Ashes to Go? Context and Rationale
Ashes to Go can be a useful evangelistic tool, assuming that the context of the gospel in the prayer book liturgy can be legitimately maintained.
Clergy: Don’t Apologize for Lent
We all need Lent more than we know.
Inhabiting Job in Lent
Now in Holy Week, we remember where we began: with ashes smeared on our foreheads.
Via crucis
Behold my grace through vessel, see my love / in bark-covered-twisted-winter-dead tree.
Ash Wednesday: Confronting sin and mortality
Ash Wednesday confronts us with two truths we probably don’t like to dwell on, truths our culture encourages us to minimize, deny, or simply ignore.
Poem: After an ice storm on Ash Wednesday
Ice fell from the sky last night,
and tree branches now bear its weight.
We heard them groan and crack in the dark,
gun shots ringing out through the still woods.
In the morning some limbs hang at awkward angles,
the pale flesh of their trunks... Read More...
Ashen living: Better Call Saul and the life of repentance
Unlike Saul Goodman, there is for us an ashen existence that is humble, repentant, and thankful, aware of grace and full of grace.
A meditation for Lent I
This brief meditation for the first Sunday in Lent was originally printed in the bulletin at my parish, Trinity Episcopal Church in Lawrence, Kansas.