Tag Archives: Lent

Stranger Than Fiction’s Easter Message

By Robin Bates | Published: April 6, 2024

The film “Stranger Than Fiction” has a profound Lenten/Easter theme.

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African-American Lit for Lent

By Robin Bates | Published: February 17, 2024

In which I set forth this year’s Lenten discipline: reading novels by African American authors.

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It’s World Chocolate Day–Treat Yourself!

By Robin Bates | Published: July 6, 2023

Today being World Chocolate Day, I quote liberally from Joanne Harris’s novel “Chocolat.”

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On Lent, Dust, and His Dark Materials

By Robin Bates | Published: March 4, 2023

In Practical Christianity, Jane Shaw uses Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” to discuss how to grapple with life and sin.

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Reading Proust as Lenten Observance

By Robin Bates | Published: February 25, 2023

For Lent this year, I am taking on Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” I hope to gain new insight into the nature of fictional engagement.

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Ash Wednesday: Teach Us to Sit Still

By Robin Bates | Published: February 21, 2023

In “Ash Wednesday,” T.S. Eliot sees despair as the starting point of faith.

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Reporting on My Lenten Observance

By Robin Bates | Published: May 14, 2022

For my Lenten observance, I read “Faerie Queene,” Book I–in which (at one point) Lenten observance gets taken to an extreme.

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A Different Way to Observe Lent

By Robin Bates | Published: March 19, 2022

Madeleine L’Engle breaks with stereotyped version of Lent in the 1966 lyric.

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Life and Death Make a Goodly Lent

By Robin Bates | Published: March 20, 2021

Christina Rossetti’s poem “Lent” is powerful in its simplicity.

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