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Forgive Me

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 10, 2023 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

Photo by Corina Rainer on Unsplash If you have spent any time in what might, at least until the last five years, be called an “evangelical church,” you probably have not escaped situations and circumstances painfully marked by that dreaded shorthand...

#167: Shepherds Lost and Found: Ministry, Hope, and Preaching Jesus

by Matt Kennedy | Sep 8, 2023 | Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, Jesus, Podcast, Presbyterians, The Gospel

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick talk about a pastor’s essay about leaving the ministry. They discuss expectations, the difficulties of parish ministry, and the consolation they find in Christ. Programming note: the guys recorded...

Judgmental Non-Judgment and Burning Man

by Nick Lannon | Sep 7, 2023 | False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, Pornography, Sexuality, Spirituality, The Gospel

I originally wrote this in 2013. But, you know, Burning Man hasn’t changed that much… Many words have been typed (I miss the expression “much ink has been spilled.” It’s a beautiful image lost to the sands of the twentieth century) about the hypocrisy of...

When The Preacher Sins

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 3, 2023 | Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, Prosperity Gospel, The Gospel

Photo by Nycholas Benaia on Unsplash I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we have been trucking along through Matthew for the summer, because it’s year A in the lectionary. If you don’t catch a moment to read the Bible at any other moment, at least you will get to hear...

On Leaves And Rocks

by Anne Kennedy | Aug 27, 2023 | Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, LGBTQIetc, Woke Church

Photo by Jametlene Reskp on Unsplash I haven’t read Quillette much since Claire Lehmann converted into a scold in the era of Covid, but I saw this article tweet/posted early this morning, and, while a touch inflammatory in tone, it seems like a fairly comprehensive...

Old Souls in a New World

by Anne Kennedy | Aug 20, 2023 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, History, Jesus, The Gospel

Photo by Jacob Bentzinger on Unsplash This is turning out to be the unexpected blogging era of musical commentary. Even as I was trashing “Oceans” last Sunday (if you love it, I’m so sorry, I totally listened to it all week out of penance), Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men...