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2023-02-10T09:04:06-07:00

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Is Football Dangerous For the Fans?

Last updated on: February 10, 2023 at 9:04 am By Tim Suttle

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Football is in my blood. My dad was a high-school football coach. My childhood hero was Terry Bradshaw. Not to brag, but I was an elementary school flag football prodigy (I peaked athletically in the 6th grade). As a lifelong fan of Kansas State and Chiefs football, I can’t remember a time when I didn’t sincerely love the game. Yet, I’m always a bit troubled by how much I love football, and by the fact that football shapes us in... Read more

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2022-10-12T07:16:06-06:00

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Why Biden’s Approval Rating is So Low

Last updated on: October 12, 2022 at 7:16 am By Tim Suttle

Rebounding from a low of 37%, President Biden’s approval rating is somewhere around 42-43% today, and both left and right wing pundits love to discuss. Why so low? What will this mean for the midterms? These hand-wringers should come to the youth group at my church and ask the students for an approval rating on their parents. Better yet, go to any high school and tally the approval rating of the administrator charged with discipline. I can tell you the... Read more

2022-04-01T13:13:23-06:00

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Best April Fools Prank Ever & Why Pranks Are (Usually) Dumb

Last updated on: April 1, 2022 at 1:13 pm By Tim Suttle

April Fools’ Day bothers me for several reasons. First, is there an apostrophe or no apostrophe? Is it acceptable to write “April Fools Day,” sans apostrophe? And if we are to go with an apostrophe, where do you put it? “April Fool’s Day” or “April Fools’ Day”? I’m pretty sure it is the latter, which means there is no way to write it without looking like a grammatical elitist, which is clearly not what this day is about. And how... Read more

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George Plimpton

2022-03-23T07:09:55-06:00

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The Unacknowledged Reason for Putin’s War

Last updated on: March 23, 2022 at 7:09 am By Tim Suttle

I don’t know how many pundits I’ve heard as they attempt to climb inside Putin’s head to find some rationale for his murderous attack on Ukraine, but the number is high. In every case I end up talking back to them, trying to convince them that history, ambition, and personal grievance barely scratch the surface of Putin’s true motivation, which is, in my opinion, much simpler, much more basic than any of the experts surmise. Putin’s motivation has to do... Read more

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Todd McGowan

Vladimir Putin

2021-12-14T08:18:51-07:00

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What About the Real Problems that are Driving People to Deconstruct?

Last updated on: December 14, 2021 at 8:18 am By Tim Suttle

It was a “Farewell Rob Bell” moment for the neo-Reformed harbingers of orthodoxy. I have always like Matt Chandler, but his recent assertion (in a clipped video posted to TikTok) that those who deconstruct their Christian faith just want to be in on the sexy thing, and that one cannot deconstruct an authentic experience of Christ (so your faith must not be authentic), has only amplified the deconstruction phenomenon. For awhile now, the hawkers have been cranking out books on... Read more

2021-11-12T12:20:02-07:00

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Washington Post Article On Critical Race Theory is Dangerously Misleading

Last updated on: November 12, 2021 at 12:20 pm By Tim Suttle

… There’s a big Critical Race Theory kerfuffle happening right now around an op-ed in the Washington Post by Marc A. Thiessen, with an assist from Danielle Pletko (both from the American Enterprise Institute), and from Allen Guelzo (Princeton) whose field is not philosophy, but history. Let me say up front that I don’t use Critical Theory, nor do I think it’s helpful at the end of the day. It’s too easy to use it to justify almost any position.... Read more

2021-10-21T06:10:19-06:00

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Rich Mullins: Born On This Day in 1955

Last updated on: October 21, 2021 at 6:10 am By Tim Suttle

“And the moon is a sliver of silver, like a shaving that fell on the floor of a Carpenter’s shop; and every house must have it’s builder; and I awoke in the house of God.” – Rich Mullins This has to be one of the near perfect opening lines to a song I’ve ever heard. He was right about the moon, and about the fact that we all just woke up here one day, in the house of God, in... Read more

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The Color Green

2021-09-15T11:12:23-06:00

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The Purity Codes are Killing Us

Last updated on: September 15, 2021 at 11:12 am By Tim Suttle

Regardless of the lens you adopt through which to think about culture, consensus seems to be that the way we’ve organized our society — even our most basic forms of relating and working together — are dysfunctional at best. My take on why this is happening is that most of us operate through conscious and unconscious purity codes. What is a Purity Code? A purity code stems from the generalized assumption that it is possible to identify and eliminate the... Read more

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2021-09-11T13:20:51-06:00

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Remembering 9/11 Amidst a Covid Nightmare

Last updated on: September 11, 2021 at 1:20 pm By Tim Suttle

As we approach 20 years since 9/11, my strongest memory is still the emotional horror I felt that day, the gut wrenching sorrow of witnessing more than 3000 deaths in one morning. It was a brutal day. Collectively, there was really nothing we could do, so we just got together to cry and grieve. Today I keep thinking about this one number. The number is 656,000, the number of Americans who have died from Covid-19. I wonder why we don’t... Read more

2021-09-01T11:33:26-06:00

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The Pandemic & QAnon are Ruining Conspiracy Theories For Me

Last updated on: September 1, 2021 at 11:33 am By Tim Suttle

I love a good conspiracy theory. In college I got really into that 90s conspiracy about the Illuminati, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, and the New World Order (not kidding… I devoured entire books). I never bought into the fake moon landings, or the end times stuff, but you’ll never convince me that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Aliens, big brother, nefarious politicians, big tech colluding with the government, those half-baked theories have brought me hours of enjoyment. The... Read more

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