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When Righteousness And Peace Finally Kiss Each Other

by Anne Kennedy | Dec 6, 2020 | Advent, Anglicans, Church Year, Jesus, Social Justice, The Gospel, Woke Church

Well, I was settling in for a nice, peaceful before dawn blog when I came across this tweet on Twitter (link lost because it’s too early in the morning): Can we venerate St Nicholas for reasons other than his alleged violence against Arius this year? I’m tired and...

The Incurious Woke

by Mark Marshall | Dec 1, 2020 | Social Justice, Woke Church

The woke, both in and outside of the institutional church, see racism everywhere. As the publicity for Jemar Tisby’s next book has it, “Racism is pervasive in today’s world, and many are complicit…” In the woke worldview even math can be racist. And, my, don’t...

That’s Enough, Tish.

by Mark Marshall | Nov 2, 2020 | Anglicans, Religious Freedom, Social Justice, U.S. Politics, Woke Church

I’ve been around clergy enough to cut them some slack and maybe some grace. If they avoid preaching heresy in most sermons, obey most of the Ten Commandments on good days, and rarely repay evil for good, then I’m good . . . as long as they don’t butcher the liturgy,...

Packing the Court: Why It Matters

by David Fischler | Oct 12, 2020 | Abortion, Freedom of Speech, LGBTQIetc, Religious Freedom, Social Justice, U.S. Politics

Since the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the question of “court-packing” (increasing the number of seats to 11, 13, or 15, with all additional members being of one ideological stripe) has been a subject of discussion by the political...

#21: Ibram Kendi and Adoption as Colonialism

by Matt Kennedy | Oct 2, 2020 | Podcast, Social Justice, Woke Church

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Jady, Nick, and special guest Michael Neal discuss public reaction to Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, and especially to her adopted children. In the course of their conversation, they talk about...

A New Creed For An Unbelieving Age

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 23, 2020 | Garden-Variety Malaise, Social Justice

I’ve been seeing this sign up and down my neighborhood on my walks for the last few years, tucked here and there beside mounds of Black-Eyed Susans and glorious rose and hydrangea bushes. Presumably, these signs endure year round, but, because I try never to leave my...