of your mouth to route the sneeze through your nose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Why Do You Send This Email?<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the time of King David, the tribe of Issachar pro\u00adduced shrewd war\u00adriors \u201cwho under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u201d (1 Chron 12:32). In a sim\u00adi\u00adlar way, we need to become wise peo\u00adple whose faith inter\u00adacts with the world. I pray this email gives you greater insight, so that you may con\u00adtin\u00adue the tra\u00addi\u00adtion of Issachar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chi Alpha is not a par\u00adti\u00adsan orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion. To para\u00adphrase anoth\u00ader min\u00adis\u00adter: we are not about the donkey\u2019s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u2019s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u2019s agen\u00adda. Hav\u00ading said that, I read wide\u00adly (in part because I believe we should aspire to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/econlog.econlib.org\/archives\/2011\/06\/the_ideological.html\">the ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal Tur\u00ading test<\/a> and in part because I do not believe I can fair\u00adly say \u201cI agree\u201d or \u201cI dis\u00adagree\u201d until I can say \u201cI under\u00adstand\u201d) and may at times share arti\u00adcles that have a strong par\u00adti\u00adsan bias sim\u00adply because I find the arti\u00adcle stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading. The upshot: you should not assume I agree with every\u00adthing an author says in an arti\u00adcle I men\u00adtion, much less things the author has said in oth\u00ader arti\u00adcles (although if I strong\u00adly dis\u00adagree with some\u00adthing in the arti\u00adcle I\u2019ll usu\u00adal\u00adly men\u00adtion it). And to the extent you can dis\u00adcern my opin\u00adions, please under\u00adstand that they are my own and not nec\u00ades\u00adsar\u00adi\u00adly those of Chi Alpha or any oth\u00ader orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion I may be per\u00adceived to rep\u00adre\u00adsent.\n\nAlso, remem\u00adber that I\u2019m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u2019m giv\u00ading you a selec\u00adtion of things I found inter\u00adest\u00ading. There\u2019s a lot hap\u00adpen\u00ading in the world that\u2019s not mak\u00ading an appear\u00adance here because I haven\u2019t found stim\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading arti\u00adcles writ\u00adten about it.\n\nIf this was for\u00adward\u00aded to you and you want to receive future emails, sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/theglendavis.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>. 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