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Julie’s Jar: Lent–A Springtime Festival
Lent gets mired down in sackcloth and ashes. For those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere, Lent coincides with moving from Winter into Spring: New life beginning to bud
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Julie’s Jar: Let Us Lament
How do we sing the Lord’s song in a virtual land? Our faith is incarnational, embodied, physical. This season of COVID-19 is disembodied, distant and dispersed. It is beyond challenging
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Julie’s Jar: It’s the Brain
“There’s no clear evidence that willpower even works,” says Judson Brewer, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor at the Brown University School of Public Health and the author of The Craving
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Lent – It’s Not About Giving Up
When I was in elementary school, around this time of year, I remember friends of mine would suddenly say at lunch, “Oh I can’t eat that; I gave it up