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2019-07-03T09:38:21-06:00

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Christianity Shouldn’t Be Infused With Politics—It Is a Politic

Last updated on: July 3, 2019 at 9:38 am By Tim Suttle

“Christianity is mostly a matter of politics—politics defined by the gospel. The call to be part of the gospel is a joyful call to be adopted by an alien people, to join a countercultural phenomenon, a new polis called the church.” Resident Aliens, p.30 When Stanley Hauerwas says, as he often does, that Christianity is a matter of politics, he doesn’t mean American liberal or conservative politics. He’s saying Christianity is not a belief system. It’s way bigger than that.... Read more

2020-01-29T09:57:53-07:00

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The Science of Fine-Tuning the Soul: Henri Nouwen’s 26 Dials on the Human Heart

Last updated on: January 29, 2020 at 9:57 am By Tim Suttle

One of the popular academic conversations (spilling out into the wider culture of the 1970s) involved new scholarship in the arena of human development. Cognitive Psycho-Social development theory was undergoing a renaissance. Three in particular: Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, Erik Erickson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development, and Lawrence Kohlberg’s stages of moral development—first took academia by storm, then worked their way into popular culture, inventing a new vocabulary with which to describe human development & maturation. Scholars from other fields began... Read more

2019-03-05T07:59:46-07:00

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Why Evangelicals Need Lent

Last updated on: March 5, 2019 at 7:59 am By Tim Suttle

Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell used to tell a story about a mission he flew in his F2H Banshee off the coast of Japan in 1950. He had missed the rendezvous point when his instruments mistakenly picked up a signal leading him away from his aircraft carrier. Lovell felt hopelessly lost as he flew circles in the dark over the stormy Sea of Japan. As he tried to use his map light, suddenly all of the electronics in the cockpit... Read more

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2019-02-04T11:33:09-07:00

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What God is Not: An Apophatic Account of the Divine

Last updated on: February 4, 2019 at 11:33 am By Tim Suttle

My professional life exists at the intersection of creativity, God, and the church; which means my career has been made by trying to describe the indescribable. I work with words–whether with songs or prose–that are patently inadequate to the task I’ve been given. When I was young, I thought my job was to help people see God. Now I think my job is to help people let go of the God they mistakenly think they see. I cannot tell you... Read more

2019-01-24T10:33:32-07:00

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Our National Weakness is Our Inability to Forgive

Last updated on: January 24, 2019 at 10:33 am By Tim Suttle

Is there anything more powerful in the world than forgiveness? Maybe the only thing that is nearly as powerful as forgiveness, is unforgiveness. Forgiveness releases incredible generative power into the world. Unforgiveness releases the power of enslavement and death. Forgiveness is another name for mercy: the forbearance of one’s right to punish another; to have vengeance. Unforgiveness is the pressing of those rights … to hold to an offense, and so to achieve retribution. Often, forgiveness isn’t really fair or just, but... Read more

2018-11-29T09:41:11-07:00

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Advent is a Time for Hope: Oscar Wilde on Cynics & Sentimentalists

Last updated on: November 29, 2018 at 9:41 am By Tim Suttle

We live in a time of massive disorientation: the loss of unifying narratives, loss of faith in institutions, a renegotiation around truth (what is true and who decides), a clash between the religious nationalism of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, and a host of new technologies that are transforming virtually all of our relationships in a short time. We’re going on decades of this kind of disorientation building up steam within our culture. Most people react to the disorientation in one... Read more

2018-10-21T11:21:22-06:00

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Rich Mullins Would’ve been 63 Years Old Today – Read This, It Will Do Your Heart Good

Last updated on: October 21, 2018 at 11:21 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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2018-09-28T09:12:19-06:00

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Why Do the Nations Rage?

Last updated on: September 28, 2018 at 9:12 am By Tim Suttle

“So, I refuse to rage with our nation. I will get on with the hard work of loving my neighbor, loving my enemy, loving the poor and marginalized. I will not hate these poor, pathetic, and powerful white men. Their world is passing away. I will not hate my friends and family and neighbors who continue to be deceived. I will only pray for them and continue to pursue love. At least that’s what I’m going to try and do.... Read more

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2018-09-19T07:03:24-06:00

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Rich Mullins Died 21 Years Ago Today: Here’s My Yearly Reminder That I’ll Never Get Over It

Last updated on: September 19, 2018 at 7:03 am By Tim Suttle

When I listen to Rich Mullins’ music (and I still listen), he makes me want to go camping. It’s weird, I know, but it always seems like I could more easily imagine the world he imagined if I were off in the woods somewhere … and I really want to imagine the world that he imagined. During his concerts Rich used to joke that his fans really think he lived on the edge of rivers lighting campfires (the cover of... Read more

2018-08-29T14:54:49-06:00

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New Podcast: Becoming Brueggemann — Thoughts on Sabbath Keeping

Last updated on: August 29, 2018 at 2:54 pm By Tim Suttle

Walter Brueggemann knows a thing or two about Sabbath keeping. As one of the preeminent Old Testament scholars of the last 50 years, he’s forgotten more about Sabbath, and how the practice functioned in the life of Israel, than I’ll ever know. I don’t think I could name a single biblical scholar who has had a more profound impact on my life than Walter Brueggemann. But I’ve always wondered: how was it that he became Walter Brueggemann? What’s the personal... Read more

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