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How To Talk To “The Old Guy”

by Anne Kennedy | Apr 30, 2020 | Anglicans, Church Growth, Episcopalians, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Jesus, LGBTQIetc, Sexuality, The Gospel, Theological Liberalism

Matt has been going all over the internet reposting one of my first Stand Firm pieces about how I (at least) don’t think we can yet be friends with those who happily self-identify as Episcopalian or some other brand of Progressive Christian. The war isn’t over, I...

Is the Law Legalistic?

by Nick Lannon | Apr 29, 2020 | Jesus, Sexuality, The Gospel

The Reverend Nick Lannon is Rector of Grace Anglican Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Christians are forever being called hypocrites online. Back when there were sports, a prime example was people who were made uncomfortable by the Super Bowl halftime show, which was,...

The New Normal

by Anne Kennedy | Apr 19, 2020 | Anglicans, Jesus, The Gospel

Every single morning now, when I fire up the interwebs, there are at least three articles about the “new normal.” Some of them ponderously explain that there will be a new normal. Others disparage the very idea of there being a new normal. The more interesting ones...

Why Bad Things Happen To Bad People

by Anne Kennedy | Apr 8, 2020 | Abortion, Eschatology, Jesus, The Gospel, U.S. Politics

As I was briefly scrolling around the internet yesterday (I am trying to stay away, I really am) watching people being angry and stressed about the very idea that some Christians (like me) would say that you can know to one degree or another why God lets bad things...

Jesus Answers Your Silly Questions

by Anne Kennedy | Apr 1, 2020 | Jesus, The Gospel

In this new age of coronavirus, I thought I would toddle over to Time.com and do the bold, terrible thing of gently disagreeing with NT Wright, who, we must all acknowledge, is much much smarter than me, and who has reams and reams of published work to prove it....

Lent: When Less is More – Fasting and Abstinence

by Mark Marshall | Mar 11, 2020 | Anglicans, Jesus, Spirituality

I should say right off that I am not the best one to write about Lenten fasting and abstinence. I’m Texan. I can maybe go 40 hours without meat as I more or less do at the end of Holy Week, but 40 days? As for abstinence, I do cut back on my alcohol intake during...