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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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Humble Offerings
BY SERENA PUANG 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/humble-offerings. On a good day (when everything is going smoothly, I’m not on a strict deadline, and I’ve gotten plenty of sleep), it’s easier to cut other people slack when…
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Ash Wednesday: Confrontation with Mortality
ANDREW RAINES BY WILL WILLIMON Editor’s note: Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent in the Western calendar. On this day, Christians put ashes on their (fore)heads to symbolize sorrow for their sin and to remind themselves that they will die, eventually turning to dust. “The truth about life is that we shall die,”…
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Tough-minded and Tenderhearted
BY ANDREW RAINES Throughout the year, the Church follows the whole course of Jesus’ life from birth to ascension. We do so because we believe Christ’s life brings us life. If we stumble along in his footsteps, our lives will be changed for the better. So, Lent is the time when Christians prepare for sharing…
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Questioning Reality in a Pandemic
ANDREW RAINES BY JORDAN HEPBURN Last semester was hard, and not only because I couldn’t gorge chocolate chip pancakes at 4 a.m. from Pitchforks or play basketball six days a week in a packed Wilson gym. The biggest challenge was that the COVID-19 pandemic forced me to ask important existential questions. I had thought I…
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De-Decorating (When the Light Hits It)
EMERY GEYER A vignette and poem BY GABI ZEGERS I’ll be honest: de-decorating is depressing. When Christmas is over, all the brilliant blues, greens, whites, purples, gold, silver, and reds disappear into the vintage plastic storage bins we had hastily brushed and dusted before bringing them into our house a mere month before, with more…
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Reconciling Faith and Governance
CURTIS ADDAMS Can the Christian faith unite North Carolina and the country across party lines? BY ADEJUWON OJEBUOBOH Jesus Christ. The least unpopular name in American politics. With the election of Joe Biden (a self-professed devout Catholic), the Supreme Court appointment of Amy Coney Barrett (another devout Catholic), and the Georgia runoffs (Rev. Raphael Warnock…
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2020 and the Pandemic of Resentment
JACK MYHRE BY MATIAS SUR Note: Did you know Bill Withers died in March of this year? (Sigh…) One of the most celebrated R&B/Soul singer-songwriters of the 1970s, he was known for his baritone voice and unforgettable hits such as “Ain’t No Sunshine” (1971), “Lean On Me” (1972), and “The Same Love That Made Me…
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