Maggi Dawn
English author, theologian and musician learning to live in America
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Lent: did you cheat yet?
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Like New Year's resolutions, Lent disciplines (giving up this or that thing) often start well. But after a while something happens to...
Monday, March 10, 2014
Adam Lanza, Peter Lanza, Sandy Hook and autism
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I read today Andrew Solomon's piece in the New Yorker about Adam Lanza's father . It's moving, puzzling, troubling, and ends up...
Why is Lent not 40 days long?
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Count from Ash Wednesday to Easter Day and you'll find that it isn't 40 days at all, but 46. Isn't Lent supposed to be 40 days, ...
Sunday, March 09, 2014
To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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--> In T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral he explores the idea of temptation and martyrdom side by side. "In Eli...
Friday, March 07, 2014
Lent and the cultural particularity of religious observance
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If you live in the Northern hemisphere, as the days begin to lengthen and the sun shines a little brighter, you will suddenly begin to notic...
Thursday, March 06, 2014
Lent: food and justice
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Food is readily associated with Lent. The medieval practice, recovered in the Victorian era, of giving up certain foods in the pursuit of pe...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2014
Ash Wednesday: from dust you came, to dust you shall return.
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"...'From dust you came, and to dust you shall return. Turn from sin and be faithful to Christ.' The ashing ritual is a symb...
Monday, March 03, 2014
Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Confession, and Sin
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The day before Lent is variously known as Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, or Pancake day, all names that refer to eating up all the foods ...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
"There are no women on my theology bookshelf..."
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... so said a twitter friend this week. What is there (who is there?) he asked. And a trickle of responses came back from all over the t...
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