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Every Life Matters: A Response to Mr. Reno

by Anne Kennedy | Mar 24, 2020 | Abortion, Biblical Illiteracy, Roman Catholics, The Gospel, U.S. Politics

Rusty Reno, over at First Things, has been digging himself in for the last week, about how the church, and now even the government, should be handling this thing—this thing, of course, being an illness that is sweeping across the world, an illness that one can spread...

7 Takes on the Christian Response to Polyamory

by Anne Kennedy | Feb 28, 2020 | Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, LGBTQIetc, Sexuality, The Gospel

I finally went and had a look at that CT Polyamory article that’s been making its way around twitter the last week. In spite of its spawning a lot of pretty funny jokes, I didn’t think it would be that objectionable, and so didn’t actually read past the first...

The Baby Is Still Not That Important

by Anne Kennedy | Jan 16, 2020 | Biblical Illiteracy, Corrupt Media, The Gospel

I never know if people love me or hate me when they send me interesting blog fodder in the early hours before the dawn. I’m going to go with love, but sometimes I wonder. This piece a few minutes ago would have been pretty shocking, but now, of course, is run of the...

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...

Not Sure I Care

by Tim Fountain | Jan 5, 2020 | Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Growth, Jesus, The Gospel

[Image from Astronomy in Color] Anybody remember the incels? Nah, not a crappy new wave band. They are/were/maybe never were the involuntary celibates. The term got going after some murderer (I won’t do the linking as these types should be consigned to...

The Holy Family: Wokes Wrong; Cons Confused

by Tim Fountain | Dec 29, 2019 | Bible Study, Biblical Illiteracy, Jesus, Religious Freedom, The Gospel, Theological Liberalism, U.S. Politics, Woke Church

Photo of Hong Kong protests by Ng Han Guan, Associated Press Mary, Joseph and the baby in their care traverse borders and overlapping political realities in the Biblical narratives of Jesus’ birth. An attentive and honest reading of these main historical sources...