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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,...

Latest Church Gossip…

by Tim Fountain | Dec 22, 2019 | Bible Study, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, Spirituality, The Gospel

…is waiting for you on the wide and comfy path to hell. We lump gossip in with cute human foibles that aren’t that big a deal. Spreading rumors is on a continuum somewhere between talking during a movie and double dipping a chip in the communal salsa. But...

They Will Know Us By Our Ability To Forgive

by Anne Kennedy | Dec 12, 2019 | Garden-Variety Malaise, The Gospel, Woke Church

I’ve just finished Douglas Murray’s The Madness of Crowds. It is so good that I’m turning round and picking The Strange Death of Europe as soon as my new credit comes due. All the usual—I don’t agree with everything he says—caveating aside (which, honestly, is...

How to be a Good Person

by Anne Kennedy | Nov 28, 2019 | Garden-Variety Malaise, The Gospel

It’s not just me, I have confirmed my impression by complaining about it personally to everyone I know. It’s true, some members of the American family—lots actually—this year put up their Christmas decorations the day after Halloween. And, though I judged them...