Narcisse: Giving up more than just chocolate this Lent
“Growing up Lent was never my favorite time of the church year, largely because I felt like giving up chocolate meant more to me than it did to Jesus,” Joshua Henry Narcisse writes. (Syda Productions)
Joshua Henry Narcisse
The Rev. Joshua Henry Narcisse is director of spiritual care at Church Health and serves as parish associate at Idlewild Presbyterian Church. He is co-host of “The Mystic”, a monthly discussion forum hosted at Crosstown Concourse, and he lives in Downtown Memphis.
Lent should unsettle our belief we’ve done anything to justify what we have and what others do not. And that, I believe, is a way of life worth living.
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