Blessed Lent! I know that not everyone likes this season. A member of a church I used to serve would take a break from church starting on the first Sunday of Lent and not return until Easter. He’d grown up in a tradition that spiritually beat him over the head with the idea of how awful he was, and during Lent, they emphasized the idea even more. He couldn’t shake the idea of Lent as a collective punishment. Even though the church community he was a part of when I met him was very different than the one he grew … Continue reading Love and Lent