When I was 17 years old, I bumped into a bush and lodged a thorn in my elbow muscle. I pulled the thorn out, cleaned

A traditional way to approach the Lenten practice of almsgiving is to give from the excess that you create by fasting. For example, according to

Lent is a time of sacrifice. We strive to unite ourselves with the suffering of Jesus, walking with him in the desert, agonizing with him

“We must love with our eyes open,” Canterbury’s Archbishop Justin Welby said last October. Saints, the Anglican leader advised, are people who are able to

Each year in the days before Lent, my husband and I share a list of what we plan to give up that year. Last year,