by Anne Kennedy | Jan 9, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Eschatology, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus
There is ice careening from the sky at this dark, early hour. I don’t know what that portends for the worship of God in his church (building) this morning. It may be that the Lord will have to have everyone’s attention on zoom or something ghastly like that. To keep...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 2, 2022 | Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, The Gospel
Happy New Year! It looks like it’s going to be another wild ride around the sun. I know this because I woke up to this gem: Man – I’ll pray for you. Me – Please don’t. Man – It’s a gesture of love. Me – No, it’s a violation of my boundary. Man...
by Anne Kennedy | Dec 12, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel
I didn’t blog this past week thinking that I would do some other writing. If I just finish this one thing, I so foolishly thought to myself, I’ll be able to do all the other things that are waiting for my attention—Christmas shopping, mucking out the laundry room,...
by Anne Kennedy | Nov 28, 2021 | Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Eschatology, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, LGBTQIetc, The Gospel
Well, today is the first day of the new church year, and to celebrate, there was the usual dust-up on Twitter. It seems that someone was calling some people who write very popular books “wolves,”—not in the literal sense, but the biblical, metaphorical one. Not...
by Mark Marshall | Oct 30, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Year, Eschatology, Go to Church
On an All Saints Day, John Keble delivered the sermon “Praise to God from All Saints”, which can be found (with difficulty thanks to the uselessness of search engines) in Plain Sermons, vol. 6, sermon CLXXXIX. He expounded upon the stirring verse, Revelation 19:5. In...
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...
