Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard

The title of this post is even less helpful (and less fair) than the title of the blog post which inspired it, so it should probably be viewed as parody. However, I do sadly have a file on my computer called hate.php containing a series of lines of valid PHP source code which produce unexpected and even perplexing results. Admittedly there are only 6 lines, and the behaviour of half of them is as documented, but I hold PHP to a higher standard than I would a “messy” language like Perl, so I thought this deserved a blog post.

One of the things I have noticed in the lead up to Pasch is what a benefit it is to have friends of several different Christian denominations and backgrounds, as they have provided me with interesting insights into different Christian traditions. Having done some research myself into the history of Lent, and comparing the different modern practices, I have noticed a gap in the apologetical literature, a gap which I have decided to treat as a challenge. I aim to construct (although not explicitly define) a Protestant position on Lent (for some value of “Protestant”), based on Church history and the Bible. The resulting position may not actually match the position of any particular Protestant group, or even intersect with any, but I think it is a thought-provoking task with an equally thought-provoking result.