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BY MATIAS SUR Our Lenten journey is well underway, which is why I want to offer a quick reflection on the possible temptations that may arise—or may have already risen—in the middle of our respective paths toward Easter Sunday. At the risk of being reductive, if you had to pick between these two persons reflecting…

BY SERENA RIDDLE 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/truth-in-the-psych-ward. Trigger warning: Suicide, self-harm Disclaimer: As David Finnegan-Hosey says in his book Christ on the Psych Ward, “any eloquent description of the experience of mental health struggle conceals as…

BY JORDAN HEPBURN About one in three adults in the United States don’t get enough sleep. [1] Being a college student about to enter the workforce, I know my lifestyle matches really well with this statistic. Most adults, including myself, are tired, working long hours, and needing more sleep. I joked to my friend the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…