As Lent approaches, I want to invite you into a season of holy curiosity.

Our Lenten journey this year is titled Seeking: Honest Questions for Deeper Faith, and it grows out of a simple but profound observation: Scripture is full of seekers. Nicodemus comes to Jesus under the cover of night. A Samaritan woman meets him at a well in the heat of the day. A man born blind encounters him along the road. Again and again, Jesus meets people who are searching for something—clarity, healing, truth, a new beginning. And almost always, what unfolds is not a tidy answer but a conversation shaped by questions.

Lent is often framed as a season of answers—what we should give up, what we should do better, what we should believe more firmly. This year, we are taking a slightly different path. We are leaning into questions. Not questions meant to trap or divide, but questions that open us up, unsettle our assumptions, and make room for God to do something new. Some of these questions are restorative: Can these bones live? Some are challenging: Who will you listen to? Some are tender and hopeful: How do we begin again? Not every question will resolve neatly, but each one has the potential to deepen our faith and widen our sense of grace.

We begin on Ash Wednesday (February 18) with Isaiah’s piercing question: “Is this the fast that I choose?” We’ll gather again in a reflective, embodied way, examining whether our spiritual practices align with God’s desire for justice, compassion, and liberation. From there, we move through the wilderness stories of Genesis, the nighttime conversation with Nicodemus, the risky encounter at the well, the painful assumptions around suffering, the valley of dry bones, and the road into Jerusalem. Along the way, we’ll walk together toward the cross, sitting even with the most unanswerable question Jesus cries out from it.

Lent does not rush us to Easter. It teaches us how to seek—to listen more carefully, to notice what we are thirsty for, to name our doubts honestly, and to trust that God meets us even in uncertainty. My prayer is that this season will not give us all the answers, but that it will lead us to clarity, courage, and new beginnings. And when Easter morning comes, may we discover that the One we were seeking has been seeking us all along