catapult magazine

Items tagged Lent

• Late-night thoughts on feasting and fasting

  Feasting and fasting as the yin and yang of Lent.

• ?Return to your fortress, O prisoner of hope?

  The importance of the spiritual disciplines in helping us become like Christ.

• Decorating for Lent

  Thoughts on celebrating a season that traditionally constitutes deprivation.

• What I learned during Lent

  Going without yields a lesson about the true substance of control.

• From the ashes

  At opposite ends of the Lenten journey are two paradoxical reminders.

• Embodying our grief

  A review of the new book Fasting by
Scot McKnight.

• Surrendering to receive

  On Lenten fasting as physical and spiritual preparation for the Easter celebration.

• Honoring Ash Wednesday next to tragedy

  A reflection on living in proximity during Lent.

• Facebook reconsidered

  How giving up online social networking for Lent shaped a new perspective.

• High fidelity

  On reading the Bible with Johnny Cash during Lent.

• The shores of Lent

  A reflection on the time when death washes up on the liturgical year.

• The vioLENT bear it away

  A call to the dark disciplines of Lent and reading Flannery O'Connor.

• Simplicity

  Thinking about getting organized during Lent.

• Praying for slow time

  A meditation on changing expectations for time and spiritual disciplines.

• Backward reactions

  How others responded when I gave up my computer for Lent.

• A Pharisee who picks her nose asks for eyes

  On the discipline of seeing Cincinnati at a slower speed.