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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...

No One Was Ever Alone Again

by Anne Kennedy | May 30, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus

Well, it’s Trinity Sunday. Let’s see what kind of heresy we can rustle up this morning, shall we? I’m the kind of Christian that accepts that God is more than able to use human language to communicate with me about what he is like, what we are like, and what anyone...

Called to Flourish?

by Anne Kennedy | May 16, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, The Gospel

I have never really loved the word “flourish.” I keep thinking that it will go out of fashion among Christians, but so far it hasn’t. It appears in all kinds of places online. In fact, certain assumptions about what it means to flourish seem to me to be a sort of...