The course of my life changed after a visit to Haiti. It was the summer of 1986, and a campus ministry group I was part of traveled there to learn about extreme poverty and do a bit of service work. Having grown up in rural Wisconsin, I was not completely unfamiliar with what it meant to be poor; indeed, one of my friends literally had a dirt floor in at least one room of his house. But Haiti, which was the first country I had ever visited outside the U.S., was certainly victim to another type of poverty altogether.

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Jessica Kelley (a colleague here)  shared a blog post she wrote about  Ash Wednesday with me that I am posting here. Now this may seem odd to most of you but it isn't uncommon in the religious publishing world to be working on liturgical year resources at a totally different time of year. So I share it with you now...enjoy!  In her professional life, Jessica is editor of Circuit Rider magazine and Abingdon Press books.

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