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What Is Beauty and What Survives?

by Anne Kennedy | May 22, 2022 | Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus

In the rushing busy chaos of this last week (in which I failed to blog for a couple of days, you might have noticed) I spent valuable minutes remarking to myself on the various fights going on within Christian circles. Are Christians motivated primarily by fear? Is...

#102: Err Apparent: God’s Truth, Biblical “Mistakes,” and What Inerrancy Really Means

by Matt Kennedy | May 20, 2022 | Bible Study, History, Jesus, Literature, Podcast, The Gospel

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss the doctrine of inerrancy. They consider so-called “literary devices,” ask whether or not it’s important the Bible be inerrant, and suggest that a little faith in God might go a...

Glorify Him At Once

by Anne Kennedy | May 15, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, U.S. Politics

I’m later than I want to be this morning because I’ve been scrolling around the news reading about the terrible shooting in Buffalo yesterday. I generally try to avoid being up to the minute on, what we might call, sensational news because usually everyone backtracks...

#98: No Substitute for Substitution: Jesus, the Cross, and the Wrath of God

by Matt Kennedy | Apr 22, 2022 | Bible Study, Go to Church, History, Jesus, Podcast, The Gospel

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss some common criticisms of Penal Substitutionary Atonement, interact with the ideas of some of its well-known detractors, and wonder if there can be Good News without Jesus taking the punishment...

Sorrow and Sighing Shall Flee Away

by Anne Kennedy | Apr 17, 2022 | Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, The Gospel

Well, it’s been a busy week, to misunderstate it, and there are miles to go before I crash. I hadn’t thought I would be up at this hour, and had even considered forgoing the Sunday post in a fit of sanity, but the cat is sitting on my face and I am all the way awake,...

The Rise and Triumph of Jesus

by Anne Kennedy | Apr 10, 2022 | Anglicans, Church Year, Jesus, The Gospel

I’ve spent a lot of time this week avoiding certain segments of the internet trying not to see pictures of atrocities I know are out there. There’s stuff in Ukraine, and then those babies that were murdered, and the video clips coming out of Shanghai. By scrolling...