by Anne Kennedy | Sep 10, 2023 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel
Photo by Corina Rainer on Unsplash If you have spent any time in what might, at least until the last five years, be called an “evangelical church,” you probably have not escaped situations and circumstances painfully marked by that dreaded shorthand...
by Matt Kennedy | Sep 8, 2023 | Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, Jesus, Podcast, Presbyterians, The Gospel
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick talk about a pastor’s essay about leaving the ministry. They discuss expectations, the difficulties of parish ministry, and the consolation they find in Christ. Programming note: the guys recorded...
by Anne Kennedy | Sep 3, 2023 | Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, Prosperity Gospel, The Gospel
Photo by Nycholas Benaia on Unsplash I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we have been trucking along through Matthew for the summer, because it’s year A in the lectionary. If you don’t catch a moment to read the Bible at any other moment, at least you will get to hear...
by Anne Kennedy | Aug 20, 2023 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, History, Jesus, The Gospel
Photo by Jacob Bentzinger on Unsplash This is turning out to be the unexpected blogging era of musical commentary. Even as I was trashing “Oceans” last Sunday (if you love it, I’m so sorry, I totally listened to it all week out of penance), Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men...
by Anne Kennedy | Aug 13, 2023 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Growth, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus
Photo by Nick Moore on Unsplash You may have come across a song in the last few days that has been downloaded an exceptionally high number of times. I was listening to it myself when I happened to click over to the lections for today, at which point I sighed heavily...
by Anne Kennedy | Aug 6, 2023 | Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, LGBTQIetc
Photo by Gadiel Lazcano on Unsplash I’m still not on TikTok. I think about trying it out occasionally, but then invariably I come across a clip of a particular person so disturbing that I change my mind and figure I have better things to do. This person is a...