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Show Notes:

• Trump Gave a Doozy of a Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast | Washington Post
• Leaked Draft of Trump’s Religious Freedom Order Reveals Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination | The Nation
• Free Speech | XKCD
• American Christianity is in Turmoil | Huffington Post
• Trump’s SCOTUS Pick Founded a “Fascism Forever” Club in High School | Daily Mail
• https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/827215767288553474
• Donald Trump Wants to Repeal the Johnson Amendment | NBC
• Donald Trump Hangs Up on Australia, Threatens to Invade Mexico | MotherJones
• Thomas
• Samuel

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Thomas and Sam discuss Google Voice, Alexa, Evernote, and how the Democratic Party has failed voters but especially the next generation of public officials (and what we can do about it).

• Google Voice!!!!1! | The Verge
• COMPUTER | The Verge
• Trump and Net Neutrality

How do you get involved?

• https://www.indivisibleguide.com
• Justice100 | Faith in Public Life
• She Should Run

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Thomas and Sam debate the social implications of protests and political actions in the new America.

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Thomas and Sam discuss the upcoming inauguration of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States, and what that means for the country’s religious landscape.

• How Trump is Paving the Way for a Revival of the ‘Religious Left’ | Washington Post
• Indivisible
• re:act
• The Crisis of Liberalism, Part II: All Policy, No Power | LARB
• America’s Religion Problem | Marginalia
• In His Own Words: President Obama on Faith | RNS
• Israel’s High Court Orders Western Wall Rabbi to Explain Why Women Can’t Pray | RNS
• Snapchat Major Redesign | Mashable
• New TIG Planner | ThisIsGround Instagram
• Apple AR Smart Glasses Tipped For 2017 Reveal | Forbes
• The Russia Story Reaches a Crisis Point | Rolling Stone

 

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Thomas and Sam kick off the 2017 season of Thinking Religion.

• New Years Resolutions
• Try a New Years Revolution | NY Times
• On Giving Donald Trump a Chance | Marginalia
• Sam’s January 1 “sermon”: “I think I realize now that the author chose to include the massacre of the infants in the nativity story of Jesus to establish not only Jesus’ claims to being the Messiah or to connect Jesus with Moses and the Exodus, but also to plant the seed that Jesus was born into a broken world that has always slaughtered innocents and still does. Jesus’ challenge to the authority of his time ended with his own slaughtering.”
• TIG Mod | ThisIsGround
• TIG Venture Backpack | ThisIsGround

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Thomas and Sam discuss new Macbooks and the problem with trying to count your followers in relation to your success.

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In which Thomas and Sam discuss Bob Dylan and Evangelicals.

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Thomas and Sam discuss titles, office spaces, new jobs, being unplugged from the hive mind during the work day, and everyday carries (along with some deep philosophical ideas you’ll have to stick around for).

• FSU Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards
• AgFirst
• Farm Credit
• Mod Tablet 3 | ThisIsGround

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Thomas and Sam discuss pants, button down collar dress shirts, briefcases, leather goods, and the role of religion in political rhetoric.

• Levi 541
• Hillary Clinton writes Op-Ed in LDS Paper
• Fewer and Fewer Americans Vote With Religion in Mind | Boston Globe
• Many Americans Hear About Politics from the Pulpit | Pew
• Views From the Pulpit Tend to Favor Hillary Clinton | NYT

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“But I thought you were a superhero?” Elisabeth and Merianna talk about that moment when someone you know discovers that you have flaws and how that impacts your relationship. This is why it is important to make sure your characters have flaws as well. Even superheroes have their kryptonite. 

Show Notes

• Book Architecture
• 10 Reasons Why Your Hero Needs Flaws
• The Good the Bad and the Ugly
• Tor.com Book Club

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Thomas and Sam, along with guest host Roshan Abraham, discuss Jonah’s presumptive bisexuality, Classics’ past present and future, Ephesus as the ancient 4chan, roles of the public intellectual, autobiographical memories, textuality, authority, and Bernie vs. Hillary sexism.

• Apollonius of Tyana
• Silicon Valley’s Hippest Church is Going Public | Buzzfeed
• Twitter is the strange new kingmaker of the 21st century | Quartz
• THE AUDACITY OF COPYING WELL | Stratechery
• Hillary Clinton Just Chillin’ in Cedar Rapids

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“But that could never happen!” Elisabeth and Merianna talk about world building, especially in regards to changing technology. What should you include? What will make your story seem outdated and irrelevant? How do some authors get away with having outdated technology, but still have avid readers?

• Harrelson Press’ New Site
• Kumare
• Jesus Camp
• Mary Robinette Kowal “Sensitivity Reader”
• Star Wars Lack of Messaging | Stack Exchange
• Star Trek Technology | Forbes

What are Merianna and Elisabeth reading this week?

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Most Christians are Republicans and a few liberal ones are Democrats (or something like that). That’s been the conventional thinking for the past few decades, especially with the rise of the Moral Majority and Evangelical movement going back to the late 60’s and early 70’s. However, the election of 2016 is pointing to a possible shift in perception of this old adage. Are we seeing a role reversal where the Democratic Party becomes the party of patriotism, American Exceptionalism, and faith while the Republican Party becomes the party of angst, cynicism, and Russian influence? We discuss the last two weeks of both parties’ conventions and why that role reversal might just be the case.

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Show Notes

• Republicans have ceded the ground on faith | Washington Post
• Hillary Clinton Gets Personal on Christ and Faith | NYT
• The Real Plot Against America | NYT
• Donald Trump’s AMA | Reddit
• Tim Kaine Takes Back Faith for The Democrats | The New Yorker

• The Democratic convention’s most surprising argument: Christianity is a liberal religion | Vox

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Merianna and Sam discuss the notion of hospitality and how various churches welcome (or don’t) visitors and strangers into their worship services.

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Elisabeth and Merianna talk about moving your draft from the splatter paint on the canvas, letting the words fly off your fingertips to a manuscript with purposeful meaningful words. Words matter. Choose them carefully, especially if you are staff writer for a presidential candidate.

Show Notes

• Plagiarism | USA Today
• Melania Trump’s Speech | CNN
• Trump’s Campaign Organization | CNN
• Melania’s Plagiarism | USA Today
• Staff Writer Takes Blame | AOL
• “Light a Fire Under” idiom
• Gilmore Girls on Plagiarism | tv.com
• Trump and Megyn Kelly | Vox
• GOP is Gaslighting America | Texas Observer
• Gaslighting | Wikipedia
• Drax says “Do not ever call me a thesaurus” | YouTube

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This week, Thomas and Sam discuss how to use social media effectively, why you shouldn’t invoke God when comparing others to Lucifer, and ways to save money on all of your internet subscription services.

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Show Notes

• Candidates’ social media outpaces their websites and emails as an online campaign news source | Pew Research
• GOP platform: Plenty for evangelicals to love | RNS
• Chris Christie RNC Speech Memes & Tweets That Capture The Absurdity Of His Hillary Clinton Attacks  | Bustle
• BEN CARSON GOES ROGUE, LINKS HILLARY CLINTON TO LUCIFER | Vanity Fair
• Easley pastor’s partisan prayer, comments raise eyebrows at Republican National Convention | Greenville Online
• Product Hunt
• Truebill
• Billshark 
• Access Over Ownership is the Future of Consumption | The Guardian

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Thomas and Sam are joined by Merianna Neely Harrelson to talk about True Love Waits, Kissing Dating Goodbye, Promise Rings, and all the interesting parts of Evangelical Christian culture of the ’90’s (and how much of that is being reexamined)… and why Sam still calls himself an Evangelical.

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Show Notes

• Josh Harris is Kissing I Kissed Dating Goodbye Goodbye | NPR
• Lady in Waiting | Amazon
• Evangelicals Rally to Trump, Religious ‘Nones’ Back Clinton | Pew
• Donald Trump and The Myth of the Evangelical Voting Bloc | Marginalia
• Post Conservative Evangelicalism | Wikipedia

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Merianna and Sam talk about how communities of faith create a sense of belonging and what happens when the community encounters a crisis of faith. Do you stay? Do you leave?

Show Notes

• If Pokemon Go Feels Like a Religion That’s Because it Kind of Is | BNG
• Pokemon Go is just the latest in a long line of privacy mistakes | iMore
• No Millennials in Church? They May Be Working, Expert Says
• Perry Noble’s Facebook Video Statement

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Thomas and Sam discuss their iPhone homescreens, favorite apps, the complexity of generational eschatological expectations, and Christian dating apps.

Show Notes

• OmniFocus
• Why I Ditched Evernote for Apple Notes and You Can Too | David Pogue
• When is a star more than a star? | Religion News
• ChristianMingle Lawsuit Forces Site to Add Options for Gay Daters | Christianity Today
• The Coming Political Realignment | NYT

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