Bruce Benedict

We initially started this alternative practice on Ash Wednesday because we were concerned that this was one of the few times most people in our church would be touched directly by a pastoral leader . . . and to make that moment connected to the practice of ashes seemed profoundly unbiblical

In 2017 we commemorated the five hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther nailing the Ninety-five Theses to the front door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. In those five hundred years the church worldwide has produced an avalanche of songs, and in many ways there isn’t a song you can sing that hasn’t been shaped by the Reformation.