An Easter tradition

Remember last year’s Easter weekend?

That was a text from my sister-by-choice (mine, maybe not hers) Sara Capen Salomons this morning. A little, I texted back, but I didn’t, not really. I mean, it was Easter this time last year, right? Chocolate bunnies, kids’ baskets? But then she reminded me, Sara who has more soul than I ever will. This time …

Because I write a blog called “Dating Jesus…”

…some kind-hearted soul just wished me a happy Easter week. I hardly knew how to respond, other than “Thank you. You, as well.” I didn’t go into the whole thing that I don’t really celebrate Easter, though the rest of Christendom seems to. I didn’t go into the fact that fundamentalists still walking around with those unique scars …

Welcome to Lent

For you non-practioners, here’s a little more on the start of a Christian holy season, which extends all the way to Easter. Typically, Christians who observe Lent choose to give up something important to them for the duration. If I observed Lent, I think I’d try to give up saying mean things about people. I don’t …

On Ash Wednesday

For the observant, Ash Wednesday is a time of reflection, and the beginning of Lent. Here’s an explainer. Lent is not part of my spiritual practice, though going without things (premarital sex, sex outside of marriage, thoughts about sex outside of marriage, booze, street drugs) is. So much of my own tradition in Christianity seems …