by Nick Lannon | Feb 17, 2021 | Anglicans, Bible Study, Church Year, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel
Who are you? What was once a simple question, answered by giving your name, has become the chief question of our time. Who are you? People are fighting—perhaps as they have never fought before—for the exclusive right to answer that question on their own terms. Who are...
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 14, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Go to Church, Jesus
It is both Valentine’s Day, as everyone knows, and the Feast of the Transfiguration, because Ash Wednesday is just around the corner, and that is how the church calendar works. I was wandering around the readings last night, feeling especially bad for Elijah in all...
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 7, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Year, Eschatology, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel
In all the reading I did a while ago about Cancel Culture, and then after that Virtue Signaling, the thing that interested me most was the shift to what one might call a New Evangelism. I mean, no one has called it that. It is only occurring to me this moment as I...
by Mark Marshall | Feb 4, 2021 | Church Year, Spirituality
Mortification – it even sounds scary. It’s not for nothing that an Australian Christian death metal band I liked about twenty years ago called themselves Mortification. It’s the perfect death metal name, don’t you think? And the word brings to mind such medieval...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 10, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Go to Church, The Gospel
Today at home, and at church I think, I’m going to be celebrating Fake Epiphany. It’s not actually fake, it’s just that the feast fell in the middle of the week, and rather than stopping everything and thinking about it on the day, we’ve moved it to Sunday (today). In...
by Anne Kennedy | Dec 20, 2020 | Christmas, Church Year
This was a fun thread—a Muslim anthropologically observes his roommates coping with Christmas (and gets into the spirit of the thing himself). They decorate a tree, and work on the menu, and argue about whether or not you can stuff your own stocking. As usual, many...
