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Happy Birthing Person Day

by Anne Kennedy | May 9, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

Today, apparently, is “Birthing Person” Day, and the prevailing manner of marking the occasion seems to be people posting pictures of “birthing creatures” in the wild–fluffy “mother” birds with baby birds under their wings, a...

He is Awesome in His Deeds

by Anne Kennedy | May 2, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church

I had three different posts started for this morning—the lections are so wonderful, one could go in so many different directions—but then I woke up to another tempest on Twitter. The Twittersphere moves so frustratingly fast that having started to write about Rachel...

Two Funerals and an Amazing Grace

by Anne Kennedy | Apr 18, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Coronavirus, Episcopalians, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel, Woke Church

After attending yet another funeral in the morning yesterday, I came home and hunched over my kitchen counter, absorbed in leftover scalloped potatoes, to be transported by the soaring music, the elegant hats, and the heartbreaking social distancing of a very...

Is “Christian Flourishing” the Real Gospel?

by Anne Kennedy | Mar 7, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Episcopalians, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Prosperity Gospel, Social Justice, The Gospel, Theological Liberalism

Over the past tumultuous year, I have become more and more skeptical of the idea that Christians are supposed to “flourish.” It seems a very basic assumption that many of us have, that we’re supposed to do well and be able to use our gifts in the church. When I first...

There but for the Grace of God Go I

by Anne Kennedy | Feb 21, 2021 | Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, The Gospel

There is an interesting opinion piece making its way around the interwebs this weekend castigating many Christian leaders for their responses to the Ravi Horror, as I feel it will eventually come to be known. Many Christian leaders, apparently (I haven’t gone to look...

Hath The Lord Even Spoken

by Anne Kennedy | Jan 31, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Bible Study, Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, Prosperity Gospel, The Gospel

In all my sojourning around YouTube looking for interesting stuff to alarm and delight me, I lost several hours listening to a person who I believe is very famous—she’s one of Oprah’s go-to people—sharing with the wide world an important discovery she made. In brief,...