"What a strange holiday!" I thought. MONDAY Thursday! Is it Monday celebrated on Thursday, or Thursday on Monday? And if we have Monday Thursday, why not Tuesday Saturday? Or Sunday Wednesday? Christianity seen through the eyes of a child can be so confusing! So I - along with others, I suspect - spent the better part of my growing up years going to church on MONDAY Thursday. And the service was always so strange! We did not light candles, we blew them out! There were seven of them, burning brightly, in an inverted v-shaped candelabra. The minister would read a Bible passage [READ MORE]

Holy Week. Yesterday, we Christians observed Palm Sunday. Remembering the day Jesus was paraded into the Holy City just before his arrest and murder, we waved palm branches in the air and shouted "Hosanna!" which means "Save us now!" What appeared at first to be the beginning of the end for Rome's reign of terror turned out to be the end of Jesus. Christ the Hoped-For-Conqueror became Christ the Crucified, Dead and Buried. Interesting contrast isn't it? We humans want so much to fight for the right. To overcome the powers of evil. To win freedom for us and those [READ MORE]