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By the Strength of His own Arm

by Anne Kennedy | Dec 19, 2021 | Abortion, Advent, Anglicans, Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Episcopalians, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

Because of the people I follow on Twitter, I came across this tweet about the same time I began scrolling through this morning’s lections: For Advent, I wish people don’t use the Visitation Story to justify anti-choice rhetoric and theology. Mary and...

In Person And Online

by Anne Kennedy | Dec 12, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Year, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, The Gospel

I didn’t blog this past week thinking that I would do some other writing. If I just finish this one thing, I so foolishly thought to myself, I’ll be able to do all the other things that are waiting for my attention—Christmas shopping, mucking out the laundry room,...

Things that don’t Pass Away

by Anne Kennedy | Nov 28, 2021 | Apostasy, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, Eschatology, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Go to Church, LGBTQIetc, The Gospel

Well, today is the first day of the new church year, and to celebrate, there was the usual dust-up on Twitter. It seems that someone was calling some people who write very popular books “wolves,”—not in the literal sense, but the biblical, metaphorical one. Not...

Gratitude and the Christian

by Matt Kennedy | Nov 25, 2021 | Jesus, The Gospel

I was once invited to speak at a Mormon church here in Binghamton. The Mormon bishop asked me to discuss our “common faith in Jesus Christ.” I told the bishop that I could not in good conscience do that since I do not believe that we share a common faith in the same...

#76: Queer Eye for the Millennial? Sexual Identity and the Future of the Church

by Matt Kennedy | Nov 12, 2021 | LGBTQIetc, Podcast, Pornography, Sexuality, The Gospel

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss the results of a recent Arizona Christian University survey, wonder about the exploding number of young people identifying as LGBTQ, and think about ways the church can proclaim Good News to this...

I So Long For A Piece of Cake

by Anne Kennedy | Nov 7, 2021 | Biblical Illiteracy, Church Growth, Eschatology, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, The Gospel

Well, the government appears to have given me back the hour it took away so long ago. Which didn’t really change anything because the cat still came at the usual time and sat on my head and batted my face until I woke up. Then she went away to fortify herself with...