Church Year Archives | Page 8 of 19

Genesis, Joseph and the Passion of Christ

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...

The Greatest Love of All

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...

Aspirational Possibilities

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...

What’s that Word?

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...

There Are More Than Two Chapters

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...

COVID, Kevin Bass, and How to Apologize

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...