{"id":8036,"date":"2026-10-02T21:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=8036"},"modified":"2026-10-02T21:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:37:14","slug":"tgfi-volume-574-be-slow-to-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2026\/10\/02\/tgfi-volume-574-be-slow-to-judge","title":{"rendered":"TGFI, Volume 574: be slow to judge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a> You\u2019ve heard of TGIF? This is TGFI: Things Glen Found Inter\u00adest\u00ading<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Where pos\u00adsi\u00adble, the links that fol\u00adlow are gift links. Click with impuni\u00adty!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. My Hus\u00adband Did Noth\u00ading Wrong. The Inter\u00adnet Pun\u00adished Him Any\u00adway.<\/a> (Eri\u00adka Alvarez, The Free Press): \u201cGoing viral has shown me first\u00adhand that we have become quick to vil\u00adi\u00adfy peo\u00adple from a brief clip, fill\u00ading in every\u00adthing we can\u00adnot see with assump\u00adtions. You could see that my hands were full. You couldn\u2019t hear my hus\u00adband offer to help or hear me tell him to eat. You couldn\u2019t know that he was griev\u00ading or that I want\u00aded to take care of him that evening. If our viral moment con\u00adtributes any\u00adthing to the ongo\u00ading cul\u00adtur\u00adal con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion about how we judge what we see online, I hope it reminds us to be more com\u00adfort\u00adable say\u00ading, \u2018I don\u2019t know the whole sto\u00adry.\u2019 \u201d <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Crit\u00adi\u00adcize like a Chris\u00adt\u00adian<\/a> (Jacob Valk, The Gospel Coali\u00adtion): \u201cOver the next few years, I devel\u00adoped a per\u00adson\u00adal rule: Don\u2019t speak up on a top\u00adic unless I\u2019ve read at least one well-regard\u00aded book on it. My lit\u00adtle rule isn\u2019t in the Bible. I don\u2019t want to bind anyone\u2019s con\u00adscience. But I know that social media entices me to offer my thoughts and opin\u00adions on near\u00adly every sub\u00adject, and remind\u00ading myself that it\u2019s fool\u00adish to speak on issues I don\u2019t under\u00adstand has saved me (some) embar\u00adrass\u00adment over the years. If you feel tempt\u00aded to cri\u00adtique oth\u00aders on the great issues in pol\u00adi\u00adtics, eco\u00adnom\u00adics, edu\u00adca\u00adtion, sci\u00adence, and the\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy, it\u2019s wise to ask your\u00adself this: Do I actu\u00adal\u00adly know what I\u2019m talk\u00ading about?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The Bib\u00adli\u00adcal Cen\u00adsus\u00ades Are Cor\u00adrect Demo\u00adgraph\u00adic Records<\/a> (Lyman Stone, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cLong\u00adtime read\u00aders know that one of my great\u00adest joys in life is read\u00ading the Bible, think\u00ading about the Bible, dis\u00adcussing it with oth\u00aders, link\u00ading it to things I study, and then using this knowl\u00adedge to mer\u00adci\u00adless\u00adly troll the most uptight of my broth\u00aders and sis\u00adters in Christ. So let\u2019s talk about the cen\u00adsus\u00ades of Num\u00adbers.\u2026 And if you know any\u00adthing about those cen\u00adsus\u00ades, you know one or two things: 1. They count 603,550 men of fight\u00ading age. 2. That num\u00adber is so absurd\u00adly high it defies belief, and it is the basis of a lot of peo\u00adple dis\u00adbe\u00adliev\u00ading the sto\u00adries. I want to con\u00advince you that we should believe the cen\u00adsus num\u00adbers in Num\u00adbers as they are writ\u00adten<\/em> \u2014 and that \u2018as they are writ\u00adten\u2019 does not mean what your Eng\u00adlish head\u00ading thinks it means.\u201d \n