by Anne Kennedy | May 15, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, U.S. Politics
I’m later than I want to be this morning because I’ve been scrolling around the news reading about the terrible shooting in Buffalo yesterday. I generally try to avoid being up to the minute on, what we might call, sensational news because usually everyone backtracks...
by Anne Kennedy | May 1, 2022 | Anglicans, Baptists, Church Growth, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church
At some point during the week, Matt got up this old T4G panel discussion (hat tip Denny Burk) between Carl Trueman and some—both then and now—very famous pastors. The session opens with some awkward joking about how Trueman has been very critical of the so-called...
by Anne Kennedy | Apr 24, 2022 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Coronavirus, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, The Gospel
Well, I am caught, as usual, between two opinions. I really can’t make up my mind between this “fascinating” trend (if it is even that) and this depressing development. The first is grown-up people going to the American Girl Doll cafes—with their dolls—for the purpose...
by Anne Kennedy | Apr 17, 2022 | Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, The Gospel
Well, it’s been a busy week, to misunderstate it, and there are miles to go before I crash. I hadn’t thought I would be up at this hour, and had even considered forgoing the Sunday post in a fit of sanity, but the cat is sitting on my face and I am all the way awake,...
by Anne Kennedy | Mar 27, 2022 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Corrupt Media, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus
It must be that we are coming near to the End Times because Vox has noticed that there’s a big problem with the way things are. In a six-part series, they tackle the perplexing subject of forgiveness. The titles of the various pieces paint a bleak trajectory for their...
by Anne Kennedy | Mar 20, 2022 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Coronavirus, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus
I don’t know what you all might have wondered about during the era of covid, which I sure hope is over, in spite of the rustlings and gossipings on social media, but I spent a disproportionate amount of my limited time contemplating the Tower of Siloam. If you don’t...
