{"id":7745,"date":"2025-07-25T15:56:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7745"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:57:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T22:57:46","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/07\/25\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-514","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 514: Jephthah, Europe, and the Enchanted Broccoli Forest"},"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:\/\/firstthings.com\/jesus-is-the-key-to-all-scripture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jesus Is the Key to All Scrip\u00adture<\/a> (Peter Lei\u00adthart, First Things): \u201cWe\u2019re incred\u00adu\u00adlous. \u2018<em>All<\/em> things\u2019 in Scrip\u00adture are ful\u00adfilled in him? Real\u00adly? Every\u00adthing? Ehud thrust\u00ading a sword into obese Eglon? Jael crack\u00ading Sisera\u2019s skull with a tent peg? David clip\u00adping and heap\u00ading up two hun\u00addred Philis\u00adtine fore\u00adskins? Jehu glee\u00adful\u00adly slaugh\u00adter\u00ading sons of Ahab? We dodge and backpedal, pro\u00adtect\u00ading Jesus from his hermeneu\u00adti\u00adcal excess. \u2018Every episode and per\u00adson <em>con\u00adtributes<\/em> to the sto\u00adry of Jesus,\u2019 we say. \u2018But not <em>every sin\u00adgle<\/em> per\u00adson or event is direct\u00adly about Jesus.\u2019 There\u2019s some\u00adthing to that, but it\u2019s often a cop-out. And it keeps us from grasp\u00ading the height and depth of Jesus\u2019s glo\u00adry. Jeph\u00adthah is a test case.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An engag\u00ading arti\u00adcle with strong insights about Jeph\u00adthah\u2019s sto\u00adry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/i-once-thought-europeans-lived-as-well-americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I Once Thought Euro\u00adpeans Lived as Well as Amer\u00adi\u00adcans. Not Any\u00admore.<\/a> (Tyler Cowen, The Free Press): \u201cI was shocked recent\u00adly to learn that more Euro\u00adpeans die of heat death\u2014largely due to lack of air-conditioning\u2014than Amer\u00adi\u00adcans die from gun\u00adshot wounds. I\u2019m not say\u00ading Amer\u00adi\u00adca isn\u2019t more dan\u00adger\u00adous in cer\u00adtain ways: We have high\u00ader non-gun mur\u00adder rates and per\u00adilous weath\u00ader pat\u00adterns, among oth\u00ader prob\u00adlems. But it turns out Euro\u00adpean bureau\u00adcra\u00adcy is lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly dead\u00adly.\u2026 Cir\u00adca 2025, my sub\u00adjec\u00adtive judg\u00adment is that Amer\u00adi\u00adcan liv\u00ading stan\u00addards are 20 to 30 per\u00adcent high\u00ader than those in West\u00adern Europe. That dif\u00adfer\u00adence is like\u00adly to grow.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stanforddaily.com\/2025\/07\/22\/university-suspends-ebf-and-kairos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty sus\u00adpends EBF, Kairos after Title VI inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtions<\/a> (Francesca Pin\u00adney, Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly): \u201cFol\u00adlow\u00ading stu\u00addent com\u00adplaints to Stanford\u2019s Title VI Office, the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty deter\u00admined that both hous\u00ades vio\u00adlat\u00aded Title VI, the fed\u00ader\u00adal law that pro\u00adhibits harass\u00adment and dis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion based on race, col\u00ador or nation\u00adal ori\u00adgin in edu\u00adca\u00adtion\u00adal insti\u00adtu\u00adtions.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The details are kind of wild and may shock you if you\u2019re not used to Stan\u00adford rhetoric. One stu\u00addent com\u00adment\u00aded, \u201cTbh, that\u2019s what most of NSO and my first quar\u00adter at Stan\u00adford felt like, and I was def\u00adi\u00adnite\u00adly told sim\u00adi\u00adlar things by folks in my dorm, etc.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some reflec\u00adtions on exer\u00adcise:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/reviews\/little-theology-exercise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Don\u2019t Skip Leg Day or the Lord\u2019s Day<\/a> (Sean DeMars, The Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cExer\u00adcise pre\u00advents me from falling into two seri\u00adous sins: sloth and idol\u00ada\u00adtry. When I stop car\u00ading about my body, I drift toward pas\u00adsiv\u00adi\u00adty and excuse-mak\u00ading, and I become sloth\u00adful. When I over\u00adpri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adtize fit\u00adness, I start build\u00ading my iden\u00adti\u00adty around per\u00adfor\u00admance or image, which is a form of idol\u00ada\u00adtry. But when fit\u00adness is teth\u00adered to call\u00ading and is viewed as fuel for long-term min\u00adistry, exer\u00adcise finds its right\u00adful place. It\u2019s not ulti\u00admate, but it\u2019s impor\u00adtant. The heart\u00adbeat of this lit\u00adtle the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy of exer\u00adcise is that redeemed bod\u00adies should be used in the ser\u00advice of joy, love, and mis\u00adsion.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/16\/well\/move\/exercise-mental-health-depression.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Exer\u00adcise Fights Anx\u00adi\u00adety and Depres\u00adsion<\/a> (Erik Vance, New York Times): \u201cDecades of research have estab\u00adlished that exer\u00adcise has a pos\u00adi\u00adtive effect on men\u00adtal health. In stud\u00adies of patients with mild to mod\u00ader\u00adate depres\u00adsion, for exam\u00adple, a wide range of exer\u00adcise reg\u00adi\u00admens has been shown to be as effec\u00adtive as med\u00adica\u00adtions like SSRIs (though the best results gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly involve a com\u00adbi\u00adna\u00adtion of the two).\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/janhavinilekani.substack.com\/p\/inclusivity-in-healthcare-should\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inclu\u00adsiv\u00adi\u00adty In Health\u00adcare Should Not Be Val\u00adued Above Our Para\u00admount Man\u00addate: First, Do No Harm<\/a> (Jan\u00adhavi Nilekani, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cIn the spring of 2022, a 50-year-old grand\u00adfa\u00adther in North Car\u00adoli\u00adna decid\u00aded that he want\u00aded his daughter\u2019s new\u00adborn to suck\u00adle at his nip\u00adple.\u2026 Because this par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar man iden\u00adti\u00adfied as a trans\u00adgen\u00adder woman, doc\u00adtors and aca\u00add\u00ade\u00admics from Duke Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty whole\u00adheart\u00aded\u00adly sup\u00adport\u00aded his \u2018unique desire\u2019. Indeed, they pub\u00adlished a research paper in <em>Breast\u00adfeed\u00ading Med\u00adi\u00adcine, <\/em>pro\u00advid\u00ading details of the cock\u00adtail of hor\u00admones and drugs they used. With these, he was able to pro\u00adduce secre\u00adtions, that were admin\u00adis\u00adtered to his grand\u00adchild. The paper does not have a sin\u00adgle sen\u00adtence about the poten\u00adtial impact on the grand\u00adchild. It is an unimag\u00adin\u00adable breach of ethics. An adult male\u2019s desire to be affirmed as a woman should <em>nev\u00ader <\/em>be met by feed\u00ading an exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal drug-infused sub\u00adstance to new\u00adborns with no capac\u00adi\u00adty to con\u00adsent.\u2026 Such exper\u00adi\u00adments are pos\u00adsi\u00adble only because med\u00adi\u00adcine, in the push towards inclu\u00adsiv\u00adi\u00adty, is for\u00adget\u00adting our own core val\u00adue: first, do no harm.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Shar\u00ading most\u00adly for the shock\u00ading intro\u00adduc\u00adto\u00adry sto\u00adry. The entire thing is long and prob\u00ada\u00adbly does not cov\u00ader new ground for reg\u00adu\u00adlar read\u00aders. It is well-argued, though.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/22\/opinion\/assisted-suicide-economics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Per\u00adverse Eco\u00adnom\u00adics of Assist\u00aded Sui\u00adcide<\/a> (Louise Per\u00adry, New York Times): \u201cThere is a very clear prob\u00adlem with assist\u00aded sui\u00adcide in its new guise: The state, with its almighty pow\u00ader, is tasked with both pay\u00ading for the sup\u00adport of the old and dis\u00adabled and reg\u00adu\u00adlat\u00ading their dying.\u2026 organs of the state that are tasked with solv\u00ading an impos\u00adsi\u00adble finan\u00adcial prob\u00adlem \u2014 how to pay for more old peo\u00adple with less mon\u00adey \u2014 will be inex\u00adorably tugged toward what looks to a mind\u00adless bureau\u00adcra\u00adcy like a \u2018solu\u00adtion.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/next-250\/john-locke-revolution-ideals-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rea\u00adson, Rev\u00ade\u00adla\u00adtion, and Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion<\/a> (Joseph Locon\u00adte, The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cColo\u00adnial assump\u00adtions about nat\u00adur\u00adal rights, human equal\u00adi\u00adty, reli\u00adgious lib\u00ader\u00adty, gov\u00adern\u00adment by con\u00adsent, the right of rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion: Each drew heav\u00adi\u00adly from Locke\u2019s writ\u00adings, which were con\u00adsid\u00adered manda\u00adto\u00adry read\u00ading for edu\u00adcat\u00aded Amer\u00adi\u00adcans. As we\u2019ll see, the colonists were heirs of the Lock\u00adean tra\u00addi\u00adtion. As a result, free\u00addom, rea\u00adson, and rev\u00ade\u00adla\u00adtion formed a con\u00adcep\u00adtu\u00adal trin\u00adi\u00adty in the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion. The pow\u00ader\u00adful alliance of these ideas helps to explain the aston\u00adish\u00ading and endur\u00ading influ\u00adence of the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan exam\u00adple. Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, non\u00adsense talk about the mean\u00ading and legit\u00adi\u00adma\u00adcy of the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan exper\u00adi\u00adment is almost as ingrained in the New Right as in the pro\u00adgres\u00adsive left.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A strong defense of Locke against his crit\u00adics on the right. The author is a his\u00adto\u00adry pro\u00adfes\u00adsor and a Chris\u00adt\u00adian pub\u00adlic intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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>. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/category\/links\">view the archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading Why Do You Send This Email? In the time of King David, the tribe \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/07\/25\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-514\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThings Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading, Vol\u00adume 514: Jeph\u00adthah, Europe, and the Enchant\u00aded Broc\u00adcoli For\u00adest\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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[220,226,167,127,113,135,242,162],"class_list":["post-7745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-bible","tag-europe","tag-euthanasia","tag-history","tag-lgbtq","tag-stanford","tag-suicide","tag-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-20V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745","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=7745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7749,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7745\/revisions\/7749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}