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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/stained-glass-church-lent-morguefile-bosela.jpg20481536Starting today, people across the globe will give up something for Lent. (For example, Newt Gingrich won’t have any dessert. A colleague of mine is giving up meat.) My family is fasting from consumerism. Not just for Lent, but all year long. And what better time than the day after Mardi Gras to write about […]