{"id":7802,"date":"2025-09-26T19:45:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T02:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7802"},"modified":"2025-09-26T19:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T02:46:21","slug":"tgfi-volume-523-religion-makes-you-happy-and-war-is-terrifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/09\/26\/tgfi-volume-523-religion-makes-you-happy-and-war-is-terrifying","title":{"rendered":"TGFI, Volume 523: religion makes you happy and war is terrifying"},"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<\/p><p>You\u2019ve heard of TGIF? This is TGFI: Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues like\u00adly to be of inter\u00adest to Chris\u00adtians in col\u00adlege. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions, so 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:\/\/www.graphsaboutreligion.com\/p\/religious-people-are-happy-than-non\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Reli\u00adgious Peo\u00adple Are Hap\u00adpi\u00ader Than Non-Reli\u00adgious Peo\u00adple<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cTo go back to where I start\u00aded \u00e2\u20ac\u201d let me just say the one true thing again. <strong>High\u00adly active reli\u00adgious peo\u00adple are hap\u00adpi\u00ader than non-reli\u00adgious peo\u00adple.<\/strong> There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no oth\u00ader way to spin this data than this sim\u00adple con\u00adclu\u00adsion.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Empha\u00adsis in orig\u00adi\u00adnal. The author is a polit\u00adi\u00adcal sci\u00aden\u00adtist at Wash\u00ading\u00adton Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty in St. Louis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/niall-ferguson-ive-seen-the-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve Seen the Future of War. Europe Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Ready for It.<\/a> (Niall Fer\u00adgu\u00adson, The Free Press): : \u201cRussia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s full-scale war against Ukraine is now in its fourth year\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor its 12th, if you date it from the annex\u00ada\u00adtion of Crimea in 2014. Since Feb\u00adru\u00adary 2022, the coun\u00adtry has cycled through three wars. First it was a tank war, in which columns of Russ\u00adian tanks fought a bun\u00adgled blitzkrieg. Then it became an artillery war, in which the two sides trad\u00aded fire from entrenched posi\u00adtions. Now, how\u00adev\u00ader, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost entire\u00adly a drone war, with a sup\u00adport\u00ading role for small and high\u00adly vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble infantry units. The ques\u00adtion is how well Euro\u00adpeans under\u00adstand this. The peo\u00adple of Poland, Roma\u00adnia, Esto\u00adnia, and (per\u00adhaps) Den\u00admark all now know that Russ\u00adian drones are capa\u00adble of enter\u00ading their air\u00adspace. But have they tru\u00adly grasped what that implies?\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is a senior fel\u00adlow at Stan\u00adford\u2019s Hoover Insti\u00adtu\u00adtion. I am told he is a fair\u00adly recent con\u00advert to Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty, although I have nev\u00ader met him per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly and only know of his faith through pub\u00adlic sources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2025\/09\/sex-ed-school-fertility\/684079\/?gift=JjaPI5RvA1OFW9n7z9BLdvUQqBqkTQN4TfTBsooG5k4&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Women Wish They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d Known Before Try\u00ading to Get Preg\u00adnant<\/a> (Olga Khaz\u00adan, The Atlantic): \u201cWhen Anna De Souza was in her ear\u00adly 30s, she asked her ob-gyn when she should start think\u00ading about hav\u00ading kids. \u2018When you were 26,\u2019 she remem\u00adbers the doc\u00adtor say\u00ading. She was sur\u00adprised. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d had some sense that fer\u00adtil\u00adi\u00adty decreas\u00ades with age but didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant the drop-off was. No doc\u00adtor had ever told her, and she cer\u00adtain\u00adly didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t learn about it in school.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Unlocked. This is a drum I will keep beat\u00ading \u2014 most of you should plan to have kids ear\u00adli\u00ader than your peers!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some thoughts on free speech:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/23\/opinion\/consequence-culture-kimmel-kirk.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Cen\u00adsor\u00adship You Prac\u00adtice Today Will Be Used Against You Tomor\u00adrow<\/a> (Greg Lukianoff, New York Times): \u201cI don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like hav\u00ading to make a case for human rights such as free\u00addom of speech by appeal\u00ading to self-inter\u00adest; these are sup\u00adposed to be rights whose impor\u00adtance tran\u00adscends one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s per\u00adson\u00adal needs. But for polit\u00adi\u00adcal par\u00adti\u00adsans, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s often the only argu\u00adment that cuts through. So here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my prac\u00adti\u00adcal warn\u00ading: The weapon that you reach for today will be used against you tomor\u00adrow. Using your oppo\u00adnents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 nas\u00adti\u00adest tools doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t per\u00adsuade them to dis\u00adarm; it inspires retal\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtion. Tit for tat, for\u00adev\u00ader and ever.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/edwardfeser.blogspot.com\/2025\/09\/how-not-to-limit-free-speech.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How not to lim\u00adit free speech<\/a> (Ed Fes\u00ader, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cThere is a pre\u00adsump\u00adtion, then, in favor of free expres\u00adsion, pre\u00adcise\u00adly because it facil\u00adi\u00adtates the nat\u00adur\u00adal end of our ratio\u00adnal pow\u00aders. How\u00adev\u00ader, not all forms of expres\u00adsion are pro\u00adtect\u00aded by this pre\u00adsump\u00adtion, because not all forms of expres\u00adsion have any\u00adthing to do with our ratio\u00adnal pow\u00aders. For exam\u00adple, pornog\u00adra\u00adphy does not appeal to our ratio\u00adnal\u00adi\u00adty and in no way con\u00adtributes to dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00ading truth or to debate by which we might root out error.\u2026 pornog\u00adra\u00adphy is in no way pro\u00adtect\u00aded by the nat\u00adur\u00adal right to free speech.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author is a devout Catholic who is also a phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy pro\u00adfes\u00adsor. This is a help\u00adful essay that cov\u00aders a lot of ground.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/how-my-dad-helped-me-master-my-autism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How My Dad Helped Me Mas\u00adter My Autism<\/a> (Leland Vit\u00adtert, The Free Press): \u201cToday, most par\u00adents would prob\u00ada\u00adbly send a kid like me to ther\u00ada\u00adpy. Even back then, a diag\u00adno\u00adsis might have got\u00adten me sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant spe\u00adcial treat\u00adment. But my dad knew that there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a teacher or ther\u00ada\u00adpist who could step in and sud\u00adden\u00adly make me fit in. The world wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to adapt to me, and he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to try to make it. There would be no ther\u00ada\u00adpists or accom\u00admo\u00adda\u00adtions. If I was going to suc\u00adceed, he would have to adapt me to the world.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2025\/09\/25\/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-food-aid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I vis\u00adit\u00aded Gaza. The food aid sur\u00adprised me.<\/a> (Ken Isaacs, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cThe main provider of food assis\u00adtance in the Gaza Strip today arguably is the Gaza Human\u00adi\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan Foun\u00adda\u00adtion, an orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion backed by the Unit\u00aded States and Israel. GHF has faced harsh crit\u00adi\u00adcism for its work in Gaza, with Unit\u00aded Nations agen\u00adcies and non\u00adgovern\u00admen\u00adtal orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtions pub\u00adlish\u00ading a let\u00adter in July urg\u00ading donors and coun\u00adtries not to fund the foundation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work and to instead revert to a sole\u00adly U.N.-led response. I arrived in Gaza a skep\u00adtic of GHF but left an advo\u00adcate. Sim\u00adply put, the com\u00admon por\u00adtray\u00adal of this orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion rad\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly dis\u00adtorts real\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The author works for Samar\u00adi\u00adtan\u2019s Purse, a Chris\u00adt\u00adian relief agency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two viral clips from the same event (Char\u00adlie Kirk\u2019s memo\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal ser\u00advice).\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9OUj_Hzgnjs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eri\u00adka Kirk on Hus\u00adband\u2019s Assas\u00adsin: \u201cI for\u00adgive him.\u201d<\/a> (C\u2011SPAN, YouTube): two min\u00adutes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rukllP7OQrE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cI hate my oppo\u00adnent and I don\u2019t want the best for them.\u201d<\/a> (C\u2011SPAN, YouTube): five min\u00adutes (the famous bit is at about the one minute mark)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Watch them both before you read the arti\u00adcles that com\u00adment on them. Hav\u00ading watched them, I think some com\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtors are sub\u00adtly dis\u00adtort\u00ading them. Watch for your\u00adself, and then mull the respons\u00ades.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/23\/opinion\/erika-kirk-charlie-trump-miller.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Why MAGA Evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcals Can Cheer Love and Hate at the Same Time<\/a> (David French, New York Times): \u201cMany peo\u00adple who saw or read about the ral\u00adly were puz\u00adzled by what they per\u00adceived as a con\u00adtra\u00addic\u00adtion. How can you cheer love and hate at the same time? How can you wor\u00adship Jesus and cheer such a base and gross descrip\u00adtion of oth\u00ader human beings, peo\u00adple who are cre\u00adat\u00aded in the image of God? My reac\u00adtion was dif\u00adfer\u00adent. Final\u00adly, I thought, curi\u00adous Amer\u00adi\u00adcans who tuned in got to see MAGA the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy more com\u00adplete\u00adly \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and what they wit\u00adnessed was the best and worst of MAGA Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thedispatch.com\/newsletter\/boilingfrogs\/erika-kirk-charlie-kirk-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Biggest Tent<\/a> (The Dis\u00adpatch): \u201cThe funer\u00adal was what I thought it would be. Until Eri\u00adka Kirk spoke, and then it was some\u00adthing else.\u2026 The last place you would look for grace in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan pub\u00adlic life in 2025 is at a Repub\u00adli\u00adcan polit\u00adi\u00adcal ral\u00adly, espe\u00adcial\u00adly one where the usu\u00adal lust for ruth\u00adless\u00adness has been juiced by wrath and grief. For Mrs. Kirk to muster it in this set\u00adting, at this moment, despite the sin\u00adgu\u00adlar anguish with which she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been bur\u00addened, felt almost mirac\u00adu\u00adlous even to a non-believ\u00ader like me.\u2026 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard of polit\u00adi\u00adcal \u2018big tents,\u2019 but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve nev\u00ader heard of one big enough to accom\u00admo\u00addate two moral sys\u00adtems that aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just con\u00adtra\u00addic\u00adto\u00adry but irrec\u00adon\u00adcil\u00adable. \u2018Christ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mes\u00adsage, fol\u00adlowed by its very antithe\u00adsis,\u2019 phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy pro\u00adfes\u00adsor Edward Fes\u00ader wrote of the con\u00adtrast between Kirk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s remarks. \u2018It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost as if the audi\u00adence is being put to a test.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/a-religious-awakening-after-charlie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eri\u00adka Kirk and America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Reli\u00adgious Revival<\/a> (Maya Sulkin, The Free Press): \u201cBy dawn, the lines to get into State Farm Sta\u00addi\u00adum stretched for blocks. Peo\u00adple camped out overnight to secure a place.\u2026 By mid-morn\u00ading, the 73,000-seat sta\u00addi\u00adum was full. Orga\u00adniz\u00aders opened the are\u00adna next door for over\u00adflow, but even that quick\u00adly reached capac\u00adi\u00adty. In total, an esti\u00admat\u00aded 200,000 peo\u00adple turned out\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmore than Mar\u00adtin Luther King Jr.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s funer\u00adal in 1968.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/is-erika-kirk-the-future-of-maga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Is Eri\u00adka Kirk the Future of MAGA?<\/a> (Matthew Con\u00adtinet\u00adti, The Free Press): \u201cNev\u00ader had I seen some\u00adone upstage Pres\u00adi\u00addent Trump. It hap\u00adpened Sun\u00adday. Trump spoke for longer than Eri\u00adka. But she had already brought down the house. Her for\u00adgive\u00adness and hope moved the nation. Clear\u00adly Trump was mulling over her eulo\u00adgy. When he sly\u00adly con\u00adtrast\u00aded his style with Charlie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, Trump kid\u00adding\u00adly apol\u00ado\u00adgized. \u2018I hate my oppo\u00adnent and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want the best for them,\u2019 he said. \u2018Sor\u00adry, Eri\u00adka.\u2019 When was the last time Trump apol\u00ado\u00adgized? Then he added, \u2018Eri\u00adka, you can talk to me and the whole group, but maybe they can con\u00advince me that that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not right, but I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stand my oppo\u00adnent.\u2019 Even the pres\u00adi\u00addent can learn from Eri\u00adka Kirk.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/22\/us\/politics\/trump-kirk-memorial-hate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI Hate My Oppo\u00adnen\u00adt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122: Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Remarks at Kirk Memo\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal Dis\u00adtill His Pol\u00adi\u00adtics<\/a> (Nick Catog\u00adgio, New York Times): \u201cWhen asked about the diver\u00adgent mes\u00adsages from the pres\u00adi\u00addent and Mrs. Kirk, Karo\u00adline Leav\u00aditt, the White House press sec\u00adre\u00adtary, said on Mon\u00adday that the pres\u00adi\u00addent was \u2018authen\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly himself.\u2018\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/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:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2025\/09\/meet-the-2025-ig-nobel-prize-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meet the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize win\u00adners<\/a> (Jen\u00adnifer Ouel\u00adlette, Ars Tech\u00adni\u00adca): \u201cDiet sodas and oth\u00ader zero-calo\u00adrie drinks are a main\u00adstay of the mod\u00adern diet, thanks to the devel\u00adop\u00adment of arti\u00adfi\u00adcial sweet\u00aden\u00aders whose mol\u00ade\u00adcules can\u2019t be metab\u00ado\u00adlized by the human body. The authors of this paper are intrigued by the notion of zero-calo\u00adrie foods, which they believe could be achieved by increas\u00ading the sat\u00adis\u00adfy\u00ading vol\u00adume and mass of food with\u00adout increas\u00ading the calo\u00adries. And they have just the addi\u00adtive for that pur\u00adpose: poly\u00adte\u00adtra\u00adflu\u00ado\u00adroeth\u00adyl\u00adene (PTFE), more com\u00admon\u00adly known as Teflon. Yes, the stuff they use on non\u00adstick cook\u00adware. They insist that Teflon is inert, heat-resis\u00adtant, imper\u00advi\u00adous to stom\u00adach acid, taste\u00adless, cost-effec\u00adtive, and avail\u00adable in handy pow\u00adder form for easy mix\u00ading into food. They rec\u00adom\u00admend a ratio of three parts food to one part Teflon pow\u00adder.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I lowkey wan\u00adna eat a teflon-stuffed meal now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/comic\/sheep-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sheep<\/a> (SMBC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/aggressive-squirrel-hurt-people-43efad83aa78de39affc1b3cd3c93afe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018Very mean squir\u00adrel\u2019 seek\u00ading food has sent at least 2 peo\u00adple to the ER in a Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia city<\/a> (AP News)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/sinful-rebellious-homeschooler-stays-up-past-930-to-read-chronicles-of-narnia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sin\u00adful, Rebel\u00adlious Home\u00adschool\u00ader Stays Up Past 9:30 To Read Chron\u00adi\u00adcles Of Nar\u00adnia<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/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 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153who under\u00adstood the times and knew what Israel should do\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agen\u00adda and we are not about the elephant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s agen\u00adda \u2014 we are about the Lamb\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I agree\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I dis\u00adagree\u00e2\u20ac\u009d until I can say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I under\u00adstand\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) 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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not report\u00ading news \u2014 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m 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>You\u2019ve heard of TGIF? This is TGFI: Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues like\u00adly to be of inter\u00adest to Chris\u00adtians in col\u00adlege. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions, so if you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/09\/26\/tgfi-volume-523-religion-makes-you-happy-and-war-is-terrifying\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cTGFI, Vol\u00adume 523: reli\u00adgion makes you hap\u00adpy and war is ter\u00adri\u00adfy\u00ading\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":[124,120,327,152,160,148,207,184,310,274],"class_list":["post-7802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-apologetically-interesting","tag-famous-christians","tag-fertility","tag-free-speech","tag-how-the-church-is-perceived","tag-israel","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-21Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7802","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=7802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7805,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7802\/revisions\/7805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}