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Lent

By Duccio di Buoninsegna

THE VILLAGE GREEN
Why Bother With Lent?
Steven R. Harmon: To Take Up the Cross
Frederica Mathewes-Green: For Spiritual Exercise
Michael Horton: To Lead Us to Christ

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The Challenge of the Lenten Season
Evangelical Protestants are caught between freedom in Christ and sacred observance.

Lent in Narnia
Would C.S. Lewis have renounced Turkish Delight from Ash Wednesday to Easter?

Self-Examination Time
Lent reminds us that the main problem with us is not them.

My Top 5 Resources for Lent
Best books to read before Easter.

Amazing Sin, How Deep We're Bound
Finding the courage to trust in grace.

Reflections: Lenten Inventory
Quotations to stir heart and mind

Andy Crouch: Dead Authors Society
We're no longer interested in tasting death but only little morsels of cheer.

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Let's Lengthen Lent
The season can be a beautiful and deeply moving experience of walking with Jesus to the cross.

Stations of the Cross — Without the Cross
Episcopalian liturgy for Stations of the Millennium Development Goals truncates the gospel, critics say.

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