Apostasy Archives | Stand Firm

#51: No More Mr. Nicaea Guy: Eunuchs, Councils, and Trans

by Matt Kennedy | May 14, 2021 | Apostasy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, History, LGBTQIetc, Lutherans, Podcast, Sexuality

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick react to the election of the first openly trans Bishop in the ELCA, discuss the relevance of the Council of Nicaea, and reflect (again) on the fact that the Gospel is only Good News in light of...

When Hate Has A Home

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...

Two Funerals and an Amazing Grace

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...

Another One Bites The Dust

by Anne Kennedy | Mar 14, 2021 | Academia, Anglicans, Apostasy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, LGBTQIetc, The Gospel, Theological Liberalism, Woke Church

It seems to be the “new normal” that every other week another person in the high echelons of Evangelical Intelligentsia decides to throw over orthodoxy and trip lightly into the broad, wide road that leads to destruction. As usual, I only find out about famous people...

Is “Christian Flourishing” the Real Gospel?

by Anne Kennedy | Mar 7, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Episcopalians, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Prosperity Gospel, Social Justice, The Gospel, Theological Liberalism

Over the past tumultuous year, I have become more and more skeptical of the idea that Christians are supposed to “flourish.” It seems a very basic assumption that many of us have, that we’re supposed to do well and be able to use our gifts in the church. When I first...

Yes, we are for being against.

by Mark Marshall | Feb 13, 2021 | Apostasy, History, The Gospel

In the latest Stand Firm podcast, the usual three clerics, in discussing the new Facebook group Anglicans for the Gospel, wrestled with the task of being just not against Critical Theory and other false teachings, but of being for the Gospel. I wish to add some brief...