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Like Religious Freedom? Wear Ashes on Wednesday!

There’s been a lot of talk about religious freedom over the past couple of weeks. Whatever side of the story you believe, Christianity has taken a hit both from people who oppose it and people who...

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Ash Wednesday: repentance and solidarity with the crucified

Ashes to Go. It’s the latest trend in the mainline Protestant church for celebrating Ash Wednesday. Pastors get up early in the morning to stand in front of their churches with a black thumb while...

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My ashes are my promise to resist sin (Ezekiel 9:4)

It’s no secret that the mainline church would prefer not to talk about sin. That’s how the ashes we put on our foreheads on Ash Wednesday came to be about “mortality” instead of sin. So we spend the...

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Sidewalk Ashes: An Invitation to Be Problematic For a Day

It’s Ash Wednesday which means it’s time for that new practice that makes the liturgical purists cringe. I call it sidewalk ashes. Some people call it ashes to go, which is terribly corny marketing....

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