Lent

Lent is often a time of catechesis, and it is an especially opportune season to explore one of the most basic catechetical questions, “Why did Jesus have to die?”

Jesus’ call to love one's enemies forecloses both soft-pedalling the truth about enmity and rejecting enemies out of hand. This visceral reflection is an invitation to deeper transformation in Christ.

Ballet dancer and choreographer Silas Farley reminds us of the joys and rewards of freedom and discipline, just in time for Lent.

Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) and the broader tradition of Carnival ("goodbye to meat") are reminders of the joy of Christ prior to the season of Lent. Let's explore some traditions.

Those looking for a rich study this Lent in preparation for the paschal mystery would do well to consider Greenacre and Haselock, The Sacrament of Easter.

“Especially do we earnestly call upon our bishops and clergy to lead us in such a Lenten abstinence; for these can scarcely know how difficult they make the abstinence of the laity when a bishop or priest is willing to drink socially at the table of a known law-breaker.”

When I was a young evangelical on the Canterbury Trail, the liturgical calendar gave my faith structure and meaning in a way I had...

I am an Episcopalian, and Episcopalians often give up something for Lent or take something on as a daily discipline. This might include abstaining from...

Yes, that’s a snake. A bronze serpent, actually — you know the story — set aloft on steel, which serves as the new Lenten...

The Comfortable Words Through these first few weeks of Lent, we have studied the four Comfortable Words, found in our Book of Common Prayer and...