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Sorrow and Sighing Shall Flee Away

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,...

Who Is Forgiveness For?

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...

When Towers Fall

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...

Do Something to Mark the Occassion

by Anne Kennedy | Mar 1, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, Roman Catholics

I have got a lot of crepes to make today, as a supplement to the main event which is Regular Pancakes. Anglicans, at least up here, eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, as an attempt, I think, to shrive their fridges of all the fat, earnestly expecting to eat depressing...

What Are You Doing Here?

by Anne Kennedy | Feb 27, 2022 | Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church

Though wars and rumors of wars rage here and there, the church year goes on in its circling way. Each Sunday marks another step in the life of Jesus and the people he draws to himself, round and round as each person goes to his eternal home one by one, and mourners go...

Ask a Different Question

by Anne Kennedy | Feb 23, 2022 | Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, The Gospel

My life is a little bit in chaos. Our washer is still on the fritz and we discovered late last night that the children’s loo (that’s what I call it) has “systemic issues,” as in, it was probably installed wrongly 20 years ago and so now there...