by Anne Kennedy | Feb 20, 2022 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Go to Church, Jesus
Being a subscriber to the whole Patheos website, not just the Evangelical channel, I happened upon this intriguing, if a bit clickbaity headline last night: “Do Christians Make an Idol out of Jesus? The bait worked, and I read the whole thing. The author makes many...
by Mark Marshall | Feb 8, 2022 | Bible Study, Church Year
A good lectionary can really edify. One personal experience of that is my Reformed Episcopal Church BCP lectionary having 2nd Corinthians as the second lesson for Morning Prayer during the pre-Lent “gesima” weeks. (Yes, we in the REC do gesimas as the Lord intends.)...
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 6, 2022 | Church Year, Coronavirus, Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus
In between various other kinds of work all week, I’ve scrolled past a vast number of hot takes about Joe Rogan, without really having the time to click on any of them, and then the piece by Megan Basham about Francis Collins and Ed Stetzer and all those people. I...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 30, 2022 | Church Year, Corrupt Media, Go to Church, Jesus
This is so good. It’s a long piece about Stephen Glass, one of the most notable and interesting of the many instances of journalistic liars of recent memory. He started out his career writing for The New Republic sometime in the 90s, and after a time it was discovered...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 23, 2022 | Anglicans, Bible Study, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus
I was furiously hiding undesirable Facebook ads in the wee hours, without consideration or thought, when providence intervened and I did not click “I don’t want to see this” or however Facebook puts it. Instead, I watched it twice with rapt attention and read all the...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 16, 2022 | Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Religious Freedom, The Gospel
I had some things to say about that piece about proselytizing back on Friday—there was so much there that I couldn’t then, nor now, possibly comment on. But as I was pondering the lections for today, this paragraph struck me afresh: By contrast, I believe that...
