February 17, 2026 Paid subscribers

Lent in an Age of Acceleration

Practicing the Sacred Pause While the World Speeds Up

We are entering Lent.

And we are entering something else.

Another wave of artificial intelligence. Another round of updates, disruptions, integrations. Another season of the world moving faster than our nervous systems were designed to process.

The world is not slowing down.

But the Church is.

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