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A Very Lenten Ramadan – Episode 4

A Very Lenten Ramadan Episode 4 This is the fourth short podcast in ‘A Very Lenten Ramadan’, a podcast series which documents my reflections on fasting during Lent this year. Due to the calendar’s alignment of the two faith-based fasts – Lent and Ramadan – I’m fasting during Lent in the same manner that Muslims …

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Lent 2026 #21: Feminist Lens

Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home. John 19:25-27 It’s been …

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Lent 2026 #19: Prepared and Fastened

Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write …

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