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Till the Break of Day

by Anne Kennedy | Nov 8, 2020 | Biblical Illiteracy, Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus

Apparently, Mr. Biden made a speech yesterday and in it quoted On Eagle’s Wings. I thought about going and trying to find it, but I have a policy of never listening to any speech any politician makes, and I don’t intend to begin now, even to hear something so...

A Great Throng

by Anne Kennedy | Nov 1, 2020 | Eschatology, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

Last year for All Saints I put together a pretty great listicle, riffing off the one that Jesus puts together for his lovely Sermon on the Mount. I had been thinking lots about the word “blessing” or rather, hashtag blessed, and thought it was so funny of Jesus to do...

Heart-rendering

by Anne Kennedy | Oct 18, 2020 | Anglicans, Eschatology, Go to Church, Jesus

Early Friday morning my parents packed up their meager breakfast, their computers, their small bag of clothes, and checked out of the Candlewood Suites where they had slept that night, and went out to the big horrible overflow parking lot to climb into their Uhaul...

What Choice Do You Have?

by Anne Kennedy | Oct 14, 2020 | Abortion, Biblical Illiteracy, Jesus, The Gospel

I had hoped to sleep off my general discouragement about losing a whole lot of writing, but instead, I gave myself one of those “sleeping” injuries—like, somehow during the night I pulled a muscle or something, and so I can’t move my neck. I’m not exactly sure why God...

Have Your Cake After All

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 27, 2020 | Anglicans, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

One of the essential features of being human is that we all—without exception—want to have it both ways. We want to have our cake and eat it too. We want to argue on the internet and be right. We want to accuse others of being literally Hitler without being Hitler...

#20: But He Actually Became a Person: The Problem with a “Personified” Jesus

by Matt Kennedy | Sep 25, 2020 | False Teachers and Their Enablers, Jesus, LGBTQIetc, Podcast, Pornography, Sexuality

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Anne, Liza, and Ralinda take the mic to discuss a transgender Icelandic Jesus, the downside of the Jesus Storybook Bible, and a few more thoughts on Netflix’s notorious film “Cuties.” Show notes: Transgender...