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Celebrity Blogger Week: The Rev. Penny Nash
Celebrity Blogger Week continues at Lent Madness with a profile of veteran CB Penny Nash. While Penny is an actual priest serving in Colonial Williamsburg, we assume she regularly gets mistaken for a period actor. It’s not true that she moonlights as a blacksmith. The Rev. Penny Nash, one of the four original Celebrity Bloggers, is […]
Celebrity Blogger Week: The Rev. Megan Castellan
Celebrity Blogger Week continues with another newly minted Lent Madness participant. As our missionary to Arizona, Megan has been tasked with yodeling the results of each day’s voting into the Grand Canyon. The Rev. Megan Castellan is the Episcopal chaplain at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, Arizona. She preaches all around the northern portion of Arizona, […]
Celebrity Blogger Week: The Rev. Laurie Brock
Welcome to Celebrity Blogger Week here at Lent Madness! It’s kind of like (the over-hyped) Shark Week but instead of sharp teeth you get the biting commentary of some of the nation’s best Episcopal bloggers. Every day this week, we’ll introduce you to one of our amazing Celebrity Bloggers — the folks who will be illuminating the lives of the […]
Bracketology 101
As we discovered last year, many congregations successfully used Lent Madness as a parish-wide devotion. It’s actually a terrific way to make for a livelier coffee hour as parishioners engage in heated debates and engage in fisticuffs over their saintly picks. Plus it gets people to focus on something other than the rector’s not-so-hot sermon. […]
Free Lent Madness Article!
Do you edit a parish or diocesan newsletter? Do you have a Lenten issue coming out? Are you desperate for material? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then this post is for you. You see, here at Lent Madness we take seriously our commitment to make your life easier. We know you’re busy […]
Play-In Round: George Berkeley vs. Samuel Seabury
Welcome to the third (of four) Lent Madness Play-In rounds! Today we have two early American bishops going at each other with the winner facing off against Hilda of Whitby in the First Round and the loser going home to do whatever bishops do when they sulk. While one of these bishops is most closely […]
2013 Play-In: Thomas Tallis vs. John Merbecke
The road to the 2013 Golden Halo continues on this All Saints’ Day with our second of four Play-In matches (during August’s General Convention in Indianapolis you’ll recall Gregory the Great trounced Gregory of Nyssa to make it into the bracket). This battle pits two 16th century musicians against one another in the form of […]
2013 Play-In: Gregory the Great vs. Gregory of Nyssa
Here at Lent Madness we believe there’s a fine line between a teaser and a foretaste. Actually, in this case they’re synonymous as we tease you with a foretaste of the Lent Madness 2013 that is to come. This year, we’re offering four play-in matches leading up to the official 32-saint bracket that kicks off […]
2013 Bracket Announced!
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the moment you’ve been waiting for since the lighting of the New Fire at the Easter Vigil: the unveiling of the 2013 Lent Madness Bracket! We received many, many nominations — thanks to all who took the time to prayerfully submit them. The Supreme Executive Committee took the process of selecting […]
Celebrity Blogger Week: Canon Heidi Shott
Celebrity Blogger Week continues with the irrepressible Heidi Shott. Most closely identified with Queen Emma, last year’s Cinderella saint, Heidi has turned down numerous offers of free trips to the Aloha State. Something about being impartial. Plus she’s nervous about the chances of Damien of Molokai this Lent. Heidi Shott, entering her second year as a Celebrity […]
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