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Episode 116: No One WANTS to Vote Against Romans
Gospel of Mary? Bel and the Dragon? The Apocryphon of John? Two Corinthians? Dr. Thomas Whitley and the Rev. Sam Harrelson are joined again by David Ray Allen to cover the second round of the Thinking Religion Bible Bracket Challenge and give a great overview of biblical books you might not have read in a while.
Special Guest: David Ray Allen Jr..
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Episode 115: Your Hair is Like a Flock of Goats
Dr. Thomas Whitley and the Rev. Sam Harrelson discuss the concept of hermeneutics and continue their ongoing quest to decide the best book in the Bible from the Thinking Religion Bible Bracket Challenge.
Sponsored By:
- Sam Harrelson Consulting: Get a free estimate for your church or nonprofit’s website redesign or social media campaign from the experts at Sam Harrelson Consulting this summer. Promo Code: Hermeneutics
Links:
- Thinking Religion Bible Bracket Challenge – Challonge
- Eugene Peterson on changing his mind about same-sex issues and marriage | Religion News Service
- Actually, Eugene Peterson Does Not Support Same-Sex Marriage | News & Reporting | Christianity Today
- The Agonizing Ordeal of Eugene Peterson – You Might Be Next – AlbertMohler.com
Episode 114: Sorry About Luke
Dr. Thomas Whitley and the Rev. Sam Harrelson are joined again by David Ray Allen Jr. to cover the next round of the Thinking Religion Bible Bracket Challenge… with a few surprises this week!
Special Guest: David Ray Allen Jr..
Sponsored By:
- Sam Harrelson Consulting: Get a free estimate for your church or nonprofit’s website redesign or social media campaign from the experts at Sam Harrelson Consulting this summer. Promo Code: Hermeneutics
Links:
- Thinking Religion Bible Bracket Challenge – Challonge
- Esther – Wikipedia
- Gospel of Luke – Wikipedia
- Book of Judges – Wikipedia
- Second Epistle of Peter – Wikipedia
- Book of Lamentations – Wikipedia
- First Epistle of John – Wikipedia
- Book of Revelation – Wikipedia
- 1 Esdras – Wikipedia
- First Epistle to the Corinthians – Wikipedia
- First Epistle to Timothy – Wikipedia
Episode 113: Your Grandmother’s Favorite Book in the Bible
Dr. Thomas Whitley and the Rev. Sam Harrelson are joined by David Allen Jr., a Morehead-Cain Scholar at the University of North Carolina, to cover the first few matches of the Thinking Religion Bible Bracket Challenge. David brings his own unique understanding of sports to help Thomas and Sam make the tough calls that must be made.
Sponsored By:
- Sam Harrelson Consulting: Get a free estimate for your church or nonprofit’s website redesign or social media campaign from the experts at Sam Harrelson Consulting this summer. Promo Code: Hermeneutics
Links:
- David Ray Allen (@davidrallenjr) | Twitter
- David Allen, Jr. | Be passersby.
- Thinking Religion Bible Bracket Challenge – Challonge
- Book of Leviticus – Wikipedia
- Book of Zephaniah – Wikipedia
- Bel and the Dragon – Wikipedia
- Habakkuk – Wikipedia
- Epistle to the Philippians – Wikipedia
- Book of Tobit – Wikipedia
- Apocryphon of John – Wikipedia
- Book of Micah – Wikipedia
- Acts of the Apostles – Wikipedia
- Books of Samuel – Wikipedia
- Book of Joel – Wikipedia
- Books of Chronicles – Wikipedia
Episode 112: Bible Bracket Challenge Intro
Dr. Thomas Whitley and the Rev. Sam Harrelson discuss the upcoming Thinking Religion Bible Bracket Challenge (starts next week!), generational views on gay marriage, and whether the moral arc of the universe bends towards justice.
Sponsored By:
- Sam Harrelson Consulting: Get a free estimate for your church or nonprofit’s website redesign or social media campaign from the experts at Sam Harrelson Consulting this summer. Promo Code: Hermeneutics
Links:
- Thinking Religion Bible Bracket Challenge – Challonge — The first annual Thinking Religion Bible Brackets Challenge… which text from the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Pseudepigrapha, or Apocrypha (or kinda sorta associated with what we’ve received in the tradition up to this point) is the best??
- Poll shows a dramatic generational divide in white evangelical attitudes on gay marriage – The Washington Post — According to Pew, 47 percent of Generation X/millennial evangelicals (those born after 1964) favor gay marriage, compared with 26 percent of boomer and older evangelicals (those born between 1928 and 1964).
- The Arc of the Moral Universe Is Long, But It Bends Toward Justice | Quote Investigator
Episode 111: Which Gospel is the Best Gospel?
Dr. Thomas Whitley and Rev. Sam Harrelson break down the problem with Paul's authorship of Colossians and Ephesians, head shaving, Gospel forgery, Matthew and the Q Community, the Gospel of Thomas, and infancy gospels.
Links:
- Bryson Smith on Twitter: “Could any of my fellow religion nerds take a stab at what the phrase “all things” in Colossians 1:15-20 is referring to??? #unrelatedness”
- Epistle to the Colossians – Wikipedia
- The New Interpreter’s Bible: Matthew – Mark (Volume 8): Leander E. Keck: 9780687278213: Amazon.com: Books
- The Gospel of Thomas Collection – Translations and Resources
- The Community of the Beloved Disciple: The Life, Loves and Hates of an Individual Church in New Testament Times: Raymond Edward Brown: 9780809121748: Amazon.com: Books
- Anatomy of the Fourth Gospel: R. Alan Culpepper: 9780800620684: Amazon.com: Books
- The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
- My Eight Dollar Flight Upgrade Trick
- The Gospel of Peter, translated by Raymond Brown
- Eutychus – Wikipedia
- The “Strange” Ending of the Gospel of Mark and Why It Makes All the Difference – Biblical Archaeology Society
- David Skelton on Twitter: “@thomaswhitley @samharrelson @thinkingfm Luke or go home! (though if you asked me in HS it would have been John)”
Episode 110: Be Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves
Dr. Thomas Whitley and Rev. Sam Harrelson discuss Wonder Woman's mythology, new Twitter, and whether you should "Friend" your Pastor on Facebook… or even pay them.
Links:
- Wonder Woman (2017) – Rotten Tomatoes
- (SPOILERS) 15 Crazy Little Details In “Wonder Woman” You 100% Missed
- Ladies, I Know We’re All Wonder Woman, But Don’t Put Swords Down Your Dresses
- Twitter’s latest redesign makes the iOS app look more like Android – The Verge
- Your Rabbi? Probably a Democrat. Your Baptist Pastor? Probably a Republican. Your Priest? Who Knows. – The New York Times
Episode 109: Evangelicals and Covfefe Theology
Dr. Thomas Whitley and Rev. Sam Harrelson discuss Trump's faith statements and relationships with Evangelicals (and the how things change all of sudden).
Links:
- God and the Don – CNN.com — “I did very, very well with evangelicals in the polls,” Trump interjected in the middle of the conversation — previously unreported comments that were described to me by both pastors.
They gently reminded Trump that neither of them was an evangelical.
“Well, what are you then?” Trump asked.
They explained they were mainline Protestants, the same Christian tradition in which Trump, a self-described Presbyterian, was raised and claims membership. Like many mainline pastors, they told the President-elect, they lead diverse congregations.
Trump nodded along, then posed another question to the two men: “But you’re all Christians?”
“Yes, we’re all Christians.”
- Covfefe.net
- The Seat of Satan: Ancient Pergamum | CBN.com
- Calvinism – Wikipedia
- The TULIP of Calvinism – SBC Life
- Trump’s Tweet on Russell Moore and Evangelicals — .@drmoore Russell Moore is truly a terrible representative of Evangelicals and all of the good they stand for. A nasty guy with no heart!
Episode 108: Everyone’s Just Winging It
Dr. Thomas Whitley and Rev. Sam Harrelson discuss that sickening feeling you get when you realize that adults are all just faking it.
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Episode 107: Words Are Hard
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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