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It’s Easter Week. Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. Here are some things I didn’t know about the most important week in the Christian faith.
 Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre church (news.bbc.co.uk) Did you know…. How to calculate when Easter falls? Continue reading “Easter: A Moveable Feast (and not about American ex-pats in Paris)” »  One comment | March 31st, 2010 | Tags: A Moveable Feast, Bunny, Easter, Ernest Hemingway, George W. Bush | 1. When does Passover begin? Passover begins at sundown on Monday, March 29, which corresponds to the 15th day of the Jewish month of Nissan. (This has nothing to do with Japanese cars. Nissan was the Tokyo stock exchange symbol for holding company Nippon Sangyo which means Japanese Industries.)  Passover begins on the full moon The Jewish month of Nissan is the first month of the Jewish Year, yet Rosh HaShana, the Jewish New Year is observed in the 7th month (usually in September). The internet says that this is not so strange because in the United States there are fiscal years and school years that don’t begin on January 1. My totally random guess is that different tribes had different New Year’s celebration and this is some kind of compromise. Continue reading “Why is this post different from all other posts? Passover decoded.” » Today’s guest blogger is our friend Rev. Julia Older, Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Redwood City, California Just back from a month in India, I have noted that practically everyone here immediately mentions that country’s poverty, as in, “I just could not go, because I couldn’t face the poverty there.” Well, I did not find the poverty overwhelming. I think of myself as observant and empathetic, so I was surprised by my lack of discomfort.  Sunset in Kerala |
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