The film “Stranger Than Fiction” has a profound Lenten/Easter theme.
Tag Archives: Lent
African-American Lit for Lent
In which I set forth this year’s Lenten discipline: reading novels by African American authors.
It’s World Chocolate Day–Treat Yourself!
Today being World Chocolate Day, I quote liberally from Joanne Harris’s novel “Chocolat.”
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On Lent, Dust, and His Dark Materials
In Practical Christianity, Jane Shaw uses Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” to discuss how to grapple with life and sin.
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Reading Proust as Lenten Observance
For Lent this year, I am taking on Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” I hope to gain new insight into the nature of fictional engagement.
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Ash Wednesday: Teach Us to Sit Still
In “Ash Wednesday,” T.S. Eliot sees despair as the starting point of faith.
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Reporting on My Lenten Observance
For my Lenten observance, I read “Faerie Queene,” Book I–in which (at one point) Lenten observance gets taken to an extreme.
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A Different Way to Observe Lent
Madeleine L’Engle breaks with stereotyped version of Lent in the 1966 lyric.
Life and Death Make a Goodly Lent
Christina Rossetti’s poem “Lent” is powerful in its simplicity.
