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As The Lord Said

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...

ACNA Laity, It’s Time to Speak Up

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...

#68: This Bishop was Wrong: John Shelby Spong and Cultural Christianity

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...

That’s The Problem

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 12, 2021 | Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise

In a needful break from reliving the coverage of 9/11 yesterday, I happened on this piece linked by someone on Twitter. In a nutshell, recent polling shows that the vast vast majority of self-identifying Christian “evangelicals” do not actually believe...

Don’t Push Like On Those Kinds of Posts

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 9, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, LGBTQIetc, The Gospel, Woke Church

I thought I might wander over here to complain, this morning, about the state of everything. Not that I can’t do that over on Patheos as usual, but there doesn’t seem to be much posting here, so why not. The thing I want to complain about is Boz Tchvidian...

#63: Stand Firm Movie Club: Pray Away

by Matt Kennedy | Aug 13, 2021 | Apostasy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, LGBTQIetc, Podcast, Sexuality

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss the new Netflix documentary, “Pray Away.” They talk about the valid criticisms the film makes about evangelical “ex-gay” ministries, what the movie gets wrong, and what the...