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...
by Anne Kennedy | May 1, 2022 | Anglicans, Baptists, Church Growth, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church
At some point during the week, Matt got up this old T4G panel discussion (hat tip Denny Burk) between Carl Trueman and some—both then and now—very famous pastors. The session opens with some awkward joking about how Trueman has been very critical of the so-called...