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An Offensive Gospel on International Women’s Day

by Anne Kennedy | Mar 8, 2020 | Abortion, Jesus, The Gospel

Between International Women’s Day and Daylight Savings Time we’re all in a pickle. What can God possibly do for us? Let us consider the matter, and what may be done. A quick glance at the history of IWD on Wikipedia told me a lot more than I wanted to know. It was...

How ’bout This Election?

by Tim Fountain | Feb 23, 2020 | Academia, Bible Study, Church Growth, Go to Church, Jesus, Spirituality, The Gospel

No, not Election as the multigazillion dollar board game to gain control of the imperial city on the Potomac, or Election the deep, prayerful and absolutely always fruitful effort to snap up a Bishop from those dancing ’round the mitre tree. Election, as in the...

Racism Is Not Your Biggest Problem

by Anne Kennedy | Feb 13, 2020 | Abortion, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Jesus, Prosperity Gospel, The Gospel, Woke Church

I have been mulling this article over for the last few days, finding it a curiosity that I can’t quite catch hold of, but can’t walk away from either. Indeed, it was actually the thing that made my word for 2020 take shape in my own mouth. The word is Decadent, in...

Why God Does Answer Some Prayers

by Anne Kennedy | Jan 30, 2020 | Jesus

I am mixing up all my blogging opportunities. I wrote over at Patheos yesterday about how Christians ought to pray, but then, in the early dawn this morning, I got distracted and posted about children, when really, I meant to answer a bitter comment. So, I’m going to...

The Number of the Juice

by Tim Fountain | Jan 26, 2020 | Anglicans, Episcopalians, Jesus, Spirituality, The Gospel

Associated Press File Photo, November 9, 1968, California at USC January 23rd was the 32nd anniversary of my ordination as a priest in the Anglican… Church? Communion? [insert organizational descriptor that seeks to mask fracture and incoherence.] 32. That was...

What’s In Your Locker?

by Tim Fountain | Jan 19, 2020 | Anglicans, Bible Study, Jesus, Spirituality, The Gospel

I keep a Bible and Book of Common Prayer in my locker at the hospital where I work. I read Morning Prayer at home with my English Standard Version Bible; I have my Africa Study Bible (New Living Translation) at work for Evening Prayer. (No big commentary in sharing...