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Lent
Lent marks a 40-day period on the church calendar leading up to the celebration of Easter. During Lent, Christians have traditionally engaged in practices of self-denial, like fasting, meant to orient their hearts and minds to the sufferings of Christ, who spent 40 days in the desert fasting and enduring temptations from Satan. While many evangelicals reject Lenten disciplines for their associations with Catholicism, in recent years a greater number have experimented with practices like giving up a favorite indulgence or abstaining from meat on Fridays.
Giving Up Self-Discipline for Lent
There is really only one 'lesson' I've learned in the penitential season.
February 22, 2012
Let's Lengthen Lent
The season can be a beautiful and deeply moving experience of walking with Jesus to the cross.
March 1, 2000
More on Lent
Our Lenten Thirst for Justice
40 days drinking, walking, and raising big bucks for clean water.
March 22, 2013
What Neuroscience Tells Us about Lenten Disciplines 
Don't fast for a cause, but to shape your soul.
March 29, 2012
The 'Above All' Commandment of the Sabbath
The one divine 'law' that tells us to stop striving for transformation.
March 16, 2012
My Church's Lenten Challenge: Get a Tattoo
Sometimes in order to believe something, we need to bear it on our bodies.
March 13, 2012
Owning Redemptive Grief after the Ohio School Shooting
Instead of speculating on why T.J. Lane killed three of his classmates, we are better off asking how to grieve the tragedy rightly.
March 1, 2012
Why a Funeral Is Not the Time to Rejoice
We can let this season of Lent be Lent, so that Easter can be Easter.
February 29, 2012
Coveting Cover to Cover: Why I Gave Up Vogue for Lent
Fashion magazines were eating up my heart.
February 23, 2012
Why Ash Wednesday Belongs out of the Church and out on the Streets
We suspect that penitence is usually done best when one joins in a community.
February 22, 2012
Giving Up Self-Discipline for Lent
There is really only one 'lesson' I've learned in the penitential season.
February 22, 2012
Marriage, War, and Lent: Practicing Love During Separation
What my husband's military deployment has taught me about the spiritual disciplines.
February 22, 2012
Mercifully Forsaken
There is a reason Good Friday is called good, and why we can be thankful when God forsakes us.
April 21, 2011
The Praying Artist: God Is My Editor
How praying through my work changed me (Part 2).
April 13, 2011
The Problem with Christus Victor
An increasingly popular view of the atonement forces the question: What are we saved from?
April 7, 2011
The Praying Pedestrian: A Lenten Discipline
How praying for my neighborhood changed it (part 1 of a 2-part series).
April 7, 2011
Priest Pressured to Give Up Muslim Lent
The Rev. Steve Lawler faced being defrocked if he continued to practice Islamic rituals for Lent.
March 21, 2011
The Charlie Sheen Has Worn Off
This Lent, given the disturbed actor's slow self-wrecking, I'd like to fast from celebrity news.
March 11, 2011
Lent in Narnia
Would C.S. Lewis have renounced Turkish Delight from Ash Wednesday to Easter?
March 10, 2011
A Resurrection That Matters
If we are completely saved from our sins through the Cross, what's the point of the empty tomb?
April 1, 2010
Caught between the Easter Bunny and the Empty Grave
Reducing Easter to a purely spiritual celebration is almost as problematic as reducing it to a consumer smorgasbord.
April 1, 2010
A Crescendo of Wonder
Why Good Friday services are not designed to be funerals for Jesus or exercises in guilt.
March 31, 2010
More Important Than Christmas?
Why pro-life Protestants don't say much about the Annunciation—or the unborn Jesus.
March 25, 2010
The Resurrection Changes Everything
'Raised With Christ' highlights the neglected central event of our faith.
March 22, 2010
Why I'm Giving Up Counting Calories for Lent
The practice has led me to believe, erroneously, that thinness is a virtue.
February 17, 2010
A Victory in Vietnam
Officials permit massive outdoor Easter gathering for house churches.
May 18, 2009
Serving a Two-Handed God
How we love our neighbor depends on what we think divine power looks like.
April 15, 2009
Easter, Unedited
N. T. Wright says the Gospels' Resurrection accounts are odd because they are fresh.
April 9, 2009
The Empty Tomb and the Emptied Urn
What the wounds of Jesus can — and can't — tell us about our resurrection bodies.
April 7, 2009
When Hope Feels Like a Fool's Errand
What the Cross and Resurrection teach us about forgiveness.
April 6, 2009
Baptists open eyes to Epiphany
Epiphany and other events on liturgical calendar, long dismissed by most Baptists as unbiblical, are increasingly being viewed as spiritually beneficial, some experts say. (ABP)
Your Lent prayers online or on paper
Sacred Mysteries: what the internet can offer in support of prayer in the run-up to Easter. (Telegraph)
Ashes are a rich Christian tradition
Many of region's religious unite in ritual marking start of Lent (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
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