Lenten Reads: 5 Books to Examine Your Faith
A good book challenges and inspires me. Earlier this year, I read “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” by Isabel Wilkerson, which has made me…
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How Adding Something To Your Daily Routine Can Enhance Your Faith Life This Lent
An elderly priest once told me that each Lent, he would give up the same three things: water skiing, skydiving, and watermelon (and he was…
No Meat? No Problem! 7 Dinner Options for Lenten Fridays
During Lent, it never fails: I’ll crave vegetables all week long, but come Friday, nothing sounds better than a big, juicy burger. I have a…
The Challenge of Giving up 40 Things for Lent
About 10 days ago when I was wasting time on Facebook (as I usually do), I came across a quiz that caught my eye: “What…
5 Ways to Make Lent More Spiritual This Year
Lent, the Christian season of reflection and renewal, is an opportunity to step back and take a good, hard, 40-day look at our spiritual lives.…
Swiping Sabbatical: Why I Give up Dating Apps for Lent
On March 5, 2019, I updated my Bumble profile: “Giving up Bumble for Lent. (Not a joke. I’ll see you boys on April 21.)” Followed…
My Spiritual Choice to Go Vegan
Many people chose to become vegan for a variety of reasons – perhaps for health issues, or to raise awareness about the treatment of animals.…
How to Live Lent in Ordinary Time: A Year-Round Guide to Personal Development
Although Lent only lasts 40 days, we can carry what we learned during that time with us throughout the Easter season and beyond. If you’re…
Beyond the Cliché: Can Suffering Actually Change Us for the Better?
We’ve all been there. A bad day, week, month, or year. We just got passed over for a promotion. We just learned that a close…
Don’t Forget About Hospitality This Lent
Hospitality is perhaps not the first virtue we think of when setting out on our Lenten journey. We look to more austere concepts like sacrifice,…