Forty Days and Counting

Ash Wednesday Today, the beginning of Lent, is the one day when Christians in the Western church ask themselves a theological question. Not “what is the nature of the Trinity,” or “how is the doctrine of predestination consistent with free will,” but “if I give up chocolate now, isn’t it sinful that all that Valentine’s candy will go to waste?” This, of course, is … Read More Forty Days and Counting