![[Press Release] In Lenten letter, Burghardt urges churches to stand against indifference](https://i2.wp.com/lutheranworld.org/sites/default/files/2025-03/20250305-anneburghardt.jpg?resize=2200,1240&ssl=1 "[Press Release] In Lenten letter, Burghardt urges churches to stand against indifference")
Through all of this runs an essential question posed to churches and Christians during Lent: what does it mean to walk toward the cross in this particular moment? Burghardt’s advice is to trust that even small steps may, like the mustard seed, grow and change the world — that transformative peace is possible as reconciliation lived in the interplay of love, justice and truth.
“We are not left alone,” she writes. “Jesus Christ has promised to be with us to the end of the age, grounding our hope and strengthening our resilience,” adding that “It is more urgent than ever to preach the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ in opposition to misleading theologies built on fear, meritocracy and prosperity.”
“I pray that this Lenten season may be a time of prayer, discernment, and renewal of the mind, collectively and individually,” Burghardt writes in conclusion.
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