An Essential Guide For Not Ruining Your Church

Last updated on: August 9, 2018 at 8:57 am By Anne Kennedy

Ah well, the tragic drama at Willow Creek continues to unfold, the rain is threatening our happiness, and something something something Russia. It must be Thursday. And that means it’s time for my Essential Guide for not ruining your whole church. Pro Tip #1 Try not committing sexual immorality, like adultery, pederasty, pornography, that kind of thing. I know, this is totally counter intuitive, because, if you’re in some kind of powerful position it stands to reason that you should... Read more

Meditation Upon A List

Last updated on: August 8, 2018 at 9:33 am By Anne Kennedy

Woke up to this brilliant and wonderful piece. It’s very short. You’ll want to read most of it out loud to yourself. It’s one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s to do lists. As we all know, Leonardo (I feel I can call him by his first name, as a sign of affectionate admiration) filled thousands of notebooks with all the things he was always thinking about. There are books stuffed with drawings, and measurements, and notes, and, most wonderfully, lists of... Read more

That’s Not Funny

Last updated on: August 7, 2018 at 9:00 am By Anne Kennedy

Afraid to say I got sucked in reading all those tweets by that person who was just hired by the New York Times in some kind of editorial capacity. Didn’t have time to read them, and wasn’t in any way edified by the endless scroll, and certainly wished I could have that hour of my life back. And truly, have nothing to say about the substance of them—the whole question of racism and wether it’s ok in one context but... Read more

Protestantsplaining Podcast and Links

Last updated on: August 6, 2018 at 9:53 am By Anne Kennedy

Good Moaning. It’s a hot and humid day in cloudy Binghamton. For your listening pleasure we’ve done up a little podcast about our awesome banter, why Pope Francis is wrong, how not to commit sexual immorality if you’re a leader in the church, how I’m slowly working through the Revoice conference, and how we still have bats. It’s all the thought leader things for a Monday morning. Hmmm. Don’t think I read much this week on account of all the... Read more

The Way of the Cross

Last updated on: August 5, 2018 at 6:52 am By Anne Kennedy

In all the moving and rearranging of books and furniture, and the anxiety over bats, I’ve mostly had my ears plugged with podcasts and the occasional book, so as not to be able to hear when any child asks me anything. I’m listening to Barchester Towers as a treat, and then persecuting myself with the podcast archives of a well known self-identified evangelical who interviews guests in an upbeat cheerful, up-talking sort of way, and who I won’t name now... Read more

7 Bat Crazed Takes

Last updated on: August 3, 2018 at 7:54 am By Anne Kennedy

Well, who cares what day it is. One Around 2am Matt’s bat phobia caused us to relocate our sleeping arrangements to the living room because he couldn’t live with the one or two, maybe three, bats circling the attic ceiling. They somehow managed to get out of the wall and join us in our new bedroom. Matt should probably go straight back up there and get them out, now that they’re probably all cozied up for a long rainy day... Read more

There Are Bats In The Attic

Last updated on: August 2, 2018 at 9:01 am By Anne Kennedy

Don’t worry, just because we’re still moving everything around doesn’t mean I will go on endlessly talking about it. I have nothing left to say anyway. My spirit, and more importantly, my body, are crushed to earth. At this point in the proceedings, I am cosmically rocking and muttering, broken apart and ruined. Best to back away and just let me die in pieces. More notably, we have bats. This reality is not a newly discovered one. We’ve actually had... Read more

Finding Jesus Before It’s Too Late

Last updated on: August 1, 2018 at 9:38 am By Anne Kennedy

Oh my word I have to read these books. Feel tragically sad that one, I don’t have any book money right now, and two, I’m supposed to be reading a bunch of stuff that…well, never mind, I won’t complain about that right now. The point is, I am being swallowed up by moving stuff around—a peculiar kind of work that always leaves me in a morass of unsortable intellectual, emotional, and spiritual confusion. It’s like walking into the valley of... Read more

Meditation Upon A Box Of Junk

Last updated on: July 31, 2018 at 8:10 am By Anne Kennedy

Have been digging out the attic, practically with a shovel, so that Matt and I can move in there. We hope to establish a carefree bohemian detached existence by giving up our bedroom to the three little girls, who will give up theirs to their brothers, who will give up theirs basically to me who feels uncomfortable when there’s no proper Spare Oom. Everybody is already horning in on that dream, even though it doesn’t exist yet (I’ll study in... Read more

Sexual Idolatry Podcast and Links

Last updated on: July 30, 2018 at 9:44 am By Anne Kennedy

Just a little clickbait for you on a Monday morning. We spend a depressing hour talking about the scandals breaking open in the Catholic Church, what is happening to Evangelicals, why we should long for heaven all the more, how to pray for victims, and then finally why drinking beer and eating cured meats doesn’t make me less of a women. The neighbors even start cutting down a tree outside our window so you will not, I repeat Not want... Read more

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