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 …

I am emphatically NOT comparing people to crows

In light of our Reverse Lent, in which we attempt to do at least one nice thing for someone every day for the 40 days of Lent, look what this little girl has reaped from feeding the crows in her neighborhood. Crow gifts! That’s the hidden secret of giving. You get so much more back! …

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 …