by Anne Kennedy | Sep 23, 2021 | Baptists, Corrupt Media, Garden-Variety Malaise
The First Thing I am so so close to being done with The Lord of the Rings. I swear, if I could clear my schedule I would be done with it by noon. It is so so tempting, but tragically, I can’t just blow up my morning, and so, like Sam, I am handing over the book...
by Anne Kennedy | Sep 19, 2021 | Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Prosperity Gospel, The Gospel, Woke Church
I had a whole bunch of important things to do yesterday so of course I settled down on my sofa with my device and googled, as I do every few weeks, “Rachel Hollis.” The first thing that came up was—and I can’t believe I missed this, I must be slipping—the important...
by Anne Kennedy | Sep 16, 2021 | Garden-Variety Malaise, Justice, Oppression
Jesus wishing more TikTokers would travel a little bit. I’m still trying to get this school year off the ground, like an overloaded airplane with chickens and goats strapped to the top and everyone sitting on everyone else’s laps. It’s kind of a chaotic mess, but...
by Anne Kennedy | Sep 14, 2021 | Garden-Variety Malaise, LGBTQIetc, Social Justice
Well, I survived “the first day of school” which is so so so different than it was what, 20 years ago? How long have I been doing this? I guess more like 13. The thing that’s always been hard for me in my vague efforts at “homeschooling”—those are scare quotes in case...
by Anne Kennedy | Sep 12, 2021 | Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise
In a needful break from reliving the coverage of 9/11 yesterday, I happened on this piece linked by someone on Twitter. In a nutshell, recent polling shows that the vast vast majority of self-identifying Christian “evangelicals” do not actually believe...
by Anne Kennedy | Aug 22, 2021 | Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, History, Jesus
Well, here I am after a nice quiet month. I kept thinking I would blog while it was going on, but then I figured—as the news kept getting worse and worse—that I just wouldn’t. If ever there was a time not to weigh in about anything, this seemed as good as any....
