“Almost every single Jesus story—from his birth to death to resurrection—reveals an inversion of the world’s understanding of power. He touched lepers and dined with sinners. He turned over tables and called out religiosity on its hypocrisy. He told everybody that they needed to be last, not first. He said that love transcended all, that the way toward God was not up but down to the places of real life, real pain, and that God desired mercy, not sacrifice. . . . To me, the season of Lent, on the road to Easter, is always about intentionally opening ourselves up to what’s underneath the surface, what’s hidden in the dark, what tectonic plates need to shift for something new to be born. It is also supposed to disrupt us and lead us to action.” —from the introduction | 
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