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‘Til Death Do Us Part
BY RAQUEL SEQUEIRA This piece is part of syndicated series in collaboration with Yale Logos for Lent 2021. You can read the original piece at https://www.yalelogos.com/home/til-death-do-us-part. “Die to live.” The words had been running through my head since before Lent—since before I moved back to New Haven to finally start my senior year. After a…
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Wild Beasts and Angels
BY SHARMAINE KOH This piece is part of syndicated series in collaboration with Yale Logos for Lent 2021. You can read the original piece at https://www.yalelogos.com/home/wild-beasts-and-angels. Many of the reflection pieces in this series have talked about the question: “What are you giving up for Lent?” It’s popped up in every piece because our humble…
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A Lenten Prayer
BY JADAN ANDERSON This piece is part of syndicated series in collaboration with Yale Logos for Lent 2021. You can read the original piece at https://www.yalelogos.com/home/lenten-prayer. Dear God, I am always delighted to see a cross in ashes on the head of a person I know in passing. There are few signs more perfectly suited…
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Looking Forward to Home
BY SE RI LEE This piece is part of syndicated series in collaboration with Yale Logos for Lent 2021. You can read the original piece at https://www.yalelogos.com/home/looking-forward-to-home. Over the past twentyish years of my life, I’ve had fifteenish rooms. The longest I’ve called a room home is a little under three years. I used to…
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Love in the Dust
JACK MYHRE BY SAM LAURENT If you’re depressed, Lent doesn’t look particularly bleak. Popularly rendered as a season of austerity and asceticism, Lent evokes overtones of unworthiness and deprivation in wider culture. On behalf of depressives everywhere, I’d like to welcome everyone else to the party. I have depression, and I love Lent. But not…
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Wilderness
BY TAYLOR PLETT What does it mean to be in the wilderness? I spent a good hunk of 2020 moving between ranches in the Great Plains states—a near-nomadic stint of life in literal wilderness. It was an accidental metaphor for the world at large during a global pandemic. I can draw some parallels. In my…
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Playing at Lent
BY STANLEY HAUERWAS I have always thought that Lent is a dangerous time for Christians. This time in the church year I fear tempts us to play at being a Christian. We are to discipline our lives during Lent in order to discover and repent of those sins that prevent us from the wholehearted worship…
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A Great Confusion
BY SHARLA MOODY This piece is part of syndicated series in collaboration with Yale Logos for Lent 2021. You can read the original piece at https://yalelogos.com/home/a-great-confusion. Lord, ask me not to walk atop the seas, and give me not knowledge of all languages. Do not speak to me with dew or marvelous wines, and I…
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A Prayer for Disturbance
BY BEN COLON-EMERIC This piece is part of syndicated series in collaboration with Yale Logos for Lent 2021. You can read the original piece at https://www.yalelogos.com/home/prayer-for-disturbance. The church calendar is largely satisfying to look at … but Lent has always disturbed me. Two large blocks of green Ordinary Time take up most of the year,…
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Lent: What and Why
BY BRADLEY YAM This piece is part of syndicated series in collaboration with Yale Logos for Lent 2021. You can read the original piece at https://www.yalelogos.com/home/lent-what-and-why. What am I giving up for Lent, and why? Lent is a season in the liturgical calendar of the church, which is to say it is a Christian season…
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