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#94: Imago Me: Sin, the Shimmering Self, and the Image of God

by Matt Kennedy | Mar 25, 2022 | Bible Study, Biblical Illiteracy, Jesus, Podcast

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick talk about the odd ways that modern Christians sometimes talk about the image of God. They then discuss what that phrase means, and how it relates to the Good News about Jesus. Need more Stand Firm?...

When Towers Fall

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...

Do Something to Mark the Occassion

by Anne Kennedy | Mar 1, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, Roman Catholics

I have got a lot of crepes to make today, as a supplement to the main event which is Regular Pancakes. Anglicans, at least up here, eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, as an attempt, I think, to shrive their fridges of all the fat, earnestly expecting to eat depressing...

Ask a Different Question

by Anne Kennedy | Feb 23, 2022 | Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, The Gospel

My life is a little bit in chaos. Our washer is still on the fritz and we discovered late last night that the children’s loo (that’s what I call it) has “systemic issues,” as in, it was probably installed wrongly 20 years ago and so now there...

On World Mission Sunday Worship Jesus

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...

That’s Not How Any Of This Works

by Anne Kennedy | Feb 16, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, The Gospel

This is super disappointing. Apparently, the Dunning-Kruger Effect is not a thing: Measuring someone’s perception of anything, including their own skills, is fraught with difficulties. How well I think I did on my test today could change if the whole thing was done...