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If You Have to Make a Promise

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...

ACNA Laity, It’s Time to Speak Up

by Mark Marshall | Sep 17, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Theological Liberalism, Woke Church

A brief note at the end of a difficult week in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). In the aftermath of GAFCON failing to discipline or even rebuke the Anglican Archbishop of Kenya for consecrating a woman bishop*, I heard a rousing exhortation in a private...

#68: This Bishop was Wrong: John Shelby Spong and Cultural Christianity

by Matt Kennedy | Sep 17, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, Podcast, Woke Church

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick reflect on the life and ministry of Bishop John Spong, his efforts to make the church relevant, and the Good News of culturally discordant Christianity. Want to join the conversation or suggest a topic...

Don’t Push Like On Those Kinds of Posts

by Anne Kennedy | Sep 9, 2021 | Anglicans, Apostasy, False Teachers and Their Enablers, LGBTQIetc, The Gospel, Woke Church

I thought I might wander over here to complain, this morning, about the state of everything. Not that I can’t do that over on Patheos as usual, but there doesn’t seem to be much posting here, so why not. The thing I want to complain about is Boz Tchvidian...

#62: A Stand Firm Conversation: Dr. Owen Strachan

by Matt Kennedy | Aug 6, 2021 | False Teachers and Their Enablers, Justice, Podcast, The Gospel, Woke Church

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick talk to Owen Strachan, author of the new book Christianity and Wokeness. They discuss the definition of wokeness and trace its development, examine different kinds of postmodernity, and consider how the...

Wokeness is not Winsome

by Mark Marshall | Aug 5, 2021 | Anglicans, Church Growth, Justice, Social Justice, Theological Liberalism, Woke Church

This week, Denny Burk wrote an excellent response to a Christianity Today essay by Esau McCaulley. Granted McCaulley threw Burk a fat, slow softball. The CT essay was a tendentious bit of vilification of those who oppose the infiltration of Critical Race Theory into...