by Anne Kennedy | Sep 27, 2020 | Anglicans, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel
One of the essential features of being human is that we all—without exception—want to have it both ways. We want to have our cake and eat it too. We want to argue on the internet and be right. We want to accuse others of being literally Hitler without being Hitler...
by Anne Kennedy | Sep 23, 2020 | Garden-Variety Malaise, Social Justice
I’ve been seeing this sign up and down my neighborhood on my walks for the last few years, tucked here and there beside mounds of Black-Eyed Susans and glorious rose and hydrangea bushes. Presumably, these signs endure year round, but, because I try never to leave my...
by Anne Kennedy | Sep 20, 2020 | Abortion, Biblical Illiteracy, Eschatology
It always helps, when you’re splayed out on the couch on a Friday evening after a long and disappointing week, and thinking of finally dragging your sorry self off to bed, and you look at your phone one more time and see that Ruth Bader Ginsberg has died and that the...
by Anne Kennedy | Sep 13, 2020 | Go to Church
Yesterday we commended to God the body and soul of a woman who began going to Good Shepherd in 1936. The number of her years is astonishing in itself—103 (brings a certain relevance to “teach us to number our days” because just counting that high takes serious...
by Anne Kennedy | Sep 10, 2020 | Garden-Variety Malaise, History, Social Justice
I happened to be wandering around twitter a few days ago—I’ve been trying to collect evidence of “virtue signaling,” which is all the rage as you all know—and came across something that bothered me lots more than that. I don’t think that the author of the tweet was...
