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...
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...
by Matt Kennedy | Mar 18, 2022 | Anglicans, Podcast, The Gospel, Woke Church
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss several recent statements about the on-going abuse investigation in the Diocese of the Upper Midwest. What can a Christian make of what’s happened, and where can Good News be found? Need...
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 27, 2022 | Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church
Though wars and rumors of wars rage here and there, the church year goes on in its circling way. Each Sunday marks another step in the life of Jesus and the people he draws to himself, round and round as each person goes to his eternal home one by one, and mourners go...
by Matt Kennedy | Feb 25, 2022 | Anglicans, Church Year, Go to Church, Podcast, The Gospel
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick talk about the observances of Ash Wednesday and Lent and discuss whether or not they can be celebrated in line with the Gospel, avoiding sacerdotalism. Need more Stand Firm? Subscribe to the pod on...
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...