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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...

Who Can I Blame?

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 14, 2022 | Garden-Variety Malaise, History, Jesus, Oppression

Upsetness about the existence of the monarchy in Great Britain manifested as a certain kind of rejoicing over the death of Queen Elizabeth II, continues apace over on Twitter. I was scrolling in the desultory way that I generally do in the late afternoon, waiting for...

If You’re Casting About For A Missing Heroic Archetype

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 13, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, Episcopalians, Garden-Variety Malaise, History

I didn’t make any progress down my enormous stack of books over the last three months….by which I mean that I binged mystery novels and only did bite-sized amounts of Reading For Information, which is not what I had intended. I did slowly make my way through this long...

Crystal Balls

by Greg Griffith | Aug 17, 2022 | Anglicans, Episcopalians, Garden-Variety Malaise

This article by Stand Firm’s founder, Greg Griffith was first published in 2005, just two years after the consecration of Gene Robinson. In it, Greg describes how those often branded “extremists” or “fundamentalists” today have simply...

Anne and Jane and Martha and Sarah

by Anne Kennedy | Jul 17, 2022 | Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus

After reading so many brilliant reviews of the new horrible Persuasion—the best one suggested the writer and director be put in jail for a short time so they can think about what they’ve done—my girls and I decided to give it a try. Indulging in a terrible movie is...

What Is Beauty and What Survives?

by Anne Kennedy | May 22, 2022 | Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus

In the rushing busy chaos of this last week (in which I failed to blog for a couple of days, you might have noticed) I spent valuable minutes remarking to myself on the various fights going on within Christian circles. Are Christians motivated primarily by fear? Is...