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#4: Race, Justice, and the Gospel: Beginning the Conversation

by Matt Kennedy | Jun 5, 2020 | Anglicans, Bible Study, Jesus, Podcast, Social Justice, The Gospel

Matt, Jady, and Nick react to the national conversation around race and justice. What is the Good News for this divided time? Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

How ’bout This Election?

by Tim Fountain | Feb 23, 2020 | Academia, Bible Study, Church Growth, Go to Church, Jesus, Spirituality, The Gospel

No, not Election as the multigazillion dollar board game to gain control of the imperial city on the Potomac, or Election the deep, prayerful and absolutely always fruitful effort to snap up a Bishop from those dancing ’round the mitre tree. Election, as in the...

What’s In Your Locker?

by Tim Fountain | Jan 19, 2020 | Anglicans, Bible Study, Jesus, Spirituality, The Gospel

I keep a Bible and Book of Common Prayer in my locker at the hospital where I work. I read Morning Prayer at home with my English Standard Version Bible; I have my Africa Study Bible (New Living Translation) at work for Evening Prayer. (No big commentary in sharing...

Follow Your Heart?

by Matt Kennedy | Jan 14, 2020 | Bible Study, Biblical Illiteracy, Spirituality

About a year ago I posted the following on Facebook after reading an article by Joyce Meyer that advises Christian readers to read the bible, pray, and then, “follow your heart.” I wrote (with perhaps a bit of hyperbole): “Yes, check the bible. Yes. Pray. But no, do...

Jesus’ Affirmation of Our Sexual Identities

by Tim Fountain | Jan 12, 2020 | Bible Study, Eschatology, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Jesus, LGBTQIetc, Prosperity Gospel, Theological Liberalism, Woke Church

[Photo credit: ME. Rainbow over a church men’s retreat in the Black Hills of South Dakota. No, we were all straight.] OK, fair warning: coarse language in the upcoming movie quote. I’ve taken out some letters but that’s just cosmetic – your...

Fulfilled. He would Be Called a Nazarene.

by David Ould | Jan 3, 2020 | Bible Study, Jesus

Matthew’s infancy narrative closes with the most intriguing of his claims to a fulfilment of Old Testament promise and prophecy. Matthew 2 ends with what appears to be a wrapping up of events; a denouement to all that has come before. After Herod died, an angel...