Rachael Denhollander and SGM

Last updated on: March 6, 2018 at 8:22 am By Anne Kennedy

Spent a tense forty five minutes over the weekend, perched uncomfortably on the couch, devouring Rachael Denhollander’s long and detailed Facebook post about Sovereign Grace Ministries. I commend it to you in its entirety. It is unlike anything else you are likely to read on the internet for weeks. It is clear, precise, unemotional, filled with carefully delineated evidence, and, by the time you come to the end, shattering. More important than reading anything I might say here, go read... Read more

Monday on the Politically Incorrect Podcast and Links

Last updated on: March 5, 2018 at 11:44 am By Anne Kennedy

Have been awake for hours dithering around, but finally got my act together and persuaded Matt to help me do up a short podcast. Complained for about half an hour about how insane the world is, and about how no man can have a uterus, and how parents who organize gender reassignment surgery for their children are the worst. Also, no matter what Matt says, I am not high maintenance. Now, let me see, Links. First of all, my mother’s... Read more

Someone To Contend With

Last updated on: March 4, 2018 at 6:52 am By Anne Kennedy

I’m always on the look out for words to hate, but I’ve recently landed on an unlikely word that every day I love a little bit more. It’s the word Contend. If you push it a little bit further you can get the word Contentious out of it, which, it’s possible, describes the internet and all modern life a touch too much. I was recalled to this word, as many of you might have been, by listening to Jordan Peterson... Read more

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, A Rapturous Review

Last updated on: March 3, 2018 at 10:36 am By Anne Kennedy

So, for several years, a friend kept telling me to read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and I kept forgetting, because I can’t keep everything in my head can I. But then I was rummaging through a notebook and found where I had scribbled it down and so used a precious audible credit to gather it to my person. Which meant that I blew through it in something like two weeks, instead of two years. I must... Read more

7 Snowy Takes

Last updated on: March 2, 2018 at 10:27 am By Anne Kennedy

Friday! Takes! It’s going to be wonderful. One Listening, as a write this, to reporting about an attack of some kind on the French Embassy in Ouagadougou. It’s not even trending on twitter but France 24 has suspended all its regular programming to cover it. Seems like whoever the attackers are chose to wait for the auspicious moment when the French Military were organizing some sort of military training activity Right There. It appears, so far, that the only casualties... Read more

Too Much Marketing

Last updated on: February 28, 2018 at 8:45 am By Anne Kennedy

My resolution of not scrolling through Facebook “very much” failed this morning, landing me on this gem posted by Matt whenever it was that he woke up in the middle of the night. It’s a conference going on this very moment called Exponential. This year’s theme is Hero Makers. Matt beat me to the punch by observing that Jesus, when you become a Christian, does not offer you a cape, but, unhappily, a cross. Here’s your cross, he says, and... Read more

Monday on the Billy Graham Podcast and Links

Last updated on: February 26, 2018 at 10:56 am By Anne Kennedy

Good Moaning, if you like that sort of thing. This week’s podcasting effort is a heated argument about the theology of Billy Graham, if it’s ok to have bad theology at all, what evangelism should even look like, and what an important personage I’m becoming. Just kidding about that last part. If you are tired of thinking about Billy Graham because that was all the way last week, listen for our recriminatory banter instead. It’s possible you won’t want to... Read more

A Crusade, A Tower, A Pew

Last updated on: February 25, 2018 at 7:46 am By Anne Kennedy

It’s been curious to watch the news go back and forth all week about Billy Graham. On the one hand, accolades. On the other hand, the usual hue and cry that Christians are bad and this Christian was the worst of the lot. And in the same breath, his son has ruined it all. It did make me begin to feel nostalgic for a simpler and friendlier past. I’m not big on nostalgia, as you know. I don’t think you... Read more

Notes From Home: Remembering Billy Graham

Last updated on: February 24, 2018 at 10:30 am By Anne Kennedy

This is turning out to be one of those embarrassing occasions where I latently discover my own ignorance of the legacy of famous people upon their deaths. Of course I know who Billy Graham is and the far rippling effects of his preaching of the gospel. But I didn’t realize until this week that I had not even once, ever, listened to one of his sermons. This is a curious realization in the Information Age. It’s like discovering that you... Read more

7 More Takes To Traveling With Children

Last updated on: February 23, 2018 at 10:48 am By Anne Kennedy

A long time ago I did seven takes to traveling with children–how to get from New York to Texas in a few minivan with six children and not lose your mind. You can google it because it was fantastic and was full of useful information about the shoe bag and how not to lose your mind–no wait, I already said that. So, now I’ve gone into NYC with children and one time was more than enough for me to provide... Read more