tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84515932012-01-29T16:39:52.435-08:00for those of us who are always the last to buy the book...Tim Suttlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974397437648079481noreply@blogger.comBlogger2951100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451593.post-35367914353158901762012-01-28T11:31:00.000-08:002012-01-28T11:36:40.256-08:00

So - at a Chicago gay pride parade a group of Christians showed up... what do you think they were there for? This is typically the point at which we learn that Fred Phelps and his crazy family were there with their "God hates fags" signage.. Thankfully that's not what happened. Look at this: http://imgur.com/bVD9p What do you think? I told my wife, "I love the sentiment, but can we just wear

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This is one of my all time favorite clips. I know it's old, but I ran into today by accident & couldn't stop laughing. The clip is produced like a movie trailer – explaining everything which happens in nearly every contemporary church in America each weekend – eerily on target. I’m pretty sure NorthPoint made the video. Having a laugh at our own expense is good! I cannot even begin to remember

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This Sunday is the fourth Sunday in Epiphany. In the church calendar, Epiphany means, "to show, to reveal, to make known," and so during this season we tell these great stories from the life of Jesus, about how God began to reveal who Jesus really was and what he was trying to do. We are following the Revised Common Lectionary (actually we are following textweek.com which is an incredible

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One of the major themes of President Obama’s State of the Union Address last night was the inequality between the rich and the poor. It made the main headline in today’s Washington Post. The president noted that something is wrong when Warren Buffett pays fewer taxes than his secretary. If you want to read a good article on the inequality and the issue,

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Matthew Paul Turner is a friend of mine from way back in the Satellite Soul days. He used to run one of the really cool coffeehouse venues, Jammin Java, in Maryland. Later he was the editor of CCM Magazine. He's an author & humorist now (satirist maybe? - just think John Stewart or Colbert for evangelicals), anyway he writes books and is stinking hilarious. Matthew has been telling a

Tim Suttlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974397437648079481noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451593.post-50579067694449700942012-01-23T13:19:00.000-08:002012-01-23T13:22:25.417-08:00

New York City Housing Authority officials have notified all of the churches who rent space in their public schools that they are no longer welcome as of Feb. 12. This decision came without warning and some say it threatens to violate an earlier Supreme Court Ruling on religious use of public space. After numerous protests and even 43 arrests, it’s happening. Here's a snarky NYTimes editorial

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I confess that one of the more annoying pre-holiday issues in 2011 was that our refrigerator died. Almost everything in it was ruined and we had to drop a thousand dollars on the unplanned purchase of a new fridge. I confess that this is why I’m doubly annoyed by the fact that our washing machine died last week & we had to buy a new one. I confess that although I’m incredibly thankful to have

Tim Suttlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974397437648079481noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451593.post-75578141368126415402012-01-22T07:58:00.000-08:002012-01-22T07:58:38.091-08:00

Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina primary this weekend, which makes the primary season a little more interesting. This is now a two-man race, and one which defies all of the norms of party politics going back to 1972, when the current form of choosing a candidate was instituted. Here's an interesting article on what's happening. I would have never thought it possible that Gingrich could make

Tim Suttlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974397437648079481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451593.post-17189161851356242672012-01-21T07:09:00.000-08:002012-01-21T20:21:37.735-08:00

Mark Driscoll is a Christian superstar. He's the head pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, and started a church planting organization called the Acts 29 Network. He is in the news a lot because he writes books and says inflammatory things: He suggested that Ted Haggard's wife was to blame for is affair with a male prostitute because she "let herself go." He said it is a wife's biblical duty to

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The Huffington Post’s Jaweed Kaleem ran an interesting article on the salaries of MegaChurch pastors. This makes me want to throw-up. I gathered the evidence here so you can see it at a glance. It’s so sad to see how these towers of the church have suffered for the gospel. Rick Warren stands alone – he’s the only one who can still look his church in the eye. These Christian leaders have lost

Tim Suttlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974397437648079481noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451593.post-1448708237250695312012-01-19T08:14:00.000-08:002012-01-19T08:14:19.089-08:00

You have to watch this SNL video! The "Youtube" generation got a self-confidence check Saturday night, in what I think was the best sketch-based social commentary on SNL since the last presidential election. This video is hilarious. There is just enough truth to the premise to make us all a little uncomfortable. It's kind of scary. Will my kids be brimming with unearned self-confidence? The

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You know that thing they have each year all of the companies who make consumer electronics get together for a convention to show off their stuff (and apple never comes because they have their own way of doing everything)? Well, it's called the Consumer Electronics Show & it just happened. Here's a quick list of 10 winners & losers from techradar.com - the interesting news is that they think

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I confess that when I was young many people who surrounded me in my little world held MLK in deep suspicion. He was not considered a great man by them. I often heard statements like, “Once the FBI files on MLK are opened, the world will really see what he was like. And they won’t be celebrating him so much.” I confess that I believe this was rooted in blatant racism. I confess that I have

Tim Suttlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974397437648079481noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451593.post-55546399598726237112012-01-14T07:05:00.000-08:002012-01-14T07:05:24.537-08:00

Just for fun I put together a Civic Literacy Quiz - don't think too much about it, just fire through and then post your score in the comments. I'll post a few notes that explain the answers in the comments a little later. Quizzes by Quibblo.com | SnapApp Quiz Apps

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To promote his new book called Sexperiment, MegaChurch pastor Ed Young is having his very own "bed-in," you can watch the promotional video below. By "bed-in" he means that he and his wife are putting a bed on the roof of their ginormous church, (ala-Yoko and John), and then they are going to stay in bed for 24 hours and broadcast it live on the internet. No word yet on if they are actually

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On New Year’s Eve – Cee Lo Green stepped in it. The Rolling Stone headline read: “Cee Lo Green Outrages John Lennon Fans by Changing Lyrics to 'Imagine.'” The controversy could shed new light on a great old song. THE SONG: I’ve always loved the song Imagine. For one thing, I grew up on the piano. I’ve played well over 1500 gigs now with an acoustic or electric guitar in my hands, but piano

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It's an election year so nonsense is afoot no matter where you turn. But I just read a very common sense argument for the common good. And it was not at Sojourners or a lefty news outfit. It was from Fox's Bill Kristol. In my most recent article at the Huffington Post, I had some harsh things to say about Fox News & the right wing radio crowd. I honestly think Fox has grown to fully

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I make my confession - make yours! I confess that in the car on the way to have pizza Sunday afternoon, I sang Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer” at the top of my lungs with my two boys. I confess that for the first time in my life – I have now heard somebody else butcher the words to “Living on a Prayer” worse than I do; two somebodies, actually. It was nice. “Take my hand and we’re going

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“The House Studio” is putting out some great material these days. In particular, they are re-packaging some profound video footage from great American theologians and practitioners along with well written study guides for small group study. They are great – affordable, too. My friend Isaac Anderson wrote the study guide for the “Economy of Love,” which features Shane Claiborne. If you are

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There was a pretty interesting article at Slate.com yesterday about Marilyn Monroe. Simon Doonan has written a book called Gay Men Don't Get Fat, and this excerpt is published at Slate. In it Simon tells about being the designer hired to put Marilyn's personal estate on display for Christie's auction house. Doonan is a pretty good writer - funny, too. He discloses a couple of surprising

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Pat Robertson told viewers of his program (how does he still have them?), that God told him who the next president is going to be... but he is not supposed to tell us. This, as we all know, is the tele-evangelical equivalent of that thing where you show a little kid how you can remove the end of your thumb, then magically restore it. My assumption is that he's going to lay a huge wager in Vegas

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Thanks everyone for the great conversation yesterday on "Why are young adults leaving the church?" It's a question which deserves a lot of thought and discourse - I'm glad it could happen on Paperback Theology. On a lighter note... I ran across this video yesterday from the Lutheran Satire folks. You've heard of messing with Sasquatch - they have a go at the dispensationalists. Nothing could

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Kara Powell wrote an interesting article in Relevant Magazine called, "Why Young Adults are Leaving the Church." Powell riffs on a Tim Clydesdale saying that young adults put religion/faith in "the identity lock box," Both argue that when students leave high school they put everything really important to them in a lock box while they turn to embrace their college experience. Most likely they

Tim Suttlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974397437648079481noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451593.post-53287701516658381762012-01-03T05:39:00.000-08:002012-01-03T05:43:03.261-08:00

I made my confession... you make yours! I confess that I used to take Francis Schaeffer seriously, until I started reading his son Frank Shaeffer’s book “Crazy for God.” I confess that although I’m only halfway through the book, I no longer take Francis Schaeffer seriously. I confess that I hope my sons never write a book about our family. I confess that I think Oklahoma State deserved to

Tim Suttlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974397437648079481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451593.post-52451856771308934922012-01-02T16:15:00.000-08:002012-01-02T16:15:56.645-08:00

An Evangelical Social Gospel?: Finding God's Story in the Midst of Extremes Kindle edition on sale now for $10.00

Tim Suttlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974397437648079481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451593.post-34645743751405434232011-12-31T07:57:00.000-08:002011-12-31T08:12:38.621-08:00

The pew research forum does a ton of research on Christian demographics. One of their recent studies was a worldwide census of Christians; where do they live, how is the population distributed, things like that. I was reading the numbers and thinking that some of this information really surprised me. Americans know so little about the rest of the world! (and our own world to be honest). So,

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I'm praying for my brothers and sisters at Westport Presbyterian Church today. They lost their building in a fire last night. The building was over 107 years old. I can't imagine what they are dealing with this morning. Think about pastor Scott Myers and his congregation today.

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Just before Christmas the NY Times book review was on a book we're all familiar with: The Bible. Marilynne Robinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel Gilead penned the interesting article which was subtitled "What Literature Owes the Bible." Here basic thesis was that the bible has made an unparalleled contribution to the wide world of literature. The reason this is so, Robinson

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This was one of the biggest stories of the Christian world in 2011. Rob Bell wrote a book called Love Wins, for which he took an unending amount of crap from far too many smug, self-assured, self-proclaimed biblical scholars who - although far too many still haven't even read the book - tried their best to skewer him. John Piper's famous tweet "Farewell Rob Bell," was the beginning of the

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Here is the 2nd installment of my series for the Huffington Post comprising an evangelical Christian's take on the  major players in the 2012 election. I had a hard time writing this, to be honest. It was a fun but difficult practice to come up with something to say. More than anything I hope that Christians everywhere will begin to cultivate Christian identity as supreme over and against any

Tim Suttlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974397437648079481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451593.post-17191673570231877232011-12-24T07:11:00.000-08:002011-12-24T07:11:26.336-08:00

So Christmas is upon us & that means we'll be spending time with family and friends. We'll have some extra free time on our hands and we'll be looking for ways to use it. I think this short clip is a great and timeless reminder for us all. If only we could all follow Michael & Dwight's advice for the next week or two - I think we'll have a Merry Christmas! Just a reminder - Christmas Eve

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For your soul:

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When I read the gospels I am undone by the stories Jesus tells; stories which have worked their way deep down into my soul and have produced in me an allegiance to the teachings of Jesus, and deep down conviction that following his teachings is the best way to be a human being in the world. It has always been this way for me. When I read Paul, I generally had a completely different experience.

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SNL did a hilarious Denver Broncos locker room skit a while back, you can click on it below. Here are a few thoughts about Tim Tebow...  Does God really care about sports? Does God get involved in sporting events when people pray for a win... people who are participating, watching on TV, or who have a little bit of cash riding on the game? I read an interesting FaceBook exchange the other day

Tim Suttlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974397437648079481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451593.post-77155025013052059242011-12-20T09:23:00.000-08:002011-12-20T09:30:11.005-08:00

This video is pretty funny. Matt Damon demonstrates for us how difficult it is for those who are trying to learn what it means to give our best for the poor. I love how celebrity holds no status for kids! They are really not interested in it! My personal favorite is when the kids says he knows who Ben Affleck is. A close second is when the little girl is faced with the choice between a plain

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I confess that I woke up in the middle of the night with a fever and a head-cold. I confess that this ticks me off not because I will feel rotten for awhile, but because I need to have a productive day & feeling sick will threaten that. I confess that this is surely a sign of my issues regarding productivity and self-worth. The only upside I can see is that sometimes antihistamines can help me

Tim Suttlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974397437648079481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451593.post-29231139953977902922011-12-16T13:08:00.000-08:002011-12-16T13:14:51.378-08:00

It’s been interesting to watch my Twitter and Facebook accounts light up with tributes after the news that renowned atheist Christopher Hitchens died of cancer. I once heard Miroslav Volf say that he thinks Christians should read the great atheists – by which he meant Nietzsche, Freud, Marx – not Christopher Hitchens. His argument was they help us to strip away what is not central to our faith,

Tim Suttlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10974397437648079481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8451593.post-14688792152631865572011-12-15T09:32:00.000-08:002011-12-15T09:33:28.855-08:00

Watching YouTube videos of Dave Barnes’s Christmas Extravaganza is one of my favorite Christmas traditions. It’s stinking hilarious and very wrong in all the right ways. I’m not sure when the last one of these was made – here’s hoping Barnes decides to make a 2012 edition. Enjoy!

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I dont' know who this guy is - but this is nothing short of brilliant.

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If you are buying a gift for a book lover this year I have some ideas. The obvious ideas - e-readers and such – I won’t bother with because you know all about them. But, there are also a lot of readers who have a very specialized set of needs when it comes to book gear. Often students, pastors, writers and folks have multiple books open at once and need their hands free to write or type at the

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I had a phenomenal evening talking last night with a group of disciples from Redemption Church in Olathe, KS. We watched this video (below) of Stanley Hauerwas, and talked about despair and what it means to speak like a Christian in the midst of a world that has ceased to believe in God. I felt really fortunate to be a part of the conversation & have been thinking about it ever since. We had a

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I confess that I often have a difficult time getting myself to work on Mondays. I spend way too much time reading other people’s blogs and catching up on the news. I confess that navigating the papers online is not nearly as fun or productive as having the real things in my hand. I realize this makes me sound old or snobbish. I confess that I don’t care. I miss paper.I confess that I have been

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My wife reads REAL SIMPLE magazine. I’ll admit to never reading it. However, I do look through it from time to time because the graphic design is really well done – classic clean look. Anyway, here’s the first time on this blog that I’ve ever featured something from a magazine which targets women as the primary audience. It comes from REAL SIMPLE. This is good stuff. 18 Common Phrases to Avoid

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The Suttle family took what will most certainly become a yearly trek down to Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in downtown KC, to see the Paul Messner Puppets put on their nativity production. I’ll be honest – I was not excited. Time for a little bit of self-disclosure here. Puppets have always freaked me out a little bit. It’s not reasonable I know, but everything about them is just so

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I take politics seriously, but I'm not a partisan - I don't feel at home in any major political party. Maybe that's why my favorite part of election year is the political satire & humor. I'm going to feature a lot of this here over the next year or so. I promise that I'll do my best to offend everyone I can on all sides of the political spectrum.First Up: The Atlantic Wire just conducted its own

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Okay – don’t stone me… this is stinking hilarious. Personally, my favorite part is when Yoda’s voice-over inverts the structure to “vader know did you?” I'm also a big fan of the juxtaposition of Luke & Vader cutting off each other's hands. There are few things I love more than Christmas parodies that are sick and wrong in all of the right ways. The person who made this has way too much time on

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The announcement of Rob Bell’s recent decision to leave Mars Hill came as no big surprise to most of us. I’ve gotten used to watching pastor’s writing/speaking careers eclipse their life as a pastor. The demands of speaking engagements, travelling, and writing are not that compatible with the demands of leading a local church. It’s hard to find someone who actually writes really well who stays in

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Joel Osteen, Mark Burnett Partner For Reality Show About Lakewood Church Mission TripsWhy do I get the feeling this was somehow inevitable!

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I've got a new article up at the Huffington post called How to Shrink Your Church. It's re-posted on the Jesus Creed blog where there is a really good discussion happening in the comments. This is certainly touching a nerve with some people. Lots of questions about what faithfulness actually looks like. I say faithfulness is like pornography - it's difficult to define, but you know it when you

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So Mel Gibson is on a long losing streak. After separating from his wife of 26 years in 2006, it's been one embarrassing blunder after another. He's been arrested and caught saying terribly offensive things. He's been accused of misogyny, racism, antisemitism, and homophobia, all for good reasons. And when questioned about his actions, his beliefs, his statements, and missteps he has not fared

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So, I wrote this book for Cascade books called An Evangelical Social Gospel?: Finding God's Story in the Midst of Extremes. The book is about the nexus of the personal and corporate aspects of the Christian faith & how they have to be held together in order for Christianity to be intelligible. I'm trying to offer solid theological footing for those who are attempting to envision a different kind

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I just read a blog post saying that Mark Driscoll's church "Mars Hill," has legally protected the rights of their church name & is seeking legal action to force other churches to stop using that name. I really hope it isn't true, but it sort of sounds like Driscoll. Hopefully the pastor of the other Mars Hill will scan the cease & desist letter to confirm. Here's part of the story from the blog:

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Hey Friends! My editors at Cascade tell me that one of the best ways to promote your book on Amazon.com is to have people who have read it log on to their Amazon account and write a review. So that's your assignment for the week! Log onto Amazon.com and find An Evangelical Social Gospel, then write a review! It doesn't even matter if your review is good or bad - speak your peace! Thanks in

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I'm finishing up reading Walter Brueggemann's book, "Disruptive Grace," this morning. Chapter 14 begins with this quotation:Here is an idea about the vocation of the church: To dream the impossible dream; To speak the impossible word; To act the impossible act.Brilliant. Brueggemann is a freak of nature...ts

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For a couple of years now I've been trying to find some time to read some of what Peter Rollins is writing. I still haven't gotten around to it, although I'm about to order his newest book. It is called Insurrection: To Believe is Human To Doubt, Divine. Here's a little clip of his provocative style - let me just say that I love all things British, Scottish, and Irish - so I'm predisposed to

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I've got a new article up at the Huffington Post called The Irony of the Tea Party. It's going to be interesting to watch the reaction. Hope you'll read it & pass it on to a friend! Here's an excerpt.As the country gears up for the 2012 presidential election season it seems obvious it's going to be ugly. When it's all said and done billions will be spent trying to differentiate (i.e. mudsling,

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I've got a new article up at the Huffington Post about the failures of the mega-church model. I couldn't say all that I wanted to say in the article because of the limits of space. A couple clarifying things I will add here are addressed specifically at some of the comments & the tweet from Rick Warren.I have spent most of my professional life living between the worlds of the small church and the

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Rustin Smith is a good friend of mine. He wrote a killer article at Immerse Journal about Johnny Cash & what it means to be an artist and a human being in the world. There is a little something here for the music lover, the pastor, the artist, and just the person who wants to live a life that is true in a world that is challenging. This is brilliant writing & you should read it and follow Rustin

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David Fitch has a great post on the mythic figure of "church planter." I've been on staff with three church plants in the past 15 years. That said... Fitch is right on target. I know it is a bit of a caricature, but his sketch of the church planter is on target and a little scary. It's totally worth the time to read the blog post so have at it here: http://tinyurl.com/3wc7upu

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I've got a new article up at the Huffington Post. Here's an excerpt: The entire music business is in flux, and contemporary Christian music has not escaped the changes. Digital recording platforms have revolutionized the way music is made -- and who can make it. Digital distribution has change the way music reaches the consumer -- and who will profit from it. Grassroots and

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From The Onion:

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This is one of the most interesting video clips I've seen in a long time. I’m shocked but not surprised to learn that the algorithms and filters employed by sites such as Google, Facebook and more and more of our news outlets actually control our internet experience. Those sites mine data from your search history in order to learn what you like and don’t like. They then filter out things that

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That's what one of the comments says underneath this video on youtube.com - if it were a caption content for a video, that would be a winner! There's something about the moment when the first guy takes off running that just makes me laugh so hard I want to cry. About halfway through the video a woman stands up and picks something up off the carpet. I think it was the wallet of one of the runners

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I like NASCAR. I know I don't fit the profile, but I can't help it. I'm also a pastor, which means I pray in public a lot. In a million years I would never be able to pull this off... it's hilarious... it's totally wrong... but I bet this guy's congregation loves him.

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I re-reading Telling Secrets by Frederick Buechner. It is a stunning thing to read an author’s account of their own worst moments. Reading Buechner’s account of his father’s suicide, his mother’s emotional distance/shallowness, and his daughters eating disorder, I feel as though I now know what it’s like to be a priest hearing confession – so dark, so sad. You just want to go back in time and

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I will admit to loving pretty much every film Wes Anderson has made. He's one of the great American filmmakers of all time. In this short video the AV Club takes us to the actual house in Harlem, where the film was set. Give it up for the AV Club!New York: The Royal Tenenbaums house

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A large industrial company pollutes the environment and puts the health of the community at risk. The common laborer in the company might blame the management – they gave the orders. The head of the company might blame the board – they pressured him to act. The board might blame the chairmen – he only had his eye on the balance sheet. The chairmen of the board might blame the stockholders – they

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Stanley Hauerwas is a once in a generation mind. He has a dual appointment at Duke Law & Duke Divinity School. He has said on many occasions that the true enemy of the Christian faith is not atheism, but sentimentality. He's a brilliant provocateur whose talents are on full display in this clip. Here, as always, Hauerwas is trying to get Christians to believe that their faith should matter in a

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I've got a new article up at the Huffington Post on the future of art - here's an excerpt:Cornel West fired off an interesting tweet this week: "The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace." In less than 140 characters West placed his finger on one of the more important questions of our time: Can we escape the

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I wrote an article for the July/August issue of a great youth workers journal called Immerse. Immerse is trying to foster rich theological conversation among those who work with students in the church. My friend Mike King is the managing editor. If you have a youth minister, or volunteer working with students at your church - you really should turn them on to this resource! I'm really grateful to

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Cornell West fired off an interesting tweet today. It read: "The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace." I've been thinking about this quite a bit as an artist/musician and as a writer. Can we escape the commodification of dang-near everything? Case in point - West's deconstruction was instantly published via

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I’ve been thinking through the idea of a theology of work this week, and reading some interesting stuff on it. Work in the Spirit by Miroslav Volf is a dense attempt at a theology of work. Volf is brilliant in this book & I’ve not given it the time it deserves. I’ve also been reading again in Norm Wirzba’s book Living the Sabbath. He’s got a wonderful chapter in there on work.I’m reminded that

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I've got a new article up on the Huffington Post today. Here's an excerpt:"The evangelical church will have its impact on American culture not through political maneuvering, lawsuits, electing evangelical candidates, controlling the arts, or boycotting movies and products, but when evangelicals begin to embody the virtues derived from our faith. Kindness, generosity, peacefulness, hospitality,

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A friend from seminary has been reading the book and firing off some good tweets and pull quotes. Here's an interesting discussion about leaving church:http://www.jeremydscott.com/2011/06/leaving-church.html

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Can I trust you not to think I'm endorsing Grey's Anatomy if I say that Erwin McManus' s daughter's song is beautiful?

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Untitled from The Work Of The People on Vimeo.

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I've got a new article up at the Huffington Post. It's about the role we are supposed to play in our national life - especially in an election year. Here's an excerpt:"The church cannot become the state, but the church has an obligation to bear witness to the state. In order to fulfill this role, evangelicals must rise above the typical left-right debate and learn to speak with a voice that is

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I’m reading some Reinhold Niebuhr right now and ran across some references to Soren Kierkegaard’s views on Anxiety which blew me away. Kierkegaard famously wrote, “"Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom.” It’s a stunning statement.Kierkegaard believed anxiety to be the existential dread every human being feels when face to face with their own finitude, especially in regard to their own moral

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A few quotes from A Peaceable Kingdom by Stanley Hauerwas“Ethics… is not primarily about rules and principles, rather it is about how the self must be transformed to see the world truthfully. For Christians, such seeing develops through schooling in a narrative which teaches us how to use the language of sin not only about others, but about ourselves.” 33 (this is part of why SH is so optimistic

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Daniel Kirk has a great blog post on how we should view the creation accounts in Genesis. What I love about his take is that he emphasizes the fact that we cannot make something into historical writing, when it was not composed as historical writing. Yet, he takes seriously the world Genesis 1-4 envisions.He writes, "Genesis 1-4 tips its hand in several ways that the passage is not to be read as

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We’re are doing a series on the words of Paul at Redemption Church. The idea is to delve into five words that pop up over and over in Paul’s writings. If we can explore these words – which are really themes that are repeated and developed – we can become better readers of Paul, and better readers of scripture. The words we chose are: faith (pistis) righteousness (dikaiosynē) gospel (

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One of the original ideas for the book An Evangelical Social Gospel? was rooted in my reading of A Theology for the Social Gospel by Walter Rauschenbusch. Walter Rauschenbusch was a Baptist minister who led a church of poor German immigrants living in Hell’s Kitchen a little over a century ago. This was a bad time to live in Hell’s Kitchen (if you’ve ever seen the Martin Scorsese movie “Gangs of

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Messianic Lunacy from The Work Of The People on Vimeo.Admittedly - I think N.T. Wright is a genius. Everyone who does New Testament studies for the next century or two will have to deal with him. It's a blast to be alive at the same time and enjoy his influence. Here's a quick video of N.T. Wright talking about what drives him crazy.What drives you crazy? What makes you angry?

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This is a killer reading list from Tony Jones's blog. These are works centered on Christian Spirituality listed on a syllabus he's created for a DMin. class at Fuller Seminary. I love several things about the list: One, it is eclectic - lots of different styles and strands of the conversation are represented. Two, it isn't just the typical stuff (i.e. Richard Foster & Dallas Willard on spiritual

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The book is officially released! You can get it at Amazon.com, and the Kindle Edition is available as well. Thanks for all you are doing to support this. Also there is a new article up highlighting the book at the Huffington Post. Each time a person clicks "like" or shares the article via twitter/facebook/social media, or emails it to a friend, it gets bumped up the food chain & will stay out

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Paul Raushenbush has been a in important part of the project which became An Evangelical Social Gospel? Paul encouraged me to write the book & gave me some extremely helpful guidance along the way. He has also given me many opportunities to write and opened doors for me that would never have been opened otherwise. I am a big believer that when people show us kindness, it says much more about who

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"Every once in a while, as we journey in faith, we will discover the kind of guide who not only helps us find our way, but our voice. Tim Suttle has not only found his way further into God’s Kingdom, but he has discovered his own voice by rediscovering a like-minded pastor, theologian, and fellow traveler, in Walter Rauschenbusch. Today, in the footsteps of Rauschenbusch, Tim has found a way to ‘

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“In this remarkable and enjoyable book Tim Suttle draws on the theology of Walter Rauschenbusch in offering a holistic account of the Gospel that is truly good news for the world. In so doing he reminds us that the invitation to follow Jesus and participate in the mission of God involves all that we are in an effort to create a society in which the will of God is done on earth as it is in heaven.

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“Combining elements of history, theology, and autobiography, Tim Suttle has written a thought-provoking book that serves as a fresh assessment of Walter Rauschenbusch for the 21st century church. In an age when many Christians use labels such as ‘evangelical’ and ‘liberal’ in an uncritical fashion, Suttle calls upon his audience to reflect on how a recovery of the past can lead to a fresh

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“This is a down-to-earth account of how the thinking of a young Evangelical changed his understanding of the Gospel from a message that addressed individualistic sin management to a holistic Gospel that includes a strong emphasis on justice. He makes the teachings of Walter Rauschenbusch accessible to all readers, but undoubtedly this book will have a special appeal to youth who are going

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“Tim Suttle's first book, An Evangelical Social Gospel?, brings a message of balance and challenge needed by us all. This gifted new writer helps us rediscover one of our most-misunderstood old writers from a century ago. Highly recommended.”– Brian McLaren, author/activist (brianmclaren.net)Consider me completely stoked!

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"There is a dreadful pattern evident in church history where we continually overcompensate where our Christianity has become imbalanced. We exaggerate the truth that has been neglected, and we keep ending up with a lopsided faith... then we wind up with Jesus-lovers that forget justice and justice-lovers that forget Jesus. It is my hope that this book helps cure our bifurcated "either/or"

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“An Evangelical Social Gospel? is a joy to read because Suttle is so deadly serious about matters that matter. The book is filled with delightful surprises not the least being the recovery of Walter Rauschenbusch to challenge the individualism of evangelical Christianity. But this book is more than critique it is a wonderful imaginative attempt to develop a folk theology that is faithful to the

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It's tough to summarize what I think postliberalism is in a way that is succinct and yet does not miss the main tenets. I feel sure I've failed to strike that balance here, nevertheless I offer a few reflections on what Postliberal theology means to me below.The Postliberal school of theology (also called the Yale School), would contend that classic Protestant liberalism (Schleiermacher,

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For those of you who have followed the Love Wins drama & wished it could be different; more cordial, loving, and productive - I would encourage you to take 55 minutes and watch this interview. Unlike most of what I've seen on radio and television surrounding Love Wins, this video portrays a very productive hour of discussion. It is fair minded, respectful, and yet still manages to show contrasts

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Groundhog Day and Easterhttp://tinyurl.com/3tc6rajGuys quote movies -- we know this. In my opinion, one of the most quotable is the movie Groundhog Day where Bill Murray's venerable comedic talents have never been on more conspicuous display. There are so many great lines: "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather."

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Chapter 8 Synopsis He ends the book with this quote: “May you experience this vast, expansive, infinite, indestructible love that has been yours all along. May you discover that this love is as wide as the sky and as small as the cracks in your heart no one else knows about. And may you know, deep in your bones, that love wins.” Summary Review: After reading this book I find that the

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