Lent is a season that lasts 40 days in western churches. It begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Saturday. This year Lent starts on Wednesday, February 18, 2026 and concludes on Saturday, April 4, 2026. Lent is a time to prepare for the celebration of Jesus's resurrection at Easter. Christians have observed this season in a variety of ways throughout church history, including praying, reading scripture, fasting, taking on a spiritual practice, giving to others, and prepar

When the world you know is crumbling all around you, what story do you tell? When the place you’ve called home your whole life has been reduced to rubble and when the community that nurtured you and your neighbors, your caregiver and your neighbors’ caregivers, and your caregivers’ caregivers for generations from birth has been ripped apart by forced migration, flights to foreign towns and wildernesses to seek refuge, and violent deaths inflicted by war, what do you say to yo