by Mark Marshall | Mar 31, 2023 | Anglicans, Church Year, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel
I still remember my first Palm Sunday at an Anglican church, at Christ Church Plano about twenty years ago. Having gone to Presbyterian and then Bible churches my whole life up to that point, Anglican liturgy was still new to me. I loved it but much of it was still a...
by Mark Marshall | Mar 28, 2023 | Church Year, Daily Office, History, Jesus, The Gospel
I did it again. Thanks to my lectionary last week — yes, I blame it — I got to Genesis 45 when Joseph loses control of his emotions and reveals himself to his brothers. . . . And I lose control of my emotions and have a sobfest. It happens just about every time. It’s...
by Anne Kennedy | Mar 19, 2023 | Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus
It’s been a long exhausting week and I thought it would be fun to check in on Glennon to see what she is up to. Or rather, what she was up to last year. YouTube offered up this interview of Ellen chatting with her about the journal (or whatever) she made to go with...
by Anne Kennedy | Mar 12, 2023 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus
I, for reasons of my own, listened to Trueman’s entire Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self in two days this past week, by speeding it up to 1.6 and vigorously cleaning my house in, as it were, a sort of a frenzy. It’s been almost a year and a half since I first read...
by Anne Kennedy | Mar 5, 2023 | Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus
First of all, I didn’t know there was a Twitter account for such a time as this—it’s called Lectionary Memes for Liturgical Dreams. I like this one best for this week: Genesis 12:1–9 pic.twitter.com/nUio5d9I9z — Lectionary Memes for Liturgical Dreams...
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 26, 2023 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Jesus, LGBTQIetc
For some time I have been increasingly uncomfortable with the way well-meaning Christian people have bandied about the term “imago Dei.” We’re made in the image of God, they say. The reason that we continue to fracture as a society, to fall into difficulties and...
