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An Ash Cross Lent is 40 days long = 6 1/2 weeks (minus Sundays, which the Church counts as feast- rather than fast-days). Catholics pre...

Do you fast? If so, how - or why?  Scripture instructs us to do most disciplines in private. However, sometimes it's good to know wh...

Rebekah Metteer calls her book a "devotional and workshop," but Faith, Friendship, and Focus is a spiritual bootcamp for women....

It's 4 a.m. and I've been up for an hour or two. Insomnia. Feeling out of sorts. But I knew that was coming. In fact, I chose to bri...

Time away isn't always this much fun. I'm feeling refreshed and renewed by our WPPR retreat to Cedar Springs in Sumas, WA. Two o...

I'm definitely back to veganism again. Within a week of arriving in Israel, I had been able to eat anything - cheese, lamb, chicken, e...

Reading this, what can I add? Here are your instructions for the rest of the week. Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the kno...

Have you wondered where the Shepherd of souls is leading you? (Note the nailprints in the icon?) Among my friends and acquaintances, Jesus...

The kids are not the only ones going back to school. I've picked up the pace on studies again, flipping through notes from winter and sp...

I thought today was Ash Wednesday. My body needs a rest from all the rich food we've been eating, and Lent is a good time to combine men...