Reformed Christians and Lent
by R. Scott ClarkGiven 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 »
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 »
This is the gospel of Lent: He anointed the eyes of the blind man with clay. Continue Reading »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Easter comes at the end of the long Lent of Covidtide. Continue Reading »