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To Care and Not To Care

By Ian Olson Lent is always a summoning out of the fertile Jordan Valley and into the wasteland, a wasteland, paradoxically, pregnant with promise. We...

Because I Do Not Hope to Turn Again

On Ash Wednesday By Eugene R. Schlesinger With my penchant for the melancholy, I’ve always resonated with what we might consider the “downer” moments of the...

Ash Wednesday in Another Pandemic Year

“It just might be that this Ash Wednesday, our ashes make it clear that our frail existence and our fragile environment are linked."

From the Ashes We Will Rise: The Power of Ash Wednesday

By James Richardson Ash Wednesday 2018 dawned like no other in my lifetime. A few short months earlier, fires had raged through Sonoma, Napa, and Lake...

The Way of Love: Turn

Part of a series on The Way of Love. Other previous entries are available here. By Charlie Clauss Presiding Bishop Curry should be applauded for his work...

Creative Ideas for a COVID-19 Ash Wednesday

Ashes to Go is mostly on hold until next year.

Poetry From the Age of Pandemic

Contemplations, by Marly Youmans

Newman on Self-deception and Self-knowledge

The way truly to know ourselves is not idly to look within ourselves, but rather to look away from ourselves at the one who calls us by name, who commands us to love him by loving our neighbor, who sends us into the vineyard to work today.

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.

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