by Anne Kennedy | May 9, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel
Today, apparently, is “Birthing Person” Day, and the prevailing manner of marking the occasion seems to be people posting pictures of “birthing creatures” in the wild–fluffy “mother” birds with baby birds under their wings, a...
by Matt Kennedy | May 7, 2021 | Anglicans, History, Oppression, Podcast, Sexuality
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady and Nick take a stab at defending “the patriarchy.” They discuss whether or not that’s a helpful word, talk about the biblical roots, and wonder if there’s anything that’s actually...
by Anne Kennedy | May 2, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church
I had three different posts started for this morning—the lections are so wonderful, one could go in so many different directions—but then I woke up to another tempest on Twitter. The Twittersphere moves so frustratingly fast that having started to write about Rachel...
by Anne Kennedy | Apr 25, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, Jesus, Social Justice, The Gospel, Woke Church
On our quick trip there and back again, Matt and I took a whole day in the car to listen to a book released just this last week—The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr. Then, even though we were in the car, we watched the launch zoom with Kristin Kobes...
by Anne Kennedy | Apr 18, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Coronavirus, Episcopalians, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel, Woke Church
After attending yet another funeral in the morning yesterday, I came home and hunched over my kitchen counter, absorbed in leftover scalloped potatoes, to be transported by the soaring music, the elegant hats, and the heartbreaking social distancing of a very...
by Ben Jefferies | Apr 6, 2021 | Anglicans, Bible Study, Justice, Social Justice
There was a small change in the Englishing of the Old Testament that took place in 1901 — of serious consequence to present day discussions of Biblical Justice — that to my knowledge has gone entirely un-observed in the recent justice discourses. For centuries — from...
