1. We are not pursuing dragons; we are the dragons. We are, all of us, Eustace Scrubb.
  2. A truly Lenten mindset sees the season as preparatory for the resurrection life of Easter as opposed to the mortification of Good Friday.
  3. Your champion steps forward.
  4. The number forty calls to remembrance narratives of God’s great acts of redemption, but also our conformity to and participation in those narratives.
  5. What if the dissonance in this calendrical coincidence can be harmonized into a deeper melody?
  6. The driving impulse of Lent isn’t so much “giving up” things as it is “putting on” something.
  7. At the Transfiguration, we say farewell to alleluia and hello to the horrific reality of our lost condition.
  8. Christ's resurrection does not merely negate the bitterness of sin; it changes it into a source of divine sweetness, embodying the promise of a new life for us and a restored existence overshadowed by heavenly hope.
  9. God demonstrates his great love for us in the actions of Jesus, who came down into the flesh and soaked up all our sin.
  10. Yes, Christmas brings joy, but no less danger
  11. In an autobiographical telling, Gretchen Ronnevik shares the fate of two different fathers and the hope she has in Christ.