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Till the Break of Day

by Anne Kennedy | Nov 8, 2020 | Biblical Illiteracy, Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus

Apparently, Mr. Biden made a speech yesterday and in it quoted On Eagle’s Wings. I thought about going and trying to find it, but I have a policy of never listening to any speech any politician makes, and I don’t intend to begin now, even to hear something so...

You’re Invited!

by Anne Kennedy | Oct 11, 2020 | Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, The Gospel

I don’t know about you, but the thing that is most likely to send me over the edge at this particular moment of this impossibly long year, is that every time I click on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, before I can even get to my feed to see what surprising and...

Have Your Cake After All

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 27, 2020 | Anglicans, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

One of the essential features of being human is that we all—without exception—want to have it both ways. We want to have our cake and eat it too. We want to argue on the internet and be right. We want to accuse others of being literally Hitler without being Hitler...

A New Creed For An Unbelieving Age

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 23, 2020 | Garden-Variety Malaise, Social Justice

I’ve been seeing this sign up and down my neighborhood on my walks for the last few years, tucked here and there beside mounds of Black-Eyed Susans and glorious rose and hydrangea bushes. Presumably, these signs endure year round, but, because I try never to leave my...

On Reading Badly

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...

Anne’s Guide To Raising Children

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...