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 During the 2026 season of Lent at BMC, our worship will be shaped by the Leader theme Dwelling in Dissonance. As stated in p.36 of Leader: 

 

"Ours is a world of urgency, a digital age of immediate gratification. We rush to resolution. We binge watch. We speed to shave minutes off the GPS’s ETA. We retreat into silos of sameness and scapegoat those who disagree with us. We skip from Palm Sunday to Easter. Our temptation to seek relief from the dissonant uncertainty of life’s liminalities might be heightened this year....We encounter the 2026 Narrative Lectionary readings for Lent in this context: a slow, intentional journey through the second half of the gospel of John. After the first week’s reading (John 11, the raising of Lazarus), we will spend the rest of Lent exploring John’s Holy Week narratives. Most years, the season of Lent is meant to prepare us for Holy Week. This year, the entire season of Lent is framed by the experience of Holy Week, inviting us to linger in the intensity of the final week of Jesus’ life, to dwell in the dissonance. What might help our congregations embrace such a countercultural invitation?"