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#226: Reading Between the Lines: Ortlund, Lausanne, and the Need for Clarity

Oct 3, 2024 | standfirminfaith.com | Matt Kennedy |Garden-Variety Malaise

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt, Jady, and Nick discuss Ray Ortlund’s controversial tweet about the presidential race, dig into the 2024 Lausanne Congress “Seoul Statement,” and talk about the need for clear language about biblical truth. The Seoul StatementNeed more Stand Firm? Subscribe to the pod on iTunes or follow us on X. Want to join the conversation or suggest a topic for a future episode? Email us at , or connect with Anglicans for the Gospel on Facebook.
#215: Loose Planks: Republicans, Abortion, and Voting for President

Jul 18, 2024 | standfirminfaith.com | Matt Kennedy |Garden-Variety Malaise

On this episode of the Stand Firm podcast, Matt and Jady discuss changes to the Republican party platform, the morality of voting, and the availability of forgiveness and redemption for those morally compromised by their participation in abortion. Need more Stand Firm? Subscribe to the pod on iTunes or follow us on X. Want to join the conversation or suggest a topic for a future episode? Email us at , or connect with Anglicans for the Gospel on Facebook.
The World and Kevin

May 12, 2024 | standfirminfaith.com | Anne Kennedy |Their Enablers |Garden-Variety Malaise

Photo by Paul Zoetemeijer on UnsplashIt’s Mother’s Day today, in case you live under a rock or somewhere, and it’s also, for many of us, Fauxcension (Feast of the Ascension transferred to Sunday), not to mention the usual lections appointed for the day.
But Behold, An Outcry

Oct 8, 2023 | standfirminfaith.com | Anne Kennedy |Garden-Variety Malaise

Photo by Jeff Kingma on UnsplashPerhaps you are, like me, having a hard time attending to any of your usual routines–in my case writing a Sunday morning blog post. Being near the internet, as one is when one approaches a computer for any reason, devolves into an invitation to scroll and scroll in horror, gaping as the news filters in about Israel and its war with Hamas. In between news updates I’ve been trying to pray, and doing a bad job of it. There doesn’t seem to be any human solution.
Forgive Me | Stand Firm

Sep 10, 2023 | standfirminfaith.com | Anne Kennedy |Garden-Variety Malaise

Photo by Corina Rainer on UnsplashIf you have spent any time in what might, at least until the last five years, be called an “evangelical church,” you probably have not escaped situations and circumstances painfully marked by that dreaded shorthand Christianese—Matthew 18. It is the one passage of the Bible that is so uncomfortable to contemplate that it is rendered nearly impossible to do. Though it is so plain and clear—because it is so plain and clear—it is persistently misunderstood.
On Leaves And Rocks

Aug 27, 2023 | standfirminfaith.com | Anne Kennedy |Garden-Variety Malaise

Photo by Jametlene Reskp on UnsplashI haven’t read Quillette much since Claire Lehmann converted into a scold in the era of Covid, but I saw this article tweet/posted early this morning, and, while a touch inflammatory in tone, it seems like a fairly comprehensive narrative of how Canadian politics and the accelerating gender madness are together careening down the broad, wide road that leads nowhere fun.
Yeah Yeah Yeah | Stand Firm

Aug 13, 2023 | standfirminfaith.com | Anne Kennedy |Garden-Variety Malaise

Photo by Nick Moore on UnsplashYou may have come across a song in the last few days that has been downloaded an exceptionally high number of times. I was listening to it myself when I happened to click over to the lections for today, at which point I sighed heavily in my spirit, for then, almost immediately, another song popped into my head.
He Will Make It Make Sense

Aug 6, 2023 | standfirminfaith.com | Anne Kennedy |Their Enablers |Garden-Variety Malaise

Photo by Gadiel Lazcano on UnsplashI’m still not on TikTok. I think about trying it out occasionally, but then invariably I come across a clip of a particular person so disturbing that I change my mind and figure I have better things to do. This person is a man—obviously so—but he claims to be nonbinary. He wears lipstick and earrings and women’s clothes. He is Dylan Mulvaney adjacent in his grotesque, mocking patronization of women as a sex.
Champagne and Pearls

Jul 30, 2023 | standfirminfaith.com | Anne Kennedy |Garden-Variety Malaise

Photo by Rob Mulally on UnsplashI wasn’t going to blog, because I couldn’t think of anything, but then I glanced at the lections, and then remembered that Chelsey Handler made another short, defensive video about how great her life is:What interests me, though, is the trope of Wisdom. Handler, claiming to be wise, like so many, has become your least favorite and scolding Wine Aunt. She is the opposite of all the bright, surprising pictures that Jesus draws for us in the gospel this morning.