My own Lenten practice has been sluggish, sapped by the heavy and emotionally-laden demands of this pandemic year. I suspect that I am not alone. Grief, loss, fear and ambiguity about the future ...

What is Lent, anyway? Lent is the time of year in the Christian tradition when a person takes time to do personal inventory about priorities, what they have been doing, where they may have gone wrong.

The first full day of Lent for churches using the "old calendar" to calculate the date of Easter is Monday, March 18. In the Eastern Christian tradition, this day is known as "Clean Monday" — and it ...

As we are moving toward Easter Sunday, my church is having a Spring-Cleaning Day, where we invite our congregation and groups that use our space to come and clean the building. This gives the spaces ...

A friend had invited a number of us to her house, out in the country, for lunch. As we finished our meal, she told us about something that had happened when her seven-year-old granddaughter came to ...