Anne Kennedy
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Ten Ways Children Are Oppressive And Tyrannical Like Rich People And White People
I'm teetering between wanting to say snarky things about the question of who gets to be called Doctor and who doesn’t, the question of how much snow we’re → Read More
And They’re Back! MacDonald and Tchividjian Restore Themselves To Ministry
"Oh Goodie," says Jesus. As I said yesterday, this week is full of all manner of little treats. Today let’s look at the completely un-astonishing and yet heartbreaking news that two people properly removed from ministry for the abuse of their pastoral offices and because of sexual sin, are going to leap back into the → Read More
If You Want To Be Free, You Can’t Do Whatever You Want
I am waiting for Elphine (not her real name) to finish The Last Chronicle of Barset so I can have a turn, which means I’ve been futzing about with those freebies you get on Audible every month, whiling away the time on the light and fluffy because that’s where I am in my spirit. So I’ve been listening to the very → Read More
He Saved Others
In the early mornings this week, as I’ve struggled (Christian word for fail) to get my whole mind into the daylight, I’ve run into several articles about James MacDonald and Harvest Chapel—this one is long and detailed. I don’t quite understand all the ins and outs and implications, except that a lot of money is → Read More
In Which Google Anxiously Protects Me From Jesus
It’s almost Easter, and so on cue here is a scolding and yet surprisingly dumb article about how everything you know about Jesus from the Bible isn’t true “because Bart Ehrman” (that’s my short summary in case you don’t feel like actually reading it). Did you know, for example, that that exhausting search in the 90s → Read More
Please Don’t Make Me Be Body-Positive
I finally finished watching Shtisel on Netflix. Took me forever but persistence and hard work paid off. I loved it. If you ever are sitting around, binging on some fantastic series, and think to yourself, ‘Anne would love this,’ pause and ask yourself three questions. Does it have a suspenseful plot? Do people die? → Read More
God Helps Those Who Help Themselves Is Not In The Bible
You probably need some motivation to get yourself up and going this morning. I know I do. Let’s head over to twitter, that great rushing stream of human wisdom and understanding, and see what we can find. Wait, what’s that? You don’t want to go near twitter for any reason? Oh well, I’ll pick up my cross and do it for → Read More
7 Takes to Facing the News
Here is a blustery Friday if ever there was one. One Woke up to the news of the horrific shootings in Christ Church. Read this which immediately put it in perspective. Praying for them all today. Two Also discovered that I was wrong about the nationality of the person I posted about on Tuesday. He was not Kenyan—he → Read More
Wash Off The Ashes And You Are Still Made Of Dust
Turns out I need to revise my plans for Lent and give up, on day one, binge watching Rachel Hollis videos. As usual, it’s the hair that’s so mesmerizing. I’m pretty sure that if I could have her hair I would be as amazing as she is. Oops, now I also need to give up envy. I can’t help being fascinated by this latest → Read More
Facebook Enacts Their Community Standards
Whatever it was I was thinking about yesterday evaporated when I happened on this news, discovered on facebook no less. The tireless, ever cheerful Faith McDonnell has been locked out of her facebook account. Faith, as you probably know, directs the Institute on Religion and Democracy’s Religious Liberty Program. She → Read More
I’m With The Millennials
This is a most interesting study. According to Barna, almost half of millennial Christians don’t think it is good to ‘evangelize,’ that is, share their faith with others. This is true even though those polled said that knowing Jesus was very important. What immediately interested me was what people on twitter thought → Read More
It’s A Dark Day In New York State
I wrote something fluffy and inconsequential yesterday, before the news broke that the New York State Senate easily voted to extend abortion rights to full-term mothers, and to condemn babies who survive the ordeal to death anyway. You can watch the Senate applauding themselves here. As an act of mourning—and anger → Read More
God Doesn’t Lose His Identity When You Dutifully Serve Him
I discovered something foolish on the internet this morning and thought you might like to know about it too. I collect these kinds of little sayings, for my own personal delight. Mostly I keep them buried in an electronic file so as not to embarrass or alarm anyone, but this one is too good not to share. Ready? → Read More
10 Steps to a Stree Free Christmas
I haven't been following my own good advice, so obviously I, and probably you, could use a reminder. Here is something super clever I said last year. **************************************************************** The main headline on Drudge this morning--well, that one above the headline--is that eight out of every → Read More
What You Should Do When You Don’t Like The Christmas Music
Have valiantly swallowed down my annoyance at hearing Christmas music in every store I have warily entered in my quest to gather provender for the coming festivity later this week, a festivity that is not the incarnation of our Lord. I know I was very giving and magnanimous on Sunday, but Monday just about killed it → Read More
Behind Every Inflatable Santa is a Person with a Soul
The children and I noticed a day or two ago, as we drove somewhere or other in the fading twilight—so 4:30 because of all the daylight that’s being saved—that a neighbor had a Christmas tree prominently displayed in the elegant front window possessed by so many houses all around us. The lights twinkled and sparkled, → Read More
Actually, Not All Human Love is a Reflection of God’s Love
While everyone else was freaking out about Serena Williams and gaping at Prince Charles’ beautiful birthday pictures, the Episcopal diocese of Albany took a valiant stand on behalf of the gospel. In light of TEC’s general convention resolution to test and ultimately publish blessings for same sex unions, Bishop Love → Read More
The Word Never Says What You Want To Hear
Below is a basic Christianity 101 talk I gave on Friday to students, some of whom were not sure of the existence of God, some unclear about Jesus, some very new believers. Enjoy! I have had the dubious honor of teaching six whole children to read. A long time ago, when my oldest was facing down kindergarten, my → Read More
If You Don’t Take Care, Who Will?
In a nod to reality, I acknowledged the date and spent a goodly portion of the week puttering around Good Shepherd’s Sunday School rooms, valiantly making ready for Catechesis to start up again...today. This year that meant swapping two rooms because the older group is larger than the younger one, and throwing away a → Read More
Abortion is Not Self-Care
Perhaps many of you who wander around the highways and byways of social media came across this extraordinary claim this past week. It is a snapshot of an enormous billboard featuring three cheerful, happy looking African American women, and in clear block lettering next to them, “Black women can take care of their → Read More