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...
by Anne Kennedy | Oct 24, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Church Growth, Church Year, Coronavirus, Go to Church, Jesus
In the last week I came across no less than four articles (which I can’t find again…sorry) about how people are not going to church at the rates they were before covid. One had some stats, I think, but the others were more anecdotal. It seems a bit like there was the...
by Mark Marshall | Aug 5, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Growth, Justice, Social Justice, Theological Liberalism, Woke Church
This week, Denny Burk wrote an excellent response to a Christianity Today essay by Esau McCaulley. Granted McCaulley threw Burk a fat, slow softball. The CT essay was a tendentious bit of vilification of those who oppose the infiltration of Critical Race Theory into...
by Matt Kennedy | Apr 2, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Growth, Episcopalians, Podcast, The Gospel
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss the supposed tension between dogmatism and mission, look at some of the church’s past attempts to be “relevant,” and wonder where the person and work of Jesus fits in. Want to...
by Mark Marshall | May 13, 2020 | Anglicans, Church Growth, Social Justice, U.S. Politics, Woke Church
The following may be difficult to read and may even anger a few. So I should say that it is prompted by a good conversation between Esau McCaulley and Matt Kennedy on Facebook. The exchange furthered understanding, and I write this in hopes of furthering understanding...
by Anne Kennedy | Apr 30, 2020 | Anglicans, Church Growth, Episcopalians, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Jesus, LGBTQIetc, Sexuality, The Gospel, Theological Liberalism
Matt has been going all over the internet reposting one of my first Stand Firm pieces about how I (at least) don’t think we can yet be friends with those who happily self-identify as Episcopalian or some other brand of Progressive Christian. The war isn’t over, I...
