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Thomas and Sam discuss the Billy Graham Rule, flipping coasters and dominance.

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Links:

• Where Did the “Billy Graham Rule” Come From? | TGC
• The religious reasons Mike Pence won’t eat alone with women don’t add up – The Washington Post
• Ali Segel on Twitter: “This is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen https://t.co/EF6Hk3Y3ai”
• This Is Almost Certainly James Comey’s Twitter Account

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.

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• 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.

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

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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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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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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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