Lent is a season that brings us before our humanity. The Lenten prayers and liturgies with which Christians may be most familiar …
The Hard and Holy Work of Talking to Young Children about Death
Sometimes in our work with children, we rub up against the edges of what Jerome Berryman called “existential limits." He named …
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A Shame-freeing Lent: Stories & Practices for Liberating Lenten Formation
In a 2016 article called “On Ash Wednesday, The Power of Scripture,” one of my editor predecessors, Charlotte Hand Greeson, lifts …
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Ashes to Go Is Our Family Tradition
A few years ago I went to pick up my kids at our church preschool. I had trouble finding a parking spot and realized with a …
Clay Figure Activity for Ash Wednesday
“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” ~Book of Common Prayer p. 265.This is a difficult, somber, and …
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What Does This Day Mean? Handout for Ash Wednesday at Home
To download this beautiful resource for households that supports the celebration of Ash Wednesday at home as a PDF, click …
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Imposition of Ashes in a Time of Pandemic
A Note on Ash Wednesday and the Imposition of Ashes in a Time of Pandemic Several bishops have recently asked if I had any …
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Observing Ash Wednesday When We Cannot Assemble
Here we go again, folks: figuring out how to keep the holy days if we are in a place where the pandemic has prevented us from …
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“Must We Do Lent This Year?”
“Must we do Lent this year? We have had such a long and difficult year. We have already lost so much. There has already been too …
Ash Wednesday for Families
Use this simple liturgy to make Ash Wednesday accessible to people of all ages. We wanted to make Ash Wednesday, a day …