{"id":4060,"date":"2013-02-11T22:05:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T22:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithforward\/?p=4060"},"modified":"2013-02-11T22:14:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T22:14:12","slug":"walking-through-lent-progressive-christians-on-the-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/faithforward\/2013\/02\/walking-through-lent-progressive-christians-on-the-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking Through Lent: Progressive Christians on the Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>Once considered the liturgical purview of the Catholics, Lent<\/a> \u2013 the 40-day period from Ash Wednesday to Holy Thursday before Easter\u00a0\u2013 has become more and more embraced as a liturgical season with legs within the Protestant church. With the comfort level of spiritual practices on the rise in mainstream congregations for the past decade, progressive Christians now regularly claim Lent as a season for deep reflection, prayer, repentance, and overall spiritual growth. So the question is: How will you walk through Lent this year?<\/p>\n

To help guide your journey, we\u2019ll post a Lenten Question of the Week here on the blog, and on the Progressive Christian Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> pages, inviting your comments, and our bloggers\u2019 responses. Every Friday morning, we\u2019ll do a round-up of links back to related blogposts from the week, and highlights from your comments. It\u2019s our hope that together, we\u2019ll share and be inspired by a variety of responses to how a progressive Christian might walk through Lent this, or any, year.<\/p>\n

With Ash Wednesday approaching, we pose two very general questions to launch our series this week:<\/p>\n