Posts from February 2017

To Lent or Not to Lent? Next Wednesday (March 1) is Ash Wednesday, and that marks the beginning of Lent.  But what exactly is Lent? If you grew up in a Catholic or traditional protestant denomination, you may have been to an Ash Wednesday service and had ashes painted on your forehead in the sign of the cross.  You may have given up chocolate or movies or chewing gum during lent.  And you may have wondered what this was all…