Reflections for

Ash Wednesday, Mar 05, 2014

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 or Isaiah 58:1-12; Psalm 51:1-17; 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Century Blogs

On falling

Mar 22, 2013 by Richard A. Kauffman

Twice in the past two years I've taken a hard fall on ice: once at night walking on a dimly-lit sidewalk and another time on black ice in broad daylight. The first time no one was around. The second time I was in a public parking lot. My first act after the fall—before getting up—was to look around to see if anyone had observed my embarrassing fall.

Editor's Desk

Marked

Feb 18, 2013 by John M. Buchanan

The church of my childhood paid no attention to Lent. The season's words sounded too mystical to us, too strange and too Catholic.

From the CCblogs Network

Don't give up. Give up.

Feb 14, 2013 by Diane Roth

Yesterday was Ash Wednesday. We had bookend services, one at 8:00 a.m. in the chapel, the other at 7:00 p.m. The services were essentially the same: readings, sermon, imposition of ashes, confession, communion. Just the essentials.

Features

Making Lent difficult

The case for rigorous disciplines

Feb 13, 2013 by Ted A. Smith

Sustainable Lenten disciplines anticipate an Easter in which they will continue. But surely Easter hope is for something more.

Living by the Word

Ash Wednesday

Isaiah 58:1–12; 2 Corinthians 5:20b–6:10; Matthew 6:1–6, 16–21

Jan 29, 2013 by James Alison

Why do we humans so love to fake goodness? Year after year Lent brings another shout-out to the soul. Year after year we find ourselves dragged forward against the grain of our pretensions of religiosity, through the vulnerability of hearts tender with shames and fears, so that God may find us and make of us transmitters of a light other than our own.

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