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Gratitude and the Christian

by Matt Kennedy | Nov 25, 2021 | Jesus, The Gospel

I was once invited to speak at a Mormon church here in Binghamton. The Mormon bishop asked me to discuss our “common faith in Jesus Christ.” I told the bishop that I could not in good conscience do that since I do not believe that we share a common faith in the same...

We Hope For Light

by Anne Kennedy | Oct 24, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Church Growth, Church Year, Coronavirus, Go to Church, Jesus

In the last week I came across no less than four articles (which I can’t find again…sorry) about how people are not going to church at the rates they were before covid. One had some stats, I think, but the others were more anecdotal. It seems a bit like there was the...

The Land of the Living

by Anne Kennedy | Oct 17, 2021 | Anglicans, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus

Over the last decade of being both in the church in a real sense (like actually going there and worshiping God and stuff) and being online, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that is bothersome and upsetting, and which, strangely enough, the lections this morning answered for...

As The Lord Said

by Anne Kennedy | Oct 3, 2021 | Apostasy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus

For the first time since the time of covid when we were all allowed to go to church, I’m not because some of us have come down with the awful common cold which is truly a misery. So I’m wandering into a blog post late and trying to think my way out of a...

It’s What God Wants

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 28, 2021 | Biblical Illiteracy, Coronavirus, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, Totalitarians

Jesus wondering who on earth Governor Hochul is listening to. Sorry about there being no podcast and links yesterday. We meant to, but then we just didn’t. Here is the sermon that I would have linked….and speaking of sermons, I’m sure a lot of you...

Straggling into the Kingdom

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 26, 2021 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Eschatology, Jesus

I managed, in spite of the presence of both the internet and all my children, to finish both The Return of the King and the NT Wright Paul book in a single day—truly a feat, though not as epic as one might hope in that I was almost done with both of them. I only had...