by Anne Kennedy | Jan 24, 2021 | Abortion, Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Corrupt Media, Garden-Variety Malaise, Social Justice, The Gospel
I was committed to staying away from inauguration stuff, and basically succeeded, except that I did wander around online looking at what everyone was wearing, and also lots and lots of Bernie Memes. Unfortunately, I am married to a person who likes to know...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 17, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Corrupt Media, Freedom of Speech, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, The Gospel, Totalitarians
In the few guilty moments I did waste time online this week, I spent them reading about the possible implications of one or two companies owning the majority of the way most of us interact online—the, well, I won’t use “strangle-hold” but the tight fist control of...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 10, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Go to Church, The Gospel
Today at home, and at church I think, I’m going to be celebrating Fake Epiphany. It’s not actually fake, it’s just that the feast fell in the middle of the week, and rather than stopping everything and thinking about it on the day, we’ve moved it to Sunday (today). In...
by Anne Kennedy | Dec 20, 2020 | Christmas, Church Year
This was a fun thread—a Muslim anthropologically observes his roommates coping with Christmas (and gets into the spirit of the thing himself). They decorate a tree, and work on the menu, and argue about whether or not you can stuff your own stocking. As usual, many...
by Anne Kennedy | Dec 13, 2020 | Advent, Anglicans, Church Year, Coronavirus, Eschatology, Go to Church
Yesterday we were finally able to have a service for, as I’ve been calling her, our Essential Person—Kay—the grandmother type who was so central to all our day to day happiness for the first fifteen years of our being here. I was worried we wouldn’t be able to meet...
