Two years ago I wrote about my ambivalence in observing Ash Wednesday with my church. As I noted then, it has nothing to do with Ash Wednesday, which I love, but with how my non-liturgical church celebrates it. Specifically, the imposition of ashes is "added on" to an existing church service (our traditional Wednesday night bible service) and is something you can "opt in" or "opt out" of. Those two things, for the reasons I wrote about, bother me.