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Love, Actually

by Anne Kennedy | Oct 11, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Woke Church

This is super fun—a really epic Actually, one of the best, one might say. It starts this way: Actually, Megan, the Pharisees were the ones following God’s law to a tee. They were the strictest of the law followers. What they weren’t doing is loving their neighbors....

It Will Only Turn Out Well

by Anne Kennedy | Oct 9, 2022 | Garden-Variety Malaise, History, Jesus, Oppression

Matt tells me that PayPal is trending on Twitter, but I’ve muted so many people that all I see are cute animal videos and I wouldn’t even begin to know who to search to find out more about it. Apparently, the West isn’t quite ready for a social credit system, not...

Try Being Funnier

by Anne Kennedy | Oct 5, 2022 | Garden-Variety Malaise

So, you might have observed, I haven’t been blogging. What seems to have happened–without planning or forethought from me–is that I’ve drifted into a comfortable, rather depressed haze whereby I read a lot of news, think about saying something about...

My Annual Post About The Fall Foliage

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 28, 2022 | Church Year, Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise

I’m not moving through Heavenly Participation very quickly because I don’t ever have time to read. Indeed, whenever I do sit down in a chair with a physical book in my hand, it is as though I have bought for myself an expensive sound system, perfectly calibrated it,...

Get OFf My Lawn

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 27, 2022 | Freedom of Speech, Garden-Variety Malaise

Well, I really hate that this is apparently a thing: It’s ironic. Texting was meant to make communication easier, but it can be much harder to discern someone’s tone over text, especially with inflections as subtle as sarcasm. It’s not as straightforward as...

It Doesn’t Matter What I Think About It

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 16, 2022 | Anglicans, Garden-Variety Malaise, LGBTQIetc, U.S. Politics

I couldn’t blog yesterday because I was so distracted watching the BBC Livestream of people going past Queen Elizabeth’s coffin that I couldn’t tear myself away to put any words on a page. The first thing that surprises me about the events of this past week is that...