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Prepare for Lent. Read 2nd Corinthians!

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.)...

When You Can’t Even

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...

Tell Me a Kindly Lie

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...

Save Yourself Some Cash

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...

That Time When God Befriended Us Deliberately To Change Us And Our Identity

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...

That Sounds Uncomfortable

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...