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2013-02-18T10:01:59-07:00

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Monday Morning Confessional

Last updated on: February 18, 2013 at 10:01 am By Tim Suttle

I confess that I have a standard order at every restaurant I go to, an order from which I rarely deviate. I confess that if I go to a brand new place, I order something that is as similar as possible to my other standard orders. I’m trying to figure out what this says about me. Do I just have great taste – so why mess with greatness? Am I hopelessly unadventurous? Am I an old dog? I confess that... Read more

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2013-02-16T07:00:02-07:00

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An Ohio Christian College Loses Popular Professor: Cedarville Does Some Soul Searching

Last updated on: February 16, 2013 at 7:00 am By Tim Suttle

I think a lot of Christian College campuses must be going through issues like this right now. The fundamentalist message is so incompatible with a post-modern worldview, that the entire philosophy major has to be shut down. Shane Claiborne isn’t allowed on campus because his ideas might be challenging? Really? I remember Cedarville U. because my band Satellite Soul played there a few times. Is this yet another example of how evangelicals too often inhibit the diversity of thought necessary... Read more

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2013-02-15T07:30:12-07:00

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This Kid is Destined for Politics – Your Friday Funny

Last updated on: February 15, 2013 at 7:30 am By Tim Suttle

So last week this video went viral. It’s a clip of a kid lying to his mom about eating sprinkles in the kitchen while she wasn’t looking. The kid stuck to his story even though the evidence was all over his face. Ellen DeGeneres found out about it and booked the kid on her show and he kept up the funny. So here’s a look at both for your Friday Funny. Watch the interview all the way through (it gets... Read more

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2013-02-14T06:29:26-07:00

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How to Talk to Children About God – Part II

Last updated on: February 14, 2013 at 6:29 am By Tim Suttle

Last week I wrote a post, How to Talk to Children About God (Heaven, Hell, Jesus, Salvation, and How it All Works). I have been interested in the negative response to one single sentence: “Her base identity before she is a girl, your daughter, a sister, white, American, etc, is that she belongs to Jesus.” This idea touches a nerve because it is one place in which Christianity is deeply subversive toward American culture. One person commented: “And then, if... Read more

2013-02-12T13:30:22-07:00

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Lent: Learning to See In the Dark

Last updated on: February 12, 2013 at 1:30 pm By Tim Suttle

I cannot think of Lent w/out thinking of this scene from Apollo 13. Our culture can sell us a million different ways to keep the lights on. It takes a practice like Lent to teach us how to switch them off so that we can learn to see in the dark – even if it is the only way home. Lent is officially the forty days between Ash Wednesday and Good Friday excepting Sundays. It is meant to be a... Read more

2013-02-11T08:28:34-07:00

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Monday Morning Confessional

Last updated on: February 11, 2013 at 8:28 am By Tim Suttle

I confess that I did not watch the Grammy Awards last night. I confess that I have been unable to watch since about 1998, about the time I started making records and living off songwriting and performing. I’m sure it is some sort of personal defect, but although I love the performances, the awards themselves give me a rash. I typically go back the next day and watch all of the live songs & enjoy that part immensely. I think... Read more

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Monday Morning Confessional

2013-02-11T08:17:03-07:00

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Pope Benedict XVI Announces His Retirement.

Last updated on: February 11, 2013 at 8:17 am By Tim Suttle

Pope Benedict stunned the world this morning when he announced his own retirement. I did not see this coming. I have not been a huge fan of Benedict as I’ve watched him forcibly quash the influence of liberation theology and move the Roman Catholic church toward toward the conservative in nearly all things. I hope this signals a change in direction, but I doubt it. I will certainly be praying for the college of Cardinals, hoping that there might be... Read more

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2013-02-10T06:34:11-07:00

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The Gospel Cannot Happen In Your Head Alone

Last updated on: February 10, 2013 at 6:34 am By Tim Suttle

This came from Richard Rohr, The Good News According to Luke: Spiritual Reflections, p. 138. I love how Rohr emphasizes Jesus’s teaching about giving and receiving love. This is such a key piece of what it means to encounter God. If we lose this, we lose everything. The Gospel cannot happen in your head alone. The gospel is about relationship. Unless there is someplace on this earth where it’s happening between you and another person, I don’t believe you have any criterion... Read more

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2013-02-08T14:36:19-07:00

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Prepare to Laugh Your Face Off: “That Angel Guy Just Felt Me Up”

Last updated on: February 8, 2013 at 2:36 pm By Tim Suttle

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long, long time. Thanks the G. Madden for posting it. I needed a good laugh and this does the trick. So here’s some more over the top Friday Funny: Read more

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2013-02-08T08:33:44-07:00

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Friday Funny: How to Write a Worship Song (In Five Minutes or Less)

Last updated on: February 8, 2013 at 8:33 am By Tim Suttle

This kid is every youth minister’s nightmare (but in a good way). Here he is ripping on the repetitive and derivative nature of modern worship music. It’s not a bad critique, as long as we remember that a similar critique can be made of most music in the pop/rock genre. It reminds me of my all-time favorite ironic liner note comment, made by Ben Folds in the liner note of his album titled (ironically), “Whatever and Ever Amen.” “This recording... Read more

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