by Anne Kennedy | Jul 15, 2020 | Garden-Variety Malaise, Religious Freedom, Social Justice, The Gospel
All my open tabs this morning are about Bari Weiss, Nick Canon, and Cancel Culture. I’ve tried to avoid clicking on anything in the NYT (I’m almost out of my free articles) as a matter of principle, but I keep getting sucked in anyway. This line from Ross Douthat...
by Anne Kennedy | Jun 9, 2020 | Garden-Variety Malaise, LGBTQIetc, The Gospel
I never thought I’d wake up one June and find that the blazing headlines of the moment would not be about Gay Pride month. That cyclical liturgy is now so much a part of the American experience that I have been shocked to see it unseated on the daily twitter scroll....
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 13, 2020 | Abortion, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, Prosperity Gospel, The Gospel, Woke Church
I have been mulling this article over for the last few days, finding it a curiosity that I can’t quite catch hold of, but can’t walk away from either. Indeed, it was actually the thing that made my word for 2020 take shape in my own mouth. The word is Decadent, in...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 17, 2020 | Abortion, Garden-Variety Malaise, LGBTQIetc
This is Part Two of my annesplaining about how to actually support the parents of theybies. Picking up where we left off (yesterday we made it all the way through the first one!), the second one is Intention: Intention matters. People would rather know that you are...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 9, 2020 | Garden-Variety Malaise, The Gospel
Meghan and Harry are trying to extricate themselves from their senior royal position. Twitter is reporting that it’s “complicated.” The palace is saying that the Sussexes made their announcement a touch too soon. I’ve seen here and there, embedded in various articles,...
by Tim Fountain | Dec 22, 2019 | Bible Study, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, Spirituality, The Gospel
…is waiting for you on the wide and comfy path to hell. We lump gossip in with cute human foibles that aren’t that big a deal. Spreading rumors is on a continuum somewhere between talking during a movie and double dipping a chip in the communal salsa. But...
