Category: Lent

  • April 14, 2017
    Tonight I attended my first “Tenebrae” service. Tenebrae is Latin for “into the shadows.” The service is intended to recreate…

  • March 15, 2015
    Every year at Lent I pray about what I need to do, not do, give up or take on.  Of…

  • February 23, 2015
    I listened with great sadness to last week’s news about the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIS in Libya. …

  • September 30, 2014
    Have you ever read the book of Leviticus?  All those “offerings” (burnt offering, sin offering, trespass offering, etc.) sound bloody…

  • March 14, 2014
    Who am I?  First off, I am a wife and a mother—those are extremely important roles to me.  I am…

  • March 28, 2013
    I have been reading about Jesus’s last week on earth.  In churches that follow a liturgical calendar, today is called…