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The tender and solemn act of imposing ashes touches our common life and is a reminder of God’s care for us all, a priest writes as she reflects on a special request from a prior Ash Wednesday.
Link to author Rhonda Mawhood Lee
The last two years have deepened our experience with grief. As we move into the season of Lent, a pastor and assistant professor asks what has been learned.
Link to author Timothy Adkins-Jones
Though the pandemic has brought much change over the past year, Ash Wednesday still has a lot to teach us, says a pastor.
Link to author Isaac Villegas
Themes of confession and repentance connect across faith traditions and reinforce important traits for those in positions of authority, writes the executive director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author David L. Odom
Beneath the awkwardness of a sooty cross, smeared on the forehead, lies the deep wisdom that we are marked with what we are. We are marked with what we must become.
Link to author Melissa Musick Nussbaum
When we turn a blind eye to the misdeeds of our institutions, we deny our corporate fallibility and miss opportunities to practice the confession and reconciliation that frame our personal experiences with God.
Link to author Alaina Kleinbeck
Jesus said nothing about ashes, but he did warn us about practicing our piety in public. An Episcopal priest explains why, even so, she'll be outside on Ash Wednesday offering ashes to passers-by.
Link to author Catherine A. Caimano
We hope you find helpful these essays, sermons and stories for the Lenten and Easter seasons from Faith & Leadership.
Reminders of our failures are all around us every day. Why seek them out? Why do we all seem to need Ash Wednesday so much?
Link to author Amy Butler
Ash Wednesday and the season of Lent invite us into radical noticing. It is in paying attention to what's dead around us that we can be surprised by the hope of resurrection, writes the senior pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church.
Link to author George Mason
Link to author Lisa Nichols Hickman
