by Anne Kennedy | Dec 17, 2023 | Advent, Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, Jesus
Photo by Jon Carlson on Unsplash [Still struggling with Grammerly–please accept yet another post replete with spelling and grammatical errors that I will correct someday.] Protestia promised all his followers a few days ago that they would really hate this post...
by Anne Kennedy | Dec 3, 2023 | Advent, Anglicans, Church Year
Photo by frank mckenna on Unsplash I’ve noticed a lot of different kinds of Christians talking about Advent in the last week who, I’m pretty sure, weren’t contemplating such mysteries about ten years ago. It seems like a sort of social contagion, of...
by Mark Marshall | Dec 7, 2022 | Advent, Christmas, Oppression, U.S. Politics
Amidst all the hurrying and scurrying and merchandising of December, it is too easy to forget that Advent should be about preparing for the Second Advent of Christ along with preparing to celebrate rightly His First Advent at Christmas. A message that we forget even...
by Anne Kennedy | Nov 18, 2022 | Advent, Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise
Oh well, another week went by and I didn’t blog. It seems I have reached that stage of life where all I do is make promises and then don’t keep them. I should have gone into politics, having already developed all the necessary habits. Still, it’s Friday, so I can...
by Anne Kennedy | Dec 19, 2021 | Abortion, Advent, Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Episcopalians, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel
Because of the people I follow on Twitter, I came across this tweet about the same time I began scrolling through this morning’s lections: For Advent, I wish people don’t use the Visitation Story to justify anti-choice rhetoric and theology. Mary and...
by Nick Lannon | Dec 17, 2021 | Advent, Eschatology, Jesus, Podcast
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss the importance and meaning of Advent, talk about what true repentance is, and review some of the different theories about the second coming of Christ. Need more Stand Firm? Subscribe to the pod on...
