by Anne Kennedy | Sep 10, 2020 | Garden-Variety Malaise, History, Social Justice
I happened to be wandering around twitter a few days ago—I’ve been trying to collect evidence of “virtue signaling,” which is all the rage as you all know—and came across something that bothered me lots more than that. I don’t think that the author of the tweet was...
by Anne Kennedy | Sep 1, 2020 | Garden-Variety Malaise
Well, it looks like I have finally reached, or will next week, La Rentrée as the French say, the great Going Back to School in one form or another. I posted this ghastly picture on Instagram yesterday—and linked to it on Facebook and Twitter because why not, might as...
by Anne Kennedy | Jul 15, 2020 | Garden-Variety Malaise, Religious Freedom, Social Justice, The Gospel
All my open tabs this morning are about Bari Weiss, Nick Canon, and Cancel Culture. I’ve tried to avoid clicking on anything in the NYT (I’m almost out of my free articles) as a matter of principle, but I keep getting sucked in anyway. This line from Ross Douthat...
by Anne Kennedy | Jun 9, 2020 | Garden-Variety Malaise, LGBTQIetc, The Gospel
I never thought I’d wake up one June and find that the blazing headlines of the moment would not be about Gay Pride month. That cyclical liturgy is now so much a part of the American experience that I have been shocked to see it unseated on the daily twitter scroll....
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 13, 2020 | Abortion, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, Prosperity Gospel, The Gospel, Woke Church
I have been mulling this article over for the last few days, finding it a curiosity that I can’t quite catch hold of, but can’t walk away from either. Indeed, it was actually the thing that made my word for 2020 take shape in my own mouth. The word is Decadent, in...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 17, 2020 | Abortion, Garden-Variety Malaise, LGBTQIetc
This is Part Two of my annesplaining about how to actually support the parents of theybies. Picking up where we left off (yesterday we made it all the way through the first one!), the second one is Intention: Intention matters. People would rather know that you are...
