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# Celebrating Lent
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/200825celebrating-lent-html/
- Published: 2008-02-05T21:08:21.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-15T15:32:05.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Faith, #DashHouseCom, #wp

Someone asked me today if I was celebrating Lent. Lent is a funny thing for some evangelicals, although not for two evangelical Anglican friends I met with the other day. This [2006 post from Confessing Evangelical](http://confessingevangelical.blogspot.com/2006/03/lent-for-evangelicals.html?ref=dashhouse.com) captures some of the reservations evangelicals have had with Lent, and lands in a good place:

> Ash Wednesday and Lent are matters of “evangelical freedom”, but they “serve the edification of believers”, not least since they provide a particular opportunity to focus our minds on “the forgiveness of sins for the sake of Christ’s atonement”, the heart of our evangelical faith.

So tomorrow I’ll be going to [St. Paul’s](http://www.stpaulsbloor.org/?ref=dashhouse.com), an evangelical Anglican church in downtown Toronto, for the noon Ash Wednesday service. I’m also taking a few other steps to make more time to focus on Lenten themes:

- I’ve temporarily reduced the blogs I follow from over 100 to about 25.
- I’m giving up email in the mornings. I may try to get to once a day.

I’ll let you know how it goes.