Permission to Witness: Letters for Lent

In which we open a Lenten season oriented around the practice of writing and the formation that's possible within "in-between" spaces and seasons. We kick off that conversation with Artist-in-Residence Joanna Penn Cooper, who invites us to consider writers as folks who support our deeply human need for permission to witness and be witnessed. As a writer, Joanna shares ways that writer, audience, and context interact to create energetic spaces that shape us. As a community, we begin asking what formative energy we might find in our Lenten engagement with a writer (Paul) and letter (Galatians) many of us have held at a distance.