Month: May 2016

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Dr. Thomas Whitley and Rev. Sam Harrelson discuss figuring out email workflows, whether woman should be ordained as deacons in the Roman Catholic Church, and the United Methodist Church’s current debate over LBTQi and wider cultures.

Mentioned:

• iPad Pro is Better Than a Laptop | Macworld
• Convoluted way to get native Google mail and calendars on iOS
• Evernote
• GoodNotes
• PDF Expert
• Pope Francis: Let’s study idea of ordaining women as deacons | RNS 
• UMC to LBTQ: You’re Sacred But Not Welcome | Religion Dispatches

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How do you know when you have a draft and when you have a manuscript ready to shop to publishers, especially in a time when you can publish anything that’s in the writing process? You can’t get to the point where you want your draft to be a book so badly that you skip the important work of revision. If it’s not ready it’s not ready. You have to keep writing to the end. And some conversation about the Hugo Awards.

Show Notes:

• Porn Author Dragged into Puppygate
• Trolling Puppies
• George R.R. Martin on the Hugos
• Scalzi’s Take
• This year’s Hugo Award nominees
• Sandra Boynton

What are Elisabeth, Merianna, and Sam reading this week?

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Dr. Thomas Whitley and Rev. Sam Harrelson are back this week (fresh from Dr. Whitley’s graduation) to talk about Evernote, iPads, Apple’s lineup, their favorite bags and pens, Justin Timberlake’s new song of the summer, #JesusSoWhite, taco bowls, and chest hair.

Mentioned:

• Thomas’ New Briefcase | Satchel and Page
• Nutsac Man Bag, Dammit
• DoDoCase Leather Portfolio
• Karas Kustoms
• JT drops the song of the summer | Esquire
• Polygraph
• Last Days in the Desert | RNS
• Lamb by Christopher Moore
• Liberty Board Member Resigns Over Falwell, Jr. Trump Endorsement | RNS
• Don’t Blow This | Gawker
• Religious Freedom Deteriorating Around the World | RNS
• The Return of Chest Hair | The Awl

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Do I really have to write THAT story? Elisabeth and Merianna talk about how to write the tough parts of the story and how to recover after you write about difficult subject matters. They also talk about trashing the dress and leaving stories floating in the cosmos for other writers to capture.

Show Notes

• The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 
• The Verve
• Indigo Girls
• Primitive Radio Gods
• Ellie Kemper
• Trash the Dress
• Copper Sun
• The Color Purple
• Their Eyes Were Watching God
• The Dog Eaters
• Middlesex
• Oliver Twist
• Great Expectations
• Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles

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