by Matt Kennedy | Jul 26, 2024 | Academia, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, Podcast, The Gospel
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss a recent argument between James Wood and Mike Cosper, talk about the phenomenon of prominent “cultural” Christians, and consider evangelistic strategies to the left and the right. Need...
by Anne Kennedy | Jun 16, 2024 | Anglicans, Church Growth, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus
The lections today are particularly apt because, it being mid-June, I am gardening furiously. Living in the Northeast as I do, the growing season feels cruelly short. No one–this year was an exception–is supposed to put anything in the ground before...
by Anne Kennedy | May 12, 2024 | Anglicans, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, The Gospel
Photo by Paul Zoetemeijer on Unsplash It’s Mother’s Day today, in case you live under a rock or somewhere, and it’s also, for many of us, Fauxcension (Feast of the Ascension transferred to Sunday), not to mention the usual lections appointed for the...
by Matt Kennedy | May 10, 2024 | Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, History, Jesus, Podcast, Sexuality, Woke Church
On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick talk about the purpose and scope of creeds, in light of the current trend of “affirming” creedal truth while rejecting biblical doctrine. They also spent a few minutes talking about Kevin M....
by Anne Kennedy | Apr 28, 2024 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Jesus
Photo by Beatrice Zinetti on Unsplash I am excessively distracted by Twitter. There are so many crazy things going on. Kevin M Young, for example, is busily arguing that the Tax Collectors and Prostitutes who came into the Kingdom of Heaven stayed that way. Of course,...
by Anne Kennedy | Apr 14, 2024 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, Jesus
Photo by Jose Francisco Morales on Unsplash [I wrote this yesterday–am spending today praying for all those in harm’s way in the Middle East. This post isn’t about that. It’s about something apparently much more trite, though also strangely...