Lent is sometimes referred to a season of bright sadness. Lent is the forty day period mirroring Jesus’ forty days in the wilderness and prepares us to enter the suffering of Good Friday and celebrate the cosmos-altering triumph of Easter. In this episode, we explore the Lenten practices of giving up and taking up, the trickiness of fasting, and how to do Lent with kids.

Resources Mentioned in this episode:

Ancient-Future Time - Robert Webber

Journey Into The Heart of God - Philip H. Pfatteicher

Journey to the Cross: Devotions for Lent - Will Walker and Kendal Haug 

Music heard during the podcast is from Coram Deo Music and Sufjan Stevens (“Fourth of July”)