Almost exactly one year ago, an hour before our church's Ash Wednesday service, Kyle and I sat across from two good friends (our pastor and his wife) at a local restaurant. We laughed about each other's dinner choices. And we laughed about our pastor friend's insistence that he was a "prepper" and they would be … Continue reading A Gentler Lent
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Dust to Dust
To my memory, the churches I grew up in didn't have specific Ash Wednesday liturgical services. (They might have and we didn't participate or I don't remember because I was a kid and not yet obsessed with this kind of thing, meaning both liturgy and death.) In college, I mostly knew of Lent as the … Continue reading Dust to Dust