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		<title>An Elegy to Hazel the Dog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Suttle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[death and dying]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Hazel Grace had a good life, and was as sweet and loyal as a dog could be. She loved lying in the sun, meeting new people, chasing squirrels, and keeping an eye on the trail and pond behind our house. She hated haircuts, thunder, car rides, and doctor’s visits; and considered it her duty [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The 100% Failure-Rate of Our Current Political Leadership</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Suttle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The right-wing fantasy—that destroying the opposition will make Americans safe and happy—is going to wreck our society. We’ve empowered a set of leaders who haven’t done the most basic soul-searching and wisdom-seeking required to reject a childish fantasy that fails 100% of the time. In all of history, blaming and scapegoating has never once led [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Artists Are the Antidote to Authoritarianism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Suttle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authoritarian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hannah Arendt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plastic People of the Universe]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Artists Resisting Authoritarian Regimes There’s a reason authoritarians fear poets, musicians, and storytellers. Artistic expression constitutes a powerful form of resistance to authoritarian regimes. When governments ignore civil rights and erode freedoms, artists become dissidents by definition. Every act of free expression becomes a form of rebellion. “Totalitarian regimes fear poets more than soldiers,” Hannah [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Christian Faith Must Evolve—or Risk Dying</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/paperbacktheology/2025/03/faith-evolves-or-it-dies.html</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Suttle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 20:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Brown Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deconstruction]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Deconstruction is normal. A couple times each year I remind my congregation that my job is not to speak as the expert proclaiming what is officially true for us, and to demand they accept what I say. That’s fundamentalism, which is dangerous. We have a different agreement goes something like this: My job as a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Embarrassingly True Story of the Names of God</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Suttle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2024 22:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[biblical history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jehovah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[names of God]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  If you’re using the name Jehovah, you’re doing it wrong. Here’s why. One of the most famous texts in the Bible comes from Deuteronomy 6:4. In transliterated Hebrew the first phrase reads: “Sh’ma, Yisra’el! Adonai Eloheinu,  Adonai echad.” You should try saying it out loud. It might be the most enjoyable thing I’ve ever [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What if Churches Shouldn&#8217;t Have Goals?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Suttle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2024 22:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[2024 goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you’re heavily involved in a church congregation right now, you might soon be asked to attend some kind of strategic planning and goal-setting process for 2024. My advice would be: don’t go. Not only that, I’d try to convince your leadership not to set goals this year at all, or ever again for that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Prophet Taylor Swift</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Suttle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taylor Swift]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travis Kelce]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m a mid-fifties white male weaned on rock and roll. My top five all-time favorite artists are firmly cliche: Wilco, U2, Radiohead, Tom Petty &#38; the Heartbreakers, &#38; the Boss. If you knew those were my bands, you could correctly reverse-engineer my ethnography within a few percentage points. All that to say I’m probably the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Slamming Social Justice is Christianity Without Suffering</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Suttle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2023 18:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abraham Joshua Heschel]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I still remember when Glen Beck told viewers of his (then) daily FOXNews show something to the effect of: if the pastor of your church talks about the importance of social justice, then you need to find a new church. That was years ago, and I’ve heard it said time and time again by conservative [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Asbury Revival Dissipates Energies of Change</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Suttle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 19:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Asbury 2023]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asbury Revival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black lives matter]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guy Debord]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The 2023 Asbury revival will likely become the release valve that dissipates the energies of change created by Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements, as well as the tensions arising from white evangelicalism’s brazen embrace of Trumpism and Christian Nationalism. The last major Asbury revival was in 1970. At the time, the Civil Rights [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is Football Dangerous For the Fans?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Suttle]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 16:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sally Jenkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Super Bowl]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Football is in my blood. My dad was a high-school football coach. My childhood hero was Terry Bradshaw. Not to brag, but I was an elementary school flag football prodigy (I peaked athletically in the 6th grade). As a lifelong fan of Kansas State and Chiefs football, I can’t remember a time when I didn’t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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