by Mark Marshall | Feb 7, 2023 | Church Year, Coronavirus
Last year, an article in The Atlantic called for an amnesty for past wrongs done surrounding COVID. Both the article and some of the responses to it were problematic and raised issues of what is right apology, forgiveness, and accountability as I noted. Now, I am...
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 5, 2023 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Go to Church
We have come upon a most happy moment. My very favorite passage of the Bible (at least for today) has been apportioned in the assigned lections for the fifth Sunday of Epiphany. It is one of the most relevant, indeed the most important texts for Christians to ponder....
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 2, 2023 | Anglicans, Church Year, Go to Church
It is a bitterly cold morning up here in the Northeast–so cold I’m putting off my long walk till the temperatures come up into the 20s this afternoon (hopefully). A bunch of my children are going off for the weekend to do a service project at a Christian...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 29, 2023 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Justice, LGBTQIetc, Social Justice, The Gospel
A few years ago—because I did not remotely understand the sort of world we were entering—I started a file called The Collected Idiocies of Facebook and Twitter. For a month or so, whenever I came across a gem, I clipped the post and left behind the name, to protect...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 22, 2023 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, The Gospel, Theological Liberalism
It hadn’t been on my radar, but apparently, the Church of England has been “studying” the question of sexuality for a number of years, as in the manner of Episcopalians of a decade ago, trying to make up its mind about whether or not to allow same-sex “blessings.” In...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 8, 2023 | Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Woke Church
I know I am in the habit of saying that you should definitely go to church. Wake up! I say on Sunday mornings. Don’t neglect the gathering of the faithful. You need to hear the sermon and take communion and go down for coffee hour and try to get to know the other...