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Against Bitterness
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Against Bitterness

March 11, 2022 | By Jonathan Chan

Forty days. That’s the length of time Christ spent in the Judaean Desert, fasting and praying in solitude. In the accounts contained in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, the devil appears, bearing temptations that cut to the very heart of Jesus’ desires – to turn stones to bread to relieve His physical hunger, to summon angels to break His fall if He jumps from a cliff, and to worship the tempter in return for dominion over the kingdoms of the world. 

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The Inconvenience of Lent
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The Inconvenience of Lent

March 2, 2022 | By Angela Eichhorst H’22

TW: eating disorders

If your fasting strategy is to pray to be filled with God’s supernatural energy, regardless of your calories consumed or minutes slept so that you can go about your day as normal, I wish you luck. But maybe Lent is better seen as an invitation to accept inconvenience.

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Till We Have Faces
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Till We Have Faces

By Raquel Sequeira, TD ‘21. Raquel is majoring in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.

Lent is a season to face up to temptation and the fear of isolation, as Jesus did in the desert. Lent is a time to put trust in the desperate hope that if God truly incarnated Himself, He will do it again—that if He truly showed me His face, as I believe He did, He will do it again.

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