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Before You Called

by Anne Kennedy | Dec 13, 2020 | Advent, Anglicans, Church Year, Coronavirus, Eschatology, Go to Church

Yesterday we were finally able to have a service for, as I’ve been calling her, our Essential Person—Kay—the grandmother type who was so central to all our day to day happiness for the first fifteen years of our being here. I was worried we wouldn’t be able to meet...

#29: Teach Your Children Well: Catechesis and Political Engagement

by Matt Kennedy | Dec 4, 2020 | Go to Church, Podcast, U.S. Politics

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick wonder about putting too much faith in politics, discuss how politics is downstream from culture, and talk about the importance of passing the faith on to our kids. Want to join the conversation or...

The Do-Nothing Bit is a Lie

by Anne Kennedy | Nov 15, 2020 | Anglicans, Coronavirus, Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church

Well, I managed to stay offline nearly all of yesterday, floating on a triumphant exultant glow of having procured nine whole dining room chairs for a total of 36 dollars (how many talents is that—so many) and strong-momming my children into moving a lot of furniture...

Till the Break of Day

by Anne Kennedy | Nov 8, 2020 | Biblical Illiteracy, Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus

Apparently, Mr. Biden made a speech yesterday and in it quoted On Eagle’s Wings. I thought about going and trying to find it, but I have a policy of never listening to any speech any politician makes, and I don’t intend to begin now, even to hear something so...

A Great Throng

by Anne Kennedy | Nov 1, 2020 | Eschatology, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

Last year for All Saints I put together a pretty great listicle, riffing off the one that Jesus puts together for his lovely Sermon on the Mount. I had been thinking lots about the word “blessing” or rather, hashtag blessed, and thought it was so funny of Jesus to do...

Heart-rendering

by Anne Kennedy | Oct 18, 2020 | Anglicans, Eschatology, Go to Church, Jesus

Early Friday morning my parents packed up their meager breakfast, their computers, their small bag of clothes, and checked out of the Candlewood Suites where they had slept that night, and went out to the big horrible overflow parking lot to climb into their Uhaul...