Isn’t Lent Depressing?

Even I ask myself: How can someone who lives with depression like such a depressing time of the church year?

Lent is my favorite liturgical season. I’m not exactly sure why.

The Season of Lent

I did and did not grow up understanding that many Christian churches follow something called a church calendar. My early years were spent in black Baptist churches that celebrated Easter and Christmas as holy days, but large swaths of spirituals, Sunday school and a row of black-suited deacons in-between.

I...