by Mark Marshall | Sep 14, 2023 | Apostasy, Bible Study, False Teachers and Their Enablers, History, The Gospel, Totalitarians, Woke Church
This from Rod Dreher this past Sunday has me thinking about how we all are too prone to having our thinking held captive by the times we happen to live in. I mean, look: we wonder (or rather, I wonder) why more people, especially Christians, aren’t standing up...
by Mark Marshall | Aug 30, 2023 | History, Roman Catholics, Totalitarians, Woke Church
Pope John Paul II travelled around the world as no Pope had before and no Pope since. He flew into quite a number of varied situations. But few of them had the tension of his arrival in Managua, Nicaragua in March 1983. The cabinet of the Marxist Sandinista junta were...
by Matt Kennedy | Aug 25, 2023 | Anglicans, Bible Study, History, Podcast, The Gospel
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss Archbishop Beach’s summer essay contest: a sermon on what it means to be a global Anglican today. They discuss that topic, applicable biblical texts, how such a sermon might go…and what...
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...
by Matt Kennedy | Aug 18, 2023 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Episcopalians, False Teachers and Their Enablers, History, LGBTQIetc, Podcast, Theological Liberalism
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Jady and Nick discuss a Christianity Today article about recently departed ACNA churches. They wonder if clergy and congregation knew what they were joining, reflect on their own past hesitancies, and reaffirm the goodness of...
by Matt Kennedy | Jul 28, 2023 | Bible Study, History, Justice, Podcast, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Politics
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick talk about Just War Theory, discuss the difference between making war and turning the other cheek, and consider the history of the atomic bombings on the occasion of the release of the film OPPENHEIMER....