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,...
by Mark Marshall | Jan 23, 2021 | False Teachers and Their Enablers, Freedom of Speech, Go to Church, Religious Freedom, Spirituality
I have oft noticed that the lectionary of the Book of Common Prayer can be profoundly providential. It is evidence of the Lord being Anglican. But in all seriousness, the Epistle for this past 2nd Sunday after Epiphany, Romans 12:6-16, is markedly applicable to our...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 17, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Corrupt Media, Freedom of Speech, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, The Gospel, Totalitarians
In the few guilty moments I did waste time online this week, I spent them reading about the possible implications of one or two companies owning the majority of the way most of us interact online—the, well, I won’t use “strangle-hold” but the tight fist control of...
by Anne Kennedy | Jan 10, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Go to Church, The Gospel
Today at home, and at church I think, I’m going to be celebrating Fake Epiphany. It’s not actually fake, it’s just that the feast fell in the middle of the week, and rather than stopping everything and thinking about it on the day, we’ve moved it to Sunday (today). In...
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...
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...