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If You Have to Make a Promise

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 19, 2021 | Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Prosperity Gospel, The Gospel, Woke Church

I had a whole bunch of important things to do yesterday so of course I settled down on my sofa with my device and googled, as I do every few weeks, “Rachel Hollis.” The first thing that came up was—and I can’t believe I missed this, I must be slipping—the important...

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...

Salvation-Hesitant

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 5, 2021 | Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, Jesus

I was hoping to only be scrolling for cat pictures at the end of a long day yesterday but happened to come across two tweets that seemed to me a fitting end to another week of the Internet we have all come to know and, well, love is not the word. The first is Pete...

Do The Work

by Anne Kennedy | Jun 27, 2021 | Anglicans, Baptists, Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

The readings this morning are all about the rich and the poor, about those who have a lot and those who have nothing at all. Depending on what sort of church you go to, you may hear the long, admonishing passages about how to care for those who don’t have anything,...

#52: God Did Really Say: That’s It…That’s the Title

by Nick Lannon | May 21, 2021 | Anglicans, Bible Study, Biblical Illiteracy, Podcast

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss the doctrine of biblical inerrancy, the Chicago Statement on the same, how old Noah was when he died, and whether or not the Word of God can be trusted. Want to join the conversation or suggest a...

Called to Flourish?

by Anne Kennedy | May 16, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, The Gospel

I have never really loved the word “flourish.” I keep thinking that it will go out of fashion among Christians, but so far it hasn’t. It appears in all kinds of places online. In fact, certain assumptions about what it means to flourish seem to me to be a sort of...