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2012-10-09T13:50:24-06:00

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What Religion are You? The Growing “none” Category

Last updated on: October 9, 2012 at 1:50 pm By Tim Suttle

Slate had an interesting article up today, One-Fifth of Americans Now Religiously Unaffiliated. The data It is based on Pew Research data: “…tracking the so-called religious “nones,” a group that’s increased by 5 percentage points in the past five years—and roughly 10 points in the past two decades—to 19.6 percent of all Americans, or about 46 million people. Indicating that the increase owes something to generational shifts in the general population, the number of younger “nones” is even bigger: A... Read more

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2012-10-09T08:50:57-06:00

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Where is Heaven?

Last updated on: October 9, 2012 at 8:50 am By Tim Suttle

In the faith section of our Kansas City Star this weekend was an interesting article asking local pastors to weigh in on their thoughts about heaven. The results were quite interesting. Surveys tell us that somewhere around 80% of Americans believe in a real place called heaven. Where is Heaven? The pastors from KC weighed in (you can see their answers at the bottom). Perhaps the most interesting commonality was that none of them were willing to give its location.... Read more

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2012-10-08T08:35:21-06:00

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Monday Morning Confessional – Birthday Edition

Last updated on: October 8, 2012 at 8:35 am By Tim Suttle

I confess today is my birthday – I was born in 1969 which makes me 43. I confess that 43 doesn’t feel as old as it sounded when I was young. I confess that I am attempting to reduce the number of exclamation points I use while writing. When I’m writing books, articles, or for journals I rarely ever use one, but on the blog, Facebook, and Twitter the writing style is a little more colloquial and so I’m tempted…... Read more

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2012-10-07T10:47:49-06:00

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Contemplative Prayer: The Path to Wisdom

Last updated on: October 7, 2012 at 10:47 am By Tim Suttle

I’ve been contemplating this simple quote from Richard Rohr: “I think some experience of God is necessary for mental and emotional health. You basically don’t belong in the universe until you are connected to the center and the whole, and a word for that is “God.” When you live in the false self you are “eccentric,” or off-center. You’re trying to make something the Center that is not the center—yourself or anything else. It will never work. Thus the only... Read more

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Richard Rohr

2012-10-05T08:48:24-06:00

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Why Pulpit Freedom Sunday is a Really Terrible Idea

Last updated on: October 5, 2012 at 8:48 am By Tim Suttle

This Sunday morning hundreds of pastors will participate in what is being called, “Pulpit Freedom Sunday.” The program is the creation of a conservative political action group called the Alliance Defending Freedom, formerly known as the Alliance Defense Fund (you can read a little bit about them here). The agenda behind Pulpit Freedom Sunday is to entice pastors to openly endorse a presidential candidate from their pulpit during a Sunday morning worship service, then to send evidence of the endorsement... Read more

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Religion and Politics

2012-10-04T09:14:41-06:00

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Here’s My Take on Last Night’s Debate

Last updated on: October 4, 2012 at 9:14 am By Tim Suttle

Last night’s first presidential debate was a great night for challenger Mitt Romney. He was the only one on the stage who looked like he knew what he was there to do (including Jim Lehrer). While Romney tenaciously attacked the president and continued to spin the GOP narrative, Obama sleepwalked through the entire night. He seemed caught off guard by Romney’s articulate message, and completely unprepared to match it with a message of his own. While Romney was passionate and... Read more

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2012-10-03T10:58:09-06:00

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Rich Mullins on Loneliness

Last updated on: October 3, 2012 at 10:58 am By Tim Suttle

I ran across this old Rich Mullins quote in a sermon I wrote a couple of years ago. When Rich died he was single and had never married, although he had been engaged for awhile earlier in his life. He was definitely a solitary man in one sense, and I know that that was hard on him. I think it is part of the means by which he was able to channel so much emotion into his songwriting. This quote... Read more

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Rich Mullins

2012-10-02T13:54:17-06:00

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Gustavo Gutierrez on Solitude

Last updated on: October 2, 2012 at 1:54 pm By Tim Suttle

A friend of mine sent me this today. It’s been working on me ever since I read it: Solitude is something quite different from individualism. In individualism there is a large measure of withdrawal at the level of thoughts and interests, in order to ensure a life of quiet privacy. Others may come and knock on the door, but if the individualist opens to them, it is as one who does a favor, as one who graciously adds, so to... Read more

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2012-10-01T07:52:44-06:00

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Monday Morning Confessional

Last updated on: October 1, 2012 at 7:52 am By Tim Suttle

I confess that just after college, I once donated plasma so that I could by a pizza. I confess that comparison is my favorite sin (you may not think comparison is a sin, but it is the way I do it), and it causes me constant trouble. I confess that one fourth of all prisoners in American jails are there because of nonviolent drug offenses. I confess that African Americans represent 12% of drug users, but makeup 59% of those... Read more

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2012-09-30T08:27:08-06:00

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Contemplation is a Threat to the Secular Worldview, and to Most Assumptions About Prayer

Last updated on: September 30, 2012 at 8:27 am By Tim Suttle

Here’s a little Richard Rohr for your Sunday Morning: “Contemplation,” or meditation as it is called by some, became more popular in contemporary times through the writings of Thomas Merton. The word most Christians were more familiar with was simply “prayer.” Unfortunately, in the West prayer became something functional; something you did to achieve a desired effect—which puts you back in charge. As soon as you make prayer a way to get something, you’re not moving into a new state... Read more

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