by Anne Kennedy | Oct 24, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Church Growth, Church Year, Coronavirus, Go to Church, Jesus
In the last week I came across no less than four articles (which I can’t find again…sorry) about how people are not going to church at the rates they were before covid. One had some stats, I think, but the others were more anecdotal. It seems a bit like there was the...
by Anne Kennedy | Oct 17, 2021 | Anglicans, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus
Over the last decade of being both in the church in a real sense (like actually going there and worshiping God and stuff) and being online, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that is bothersome and upsetting, and which, strangely enough, the lections this morning answered for...
by Anne Kennedy | Sep 5, 2021 | Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, Jesus
I was hoping to only be scrolling for cat pictures at the end of a long day yesterday but happened to come across two tweets that seemed to me a fitting end to another week of the Internet we have all come to know and, well, love is not the word. The first is Pete...
by Anne Kennedy | Jun 27, 2021 | Anglicans, Baptists, Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel
The readings this morning are all about the rich and the poor, about those who have a lot and those who have nothing at all. Depending on what sort of church you go to, you may hear the long, admonishing passages about how to care for those who don’t have anything,...
by Anne Kennedy | May 23, 2021 | False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, Jesus
Well, we’ve made it as far as Pentecost in this tumultuous year. I can barely type, having gotten into a tussle with a rose bush, yesterday, in my efforts to bring order and constraint to my garden—beating back the weeds and the pests and making the plants I want to...
by Anne Kennedy | May 16, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, The Gospel
I have never really loved the word “flourish.” I keep thinking that it will go out of fashion among Christians, but so far it hasn’t. It appears in all kinds of places online. In fact, certain assumptions about what it means to flourish seem to me to be a sort of...
