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Month: March 2007
Of Saints and Lent
There is a Midrash from the childhood of Abraham that goes like this: Abraham’s father, Terach was an idol- manufacturer. Once he had to travel, so he left Abraham to manage the shop. People would come in and ask to buy idols. Abraham would say, “How old are you?” The person would say, “Fifty,” or […]
Lent
The Sunday before Ash Wednesday, I gave a talk on Lent to a stairwell at the local Christian University. Surprisingly, about 30 students crammed into an apartment to learn about Lent. What was once baptismal training morphed into a penetential season–a season that I love more than any other in the church year. What is […]