by Anne Kennedy | Feb 20, 2022 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Go to Church, Jesus
Being a subscriber to the whole Patheos website, not just the Evangelical channel, I happened upon this intriguing, if a bit clickbaity headline last night: “Do Christians Make an Idol out of Jesus? The bait worked, and I read the whole thing. The author makes many...
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 17, 2022 | False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Justice, Prosperity Gospel
I didn’t actually scroll much through the internet yesterday, even though I totally wanted to. I worked out the class schedule for my offspring for Fall 2022, and worked out the number of years (again) that they all will need to be in school. I should be free...
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 16, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, The Gospel
This is super disappointing. Apparently, the Dunning-Kruger Effect is not a thing: Measuring someone’s perception of anything, including their own skills, is fraught with difficulties. How well I think I did on my test today could change if the whole thing was done...
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 13, 2022 | Anglicans, Baptists, False Teachers and Their Enablers
Amongst certain kinds of Christians over the last few years, I have been hearing the resurgence of a triggering term that sends a lot of people over the edge. The word is “slippery slope.” Not being a Baptist, I didn’t, in my youth, hear it as much as I might have,...
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 6, 2022 | Church Year, Coronavirus, Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus
In between various other kinds of work all week, I’ve scrolled past a vast number of hot takes about Joe Rogan, without really having the time to click on any of them, and then the piece by Megan Basham about Francis Collins and Ed Stetzer and all those people. I...
