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By the Strength of His own Arm

by Anne Kennedy | Dec 19, 2021 | Abortion, Advent, Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Episcopalians, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

Because of the people I follow on Twitter, I came across this tweet about the same time I began scrolling through this morning’s lections: For Advent, I wish people don’t use the Visitation Story to justify anti-choice rhetoric and theology. Mary and...

Things that don’t Pass Away

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...

I So Long For A Piece of Cake

by Anne Kennedy | Nov 7, 2021 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Growth, Eschatology, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, The Gospel

Well, the government appears to have given me back the hour it took away so long ago. Which didn’t really change anything because the cat still came at the usual time and sat on my head and batted my face until I woke up. Then she went away to fortify herself with...

No, We Really Haven’t Done That

by Anne Kennedy | Nov 2, 2021 | Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Woke Church

This came across my feed last week while I was traveling and it irritated me a great deal. It’s called, “Have We Made The Bible Into An Idol?” So I thought I would just have a word. It begins this way: The Bible says it, I believe it, and that...

It’s What God Wants

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 28, 2021 | Biblical Illiteracy, Coronavirus, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, Totalitarians

Jesus wondering who on earth Governor Hochul is listening to. Sorry about there being no podcast and links yesterday. We meant to, but then we just didn’t. Here is the sermon that I would have linked….and speaking of sermons, I’m sure a lot of you...

Straggling into the Kingdom

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 26, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Eschatology, Jesus

I managed, in spite of the presence of both the internet and all my children, to finish both The Return of the King and the NT Wright Paul book in a single day—truly a feat, though not as epic as one might hope in that I was almost done with both of them. I only had...