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Monday Madness — February 28, 2022
Anticipation of the start of Lent Madness XIII this Thursday couldn’t be higher! Tim and Scott are back with the last pre-season episode of Monday Madness to share some BREAKING NEWS! God and technology willing, a new Lent Madness website will launch today or tomorrow. Hear more about it — including some hot new features […]
Monday Madness — February 21, 2022
Fire up your novenas, it’s just nine days until Lent Madness XIII begins! Tim and Scott are back with essential pre-season viewing on this week’s episode of Monday Madness. Among other things, they highlight some of the big-time saints in this year’s epic bracket. Since most of the Lent Madness merch is sold out, the […]
Monday Madness — February 7, 2022
After a two-week break for the hardest working Lenten script writers in the business to create more brilliant dialogue, Tim and Scott are back with another Emmy-worthy episode of Monday Madness. In the interim, the producers and key grips also put the Supreme Executive Committee back in their places (with Scott on the left and […]
Monday Madness — January 24, 2022
It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for! Tim and Scott are back with an action-packed episode to kick off the 2022 Lent Madness season. Besides the usual delightful, yet appropriately penitential repartee, the members of the Supreme Executive Committee cover such important topics as online devotional safety and appropriate gifts for Valentine’s Day. All that and […]
Happy All Brackets’ Day!
Following the heady days of Nominationtide, and the submission of hundreds of saintly nominations from the Lent Madness faithful, the Supreme Executive Committee is pleased to release the highly anticipated 2022 Lent Madness bracket. Following their Spring Retreat, held in a socially-distanced, secure, undisclosed Zoom room, amid the consumption of massive amounts of single origin […]
Nominationtide is upon us!
For one full week, the Supreme Executive Committee will be accepting nominations for Lent Madness 2022. The nominating period will remain open through Monday, June 7, at which point this brief exercise in Lenten democracy will cease and the SEC will return to their regularly scheduled benevolently authoritarian ways. Nominationtide, the most underrated of liturgical seasons, […]
Monday Madness — Easter Tuesday Edition
Proving, once again, they are accountable to no one, the Supreme Executive Committee has released Monday Madness on a Tuesday, whilst still calling it “Monday” Madness. Tim and Scott are here this week to celebrate the 2021 Golden Halo victory of Absalom Jones. You might like to celebrate Absalom’s victory with a commemorative 2021 Golden […]
Absalom Jones Wins 2021 Golden Halo!
The Supreme Executive Committee of Lent Madness congratulates Absalom Jones for winning the 2021 Golden Halo. Absalom becomes the 12th saint to wear the highly coveted crown by defeating the always-inspiring Benedict the Moor. He joins previous Golden Halo winners George Herbert (2010), C.S. Lewis (2011), Mary Magdalene (2012), Frances Perkins (2013), Charles Wesley (2014), […]
Pausing just before the end…
As Lent Madness 2021 winds down, sports fans might well expect us to say, “Any rebroadcast, retransmission, or account of this Saintly Smackdown, without the express written consent of the Supreme Executive Committee, is prohibited.” But that’s not really our jam. Other than our insistence that people vote once and once only, we’re pretty relaxed […]
Celebrity Blogger Days (part 1)
In the days leading up to the start of Lent Madness 2022, we’re taking a moment to highlight the amazing Celebrity Bloggers who will bring alive our 32 saintly souls. Our talented stable of writers have their laptops at the ready and are amped up for an exciting battle for the Golden Halo. The only […]
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