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The Maundy Thursday service at Wentz’s left me thinking about a few things. Pastor Tony’s sermon made some interesting points about washing. Starting with how as a child his mother would make him wash up before dinner and would always ask him two questions. First if he used water and then if [...]

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Shortly after writing my initial post about sweatshops a few months ago somebody sent me a few links of people that had closely related ideas to Laura’s “go commando for Jesus” joke in regards to the Christian response to sweatshop underwear. One of which was a Facebook group and blog started by two young [...]

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A Matter of Perspective

I don’t know whatever or not to classify my Lent experience as going well or not so far. Not that its been too difficult for me to keep, but surprisingly the complete opposite as I actually managed to get used to drinking sugar free tea without actively cringing a bit thinking how much better it [...]

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Lent is Not for Everyone

Lately, I’ve been struggling to gain a better understanding about the meaning and purpose of Lent. At its core, I’d say that one of the fundamental truths about Lent is that it is not for everyone; as anything else would ultimately end up missing the point. Thus to me the whole mandatory and strict forms [...]

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Early Lent Reflections

I have already been amazed by the richness that my Lenten fast from sweetened tea has already brought forth. Still to be honest I still have no idea where the initial idea of giving up sugar in tea come from in the first place even came from in the first place, but it is already [...]

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Lent Reflections

Personally I’ve never been at a church that every really placed any emphasis on Lent beyond a Good Friday reflections service let along an Ash Wednesday service or anything remotely related to observing a Lenten fast of giving something up. So I pretty much grew up with the impression of Lent being more of a [...]

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