{"id":7920,"date":"2026-02-27T20:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7920"},"modified":"2026-02-27T20:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:52:06","slug":"tgfi-volume-544-outworking-your-fork-and-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2026\/02\/27\/tgfi-volume-544-outworking-your-fork-and-the-olympics","title":{"rendered":"TGFI, Volume 544: Outworking Your Fork and the Olympics"},"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:\/\/scotmcknight.substack.com\/p\/you-cant-outwork-your-fork\">You Can\u2019t Out\u00adwork Your Fork<\/a> (Mike Glenn, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cMore and more peo\u00adple are rec\u00adog\u00adniz\u00ading we\u2019re liv\u00ading in Baby\u00adlon. How do we live in Baby\u00adlon? By tak\u00ading respon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty for our spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal nutri\u00adtion. Remem\u00adber what Daniel did in the first chap\u00adter of his book? He refused to eat from the king\u2019s table. Remem\u00adber, he was a cap\u00adtive. He had no con\u00adtrol over his life and yet, he took respon\u00adsi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty for what he ate. Like\u00adwise, as Christ fol\u00adlow\u00aders, we have to take con\u00adtrol over the things that enter our minds and hearts. We have to be respon\u00adsi\u00adble for our spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal nutri\u00adtion. We have to be inten\u00adtion\u00adal about what we read, what we watch, what we talk about and what we think about.\u2026 You\u2019re in con\u00adtrol of your mind and your heart. Feed them well. After all, you can\u2019t out\u00adwork your fork.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Olympic thoughts:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/olympics\/2026\/02\/19\/alysa-liu-gold-olympics-figure-skating\/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzcxNDc3MjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcyODU5NTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NzE0NzcyMDAsImp0aSI6IjlmZDg4MjY3LTE5ZmUtNDNkZS05NzJlLWNiMTExZWVkYmY3NiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9zcG9ydHMvb2x5bXBpY3MvMjAyNi8wMi8xOS9hbHlzYS1saXUtZ29sZC1vbHltcGljcy1maWd1cmUtc2thdGluZy8ifQ.SPmTuh8sN0ZaOoo-S66uvYH1TIDlhdnXgf-MkvJgR2M\">Alysa Liu com\u00adpletes incred\u00adi\u00adble come\u00adback to win gold in fig\u00adure skat\u00ading<\/a> (Les Car\u00adpen\u00adter, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cLat\u00ader, as she stood in a room beneath the stands, Liu recount\u00aded her wait through Sakamo\u00adto and Nakai\u2019s per\u00adfor\u00admances, telling how much she enjoys watch\u00ading them skate and was hop\u00ading they would skate real\u00adly well before the world. She was asked if she want\u00aded the gold at that point. \u2018I don\u2019t need this,\u2019 she said, look\u00ading down at the medal around her neck, which matched the new gold dress she ordered for the Olympic free skate. \u2018What I need\u00aded was the stage, and I got that, so I was all good. No mat\u00adter what hap\u00adpened, you would have been fine. If that was a prob\u00adlem, if I fell on every jump, I would still be wear\u00ading this dress.\u2019 .\u2026it was hard to know whether the real\u00adi\u00adty would ever hit her. It might not mat\u00adter. She was thrilled she had skat\u00aded well; she was thrilled she had two new dress\u00ades for the Olympics and a third for Sat\u00adur\u00adday night\u2019s Olympic gala; she was thrilled her fam\u00adi\u00adly got to watch her skate.\u2026 Win\u00adning an Olympic gold medal seemed very far down the list of what was impor\u00adtant to her at that point.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Whole\u00adsome, com\u00admend\u00adable, and encour\u00adag\u00ading. Plus look at the sheer joy on her face in the sec\u00adond pho\u00adto of the piece (the top-down one).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/freddiedeboer.substack.com\/p\/what-eileen-gu-has-done-is-totally\">What Eileen Gu Has Done is Total\u00adly Ordi\u00adnary, Usu\u00adal\u00adly Invites Zero Con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsy, and Has Rou\u00adtine\u00adly Ben\u00ade\u00adfit\u00adted the Unit\u00aded States<\/a> (Fred\u00addie deBoer, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cWhat\u2019s strik\u00ading is how selec\u00adtive the con\u00adcern is. When for\u00adeign-born ath\u00adletes become Amer\u00adi\u00adcans in time to com\u00adpete for Team USA, we don\u2019t sud\u00adden\u00adly become tex\u00adtu\u00adal lit\u00ader\u00adal\u00adists about nation\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty statutes, we just cel\u00ade\u00adbrate the medal haul. Only when affil\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtion flows the oth\u00ader way do we dis\u00adcov\u00ader a new\u00adfound rev\u00ader\u00adence for puri\u00adty in cit\u00adi\u00adzen\u00adship law. The prac\u00adtice of ath\u00adletes com\u00adpet\u00ading for coun\u00adtries oth\u00ader than their birth\u00adplace isn\u2019t a scan\u00addal; it\u2019s a cor\u00adner\u00adstone of mod\u00adern Olympic sports!\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/25\/politics\/chatgpt-china-intimidation-operation\">A Chi\u00adnese official\u2019s use of Chat\u00adG\u00adPT acci\u00adden\u00adtal\u00adly revealed a glob\u00adal intim\u00adi\u00adda\u00adtion oper\u00ada\u00adtion<\/a> (Sean Lyn\u00adgaas, CNN): \u201cThe Chi\u00adnese law enforce\u00adment offi\u00adcial used Chat\u00adG\u00adPT like a diary to doc\u00adu\u00adment the alleged covert cam\u00adpaign of sup\u00adpres\u00adsion, Ope\u00adnAI said. In one instance, Chi\u00adnese oper\u00ada\u00adtors alleged\u00adly dis\u00adguised them\u00adselves as US immi\u00adgra\u00adtion offi\u00adcials to warn a US-based Chi\u00adnese dis\u00adsi\u00addent that their pub\u00adlic state\u00adments had sup\u00adpos\u00aded\u00adly bro\u00adken the law, accord\u00ading to the Chat\u00adG\u00adPT user. In anoth\u00ader case, they describe an effort to use forged doc\u00adu\u00adments from a US coun\u00adty court to try to get a Chi\u00adnese dissident\u2019s social media account tak\u00aden down.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/austinsuggs.substack.com\/p\/help-all-the-kids-are-becoming-catholicorthodox\">\u201cHelp! All the Kids are Becom\u00ading Catholic\/Orthodox\u201d<\/a> (Austin Sug\u00adgs, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cCatholi\u00adcism and East\u00adern Ortho\u00addoxy don\u2019t just offer a way of _seeing_ the world, they offer a _culture to immerse your\u00adself in_ that so many peo\u00adple feel devoid of. I take it as no coin\u00adci\u00addence that the rise of inter\u00adest in tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty coin\u00adcid\u00aded with the rise of inter\u00adest in sites like ancestry.com or grow\u00ading nationalism\u2014both of which, in their own way, are try\u00ading to offer peo\u00adple a sense of shared, com\u00admu\u00adnal iden\u00adti\u00adty root\u00aded in the past. To focus on doc\u00adtrine to the exclu\u00adsion of com\u00admu\u00adnal iden\u00adti\u00adty when inves\u00adti\u00adgat\u00ading why peo\u00adple con\u00advert would be fol\u00adly. Protes\u00adtants must have an answer to this if they want to keep peo\u00adple.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ariababu.co.uk\/p\/against-sparks-butterflies-and-other\">Against witch\u00adcraft<\/a> (Aria Schreck\u00ader, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cOver\u00adall, using your intu\u00adition is mas\u00adsive\u00adly over\u00adrat\u00aded in romance. You\u2019ve been trained on a lot of bad data and it\u2019s made you go hay\u00adwire. You\u2019re bet\u00adter off court\u00ading like you\u2019re arrang\u00ading your own mar\u00adriage, not like you\u2019re star\u00adring in a rom com.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Much sen\u00adsi\u00adble (albeit non-Chris\u00adt\u00adian) wis\u00addom in this arti\u00adcle. Although the first four para\u00adgraphs are kin\u00adda unhinged.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I decid\u00aded to look up the oth\u00ader entries in this series. AMAZING. 9\/10 rec\u00adom\u00admend with the excep\u00adtion of her sec\u00adond arti\u00adcle which I skipped for being less rel\u00ade\u00advant to like\u00adly read\u00aders of this sen\u00adtence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/home\/post\/p-186297374\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/home\/post\/p-186297374\">How to find a hus\u00adband (and why you should want one)<\/a> (Aria Schreck\u00ader, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cSo I got mar\u00adried recent\u00adly. I\u2019ve decid\u00aded to take his name, so this blog is going to be now under the name Aria Schreck\u00ader.\u2026 Find\u00ading a spouse should be the num\u00adber one pri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adty in your life. The right part\u00adner will make every oth\u00ader goal in your life eas\u00adi\u00ader to achieve. If your pri\u00ador\u00adi\u00adty is your career, you will prob\u00ada\u00adbly be more suc\u00adcess\u00adful with a well-cho\u00adsen spouse. In some cas\u00ades this will be a part\u00adner in a sim\u00adi\u00adlar field and you guys can pass each oth\u00ader net\u00adworks and gos\u00adsip. In some cas\u00ades you may pre\u00adfer some\u00adone who is will\u00ading to put their career on the back\u00adburn\u00ader and sup\u00adport you by tak\u00ading care of every\u00adthing else in your life. If you\u2019re aim\u00ading for suc\u00adcess in pol\u00adi\u00adtics, or the arts, or you work tire\u00adless\u00adly for a real\u00adly impor\u00adtant altru\u00adis\u00adtic cause, then mar\u00adry\u00ading some\u00adone with a steady income will make you able to take the risks you need to.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ariababu.co.uk\/p\/the-wall-is-real-but-not-for-the\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ariababu.co.uk\/p\/the-wall-is-real-but-not-for-the\">The wall is real but not for the rea\u00adsons you think<\/a> (Aria Schreck\u00ader, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cEvery day that pass\u00ades, eli\u00adgi\u00adble bach\u00ade\u00adlors in your age range start dat\u00ading the women they are going to mar\u00adry. Men get spit back out onto the apps for three main rea\u00adsons. (1) There\u2019s some\u00adthing wrong with him\/ (2) There\u2019s some\u00adthing wrong with her. (3) Bad luck. As you get old\u00ader the men who are attrac\u00adtive, want to get mar\u00adried, and don\u2019t have ruinous per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty prob\u00adlems get snapped up. What\u2019s left are the men who can\u2019t get girl\u00adfriends, aren\u2019t inter\u00adest\u00aded in seri\u00adous dat\u00ading, and\/or have been seri\u00adal\u00adly reject\u00aded by women after get\u00adting into rela\u00adtion\u00adships with them. Obvi\u00adous\u00adly lots of sin\u00adgle old\u00ader men are still mar\u00adriage-wor\u00adthy. Maybe they\u2019ve had a bit of a glow up, matured over the years, or just had some unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate sources of incom\u00adpat\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty. But the more time pass\u00ades, the less like\u00adly this becomes.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/its-not-his-fault-he-used-the-n-word\">It\u2019s Not His Fault He Used the N\u2011Word<\/a> (Kat Rosen\u00adfield, The Free Press): \u201cAs con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsies go, this one was immac\u00adu\u00adlate. Unlike pre\u00advi\u00adous inci\u00addents of this type, there was no risk that the alleged hate speech would turn out to be an acci\u00adden\u00adtal mala\u00adprop\u00adism, or an out\u00adright fab\u00adri\u00adca\u00adtion, or, as in one mem\u00ado\u00adrable case from 2021, a man who was mis\u00adheard while try\u00ading to get the atten\u00adtion of the mas\u00adcot for the Col\u00adorado Rock\u00adies, a pur\u00adple pol\u00adka-dot\u00adted tricer\u00adatops named Dinger. This was an actu\u00adal utter\u00adance of the actu\u00adal no-no word, caught on actu\u00adal cam\u00adera and broad\u00adcast on the actu\u00adal BBC. If ever there was an iron\u00adclad case for can\u00adcel\u00adla\u00adtion\u2014! Ah, but wait: Remem\u00adber, John David\u00adson has Tourette\u2019s syn\u00addrome, which also makes this an actu\u00adal case of the phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnon col\u00adlo\u00adqui\u00adal\u00adly known as the Oppres\u00adsion Olympics.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The twist at the end is stun\u00adning. I won\u2019t spoil it. In a tweet about it, the author said, \u201cWhen I learned why David\u00adson was in the audi\u00adence my soul left my body.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On a per\u00adson\u00adal note: one of my good friends in col\u00adlege had Touret\u00adte\u2019s like this. I can attest that bro did high\u00adly offen\u00adsive stuff on the reg\u00adu\u00adlar that I guar\u00adan\u00adtee he had absolute\u00adly zero con\u00adtrol over nor any poor inten\u00adtion behind. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stanforddaily.com\/2026\/02\/25\/bigger-is-not-always-better-gibbs\/\">Big\u00adger is not always bet\u00adter<\/a> (Will Gibbs, Stan\u00adford Dai\u00adly): \u201cShe lived an ordi\u00adnary life. Had kids, divorced, worked, retired, babysat and even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly passed away. But, her impact was any\u00adthing but ordi\u00adnary. She ran one of the few preschools in my home\u00adtown for twen\u00adty years. She deliv\u00adered dona\u00adtions every Mon\u00adday of the month to the local food pantry. She trav\u00adeled with my church\u2019s youth group to rehouse roofs and build ADA acces\u00adsi\u00adble hous\u00ading for less for\u00adtu\u00adnate peo\u00adple in our area.\u2026 When she passed away, my pas\u00adtor start\u00aded get\u00adting stopped in the streets. Every\u00adbody every\u00adwhere \u2014 even peo\u00adple he had walked by for years with\u00adout a con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion \u2014 want\u00aded to per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adly give their sym\u00adpa\u00adthies and express how big of an impact she had on them.\u201d \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent.<\/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:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/10-amazing-perks-of-becoming-a-protestant\">10 Amaz\u00ading Perks Of Becom\u00ading A Protes\u00adtant<\/a> (Baby\u00adlon Bee)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/10-amazing-perks-of-becoming-a-catholic\">10 Amaz\u00ading Perks Of Becom\u00ading A Catholic<\/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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