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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Jerry Bowyer: Lent and Repentance
Description: We’re now in the season which the church has historically called “Lent.” The word is just a shortened version of the word for Lengthen, because it accompanies the end of winter and the lengthening of daylight. But Lent also rhymes with repent. During almost all of human history, when calamities, pandemics, wars, depressions, inflations occurred people wondered whether God had been offended. But we’ve got all that backwards now: Rather than asking whether God is offended, we tend to gin up our own offense. Instead of covering ourselves with sackloth and ashes, we cover ou...