{"id":7924,"date":"2026-03-13T17:09:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7924"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:09:52","slug":"tgfi-volume-546-atheists-who-believe-in-souls-why-bad-code-leads-to-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2026\/03\/13\/tgfi-volume-546-atheists-who-believe-in-souls-why-bad-code-leads-to-evil","title":{"rendered":"TGFI, Volume 546: atheists who believe in souls &amp; why bad code leads to evil"},"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:\/\/worldviewbulletin.substack.com\/p\/isaiah-identified-in-archaeology\">Isa\u00adiah Iden\u00adti\u00adfied in Archae\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/a> (Titus Kennedy, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cDespite ful\u00adfill\u00ading the role of prophet for more than 50 years, serv\u00ading under mul\u00adti\u00adple kings, and encoun\u00adter\u00ading the Assyr\u00adi\u00adans, until recent\u00adly there was no archae\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy direct\u00adly attest\u00ading to the renowned Isa\u00adiah, and at present, there is no archae\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal con\u00adfir\u00adma\u00adtion for the prophets Hosea, Nahum, and Mic\u00adah, who were con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary with Isa\u00adiah. This all changed when exca\u00adva\u00adtions of an Iron Age II lay\u00ader of the 8th to 7th cen\u00adtu\u00adry BC at the Ophel area in Jerusalem unearthed a seal impres\u00adsion. This dis\u00adcov\u00adery was a clay bul\u00adla about 1.3 cm in diam\u00ade\u00adter impressed by a seal with the name \u2018Isa\u00adiah\u2019 and the title \u2018prophet\u2019 in the paleo-Hebrew script.\u2026 Exca\u00adva\u00adtions in this area also dis\u00adcov\u00adered a bul\u00adla of one of the kings Isa\u00adiah served under, Hezeki\u00adah of Judah, along with 32 oth\u00ader Hebrew bul\u00adlae with var\u00adi\u00adous names. It was found out\u00adside what has been called the \u2018roy\u00adal bak\u00adery,\u2019 where roy\u00adal offi\u00adcials and oth\u00ader dig\u00adni\u00adtaries may have dis\u00adcard\u00aded old let\u00adters and the clay seals attached to those doc\u00adu\u00adments.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some thoughts on AI\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blessedendurance.substack.com\/p\/why-i-dont-want-my-pastor-to-use\">Why I Don\u2019t Want My Pas\u00adtor to Use AI<\/a> (Leah, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cIf my pas\u00adtor won\u2019t wres\u00adtle with God through writ\u00ading a ser\u00admon, I begin to ques\u00adtion: will he wres\u00adtle with Him in prayer? Will he be both\u00adered to wres\u00adtle with God over the state of my soul, to plead on my behalf when I am tempt\u00aded and suf\u00adfer\u00ading? \u2026God called you to be my pas\u00adtor. I want <em>you<\/em> to be <em>my<\/em> pas\u00adtor.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nicholasdecker.substack.com\/p\/who-uses-ai-in-congress\">Who Uses AI in Con\u00adgress?<\/a> (Nicholas Deck\u00ader, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cAdop\u00adtion has been sub\u00adstan\u00adtial. In the past three months of the 119th Con\u00adgress, ful\u00adly 25% of doc\u00adu\u00adments in the Con\u00adgres\u00adsion\u00adal Record are AI-gen\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded.\u2026 How\u00adev\u00ader, mere adop\u00adtion is an unin\u00adter\u00adest\u00ading top\u00adic. Of course they are going to adopt the tools avail\u00adable. What would be much more inter\u00adest\u00ading is if AI tools were hav\u00ading an actu\u00adal effect on the pol\u00adi\u00adcy posi\u00adtions or the rhetor\u00adi\u00adcal empha\u00adsis. Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, we can pret\u00adty con\u00adclu\u00adsive\u00adly rule those out.\u201d \u2014 The author is a PhD stu\u00addent in econ at George Mason.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphsaboutreligion.com\/p\/the-afterlife-isnt-going-away\">The After\u00adlife Isn\u2019t Going Away<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cIn the full sam\u00adple, 88% of folks said that they did believe that each being pos\u00adsess\u00ades both a soul and a phys\u00adi\u00adcal body. I look at sur\u00advey data all day, and here\u2019s what I know: it\u2019s hard to get 88% of Amer\u00adi\u00adcans to agree on any\u00adthing, real\u00adly. If you tried to pull togeth\u00ader a bat\u00adtery of ten pub\u00adlic pol\u00adi\u00adcy pro\u00adpos\u00adals, it\u2019s very unlike\u00adly that any of them would get 88% sup\u00adport. But the data tells this sto\u00adry clear\u00adly: almost all Amer\u00adi\u00adcans believe that there\u2019s some\u00adthing hap\u00adpen\u00ading beyond our phys\u00adi\u00adcal bod\u00adies.\u2026 Among the non-reli\u00adgious, there\u2019s also a huge divide on this ques\u00adtion. Among noth\u00ading in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlars, 80% believe in a soul. That\u2019s just a few clicks away from the nation\u00adal aver\u00adage. Agnos\u00adtics score 11 points low\u00ader than noth\u00ading in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlars. But then take a look at atheists\u2014just one-third of them believe \u2018in a soul or spir\u00adit in addi\u00adtion to their phys\u00adi\u00adcal bod\u00adies.\u2019&nbsp;\u201d \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>He kin\u00adda buried the lede here: 1\/3 of athe\u00adists believe in a soul. That\u2019s remark\u00adable!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some thoughts on the war\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/11\/arts\/television\/iran-war-trump-memes-social-media-videos.html?partner=slack&amp;smid=sl-share\">The Trump Admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion Goes to War, by Any Memes Nec\u00ades\u00adsary<\/a> (James Poniewozik, New York Times): \u201cFor Gen. William Tecum\u00adseh Sher\u00adman, war was hell. But as rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00aded by the Trump White House\u2019s social feeds, war is LOL.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a stu\u00addent and quite inter\u00adest\u00ading.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2026\/03\/100437\/\">America\u2019s Con\u00adflict in Iran Is Not a Just War<\/a> (Ed Fes\u00ader, Pub\u00adlic Dis\u00adcourse): \u201cMany who have com\u00adment\u00aded on the war on social media appear to think that as long as some aim for which a war is fought is in itself a good aim\u2014such as depos\u00ading tyrants or pre\u00advent\u00ading them from get\u00adting hold of weapons of mass destruction\u2014then the war has met the just-cause con\u00addi\u00adtion of just war doc\u00adtrine. That is not the case. This is mere\u00adly a nec\u00ades\u00adsary con\u00addi\u00adtion for hav\u00ading a just cause for war, not a suf\u00adfi\u00adcient con\u00addi\u00adtion.\u2026 It is clear that the attack on Iran was not in fact a \u2018pre\u00ademp\u00adtive war\u2019 in the sense of a mil\u00adi\u00adtary action tak\u00aden in order to head off an immi\u00adnent attack. Rather, it is a \u2018pre\u00adven\u00adtive war,\u2019 in the sense of a mil\u00adi\u00adtary action car\u00adried out against a coun\u00adtry that does not pose an immi\u00adnent threat but _could_ do so in the future. But while pre\u00ademp\u00adtive war can be jus\u00adti\u00adfi\u00adable in light of the just war cri\u00adte\u00adria devel\u00adoped in the nat\u00adur\u00adal law tra\u00addi\u00adtion, pre\u00adven\u00adtive war can\u00adnot be.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fes\u00ader is a Catholic philoso\u00adpher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2026\/03\/why-i-changed-my-mind-bible-prophecy-politics\/\">Why I Changed My Mind on Bible Prophe\u00adcy and Pol\u00adi\u00adtics<\/a> (Rus\u00adsell Moore, Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty Today): \u201cMy doc\u00adtor\u00adal dis\u00adser\u00adta\u00adtion was about how view\u00adpoints on last things shaped evan\u00adgel\u00adi\u00adcal Chris\u00adt\u00adian atti\u00adtudes toward social and polit\u00adi\u00adcal engage\u00adment.\u2026 The king\u00addom of God\u2014present already but not yet fulfilled\u2014tells us what to care about (jus\u00adtice, peace, the poor, the vul\u00adner\u00ada\u00adble) while also shield\u00ading us from the dis\u00adil\u00adlu\u00adsion\u00adment or blood\u00adthirsti\u00adness that can come with expect\u00ading to have to bring the full\u00adness of that king\u00addom on our own. As embod\u00adied in Jesus, the king\u00addom con\u00adcerns us not just with out\u00adcomes but with ways and means, even as it prompts humil\u00adi\u00adty on how to get to those com\u00admon goals. I have no idea what will hap\u00adpen in Iran. I have no idea what will hap\u00adpen in the mod\u00adern state of Israel. I have no idea whether we have 5 more min\u00adutes or 45 mil\u00adlion more years before the Apoc\u00ada\u00adlypse. Jesus said, \u2018It is not for you to know times or sea\u00adsons that the Father has fixed by his own author\u00adi\u00adty\u2019 (Acts 1:7). Who needs a prophe\u00adcy chart when we already have the Way?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some thoughts on a Texas politi\u00adcian:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/08\/opinion\/james-talarico-christian-democrat-texas-primary.html\">James Talari\u00adco Is a Chris\u00adt\u00adian X\u2011Ray<\/a> (David French, New York Times): \u201cFor too long we\u2019ve eval\u00adu\u00adat\u00aded Chris\u00adtians in pol\u00adi\u00adtics pri\u00admar\u00adi\u00adly through their pol\u00adi\u00adcy posi\u00adtions. Are you pro-life or pro-choice? Do you sup\u00adport same-sex mar\u00adriage? What\u2019s your posi\u00adtion on immi\u00adgra\u00adtion enforce\u00adment? Yet this is exact\u00adly back\u00adward. If you were to crack open Scrip\u00adture today and start read\u00ading, one of the first things you should notice is that the Bible con\u00adtains remark\u00adably few polit\u00adi\u00adcal man\u00addates. You can read it from cov\u00ader to cov\u00ader and not know the defin\u00adi\u00adtive bib\u00adli\u00adcal tax rate, wel\u00adfare pro\u00adgram or for\u00adeign pol\u00adi\u00adcy. But the next thing you\u2019ll notice is that there is an immense amount of guid\u00adance describ\u00ading how Chris\u00adtians should behave. Indeed, in the book of Gala\u00adtians, the Apos\u00adtle Paul says that the fruit of the spir\u00adit is a set of virtues \u2014 \u2018love, joy, peace, for\u00adbear\u00adance, kind\u00adness, good\u00adness, faith\u00adful\u00adness, gen\u00adtle\u00adness and self-con\u00adtrol.\u2019 Absent from that list is a sin\u00adgle the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal or ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal propo\u00adsi\u00adtion. That\u2019s not to say that the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy or ide\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy are unim\u00adpor\u00adtant. It does real\u00adly mat\u00adter whether a politi\u00adcian is pro-life or pro-choice, but there is no spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal or polit\u00adi\u00adcal sce\u00adnario where you can aban\u00addon Chris\u00adt\u00adian virtue for the sake of the alleged greater good, and if a Chris\u00adt\u00adian politi\u00adcian aban\u00addons Chris\u00adt\u00adian virtue, then Chris\u00adt\u00adian believ\u00aders should aban\u00addon him or her.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>FYI, this one has been super-divi\u00adsive on social media. Some have said it is evi\u00addence of French\u2019s apos\u00adta\u00adsy and oth\u00aders have said it is self-evi\u00addent\u00adly true. Judge for your\u00adself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/the-christianism-of-the-left-f59\">The Chris\u00adtian\u00adism Of The Left<\/a> (Andrew Sul\u00adli\u00advan, Sub\u00adstack): \u201c\u2026the fusion of Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty and pol\u00adi\u00adtics isn\u2019t exclu\u00adsive\u00adly right-wing. You can invoke God to defend any\u00adthing, after all. And a new left-Chris\u00adtian\u00adism has emerged in the 21st cen\u00adtu\u00adry that is a mir\u00adror image of the right\u2019s. Left-Chris\u00adtians have come to adorn their church\u00ades with tran\u00adsqueer and BLM flags, treat NPR as the Holy Office, adopt lan\u00adguage \u2014 \u2018white suprema\u00adcy,\u2019 \u2018cis-het\u00adero\u00adsex\u00adism,\u2019 \u2018patri\u00adarchy\u2019 \u2014 direct\u00adly from crit\u00adi\u00adcal the\u00ado\u00adry, and inter\u00adpret Scrip\u00adture to man\u00addate high\u00ader tax\u00ades, DEI, abor\u00adtion on demand, and open bor\u00adders. I find that Chris\u00adtian\u00adism just as tox\u00adic to faith and pol\u00adi\u00adtics. Which brings me to James Talari\u00adco, the Chris\u00adtian\u00adist run\u00adning for Sen\u00adate in Texas.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/13\/opinion\/china-exports-consumer-spending.html\">China\u2019s Long-Promised Con\u00adsumer Boom Is a Mirage<\/a> (Anne Steven\u00adson-Yang, New York Times): \u201cChina\u2019s peo\u00adple, per\u00adhaps more than at any time in the last few decades, are in no mood to go out and splurge. Many have been air\u00ading grow\u00ading anx\u00adi\u00adety online about falling incomes and scarce jobs. The aver\u00adage income was just over $500 a month in 2025. Unem\u00adploy\u00adment is high.\u2026 China\u2019s peo\u00adple, per\u00adhaps more than at any time in the last few decades, are in no mood to go out and splurge. Many have been air\u00ading grow\u00ading anx\u00adi\u00adety online about falling incomes and scarce jobs. The aver\u00adage income was just over $500 a month in 2025. Unem\u00adploy\u00adment is high.\u2026 These are hard\u00adly the foun\u00adda\u00adtions of a vibrant con\u00adsumer econ\u00ado\u00admy, and the future looks no bet\u00adter.\u201d \u2014 I have been a con\u00adsis\u00adtent skep\u00adtic of Chi\u00adna\u2019s econ\u00ado\u00admy ever since I first heard about ghost cities over a decade ago. If you\u2019re unfa\u00admil\u00adiar with the term, Google it. Do some dig\u00adging and you\u2019ll be sur\u00adprised.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/10\/opinion\/ai-chatbots-virtue-vice.html\">This A.I. Exper\u00adi\u00adment Reopened an Ancient Argu\u00adment About Vice<\/a> (Dan Kagan-Kans, New York Times): \u201c[A] paper pub\u00adlished in Nature in Jan\u00adu\u00adary demon\u00adstrates that in machines cor\u00adrup\u00adtion can metas\u00adta\u00adsize \u2014 that in them, some\u00adthing impru\u00addent or a bit bad, like writ\u00ading inse\u00adcure code, is not so dif\u00adfer\u00adent from some\u00adthing wicked like prais\u00ading Hitler. This doesn\u2019t prove virtue ethi\u00adcists right about humanity\u2019s moral nature. But it sug\u00adgests they\u2019re onto some\u00adthing, and that the ancients weren\u2019t as na\u00efve or strange\u00adly ide\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal as they can some\u00adtimes seem.\u201d\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One of the more fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading things I\u2019ve read in a while.<\/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:\/\/x.com\/PresbyInn\/status\/2030739678924562804\">What Chris\u00adt\u00adian denominations\/traditions sound like to nor\u00admal peo\u00adple on X<\/a> (Twit\u00adter): \u201cTrad Catholic: \u2018Clear\u00adly you haven\u2019t read the Sum\u00adma Thomistic\u00e6 of St. Vit\u00adto\u00adrio Jose Canseco Maria Dominguez Pala\u00adto Nu\u00f1ez or you would know that\u2026\u2018<br>Ortho\u00addox: \u2018This was already set\u00adtled by that Holy Coun\u00adcil of Epiphis\u00adtos in 853 when they accept\u00aded the reply of Met\u00adro\u00adpol\u00adi\u00adtan Hier\u00adar\u00adch St. \u00ce\u00a7\u00ce\u00b1\u00cf\u0081\u00ce\u00ba\u00ce\u00bf\u00cf\u2026\u00ce\u00b4\u00ce\u00b5\u00ce\u00b9\u00cf\u201a \u00ce\u00a3\u00ce\u00bf\u00cf\u2020\u00cf\u0081\u00ce\u00bf\u00ce\u00ba\u00ce\u00bf\u00cf\u2026\u00ce\u00b4\u00ce\u00b5\u00cf\u201a \u00d0\u00bd\u00d0\u00b5\u00d0\u00b2\u00d0\u00b5\u00d0\u00b6\u00d0\u00b5\u00d1\u0081\u00d1\u201a\u00d0\u00b2\u00d0\u00b5\u00d0\u00bd\u00d0\u00bd\u00d1\u2039\u00d0\u00b9 when he said\u2026\u2018<br>Scot\u00adtish Pres\u00adby\u00adte\u00adri\u00adans: \u2018If you read \u201cThe Chris\u00adtian\u2019s Sure Defense Against the Stank of Antichrist by Robert Mac\u00adSmellie, you\u2019d see that..\u201c&nbsp;\u2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/InsideLucysHead\/status\/2031279926855217492\">How would the Church of Eng\u00adland deal with the state\u00adment that \u201cThe cat sat on the mat\u201d if it appeared in the Bible?<\/a> (Twit\u00adter): I found this very fun\u00adny, but your mileage may vary.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/billions-dead-as-doomsday-clock-springs-forward-for-daylight-saving-time\">Bil\u00adlions Dead As Dooms\u00adday Clock Springs For\u00adward For Day\u00adlight Sav\u00ading Time<\/a> \u2014 (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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