016 Ashes to Go and Ashes to Stay

This episode is all about ashes: the "Ashes to Go" phenomenon and also the Ash Wednesday liturgy.

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• Mark 9:3 - "and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no one on earth could bleach them." (NRSV)
• Ashes to Go began in 2007.
  • Page on the Episcopal Church site.
    • and note this dissenting article by the Rev. Michael Sniffen: "Ashes to Go or not to go, that seems to be the question…"
• Article questioning Ashes to Go on David's blog: "fire - ashes of a little"
• The Ash Wednesday liturgy is on page 264 of the Book of Common Prayer
• Our episode on Epiphany is 013 Epiphany (Pod, Frankincense, and Myrrh).
• David's meme:
  
  
• Songs in the Desert begins Ash Wednesday and continues every weekday in Lent. It's a collaborative conversation about hymns.

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