New Year’s Resolutions: good, bad, or utterly pointless? This is Bri’s Big Question for January, and as usual, there may not be one right answer — just lots of lively and constructive conversation.

Given that more than three fourths of the people who make New Year’s Resolutions fail within the first month — and that many resolutions are born from an unhelpful and even harmful sense of body negativity — are they really worth troubling over at all?

Drawing in part on the Christian practices of self-examination and of Lenten fasting, Sarah, Erin, and Rachel share their own experiences with making (and breaking) New Year’s Resolutions and explore why, with the right mindset, resolutions might just be worth trying anyway.

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