Tuesday in the First Week of Lent

“Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.” ― Madeleine L'Engle

These pocket meditations are offered on weekdays during the remainder of Lent. Each is written that day; each is original and organized around a quotation found in an old notebook I used with students in my philosophy/theology classes.

The human race has always had an anthropological need to separate, label, and categorize.

Christianity, which stresses u…