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Straggling into the Kingdom

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 26, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Eschatology, Jesus

I managed, in spite of the presence of both the internet and all my children, to finish both The Return of the King and the NT Wright Paul book in a single day—truly a feat, though not as epic as one might hope in that I was almost done with both of them. I only had...

Choose Wisely

by Anne Kennedy | Aug 22, 2021 | Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, History, Jesus

Well, here I am after a nice quiet month. I kept thinking I would blog while it was going on, but then I figured—as the news kept getting worse and worse—that I just wouldn’t. If ever there was a time not to weigh in about anything, this seemed as good as any....

My Soul Waits For The Lord

by Anne Kennedy | Jun 6, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Year, Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus

I have been pretty good about staying off Twitter, but I did just have a peak yesterday. There is some person taking the trouble to screenshot the Twitter profiles of major corporations. Apparently, you don’t just have one single Twitter handle, you have one for every...

Would I Have Told You

by Anne Kennedy | Apr 4, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Year, Coronavirus, Eschatology, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

[Basically what I said at the Vigil last night] “Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week”—records Matthew, in the gospel for the first service of Easter. I get stuck on the word “now,” or have all this year. Having, a month or two ago, to...

Say It Again

by Anne Kennedy | Feb 7, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Year, Eschatology, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

In all the reading I did a while ago about Cancel Culture, and then after that Virtue Signaling, the thing that interested me most was the shift to what one might call a New Evangelism. I mean, no one has called it that. It is only occurring to me this moment as I...

Before You Called

by Anne Kennedy | Dec 13, 2020 | Advent, Anglicans, Church Year, Coronavirus, Eschatology, Go to Church

Yesterday we were finally able to have a service for, as I’ve been calling her, our Essential Person—Kay—the grandmother type who was so central to all our day to day happiness for the first fifteen years of our being here. I was worried we wouldn’t be able to meet...