The following article describes the Lenten spiritual journey and suggests practical means for personal and corporate renewal.
Nearly everyone knows the clichs concerning Lent: we are to "give up" something as a kind of obscure penance. Protestants of a more austere piety have made much of the need for a season of self-denial as a test of pious discipline. Whereas Roman Catholics undergo (or used to undergo) a Lenten period of obligatory abstinence, Protestants of a more Reformed sensibility...
Â
The rest of this article is available with your subscription.