Lenten Reflections

To Keep a True Lent*

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) *From: Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter (Walden, New York: Plough Publishing House, 2003), a volume that I am delighted to recommend.Read More →

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Lenten Mini Meditation Seven: Growing Up Into Christ: But Really Growing Up

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Lenten Mini Meditation Six: Reclaiming Your Local Church

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Lenten Reflection Mini Meditation Five: Reclaiming the Child Within

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Lenten Reflection Mini Meditation Four: Spiritual Discernment or Looking Before You Leap

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Lenten Reflection Mini Meditation Three: Attending to the Signs of These Times

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Lenten Reflection Mini Meditation Two: Understanding Our Post-Christian World

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Lenten Reflection Mini Meditation One: Coming to Terms with an Era of Apparent Church Decline

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