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...
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...
by Anne Kennedy | Apr 25, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, Jesus, Social Justice, The Gospel, Woke Church
On our quick trip there and back again, Matt and I took a whole day in the car to listen to a book released just this last week—The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr. Then, even though we were in the car, we watched the launch zoom with Kristin Kobes...
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...
by Anne Kennedy | Apr 4, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Year, Coronavirus, Eschatology, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel
[Basically what I said at the Vigil last night] “Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week”—records Matthew, in the gospel for the first service of Easter. I get stuck on the word “now,” or have all this year. Having, a month or two ago, to...
by Anne Kennedy | Mar 28, 2021 | Biblical Illiteracy, Christmas, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel
Rolling Stone plucked up its stunning and brave courage two days ago to publish a foolish, though illuminating, piece about the rapper, Lil Nas X, who released a music video in which he supplants Satan. Rolling Stone thought it would be clever to go ask a “real”...
