by Anne Kennedy | Sep 3, 2023 | Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, Prosperity Gospel, The Gospel
Photo by Nycholas Benaia on Unsplash I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we have been trucking along through Matthew for the summer, because it’s year A in the lectionary. If you don’t catch a moment to read the Bible at any other moment, at least you will get to hear...
by Anne Kennedy | Dec 27, 2022 | Eschatology, Garden-Variety Malaise, Prosperity Gospel, Spirituality
It’s going to take me all day to write this because I’m so full of cheese and sugar, but, as I said on Twitter, I’ve been watching a lot of Walmart Walmark Hallmark movies with my girls, such that we’ve basically evolved into connoisseurs of the genre. I should...
by Anne Kennedy | Nov 4, 2022 | Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, LGBTQIetc, Prosperity Gospel, The Gospel, Theological Liberalism, Woke Church
Rushing over here so late in the morning because I’ve been distracted by many things, as they say, “online.” While I was listening to this: Matt came in listening to this: And all while I had meant to have something to say about this clip: Horrific:...
by Anne Kennedy | Feb 17, 2022 | False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Justice, Prosperity Gospel
I didn’t actually scroll much through the internet yesterday, even though I totally wanted to. I worked out the class schedule for my offspring for Fall 2022, and worked out the number of years (again) that they all will need to be in school. I should be free...
by Anne Kennedy | Sep 19, 2021 | Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Prosperity Gospel, The Gospel, Woke Church
I had a whole bunch of important things to do yesterday so of course I settled down on my sofa with my device and googled, as I do every few weeks, “Rachel Hollis.” The first thing that came up was—and I can’t believe I missed this, I must be slipping—the important...
by Anne Kennedy | Mar 7, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Episcopalians, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Prosperity Gospel, Social Justice, The Gospel, Theological Liberalism
Over the past tumultuous year, I have become more and more skeptical of the idea that Christians are supposed to “flourish.” It seems a very basic assumption that many of us have, that we’re supposed to do well and be able to use our gifts in the church. When I first...
