“And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.”

Why do children – and many adults – lift up our superheroes like Superman, Batman, and the Avengers, as icons of all that’s good?

It was almost exactly a year ago, on the first Sunday of Lent, that I unwittingly preached a sermon about entering into a “40-day wilderness journey.” Little did I know, we were about to embark on a desert experience on a scale like we’ve never seen in our lifetime.