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2014-10-06T10:00:09-06:00

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Monday Morning Confessional: Fatherhood, Ian Cron, & Chasing the Rhino

Last updated on: October 6, 2014 at 10:00 am By Tim Suttle

I confess that my daily routine has been completely whacked lately. I blame the Kansas City Royals’ three extra-innings playoff games in a row, after which I’m so jacked up, it takes me awhile to come back down. My body doesn’t seem to know what to do, so it just keeps trying to get me to lie down. I just woke up and it’s telling me to go back to bed. I cannot. First comes breakfast with the kids. I... Read more

Monday Morning Confessional

Silence

2014-10-03T15:01:32-06:00

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Favorite Stanley Hauerwas Quotes

Last updated on: October 3, 2014 at 3:01 pm By Tim Suttle

If I had to pick one theologian who has had the most influence on my thinking–probably my being and doing as well–it would be Stanley Hauerwas. He has the ability to see the world the way I want to see it. He’s unafraid to tell the truth about his own life, which seems to give him the freedom to tell the truth about almost anything. When I am in a rut or a quandary, when I’m having trouble seeing the... Read more

2014-10-02T10:43:29-06:00

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All Modern Bible Translations are Good, But Are They Equal? – Scot McKnight & the Politics of Bible Translations

Last updated on: October 2, 2014 at 10:43 am By Tim Suttle

Scot McKnight has a nice blog post in which he describes why the Bible translation you prefer says something about your personal politics. While I think bible scholars and teachers overestimate the amount of “use” these bible translations actually get (it’s been my experience that most Christians don’t read their bibles much at all), Scot makes an interesting point. He says that all bible translations are good, so the only reason to prefer one English translation over another is to identify with a Christian subset,... Read more

2014-09-30T08:07:18-06:00

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Ten Ways to Beat Writer’s Block

Last updated on: September 30, 2014 at 8:07 am By Tim Suttle

“We have all been there, and it feels like the end of the world. It’s like a chickadee being hit by and H-Bomb. Here’s the thing, though. I no longer think of it as block. I think that is looking at the problem from the wrong angle. If your wife locks you out of the house, you don’t have a problem with your door.” –Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird _________________________________________________________ What do you do when your inner-writer goes on... Read more

2014-09-29T08:27:06-06:00

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Monday Morning Confessional: Buechner, Rohr, Volf, and Faithful Remembering

Last updated on: September 29, 2014 at 8:27 am By Tim Suttle

“One way or another, we are always remembering… there is no escaping it even if we want to, or at least no escaping it for long, though God knows there are times when we try to, don’t want to remember. In one sense the past is dead and gone, never to be repeated, over and done with, but in another sense, it is of course not done with at all or at least not done with us…” Frederick Buechner, A... Read more

Monday Morning Confessional

remembering

Richard Rohr

2014-09-26T06:59:55-06:00

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Why Are Christians so Bad on the Environment Issue? Because We Have No Spirituality of Creation

Last updated on: September 26, 2014 at 6:59 am By Tim Suttle

This was originally the sermon I preached at Redemption Church on September 21, 2014. It has been edited into a long-form essay here. If you are a pastor, feel free to copy and use any of this. SHIFT: From Exploitation to Stewardship The Catholic theologian Ronald Rolheiser says that to be human is to live with an excess of desire. “Desire is always stronger than satisfaction,” he says. (p.3) To be humans is to have an excess of desire. Not all desire... Read more

Spirituality of Creation

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Wendell Berry. Ronald Rolheiser

2014-09-22T11:16:01-06:00

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Monday Morning Confessional

Last updated on: September 22, 2014 at 11:16 am By Tim Suttle

I confess that I’m tired of setting up online accounts. I’m tired of creating passwords. You can’t do anything anymore without setting up an account. For instance, I just want to get scores from the ESPN app. I don’t want to customize my experience because I don’t care that much. I’m going to use this thing to check scores while I’m out and about, maybe six or seven Saturdays during college football season tops, and I’m happy to give ESPN my patronage.... Read more

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2014-09-20T06:49:40-06:00

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Corporations Aren’t People, Money Isn’t Speech: Citizens United & the Heresy of Corporate Personhood

Last updated on: September 20, 2014 at 6:49 am By Tim Suttle

More Americans believe in witchcraft, ghosts, and UFOs than agree with Citizens United. When 80% of the people agree on an important issue & the leaders refuse to act, something has to change. I’m for finding a peaceful solution. Citizen’s United refers to a 2010 Supreme Court case on how elections are financed. The ruling said that corporations are people, and money is speech. You can’t limit free speech. So corporations should be able to spend money (speech) like people do. But we... Read more

2014-09-19T06:40:19-06:00

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Katie Savage Reviews Shrink

Last updated on: September 19, 2014 at 6:40 am By Tim Suttle

My friend and writing compatriot Katie Savage has written a review of Shrink, at her blog “Sprucing Up the Narthex.” Katie’s a really good writer (check out Grace in the Maybe), and I’m grateful for her engagement with the ideas in Shrink. Katie will always make you laugh and make you think. Here’s an excerpt from the review: “The church is facing a huge problem,” writes author and pastor Tim Suttle. “We have become enamored with size. We have become... Read more

Sprucing Up the Narthex

2014-09-19T07:53:46-06:00

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Wendell Berry on What It Means to Be an Author

Last updated on: September 19, 2014 at 7:53 am By Tim Suttle

I’ve been reading some Wendell Berry this week in preparation for what I’m talking about on Sunday. I love his straight forward and often hilarious take on life–for instance: hell, or limits, or farming. I ran across this note int he introduction to his book, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community, which is a collection of eight essays. This is from the preface entitled “The Joy of Sales Resistance,” which is written as a letter to “Dear Reader.” Wendell Berry is... Read more

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