Tag: Fast

  • Fast—a thought on keeping and breaking it

    Fast—a thought on keeping and breaking it

    In Lent, we are called to a season of fasting—an idea we most associate with “giving something up” rather than pausing from.

  • 21 Things I do every Lent

    21 Things I do every Lent

    Lent. The season of penitence and fasting. When the fish fry brings both fast and indulgence to Friday nights. Is there a more traditional season than this one? I do the same things every Lent. Not always on purpose.They just happen anyway. Here’s how it goes for me: 1) I freak out. Every year I…

  • The Scandal of Lent

    The Scandal of Lent

    Every year I struggle with Lent. I struggle with what we are really called to do. Certain things are different, and yet we don’t really live all that differently. We fast or we take on new things or we mark our worship differently. But something doesn’t ring true about it for me. As I wrote…