I can’t cancel Lent. I can’t tell you we’re going to opt out. A rector simply doesn’t have that much authority. What I can say, is that I think this year it may be helpful to approach Lent differently.
Category Archives: Spiritual Practice
Jesus and Nonviolence
Why love your enemies? Because practicing love, in the end costs you less than practicing hate. Hate consumes us. Hate embitters. Spending your energy practicing hate will not help you to grow as a person. Hate shrinks us. God does not want you to be smaller. You were made not for hate, but for love.
The Beatitudes are the Center of Jesus’ teaching
Jesus’ beatitudes name some of the very fabric of who we are meant to be, in a world too often deaf to that call. Jesus calls us to the Great Reversal.
The Great Resilience
To be a spiritual person, in times of outrage, is watch patiently for the signs of hope. To be a spiritual person, in times of outrage, means never letting go of joy. To be a spiritual person, in times of outrage, means never letting the outrage win
Mike Angell 