Today marks the annual Ash Wednesday observance, a prominent date for many Christians across the globe. The annual event marks the beginning of Lent, a 40-day fasting period–excluding Sundays–in which ...

A reflection on Psalm 103:14 for Ash Wednesday. In Eden, everything was a hallelujah. Good! Very good! God said (Gen. 1:1–31). Though brown and gray, even dust was a dappled speck of glittering life.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent for people of Christian faith. Each year, Catholics, Lutherans and other denominations around the world observe the 40-day period of self-sacrifice and ...

Ash Wednesday is March 5, which marks the beginning of Lent, a 40-day period of repentance, fasting and prayer. Many worshipers will receive the marking of the cross in ash on their foreheads on ...

Ash Wednesday is this week, kicking off Lent, Christianity's 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving in preparation to honor the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday. Ash Wednesday tends ...

Lent is a 40-day season of prayer, fasting and giving that Catholics and some other Christian denominations observe as a time of repentance and closeness to God in preparation for the day of Christ's ...

There's a day that comes around each year when you might see people walking around with black marks on their foreheads—it's a day known as Ash Wednesday. But what's the point of those marks? Why ...