by Anne Kennedy | Jul 17, 2022 | Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus
After reading so many brilliant reviews of the new horrible Persuasion—the best one suggested the writer and director be put in jail for a short time so they can think about what they’ve done—my girls and I decided to give it a try. Indulging in a terrible movie is...
by Anne Kennedy | Jun 5, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, Go to Church, LGBTQIetc, The Gospel
I haven’t at all regretted being too busy to notice the internet this last week. When I finally did have a moment to sit down in the evenings and see what I’d missed, I found myself blocking large swaths of Twitter ads and then finally going away to actually read a...
by Anne Kennedy | May 22, 2022 | Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus
In the rushing busy chaos of this last week (in which I failed to blog for a couple of days, you might have noticed) I spent valuable minutes remarking to myself on the various fights going on within Christian circles. Are Christians motivated primarily by fear? Is...
by Anne Kennedy | May 15, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, U.S. Politics
I’m later than I want to be this morning because I’ve been scrolling around the news reading about the terrible shooting in Buffalo yesterday. I generally try to avoid being up to the minute on, what we might call, sensational news because usually everyone backtracks...
by Anne Kennedy | May 8, 2022 | Abortion, Church Year
I can’t go looking for it at this late hour, but ages ago I blogged about how much I hated Mother’s Day. I probably did it multiple years in a row. As far as I can remember, I rattled on and on about living in the crucible of daily life, about hating what a bad mother...
