{"id":7841,"date":"2025-11-21T17:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7841"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T01:10:17","slug":"tgfi-volume-531-christianity-improves-longevity-plus-some-smart-people-who-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2025\/11\/21\/tgfi-volume-531-christianity-improves-longevity-plus-some-smart-people-who-believe","title":{"rendered":"TGFI Volume 531: Christianity improves longevity, plus some smart people who believe"},"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.christianitytoday.com\/2025\/11\/mclaughlin-how-the-church-could-literally-save-your-life\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=post&amp;utm_campaign=article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More Than a Mag\u00adic Pill<\/a> (Kathryn But\u00adler, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cChurch atten\u00addance reduces all-cause mor\u00adtal\u00adi\u00adty by near\u00adly 30 per\u00adcent over a 15-year peri\u00adod and pro\u00adtects woman against sui\u00adcide by 400 per\u00adcent. Week\u00adly church\u00adgo\u00ading in women over 40 is as pro\u00adtec\u00adtive against death as annu\u00adal mam\u00admo\u00adgrams, McLaugh\u00adlin writes. Those attend\u00ading ser\u00advices more than week\u00adly at age 20 have \u2018a rough\u00adly sev\u00aden-year greater life expectan\u00adcy than their nonchurch\u00adgo\u00ading peers.\u2019 Church\u00adgo\u00ading pro\u00adtects against alco\u00adhol, smok\u00ading, and drug abuse and decreas\u00ades the odds of depres\u00adsion by one-third.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I been sayin\u2019 it. Preach!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2025\/11\/alvin-plantinga-god-philosopher-properly-basic-belief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Alvin Planti\u00adnga, God\u2019s Philoso\u00adpher<\/a> (Daniel Sil\u00adli\u00adman, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cIn the 1950s there was not a sin\u00adgle pub\u00adlished defense of reli\u00adgious belief by a promi\u00adnent philoso\u00adpher,\u201d said philoso\u00adpher Kel\u00adly James Clark, one of Plantinga\u2019s stu\u00addents. \u201cBy the 1990s there were lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly hun\u00addreds of books and arti\u00adcles, from Yale to UCLA and from Oxford to Hei\u00addel\u00adberg, defend\u00ading and devel\u00adop\u00ading the spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal dimen\u00adsion. The dif\u00adfer\u00adence between 1950 and 1990 is, quite sim\u00adply, Alvin Planti\u00adnga.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cremieux.xyz\/p\/the-making-of-an-elite-japanese-christians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Mak\u00ading of an Elite: Japan\u00adese Chris\u00adtians<\/a> (Cremieux, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cIt\u2019s prob\u00ada\u00adbly sur\u00adpris\u00ading to hear that 20% of the post-World War II Prime Min\u00adis\u00adters of Japan before the new\u00adly-elect\u00aded Sanae Takaichi have been Chris\u00adt\u00adian. Out of those 35 Prime Min\u00adis\u00adters since 1945, Shigeru Yoshi\u00adda and Tar\u00c5\u008d As\u00c5\u008d were Catholic, and Tet\u00adsu Kataya\u00adma, Ichir\u00c5\u008d Hatoya\u00adma, Masayoshi \u00c5\u0152hi\u00adra, Shigeru Ishi\u00adba, and Yukio Hatoya\u00adma were var\u00adi\u00adous fla\u00advors of Protes\u00adtant. How this hap\u00adpens in a coun\u00adtry that\u2019s less than 1% Chris\u00adt\u00adian and in which there\u2019s sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant anti-Chris\u00adt\u00adian dis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion is per\u00adplex\u00ading, but I think it makes sense giv\u00aden how today\u2019s Japan\u00adese Chris\u00adtians came to be.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading read\u00ading. The role of the samu\u00adrai was very unex\u00adpect\u00aded to me!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/19\/us\/trump-politics-religion-christianity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U8.2GEH.jnEb7DwAc075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Two Times Reporters Cov\u00ader Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty in a Polar\u00adized Amer\u00adi\u00adca<\/a> (Patrick Healy, Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth Dias &amp; Ruth Gra\u00adham, New York Times): \u201cI think a lot about which details to include in a sto\u00adry, and how I\u2019m describ\u00ading peo\u00adple and scenes. Part of fair\u00adness is not tak\u00ading cheap shots by sub\u00adtly depict\u00ading one side as back\u00adward or unso\u00adphis\u00adti\u00adcat\u00aded, for exam\u00adple. I also try to bring peo\u00adple into as many hous\u00ades of wor\u00adship as pos\u00adsi\u00adble. And I would define that expan\u00adsive\u00adly, from tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal church ser\u00advices to prayer meet\u00adings to wor\u00adship ser\u00advices in the Trump White House.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Unlocked. A real\u00adly well-done inter\u00adview. I have gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly found Gra\u00adham and Dias to be fair and insight\u00adful. Most of the sto\u00adries involv\u00ading the NYT being tone-deaf to reli\u00adgion have come about when jour\u00adnal\u00adists who don\u2019t cov\u00ader the reli\u00adgion beat try to drag reli\u00adgion into their sto\u00adry with\u00adout ful\u00adly under\u00adstand\u00ading what they\u2019re try\u00ading to describe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/it-used-to-be-get-married-now-its-stay-single\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It Used to Be \u2018Get Mar\u00adried.\u2019 Now It\u2019s \u2018Stay Sin\u00adgle.\u2019<\/a> (Freya India, The Free Press): \u201cI keep hear\u00ading about how there\u2019s too much pres\u00adsure to set\u00adtle down. Appar\u00adent\u00adly every\u00adone wants to know when you\u2019re get\u00adting mar\u00adried, when you\u2019re hav\u00ading kids.\u2026 My whole life I\u2019ve only ever felt the oppo\u00adsite, an over\u00adwhelm\u00ading pres\u00adsure to be sin\u00adgle. In the sec\u00adu\u00adlar lib\u00ader\u00adal world I used to think there were no expec\u00adta\u00adtions, no pres\u00adsure. There is, though: The pres\u00adsure today is to avoid any\u00adthing that might stick, to run through life with\u00adout get\u00adting snagged on any respon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adties, with\u00adout get\u00adting teth\u00adered to some\u00adone else too ear\u00adly.\u2026 We don\u2019t scru\u00adti\u00adnize the 25-year-old who is still sin\u00adgle but the one who set\u00adtles down. In fact, this feels like the only life deci\u00adsion left to dis\u00adap\u00adprove of, the only one accept\u00adable to judge. Want\u00adi\u00adng to com\u00admit is the <em>one <\/em>desire that is dis\u00adcour\u00adaged, treat\u00aded with sus\u00adpi\u00adcion, the only thing in the mod\u00adern world we are ever told to delay.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Relat\u00aded: <a href=\"https:\/\/stanforddaily.com\/2025\/11\/16\/senior-scaries-treating-dating-like-the-job-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Senior Scaries: Treat\u00ading dat\u00ading like the job mar\u00adket<\/a> (Erin Ye, Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly): \u201cThe last time I was on the phone with my mom, she told me that it was my own fault I didn\u2019t have a boyfriend. \u2018You need to start treat\u00ading dat\u00ading like it\u2019s the job mar\u00adket: you\u2019re not apply\u00ading to posi\u00adtions, you\u2019re not inter\u00adview\u00ading, you\u2019re not even doing things that you can add to your r\u00e9sum\u00e9,\u2019 she said. \u2018You just need to get out there. Think of it like get\u00adting an <em>intern\u00adship<\/em>. Don\u2019t wor\u00adry about the return offer just yet!\u2019&nbsp;\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2025\/11\/ice-deportation-saddleback-hispanic-ministry-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">They Led at Sad\u00addle\u00adback Church. ICE Said They Were Safe.<\/a> (Andy Olsen, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cThe grow\u00ading abo\u00adli\u00adtion of dis\u00adcre\u00adtion, per\u00adhaps more than any oth\u00ader aspect of the administration\u2019s immi\u00adgra\u00adtion sup\u00adpres\u00adsion, will cause the deep\u00adest pain for many fam\u00adi\u00adlies that pre\u00advi\u00adous\u00adly had lit\u00adtle to fear. Indi\u00advid\u00adu\u00adals with\u00adin the US immi\u00adgra\u00adtion edi\u00adfice have long had some author\u00adi\u00adty to exer\u00adcise com\u00adpas\u00adsion in sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtions where, in their judg\u00adment, the cost to soci\u00adety of a person\u2019s removal might be high\u00ader than the cost of non\u00adre\u00admoval. One could view such dis\u00adcre\u00adtion, as the Trump admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion does, as a weak\u00adness. Or one could see dis\u00adcre\u00adtion as the car\u00addi\u00adnal qual\u00adi\u00adty that sep\u00ada\u00adrates a human jus\u00adtice sys\u00adtem from a cold enforce\u00adment machine with all the sen\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of a red-light cam\u00adera.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A mov\u00ading sto\u00adry, told with all the messy details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nigeria-christian-muslim-killings-kidnapping-trump-af57834a1ce47488397bf07931b5cf51\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump says Chris\u00adtians are being per\u00adse\u00adcut\u00aded in Nige\u00adria. The real\u00adi\u00adty is more com\u00adpli\u00adcat\u00aded<\/a> (Chine\u00addu Asadu, AP News): \u201cNigeria\u2019s pop\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion of 220 mil\u00adlion is split almost even\u00adly between Chris\u00adtians, who live pre\u00addom\u00adi\u00adnant\u00adly in the south, and Mus\u00adlims, most\u00adly in the north \u2014 where attacks have long been con\u00adcen\u00adtrat\u00aded and where lev\u00adels of illit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adcy, pover\u00adty and hunger are among the country\u2019s high\u00adest. Nation\u00adwide, Mus\u00adlims con\u00adsti\u00adtute a slight major\u00adi\u00adty. Experts and data from two non\u00adpar\u00adti\u00adsan sources \u2014 the U.S.-basedt and Coun\u00adcil on For\u00adeign Rela\u00adtions \u2014 show Chris\u00adtians are often tar\u00adgets in a small per\u00adcent\u00adage of over\u00adall attacks that appear to be moti\u00advat\u00aded by reli\u00adgion, in some north\u00adern states. But the num\u00adbers and ana\u00adlysts also indi\u00adcate that across the north, most vic\u00adtims of over\u00adall vio\u00adlence are Mus\u00adlims.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I was skep\u00adti\u00adcal of the head\u00adline, but the arti\u00adcle makes a good case for it. Hav\u00ading said that, the author has\u00adn\u2019t shown that there isn\u2019t a prob\u00adlem of reli\u00adgious per\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adtion in Nige\u00adria; the author has only shown that there is also a prob\u00adlem of ram\u00adpant law\u00adless\u00adness.<\/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:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2025\/11\/6-7-in-the-bible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">6\u20137 in the Bible<\/a> (Kristy Etheridge, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cNews out\u00adlets from <em>The New York Times<\/em> to <em>The Indi\u00adan Express<\/em> have cov\u00adered the glob\u00adal phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnon that delights chil\u00addren, puz\u00adzles grownups, and leaves school teach\u00aders 67 per\u00adcent sure they should retire ear\u00adly.\u2026 a church in Char\u00adlotte, North Car\u00adoli\u00adna, cre\u00adat\u00aded an entire out\u00adreach event around the infa\u00admous num\u00adbers. Jonathan White is a pas\u00adtor and direc\u00adtor of children\u2019s pro\u00adgram\u00adming at Meck\u00adlen\u00adburg Com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty Church. When he deter\u00admined that the 6\u20137 trend wasn\u2019t harm\u00adful and wasn\u2019t going away, he wrote it into the church\u2019s Novem\u00adber fam\u00adi\u00adly night.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/scholars-now-believe-number-of-the-beast-is-actually-67\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Schol\u00adars Now Believe Num\u00adber Of The Beast Is Actu\u00adal\u00adly 67<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-11-batman-effect-mere-sight-superhero.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Bat\u00adman effect: The mere sight of the \u2018super\u00adhero\u2019 can make us more altru\u00adis\u00adtic<\/a> (Gaby Clark, Phys.org): \u201cIn the exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal con\u00addi\u00adtion, anoth\u00ader exper\u00adi\u00admenter dressed as Bat\u00adman entered the scene from anoth\u00ader door of the train. Faced with this unex\u00adpect\u00aded encounter, pas\u00adsen\u00adgers were sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly more like\u00adly to offer their seats: 67.21% of pas\u00adsen\u00adgers offered their seats in the pres\u00adence of Bat\u00adman, or more than two out of three, com\u00adpared to 37.66% in the con\u00adtrol exper\u00adi\u00adment, or just over one out of three.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by an alum\u00adnus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/millions-convert-to-christianity-after-theologians-confirm-there-is-no-microsoft-teams-in-heaven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mil\u00adlions Con\u00advert To Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty After The\u00adolo\u00adgians Con\u00adfirm There Is No Microsoft Teams In Heav\u00aden<\/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 \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>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. 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