Turn Again: The Invitation of Lent

Feb 22, 2026  •  The Rev. Dr. Sandi Kerner

Lent opens as a season to wake up, repent and turn back to God. The ashes of Ash Wednesday and the Great Litany help the church examine itself, while the eighteenth-century revivalist George Whitefield, barred from pulpits and preaching in open fields, models the urgency of that call. Jesus, the second Adam, resists in the wilderness where Adam and Israel fell, so those who follow him can release what holds them.