Mitchell Traver

Husband of 1 and Dad of 3. Sports Chaplain @TCUFCA. MDiv Student @RTS_Dallas. Pastoral Intern (PCA).

[Mitchell Traver @Mitchell_Traver]

@DannyMorgan0 Have seen exactly this. Epistemology has been the driver for many that I’ve seen run to Rome.

[TCU Baseball @TCU_Baseball]

WOOOO FROGS!!

#GoFrogs | #FrogballUSA

[Mitchell Traver @Mitchell_Traver]

@gavinortlund Disappointing. Grateful for your ministry, Gavin. For both your scholarly rigor and especially the way you engage online. It stands out in a way which encourages me very much. Gal 6:9

[Mitchell Traver @Mitchell_Traver]

@youngyyoung1 Big time, bro. 🙏🏼

[Chauncey Franks @chaunceyfranks]

Week 1 of our TCU FCA “Tough Questions” Apologetics Series was powerful.

Mitchell kicked off the series with a question many students (and adults) wrestle with at some point:
“Aren’t we better off without religion?”

We addressed 3 common criticisms that are often aimed at Christianity and faith in general:
1.Religion is harmful
2.Religion is divisive
3.Religion is irrelevant

What I love about this series is that it creates a space where students don’t have to hide their doubts, questions, or real life experiences. Instead, they can bring those questions into the light, think critically, and have honest conversations in a community that genuinely cares about them.

Grateful for what God is doing through TCU FCA, and excited to see how God continues to use our team to impact students on this campus. 💜🐸

#TCUFCA #FCA #Apologetics #ToughQuestions

[Chauncey Franks @chaunceyfranks]

We’re back! Excited to kick off TCU FCA tonight 7 PM in the courtside club! With our Spring Tough Questions Series.

Sometimes one of the biggest barriers between us and experiencing God fully is a question. A tough question. And often those questions come from our finite minds trying to make sense of real life experiences—disappointment, hurt, pain, and unmet expectations. In those moments, we wrestle with things like: Can I truly trust God? Is God real? Is He reliable?

This semester, I’m excited to see our team dive into these conversations as we aim to unpack tough questions that can often become barriers between us and God. Our prayer is that as we ask honest questions, we’ll gain a healthier view of the heart, character, and faithfulness of God—and learn how to walk with Him through every season of life.

Let’s grow together.

#TCUFCA #FCA #TCU #Faith #Leadership #ToughQuestions

[Mitchell Traver @Mitchell_Traver]

Pain.

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

Uncharted territory for Green Bay 😳

The Packers are the first team since the 1970 merger to lose 3 games when leading by 10+ points in the final 5 minutes of the game, including playoffs.

[Mitchell Traver @Mitchell_Traver]

This is actually pretty great advice. Tole lege!

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

Ryan Holiday (@RyanHoliday) is one of the most hardcore readers I've ever come across.

He reads 200+ books a year without speed-reading or using audiobooks.

Here are 26 reading rules from him:

[Mitchell Traver @Mitchell_Traver]

@JasonRomano It’s beautiful. Hoping for more of the same in the second half…🧀

[James R. Wood @jamesrwoodtheo]

Ws

[Tony Reinke @TonyReinke]

Tim Keller (2007): “The world embraces Christmas in a way it has never embraced Good Friday and Easter. I think the world sees Christmas as being rather affirming — it’s all about peace and goodwill. Isn’t that nice? Actually, the message of Christmas is incredibly confrontational. It says the reason for Christmas is the world’s wisdom has failed.”

[Danny Morgan @DannyMorgan0]

“For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the honesty and the courage to take His own medicine. Whatever game He is playing with His creation, He has kept His own rules and played fair. He can exact nothing from man that He has not exacted from Himself. He has Himself gone through the whole of human experience, from the trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair and death. When He was a man, He played the man. He was born in poverty and died in disgrace and thought it well worthwhile.” - Dorothy Sayers

[Mitchell Traver @Mitchell_Traver]

Sobering. And yet, really and truly hopeful. I’m blown away - both by the gravity of the news and by Ben’s response. This man knows the hope of the gospel, and is clinging to the good news amidst the darkest season of his life. Read this, and pray for Ben and his family, please.

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Friends-

This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.

Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.

I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.

Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints.

There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.

Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.

A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears.

Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet.

Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective:
“When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.”

I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.

But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9).

With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices,
Ben — and the Sasses

[Matt Schneidman @mattschneidman]

Warren Brinson’s facemask penalty
Romeo Doubs botching the onside
Blown coverage on the regulation TD
Botched fourth-down snap in OT

Just a comedy of errors for the Packers, who now might have to cling to the No. 7 seed.

[Mitchell Traver @Mitchell_Traver]

@dandarling Go Pack! 🧀 Going to be tough sledding without Micah and Jacobs, though…

[@markdtooley @markdtooley]

Conspiracism, the assumption that the world is controlled by dark invisible forces, outside divine sovereignty, is a malevolent spiritual force always at odds with Christianity.

[BYU Blue @BYUbluThru]

ESPN owns all broadcasting rights to the CFP.

All CFP money is paid by ESPN

ESPN owns all SEC broadcasting rights.

ESPN owns all ACC broadcasting rights.

ESPN isn’t the primary owner of B1G or Big 12 rights anymore.

ESPN doesn’t own primary Notre Dame broadcast rights.

Is anyone surprised ESPN managed to invest $20 million in its main product and found away to shun a more deserving Big 12 program and/or Notre Dame to invest $4 million in its ACC product instead?

Only $16 million to B1G and Big 12 where ESPN has minimal broadcasting rights compared to $32 million paid to ESPN owned conference rights.

Follow the money and it all makes sense.

[Green Bay Packers @packers]

ELECTRIC

[Mitchell Traver @Mitchell_Traver]

GPG!!!🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀

[Green Bay Packers @packers]

KEISEAN CALLED GAME

#ProBowlVote + Keisean Nixon

📺: FOX

[Valero Alamo Bowl @valeroalamobowl]

The 2025 #ValeroAlamoBowl is set!

#16 @uscfb vs. @TCUFootball

📅: Tuesday, December 30
⏰: 8:00PM CT
📺: ESPN
📍: Alamodome | San Antonio, TX