Dr. Thomas Whitley and Rev. Sam Harrelson discuss the death of the Old Testament and whether biblical literacy matters to contemporary Christians and cultures.
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Episode 106: Are Kids Growing Up in a Post-Christian America?
Thomas and Sam debate renewing Evernote Premium and discuss Donald Trump's Christianity, Evangelical logic, and whether Generation Z is growing up in a "Post-Christian" America.
Links:
- David Lewis on Twitter: “@samharrelson What is Christian (or in sync with the teaching of Jesus) about @realDonaldTrump’s lifestyle or policies?”
- Clinton: ‘If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president’ – CNNPolitics.com
- Jerry Falwell Jr.: ‘Evangelicals Have Found Their Dream President’ | Sojourners
- Forget millennials. How will churches reach Generation Z? | Religion News Service
- White House aims for Thursday signing of religious liberty executive order – POLITICO
- Thomas Whitley on Twitter: “A God that wants you to discriminate against others is not a God worth following. https://t.co/4w2TcHPHk3”
Episode 105: Consider The Dogs of the Valley
Thomas and Sam discuss life changes, beard growth, corporate philosophy officers, existentialism 2.0, and whether the Canon should remain closed or be thrown open.
Links:
- Cremo Beard & Scruff Softener, Astonishingly Superior 30 Second Beard Softener, 4 Ounce Bottle : Beauty
- Thinking.FM
- The Minister and The Mystic Episode 1: The Reveal
- Harrelson Agency
- D R E W (@drewtaggart) • Instagram photos and videos
- Diogenes of Sinope | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The Emperor’s Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations: Marcus Aurelius, David Hicks, C. Scot Hicks: 8601401057475: Amazon.com: Books
- “Today at Apple” bringing new experiences to every Apple Store – Apple
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto): Nassim Nicholas Taleb: 9780812979688: Amazon.com: Books
- After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene: Jedediah Purdy: 9780674368224: Amazon.com: Books
- The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Adam H. Becker, Annette Yoshiko Reed: 9780800662097: Amazon.com: Books
- God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now: John Dominic Crossan: 9780060858315: Amazon.com: Books
- The Limits of History: Constantin Fasolt: 9780226101248: Amazon.com: Books
- Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 20th Anniversary Edition (9780807080535): Michel-Rolph Trouillot: Books
- Hypsistarians – Wikipedia
- The Lost Gospel of Judas–Photos, Time Line, Maps–National Geographic
- The Canon of the New Testament: Its Origin, Development, and Significance (9780198269540): Bruce M. Metzger: Books
- Should MLK’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” Be Added to the New Testament?
Episode 104: Disrupting Jesus
Thomas and Sam discuss generational gaps in worldviews and the God-shaped hole at the heart of current American culture.
Links:
- What Would Jesus Disrupt? – Bloomberg
- OnFaith: Crossing The Faith Divide, With Technology, Explained
- Coming Out Christian in the Roman World: How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar’s Empire: Douglas Ryan Boin: Bloomsbury Press
- Crucified man had prior run-in with authorities – The Washington Post
- Places You’ll Pray
- Thinking Baptists 2009 – Google Docs
Episode 103: MAKE EASTER GREAT AGAIN
Thomas and Sam discuss the importance of Easter and whether Pastors should be dressing up like the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus or letting the Wise Men into the party before January 6.
Links:
- The Lighthouse Mission News: astor Jim & Enrique dress up as Jesus & the Easter Bunny & teach the children that Easter has nothing to so with a bunny but EVERYTHING about Jesus!
- Sean Spicer Worked As An Easter Bunny
- Ricky Gervais on Noah’s Ark. – YouTube
- Barbaric bunnies battle it out in medieval manuscripts – CNN.com
- Why Are There Violent Rabbits In The Margins Of Medieval Manuscripts? | Jon Kaneko-James
- Duo | An AI computer for your home.
Episode 102: Let Me Move That Glass Over Here
Thomas and Sam discuss the Billy Graham Rule, flipping coasters and dominance.
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Episode 101: The Sounds of Silence
Thomas and Sam discuss the persistence of memories, Evernote, device agnosticism, web automation services and whether the Karl Barth Chatbot will take off in the near-future.
Links:
- Simon & Garfunkel – The Sounds of Silence (Audio) – YouTube — People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence. - Tech Dopp Kit 2 – thisisground — The Tech Dopp Kit 2 is a premium leather travel zip-up organizer with designated spots for all of your tech/technical gear. Its inspiration is half bento box, half traditional dopp kit—a 20th century-style travel bag with neatly arranged compartments for the modern pro’s tools.
- Apple has acquired Workflow, a powerful automation tool for iPad and iPhone | TechCrunch — Apple has finalized a deal to acquire Workflow today — a tool that lets you hook together apps and functions within apps in strings of commands to automate tasks. We’ve been tracking this one for a while but were able to confirm just now that the ink on the deal is drying as we speak.
- Why I finally replaced Evernote with Bear – The Verge — I found one in Bear, a year-old app for Mac and iOS by a three-person Italian design firm named Shiny Frog. Bear plays the sleek TextEdit to Evernote’s monstrous Microsoft Word: what you lose in absolute number of features you more than make up for in speed and ease of use. As a writer, I work in text, and text ought to be simple. Simplicity is Bear’s starting point — and, in my experience over the past few months, accounts for much of its success.
- Donald Trump: TIME Interview on Truth and Falsehoods | Time.com — Yeah, it’s been good though. It’s been good.
- Learn how IFTTT works – IFTTT — Do more with the services you love
- The best apps. Better together. – Zapier – Zapier — Easy automation for busy people. Zapier moves info between your web apps automatically, so you can focus on your most important work.
- Why I Switched To Todoist – Productivityist
- Now we’re talking: How voice technology is transforming computing | The Economist — This is a huge shift. Simple though it may seem, voice has the power to transform computing, by providing a natural means of interaction. Windows, icons and menus, and then touchscreens, were welcomed as more intuitive ways to deal with computers than entering complex keyboard commands. But being able to talk to computers abolishes the need for the abstraction of a “user interface” at all.
- The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel – The Atlantic — Why did it take so long to invent the wheelbarrow? Have we hit peak innovation? What our list reveals about imagination, optimism, and the nature of progress.
- Pro Rata – Axios — Mnuchin breezily dismissed the notion that AI and machine learning will soon replace wide swaths of workers, saying that “it’s not even on our radar screen” because it’s an issue that is “50 or 100 years” away.
Episode 100: “The last thing I would consider myself is a theologian.”
Thomas and Sam celebrate 100 episodes and discuss Thomas' bent towards Process Theology.
Show Notes:
- Knick Knack 2 | This Is Ground
- Bullet Journal
- Follow Up: Pacifism and Karl Barth | W. Travis McMaken
- Spiritual Abuse | Merianna Neely Harrelson
- Molly Worthen on Christianity in American History | Road to Now
Episode 99: It’s Hard to Put the Cat Back In the Bag
Thomas and Sam discuss Just War Theory, Karl Barth and where we go from here.
Show Notes:
- Jewish cemetery vandalized in New York, third case in two weeks | Reuters
- Hate Map | SPLC
- Four Mosques Have Burned in Seven Weeks – Leaving Many Muslims and Advocates Stunned | BuzzFeed
- Pence used personal email for state business – and was hacked | USA Today
- W. Travis McMaken on Karl Barth | Academia.edu
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Episode 98: The Pull of Nostalgia
Thomas and Sam discuss what makes things great. Again.
Show Notes:
- The Religion of Donald Trump | Chicago Tribune
- Bill would make Bible state book in West Virginia | Herald-Dispatch
- Drop in teenage suicide attempts linked to legalization of same-sex marriage | Guardian
- Meet the evangelicals trying to make the GOP care about refugees | Vox
- It’s Decorative Gourd Season | McSweeney’s
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Episode 97: Prayer Breakfast
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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Episode 96: Nintey Six
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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Episode 95: There’s Always a Drum Circle
Thomas and Sam debate the social implications of protests and political actions in the new America.
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Episode 94: Any Religious Left or Any Religion Left?
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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Episode 93: “All we have to do now is to take these lies and make them true (somehow)”
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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Episode 92: Apostles, Disciples, and Facebook Live Viewers
Thomas and Sam discuss new Macbooks and the problem with trying to count your followers in relation to your success.
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Episode 91: Let’s Talk About Bob Dylan and Evanglicals
In which Thomas and Sam discuss Bob Dylan and Evangelicals.
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Episode 90: No Bread, No Bag, No Money
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).
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Episode 79: Thinking Religion 89: Do You Want To Talk About Pants? – Thinking.FM
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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Episode 78: Thinking Out Loud 121: Even Superheroes Have Flaws – Thinking.FM
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