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 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 | Jun 25, 2023 | Abortion, Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Corrupt Media, Go to Church, The Gospel
This is a true statement, and worthy of all the very online to be received, that, as Elon says, when the Wagner group is rolling up to the edge of Moscow, one member of a marriage will be trying to sleep, and the other will be up all night on Twitter (don’t click if...
by Anne Kennedy | Jun 18, 2023 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church
I’ve been bemused over the last year to watch Christians arguing with each other over whether or not it would be a good thing to live in or have or build a “Christian” nation. What sort of country would you like to live in? What kinds of morals would help everyone...
