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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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