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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...

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,...