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Some People Need To Get Out More

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...

Exactly What I Have Come to Expect

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...

That’s The Problem

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...

Choose Wisely

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....

Do The Work

by Anne Kennedy | Jun 27, 2021 | Anglicans, Baptists, Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

The readings this morning are all about the rich and the poor, about those who have a lot and those who have nothing at all. Depending on what sort of church you go to, you may hear the long, admonishing passages about how to care for those who don’t have anything,...

My Soul Waits For The Lord

by Anne Kennedy | Jun 6, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Year, Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus

I have been pretty good about staying off Twitter, but I did just have a peak yesterday. There is some person taking the trouble to screenshot the Twitter profiles of major corporations. Apparently, you don’t just have one single Twitter handle, you have one for every...