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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...

At Such A Time As This

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...

In Which I Channel Rusty Reno*

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....

Racism Is Not Your Biggest Problem

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...

How To Actually Support The Parents of Theybies

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...

How Disappointing

by Anne Kennedy | Jan 9, 2020 | Garden-Variety Malaise, The Gospel

Meghan and Harry are trying to extricate themselves from their senior royal position. Twitter is reporting that it’s “complicated.” The palace is saying that the Sussexes made their announcement a touch too soon. I’ve seen here and there, embedded in various articles,...