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�I do not see a flickering candle at the end of this year�s Lenten journey,� alumnus Mark Langley (�89) on his blog, . �No, I see a burst of glory and the veritable Super Nova, that is Christ�s Resurrection from the tomb, and what�s more, I also see over two cases of a very fine pale ale, some of which will enable me to celebrate that Resurrection with more propriety.�

The founder and the academic dean of The Lyceum, a classical school in Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Langley is also a husband, a father of 12, and an amateur brewer. In this last capacity, he has detected a relationship between his faith and his hobby. �Lent was specifically designed for brewing beer,� Mr. Langley writes. �The reason for this is obvious. Beer takes exactly 40 days (more or less) to ferment and grow from a weak sweet slop of �wort� into a fine, noble, life-giving, heart-cheering, spiritually-enhancing liquid � whose foam raises itself in the glass as does incense in the chapel.�

And so, at the start of Lent, Mr. Langley began a new batch of English pale ale that will be ready precisely on Easter Sunday. �Of course we fast and pray for forty days first primarily in imitation of our Lord,� he observes. �But the same period of time is also roughly speaking an ideal space for brewing beer, and therefore I think it is obvious that this is a fitting thing for Christians to do in the first week of Lent.�

To read more of Mr. Langley�s , read the full post on his blog.

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