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#91: It’s Out There: Truth, Cynicism, and Preaching for Today

by Matt Kennedy | Mar 4, 2022 | Corrupt Media, Jesus, Podcast, U.S. Politics

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick talk about the lack of trust in institutions: the media, the government, and the church. They discuss what might be done to restore that trust, the importance of telling the truth, and the need to...

Do Something to Mark the Occassion

by Anne Kennedy | Mar 1, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, Roman Catholics

I have got a lot of crepes to make today, as a supplement to the main event which is Regular Pancakes. Anglicans, at least up here, eat pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, as an attempt, I think, to shrive their fridges of all the fat, earnestly expecting to eat depressing...

On World Mission Sunday Worship Jesus

by Anne Kennedy | Feb 20, 2022 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Go to Church, Jesus

Being a subscriber to the whole Patheos website, not just the Evangelical channel, I happened upon this intriguing, if a bit clickbaity headline last night: “Do Christians Make an Idol out of Jesus? The bait worked, and I read the whole thing. The author makes many...

When You Can’t Even

by Anne Kennedy | Feb 6, 2022 | Church Year, Coronavirus, Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus

In between various other kinds of work all week, I’ve scrolled past a vast number of hot takes about Joe Rogan, without really having the time to click on any of them, and then the piece by Megan Basham about Francis Collins and Ed Stetzer and all those people. I...

Tell Me a Kindly Lie

by Anne Kennedy | Jan 30, 2022 | Church Year, Corrupt Media, Go to Church, Jesus

This is so good. It’s a long piece about Stephen Glass, one of the most notable and interesting of the many instances of journalistic liars of recent memory. He started out his career writing for The New Republic sometime in the 90s, and after a time it was discovered...

Save Yourself Some Cash

by Anne Kennedy | Jan 23, 2022 | Anglicans, Bible Study, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus

I was furiously hiding undesirable Facebook ads in the wee hours, without consideration or thought, when providence intervened and I did not click “I don’t want to see this” or however Facebook puts it. Instead, I watched it twice with rapt attention and read all the...