Tag: lent

Quarantine Soul Care: Lent, Spring, & Doubling Back Toward Life

March 20, 2020

This is part of an ongoing series during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. To engage further in the #QuarantineSoulCare series, click here. Lenten means “springtime” in Middle English, which itself comes from the word lengthen. The sun arches back toward us, …

Why Lent is Good for Your Brain and Your Soul

June 28, 2023March 6, 2020

Would you rather inflict pain on yourself than be alone with your own thoughts? That was the question some researchers posed a couple of years ago. In an unusual study, they put people in a room alone with no devices …