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2018-06-18T12:14:39-06:00

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Monday Morning Confessional Returns

Last updated on: June 18, 2018 at 12:14 pm By Tim Suttle

I confess that I’ve been a terrible blogger lately. I confess that I have started and then not finished at least three dozen blog posts in the past few months. Usually I write to explore my own thoughts. Lately, however, I don’t seem to finish articles the way I used to. I confess that the reason I don’t finish many articles, is that I’m afraid to post what I’m thinking. I’m afraid it will hurt people close to me. I’m... Read more

Monday Morning Confessional

2018-05-11T08:55:33-06:00

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Finding Integrity on the Political Right

Last updated on: May 11, 2018 at 8:55 am By Tim Suttle

I was nineteen years old when I showed up to work for a summer at Kanakuk camp outside of Branson, MO. I had my dates wrong, and was a full day early. So one of my supervisors, Doug Goodwin, let me tag along with him on his 24 hour break. Before we left he was clearing off his desk and searching for an envelope containing $150 in petty cash. He needed the money to buy supplies for an upcoming camp... Read more

2018-04-20T08:33:01-06:00

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The Best Description of Puberty I’ve Ever Read: A Burning Desire for Home

Last updated on: April 20, 2018 at 8:33 am By Tim Suttle

I took my oldest son to buy his first suit last night. His eighth grade graduation is coming up, and his school does a few dressy events. He rejects any kind of clothes shopping as a matter or course, but he was a pretty good sport. As I stood behind him at the mirror, decked out in his entire outfit, now nearly as tall as me, strong and kind, full of life and changing–changing so very fast–I had to choke... Read more

2018-03-25T14:26:08-06:00

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Reading Resident Aliens for Palm Sunday

Last updated on: March 25, 2018 at 2:26 pm By Tim Suttle

If I could require every Christian to read one book about the gospel, the church and what it means to be a Christian, it would be Resident Aliens. This spiritual classic by Stanley Hauerwas and Will Willimon has become one of the central texts for my life as a disciple and as a pastor. I teach adjunct at a local seminary and usually try to find a way to assign this as a text for pretty much any class I... Read more

2018-02-15T19:36:58-07:00

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Gun Rights and the Virtue of Forbearance: The Act of Refraining from Exercising a Legal Right

Last updated on: February 15, 2018 at 7:36 pm By Tim Suttle

“My message to lawmakers in Congress is: Please! Take action. Ideas are great. Ideas are wonderful, and they help you get re-elected and everything. But what’s more important is actual action, and pertinent action that results in saving thousands of children’s lives … We can say, yes, we’re going to do all these things… thoughts and prayers. What we need more than that is action. Please! This is the eighteenth one [school shooting] this year. That’s unacceptable! We’re children. You... Read more

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2018-02-12T08:30:45-07:00

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How Contemplation, Not Ambition, Leads to Happiness

Last updated on: February 12, 2018 at 8:30 am By Tim Suttle

“Each of us aches for significance, meaning, uniqueness, preciousness, immortality, and great love and great beauty in our lives. This yearning is congenital and incurable. We are as Plato said, fired into life with this divine restlessness in us. But our madness comes… when the pressure for a cure for our mortality and insignificance gets too great and we fabricate the vital lie. We try, through our own efforts, to create significance, uniqueness, and immortality for ourselves. In the Protestant... Read more

The Shattered Lantern

2017-12-18T09:23:27-07:00

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What is a Prophet?

Last updated on: December 18, 2017 at 9:23 am By Tim Suttle

I grew up among Southern Baptists who taught me that the main thing prophets did was predict the future. It took Walter Brueggemann’s The Prophetic Imagination to teach me how the scriptures view the prophets. Brueggemann taught me that the prophet’s main job is not to tell fortunes. The prophet’s first task is to tell the truth about the way things are right now. They are supposed to accurately portray the events of the day, and point out the obvious fact that if... Read more

The Prophetic Imagination

2017-12-07T05:40:48-07:00

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The Advent Decrescendo

Last updated on: December 7, 2017 at 5:40 am By Tim Suttle

For five or six years now we’ve been working this metaphor at my church. We’re trying to shape an imagination for Advent as opposed to American Christmas. It’s the Advent Decrescendo. I hope you’ll take a moment and watch this short video. It’s the best way I know to explain what we’re trying to do during the season of Advent. Plus there’s some beauty to it. Here’s how we do it. Read more

2017-12-05T14:04:46-07:00

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To My Evangelical Brothers & Sisters: Trump is Our Biggest Mistake & Our Greatest Opportunity

Last updated on: December 5, 2017 at 2:04 pm By Tim Suttle

I have a theory. I think Donald Trump is simultaneously the biggest mistake evangelicals have ever made, and our greatest opportunity to make a real change for the better. Here’s what I mean. I Was a Christian Ditto-head I’ve spent my whole life as an evangelical Christian. By the time I was 18 I had fully bought into the message of Jesus, and the politics of the Christian Right. I spent a decade reading the bible and listening to Rush Limbaugh every single... Read more

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2017-11-28T07:05:55-07:00

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Un-breaking Sexuality: Our Sexuality is a Broken Mess – So, Where Do We Go from Here?

Last updated on: November 28, 2017 at 7:05 am By Tim Suttle

From now on, the mere mention the names Harvey Weinstein, Roy Moore, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey, Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Al Franken, Glen Thrush, and Charlie Rose will summon thoughts of seedy sexual misconduct. Not that we needed more evidence that human sexuality is broken in heart-wrenching ways, but the last few weeks have been eye-opening to say the least. It feels like things have changed. We’re told that police brutality has always existed, it’s just now we’re able to see smart phone... Read more

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