Lent

Asses to Ashes: How to Rescue the Rest of Lent

March 31, 2014 by John Levison Leave a Comment

Published on March 31, 2014 at patheos.com/blogs/spiritchatter. We’re more than halfway through Lent. It began on Ash Wednesday, March 5th. It ends on Thursday, April 17th. And how’s that self-denial going? Have you kept up your Lenten pledge? You know what I mean. Giving up chocolate was the choice for Lent among the Holy Family […]

Fresh Air Excerpt for Lent: Job’s Pledge

March 6, 2014 by John Levison Leave a Comment

The Heart of Darkness [Job] has lost everything: his sons and daughters, his livelihood, his house, and now his health. He is all alone, scraping his wounds with the sharp-edged fragments of clay pots. Yet he is not alone. He is accompanied by friends, inquisitors really, who are keen to discuss with eerie dispassion how […]