How could giving something up during lent been seen in a more positive perspective?
Ask the Rev. D.L. “Raggy” Ragsdale about Lent, and he will launch into a happy discourse that includes pizza, arrows, ashes and Bible verses — just a few of the components of Ragsdale’s enthusiastic theology. The pastor of Porters Chapel United Methodist Church sees Lent as positive, rather than negative, actions. “Lent is not giving anything up; it’s taking something on.” The “something,” Ragsdale said, is each individual’s unabashed acceptance of his own humanity. Lent begins Wednesday in Western churches, many of which participate in the Ash Wednesday custom of marking the foreheads of parishioners with ashes, traditionally from the burned palm branches of the Palm Sunday celebration of the previous year. Says the Web site Catholic Online, “While the ashes symbolize penance and contrition, they are also a reminder that God is gracious and merciful to those who call on Him with repentant hearts.” Eastern Christian churches, including St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church on Washingto
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