Many do, each in its own way. Anglican, Lutheran and Methodist churches keep Lent from Ash Wednesday to Easter, and Presbyterian service books have provided for it since the 1970s. Most Baptist and other evangelical churches leave it to personal choice, if they mark it at all, and some Reformed Christians reject it as a season Scripture never commanded. What divides them is mostly the calendar. On Ash Wednesday an Episcopal minister may mark a forehead with ashes and say,…

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