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”...
by Nick Lannon | Feb 17, 2021 | Anglicans, Bible Study, Church Year, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel
Who are you? What was once a simple question, answered by giving your name, has become the chief question of our time. Who are you? People are fighting—perhaps as they have never fought before—for the exclusive right to answer that question on their own terms. Who are...
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 14, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Go to Church, Jesus
It is both Valentine’s Day, as everyone knows, and the Feast of the Transfiguration, because Ash Wednesday is just around the corner, and that is how the church calendar works. I was wandering around the readings last night, feeling especially bad for Elijah in all...
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 7, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Year, Eschatology, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel
In all the reading I did a while ago about Cancel Culture, and then after that Virtue Signaling, the thing that interested me most was the shift to what one might call a New Evangelism. I mean, no one has called it that. It is only occurring to me this moment as I...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 31, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Bible Study, Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, Prosperity Gospel, The Gospel
In all my sojourning around YouTube looking for interesting stuff to alarm and delight me, I lost several hours listening to a person who I believe is very famous—she’s one of Oprah’s go-to people—sharing with the wide world an important discovery she made. In brief,...