Reformed Christians and Lent

by R. Scott Clark

Given the rejection of Lent by the early Reformed theologians and all the Reformed churches, why are Reformed Christians now attracted to the Lenten season? Continue Reading »

31 Mar 2023

Anointed with Clay

by Hans Boersma

This is the gospel of Lent: He anointed the eyes of the blind man with clay. Continue Reading »

20 Mar 2023

On the Threshold: Part III

by Patricia Snow

Now it was Lent, and we were just forty days from Easter. Heavy rains and rising temperatures washed the snow away, and on Ash Wednesday, when I drove to the church, the sky was crowded with clouds seemingly blowing on different winds—heavy cumulus clouds, and behind and between them lighter . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2022

Holy Week 2022: A Wartime Meditation

by George Weigel

With Christ, the Ukrainian people, who ask only to be themselves, have walked the bloody path to Calvary, where those who inflict their suffering mock their claims to be who they are.  Continue Reading »

13 Apr 2022

The Meaning of a Kiss

by Hans Boersma

Judas’s kiss was deeply painful, for his kiss was a betrayal, not just of a symbol, not just of a friend, but of the Kiss himself. Judas used a kiss to betray his Kiss. Continue Reading »

11 Apr 2022

Lent, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and the Liberating Lightness of Truth

by George Weigel

As the Church enters Lent 2022, it is well to reflect on and pray over the Catholic understanding that doctrine is light, powerful, and liberating, which some parts of the world Church seem to have forgotten. Continue Reading »

2 Mar 2022

Silent Savior

by Peter J. Leithart

In the weakness of the fast, we confess the Passion of God is stronger than all human action. In Lenten silence, we affirm the confidence of the silent Savior, assured that God will finish all his words. Continue Reading »

2 Mar 2022

Marked by Death

by Brad East

We are a people marked by death—not death as a power that holds sway over us, but rather the liberating death of Christ on the cross. Continue Reading »

2 Mar 2022

The Table

by Ephraim Radner

The Church’s Lenten disciplines have often been seen in terms of bodily divestment: giving up food, giving up passions, giving away money. Such attention is rightly meant to turn us to God. But we should beware of giving up, in the process, the table, around which our bodily life and needs find . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2022

Covidtide Triduum

by Brad East

Easter comes at the end of the long Lent of Covidtide. Continue Reading »

2 Apr 2021