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No One Was Ever Alone Again

by Anne Kennedy | May 30, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus

Well, it’s Trinity Sunday. Let’s see what kind of heresy we can rustle up this morning, shall we? I’m the kind of Christian that accepts that God is more than able to use human language to communicate with me about what he is like, what we are like, and what anyone...

#53: On Earth as it is in Heaven? Wrestling with the Trinity

by Matt Kennedy | May 28, 2021 | Bible Study, Jesus, Podcast

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick talk about how we know our God is triune, the differences between the immanent Trinity and the economic Trinity, and take a look at the idea that the Son (Jesus) might be “eternally...

One Name in Every Place

by Anne Kennedy | May 23, 2021 | False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, Jesus

Well, we’ve made it as far as Pentecost in this tumultuous year. I can barely type, having gotten into a tussle with a rose bush, yesterday, in my efforts to bring order and constraint to my garden—beating back the weeds and the pests and making the plants I want to...

Happy Birthing Person Day

by Anne Kennedy | May 9, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

Today, apparently, is “Birthing Person” Day, and the prevailing manner of marking the occasion seems to be people posting pictures of “birthing creatures” in the wild–fluffy “mother” birds with baby birds under their wings, a...

When Hate Has A Home

by Anne Kennedy | Apr 25, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, Jesus, Social Justice, The Gospel, Woke Church

On our quick trip there and back again, Matt and I took a whole day in the car to listen to a book released just this last week—The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr. Then, even though we were in the car, we watched the launch zoom with Kristin Kobes...

Two Funerals and an Amazing Grace

by Anne Kennedy | Apr 18, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Coronavirus, Episcopalians, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel, Woke Church

After attending yet another funeral in the morning yesterday, I came home and hunched over my kitchen counter, absorbed in leftover scalloped potatoes, to be transported by the soaring music, the elegant hats, and the heartbreaking social distancing of a very...