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#179: The (Advent)ure Begins: Waiting, Hoping, and the Start of the Church Year

by Matt Kennedy | Dec 1, 2023 | Anglicans, Church Year, Eschatology, Jesus, Podcast, The Gospel

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss the season of Advent, talk about the whole arc of God’s saving work, and consider the Good News for which we’re asked to wait. Need more Stand Firm? Subscribe to the pod on iTunes....

Let Me Tell You About Human Flourishing

by Anne Kennedy | Nov 20, 2023 | Anglicans, Bible Study, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash By a twist of cyber fate, I happened to come across this dystopian fever dream on my way to ponder the lections for yesterday: Verily, verily, I trust you got through the entire video, because I have several thoughts. The first is...

Hate Has No Home Here

by Anne Kennedy | Oct 15, 2023 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

Photo by DNK.PHOTO on Unsplash I sort of blew the arch by blogging about today’s Gospel reading during the week. I did it with much trepidation because I was pretty sure by the time Sunday rolled around, I wouldn’t be able to think of anything else to say,...

But Behold, An Outcry

by Anne Kennedy | Oct 8, 2023 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus

Photo by Jeff Kingma on Unsplash Perhaps you are, like me, having a hard time attending to any of your usual routines–in my case writing a Sunday morning blog post. Being near the internet, as one is when one approaches a computer for any reason, devolves into...

#171: Who We Say That We Are: Identity and the Bible

by Matt Kennedy | Oct 6, 2023 | Bible Study, Jesus, LGBTQIetc, Podcast, The Gospel

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, the hosts step away from the mic again. In their place, enjoy a lecture by our own Nick Lannon, given recently at his parish—Grace Anglican Church in Louisville, Kentucky—on identity. It’s actually the first session of a...

I am that kind of person

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 24, 2023 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, Woke Church

Photo by Johny Goerend on Unsplash On my way to the lections for today, I happened to pass by a marvelous short thread by Kevin M. Young–excuse me, Dr. Kevin M. Young–my favorite progressive on the app formerly known as Twitter. Initially, I was...