The season of Lent

Geoff Pilliner reflects on Lent and its origins, meaning and message

by Geoff Pilliner 15th February 2013

So, what do modern Quakers think about Lent? George Fox would have known well that the church of those days recognised Lent as the prelude to Holy Week and Easter, and rejected the notion as being all about ‘times and seasons’, which did not fit with his view that Christianity was a full-time religion.