Anne Kennedy

Writer at Patheos

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Articles

The heavy yoke of Don’t Die

2 months ago | wng.org | Anne Kennedy

“I’m a disaster of an intelligent being,” declares Bryan Johnson in the final scene of the Netflix documentary Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever: . He smiles and shrugs, “But you know what, “I’m trying my best.” Johnson is part of the Longevity Community. Don’t Die follows him on his journey to reverse the ravages of age and time. According to the biometrics he has posted about himself, he is much younger than his 46 years of biological age. He is turning back the clock.
A church in “inexorable decline”

Dec 4, 2024 | wng.org | Anne Kennedy

Justin Welby is out as archbishop of Canterbury, effective Jan. 6. The archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, has the unenviable role, according to The Guardian, of both carrying on the tasks associated with the vacant See of Canterbury and participating in the process of choosing the next person to preside as first among equals. For those who feel any inclination to hope, there isn’t much to go on.
This short story collection could be a touchstone for the times

Oct 28, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Anne Kennedy

Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn. ook review: For better or worse, we tend to expect collections of short-form fiction to hang together in the same stylistic neighbourhood. Prepare to be surprised, then, by Kirsty Gunn’s Pretty Ugly. This is a book of juxtapositions, stylistic experimentation, cross-genres. Perhaps hinted at by the beautiful oxymoron of a title, a romance character goes meta, realism becomes thriller-esque, historical morphs into experimental.
Let Boys Be Boys

Sep 29, 2024 | theaquilareport.com | Anne Kennedy

Wherever you want to lay the blame for the disintegration of male and female relationships—the industrial revolution, the sexual revolution, the tech revolution, the invention of the birth control pill, the legalization of abortion, any moment will do well enough—the point is that women have been trying to redress their grievances without facing the spiritual verities at the back of the problem, that God exists and that men are people, too.
Let boys be boys

Aug 20, 2024 | wng.org | Anne Kennedy

Researchers say the United States is dealing with an “epidemic” of male loneliness. Though, as Los Angeles Times columnist Jean Guerrero notes, shocking numbers of men feel that no one “knows” them. Worse, Guerrero says the data shows that men are “less skilled than women at making friends.” This is the case despite a long effort to socialize boys.
Dress For Action Like An Anglican

Jun 24, 2024 | patheos.com | Anne Kennedy

After many days of distracting suspense, the Anglican Church in North America (the US and Canada) selected a new Archbishop–Steve Woods. He is currently the bishop of the Carolinas, but by the end of the week, he will be functionally head of the Province. Sometime later in the year, he will be formally consecrated. As you have already expected, public and private online social spaces launched into their thoughts, feelings, and prayers with a frenzied fervor.
Who Is Spoiling For A Fight

Jun 17, 2024 | patheos.com | Anne Kennedy

There is an article going around on the app formerly known as Twitter that dovetails nicely with something I’ve been thinking about all weekend. Having raised six basically sensible and sane children, I have been mulling over what I did and if it worked. That, and the fact that I work with very young children at Church, I’ve been trying to re-learn a skill I began to develop as a young mother, which I am finding most useful for nearly all situations I encounter. But let’s look at the article first.
I’m Over Forty And I Won’t Be Reading All Fours

Jun 10, 2024 | patheos.com | Anne Kennedy

I should be rousting my sleeping children to clean my house and do profitable things with their lives, now that all the finals are done and the ballet shoes have been shoved in the cupboard. There is something about a house full of sleeping teenagers, though–it’s almost as nice as a house full of sleeping toddlers. I might as well sit here and let them be a while longer. Plus, there are so many interesting things to write about.
I Will Never Stop Talking About Jesus

May 20, 2024 | patheos.com | Anne Kennedy

Having grown up in the 80s, under the thrall of exciting books like This Present Darkness, and many thrilling discussions about spiritual warfare and the malign power of the New Age, I have always tried to temper my inclination to see demons in every corner. It’s too easy, for the most part, to see something bad and attribute the badness to a spirit sitting there, trying to wreck everything.
The wardrobe and the garden

May 14, 2024 | wng.org | Anne Kennedy

The Met Gala, hosted annually by New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, happened on May 6, and my family had to subsist on toast and ramen while I digested listings of the Best and Worst Dressed. This year, the theme was “The Garden of Time,” taken from a short story by J.G. Ballard.