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Sorrow and Sighing Shall Flee Away

by Anne Kennedy | Apr 17, 2022 | Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, The Gospel

Well, it’s been a busy week, to misunderstate it, and there are miles to go before I crash. I hadn’t thought I would be up at this hour, and had even considered forgoing the Sunday post in a fit of sanity, but the cat is sitting on my face and I am all the way awake,...

#97: Three Big Days: A Guided Tour of the Triduum

by Matt Kennedy | Apr 15, 2022 | Anglicans, Church Year, Go to Church, Podcast

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss the monumental “three days” of Holy Week: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday and the Great Vigil of Easter. They look at the liturgies, the remembrances, and the...

The Rise and Triumph of Jesus

by Anne Kennedy | Apr 10, 2022 | Anglicans, Church Year, Jesus, The Gospel

I’ve spent a lot of time this week avoiding certain segments of the internet trying not to see pictures of atrocities I know are out there. There’s stuff in Ukraine, and then those babies that were murdered, and the video clips coming out of Shanghai. By scrolling...

Why We Are the Way We Are

by Matt Kennedy | Apr 7, 2022 | Anglicans, Episcopalians, The Gospel, Theological Liberalism

I originally wrote this article almost ten years ago on April 30, 2012. Were I to re-write it today, there’s not much I would change except for the implication that word and sacrament are competitors rather than siblings. My guess is that that sentiment was an...

Who Is Forgiveness For?

by Anne Kennedy | Mar 27, 2022 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Corrupt Media, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus

It must be that we are coming near to the End Times because Vox has noticed that there’s a big problem with the way things are. In a six-part series, they tackle the perplexing subject of forgiveness. The titles of the various pieces paint a bleak trajectory for their...

When Towers Fall

by Anne Kennedy | Mar 20, 2022 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Coronavirus, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus

I don’t know what you all might have wondered about during the era of covid, which I sure hope is over, in spite of the rustlings and gossipings on social media, but I spent a disproportionate amount of my limited time contemplating the Tower of Siloam. If you don’t...