Woke Church Archives

Pope Francis, Bishop Strickland and the Limits of Tolerance

by Mark Marshall | Nov 14, 2023 | Academia, Anglicans, Apostasy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Roman Catholics, Social Justice, Theological Liberalism, Totalitarians, Vichycon, Woke Church

When the news came out at the beginning of this past weekend that Pope Francis had arbitrarily removed Joseph Strickland as the Bishop of Tyler, Texas, I was furious. That Pope promotes all sorts of apostates, the apostasy adjacent and other evildoers and stacks the...

Enough For What?

by Anne Kennedy | Nov 5, 2023 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Social Justice, Theological Liberalism, Woke Church

Photo by Samuel McGarrigle on Unsplash I must confess, I wasn’t not particularly enthralled by the lections appointed for today. Some long excoriating passage from Micah, Paul telling the Thessalonians what to do, the Usual Psalm, and then Jesus explaining to...

“There is No ‘On the Other Hand’”

by Mark Marshall | Oct 11, 2023 | Apostasy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, History, Justice, Social Justice, Theological Liberalism, U.S. Foreign Policy, Vichycon, Woke Church

It is a good thing I do my dinnertime reading while sitting down. For yesterday evening I found myself agreeing with that old Clinton Democrat Lanny Davis. He wrote an excellent big picture article debunking moral equivalence arguments that equate Israel and Hamas or,...

I am that kind of person

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 24, 2023 | Anglicans, Biblical Illiteracy, Church Year, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Garden-Variety Malaise, Go to Church, Jesus, Woke Church

Photo by Johny Goerend on Unsplash On my way to the lections for today, I happened to pass by a marvelous short thread by Kevin M. Young–excuse me, Dr. Kevin M. Young–my favorite progressive on the app formerly known as Twitter. Initially, I was...

“We are all prisoners of time.”

by Mark Marshall | Sep 14, 2023 | Apostasy, Bible Study, False Teachers and Their Enablers, History, The Gospel, Totalitarians, Woke Church

This from Rod Dreher this past Sunday has me thinking about how we all are too prone to having our thinking held captive by the times we happen to live in. I mean, look: we wonder (or rather, I wonder) why more people, especially Christians, aren’t standing up...

Totalitarian Moments XII: John Paul II Visits Nicaragua

by Mark Marshall | Aug 30, 2023 | History, Roman Catholics, Totalitarians, Woke Church

Pope John Paul II travelled around the world as no Pope had before and no Pope since. He flew into quite a number of varied situations. But few of them had the tension of his arrival in Managua, Nicaragua in March 1983. The cabinet of the Marxist Sandinista junta were...