by Anne Kennedy | Nov 28, 2021 | Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Eschatology, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, LGBTQIetc, The Gospel
Well, today is the first day of the new church year, and to celebrate, there was the usual dust-up on Twitter. It seems that someone was calling some people who write very popular books “wolves,”—not in the literal sense, but the biblical, metaphorical one. Not...
by Anne Kennedy | Nov 21, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Eschatology
“For the first time in her 69-year reign, the Queen did not deliver the opening address to the Church of England’s annual General Synod last week.” So begins an article in The Sunday Times that I can’t read because I’ve already used up my free trial and I’m not going...
by Anne Kennedy | Oct 24, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Church Growth, Church Year, Coronavirus, Go to Church, Jesus
In the last week I came across no less than four articles (which I can’t find again…sorry) about how people are not going to church at the rates they were before covid. One had some stats, I think, but the others were more anecdotal. It seems a bit like there was the...
by Anne Kennedy | Oct 3, 2021 | Apostasy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus
For the first time since the time of covid when we were all allowed to go to church, I’m not because some of us have come down with the awful common cold which is truly a misery. So I’m wandering into a blog post late and trying to think my way out of a...
by Mark Marshall | Sep 17, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Theological Liberalism, Woke Church
A brief note at the end of a difficult week in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). In the aftermath of GAFCON failing to discipline or even rebuke the Anglican Archbishop of Kenya for consecrating a woman bishop*, I heard a rousing exhortation in a private...
by Matt Kennedy | Sep 17, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Podcast, Woke Church
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick reflect on the life and ministry of Bishop John Spong, his efforts to make the church relevant, and the Good News of culturally discordant Christianity. Want to join the conversation or suggest a topic...