Archive for the Lent category

In Sacred Journeys, the season of Lent begins with a week of reflections titled “An Inhuman Sacrifice: The Unnamed Daughter of Jephthah.” This tale from the book of Judges is a wrenching story with which to start the season. For much of my life, I wasn’t familiar with this text—they certainly didn’t teach it to […]

When I was growing up, both sets of my grandparents had summer homes next to one another on a lake in central Florida. One of the lake houses is still in our family, and Gary and I spent part of the afternoon there today. The small house brims with memories, many of which came to […]

Night into Day into Night © Jan Richardson It’s good to be back in the Sanctuary after a while away! I’ve recently wrapped up a wonderful but intense stretch of events and travels and am enjoying settling back into a more normal rhythm of life—as normal as it ever gets around here—and hunkering down to […]