Today, as I write, the spectacular white snowbanks of just a week or two ago have turned to big, grimy remainders. A sure sign that Lent is just around the corner (beginning with Ash Wednesday, March 9). In A Lent Sourcebook (ed. Baker, Kaehler, Mazar) it says, Lent isn’t tidy. Although the word originally meansContinue reading “Why Lent today?”
