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Great Lent 2008 – Feed the Hungry
Christ is Risen!
Happy Easter everyone! I’m soooo far behind on projects – other than trying desperately to finish the thesis from hell (Das Elefant) so I’ve yet to post a “proper” Pascha message, or the not quite finished updated version of the Indie Voices web pages, or any of the interviews I conducted just before lent . [...]
Lunch For One – Feed A Family
A week or so ago a bushel of wheat reached a record $20 on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. This is 5 times the price of a year ago when a bushel of wheat cost only $4. Wheat is a core agricultural product. Its spiralling cost means that basic food stuffs like bread, cakes, and even [...]
Full Immersion – Lent as a refresher in Christian life
Lent began as communal act of solidarity with those preparing to be initiated into the Christian life through baptism. During the period leading up to the eve of Pascha, converts were intensively instructed in the teachings and spirituality of the Christian assembly. When Jesus spent 40 days in the desert, in prayer, fasting, and eventually [...]
Lent
I know that most of the regulars here follow the western liturgical cycle rather than the eastern. As you are coming to the end of Lent, and me and my community are getting ready to enter it, I’m curious – what has been your individual lenten discipline, and what did you gain from it, and [...]