1. Lent in Iraq

2. Lord have mercy: Deaths by suicide, drugs and alcohol reached an all-time high last year

3. Brian Gaffney in the Wall Street Journal: My Mother’s Second Childhood

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5. Blessed John Henry Newman: Unlearning Ourselves in Lent

6. Revisiting The Power and the Glory During Lent

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8. Lisa Wheeler, who has been an NRI speaker, talks about foster care and adoption.

9. Living Near Your Grandmother Has Evolutionary Benefits

10. The GIVEN Institute is looking for an executive director

PLUS: I was asked on Twitter about Lenten devotionals. Some options here, here, here, here, here, and here.

J.D. Flynn on Christ in the Desert

(Here he is on adoption.)

Blessed Ash Wednesday!