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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...

You’re Invited!

by Anne Kennedy | Oct 11, 2020 | Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, The Gospel

I don’t know about you, but the thing that is most likely to send me over the edge at this particular moment of this impossibly long year, is that every time I click on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, before I can even get to my feed to see what surprising and...

Have Your Cake After All

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 27, 2020 | Anglicans, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

One of the essential features of being human is that we all—without exception—want to have it both ways. We want to have our cake and eat it too. We want to argue on the internet and be right. We want to accuse others of being literally Hitler without being Hitler...

The Point of the Entire Exercise

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 13, 2020 | Go to Church

Yesterday we commended to God the body and soul of a woman who began going to Good Shepherd in 1936. The number of her years is astonishing in itself—103 (brings a certain relevance to “teach us to number our days” because just counting that high takes serious...

#18: The Sledgehammer of God? Discipline and Restoration in the Church

by Matt Kennedy | Sep 11, 2020 | Bible Study, Go to Church, Jesus, Podcast, The Gospel

In this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick talk about Jesus’ plan for discipline in the church, the difference between public and private sin and rebuke, and the Good News that comes along with repentance, reconciliation, and restoration....