Church Year Archives | Page 2 of 19

Only God Can Help Us Now

by Anne Kennedy | May 19, 2024 | Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church

Rabula Gospels Folio Pentecost After much prodding by Matt, I went over and watched the whole speech by the famous football player at Benedictine College. And then I made the mistake of watching this humiliating moment in American politics. The only thing to two...

The World and Kevin

by Anne Kennedy | May 12, 2024 | Anglicans, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, The Gospel

Photo by Paul Zoetemeijer on Unsplash It’s Mother’s Day today, in case you live under a rock or somewhere, and it’s also, for many of us, Fauxcension (Feast of the Ascension transferred to Sunday), not to mention the usual lections appointed for the...

If You Love Me

by Anne Kennedy | Apr 28, 2024 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Jesus

Photo by Beatrice Zinetti on Unsplash I am excessively distracted by Twitter. There are so many crazy things going on. Kevin M Young, for example, is busily arguing that the Tax Collectors and Prostitutes who came into the Kingdom of Heaven stayed that way. Of course,...

A Tale of Two Lost Sheep

by Anne Kennedy | Apr 14, 2024 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, Jesus

Photo by Jose Francisco Morales on Unsplash [I wrote this yesterday–am spending today praying for all those in harm’s way in the Middle East. This post isn’t about that. It’s about something apparently much more trite, though also strangely...

What’s Wrong With You? A Reflection on three Vigil Texts

by Anne Kennedy | Mar 31, 2024 | Anglicans, Church Year

Photo by Pisit Heng on Unsplash Of all the people in the Bible, Noah’s wife has always had my greatest sympathy. Good wives—and I speak from experience because I am one—make space in their lives for the existential disquiet of their husbands. Many people in the Bible...

Quite Literally The Most Loving Thing

by Anne Kennedy | Mar 24, 2024 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Justice, The Gospel

Photo by Frantisek Duris on Unsplash In case you’ve lost track of time, today is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, and that means I’m dashing from one thing to another, and thinking a lot about my sins and how grateful I am that Jesus was willing to...