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Hope For Women In Middle Age

by Anne Kennedy | Feb 17, 2022 | False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Justice, Prosperity Gospel

I didn’t actually scroll much through the internet yesterday, even though I totally wanted to. I worked out the class schedule for my offspring for Fall 2022, and worked out the number of years (again) that they all will need to be in school. I should be free...

That’s Not How Any Of This Works

by Anne Kennedy | Feb 16, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, The Gospel

This is super disappointing. Apparently, the Dunning-Kruger Effect is not a thing: Measuring someone’s perception of anything, including their own skills, is fraught with difficulties. How well I think I did on my test today could change if the whole thing was done...

When You Can’t Even

by Anne Kennedy | Feb 6, 2022 | Church Year, Coronavirus, Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus

In between various other kinds of work all week, I’ve scrolled past a vast number of hot takes about Joe Rogan, without really having the time to click on any of them, and then the piece by Megan Basham about Francis Collins and Ed Stetzer and all those people. I...

Save Yourself Some Cash

by Anne Kennedy | Jan 23, 2022 | Anglicans, Bible Study, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus

I was furiously hiding undesirable Facebook ads in the wee hours, without consideration or thought, when providence intervened and I did not click “I don’t want to see this” or however Facebook puts it. Instead, I watched it twice with rapt attention and read all the...

That Time When God Befriended Us Deliberately To Change Us And Our Identity

by Anne Kennedy | Jan 16, 2022 | Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Religious Freedom, The Gospel

I had some things to say about that piece about proselytizing back on Friday—there was so much there that I couldn’t then, nor now, possibly comment on. But as I was pondering the lections for today, this paragraph struck me afresh: By contrast, I believe that...

That Sounds Uncomfortable

by Anne Kennedy | Jan 9, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Eschatology, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus

There is ice careening from the sky at this dark, early hour. I don’t know what that portends for the worship of God in his church (building) this morning. It may be that the Lord will have to have everyone’s attention on zoom or something ghastly like that. To keep...