by Anne Kennedy | May 29, 2023 | Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, LGBTQIetc
Last week the BBC published what someone on Twitter called a “comprehensive, light-heartedly warm guide to Satanism.” The Tweeter—mercifully—was upset that the BBC would do such a thing. Other people, rightly, wanted to know where all the good reporting has gone. Why...
by Anne Kennedy | Apr 30, 2023 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, LGBTQIetc, The Gospel
It is the gracious providence of God, for me, to be staggering back home just in time for Good Shepherd Sunday, which happens every year after Easter and before Mother’s Day Pentecost. I attempted to read the whole internet in the middle of the night when I was awake...
by Anne Kennedy | Apr 2, 2023 | Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus
The central question of the day. in case you hadn’t noticed, is what even is a person? What does it mean to be human? What are the characteristics and contours of personhood? How do you know who you are? When you are talking to someone else, how do you know who they...
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...
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...
by Matt Kennedy | Mar 10, 2023 | Bible Study, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, Justice, Podcast, Sexuality
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt and Jady talk about the recent uproar over Josh Butler’s book “Beautiful Union,” wonder why all the same people get upset about the same things all the time, and discuss the value of cancel-proof spaces...
