Lent

Easter On Easter Saturday, I binge-watched some historically-based shows on the cable TV “Story Channel.” It’s an obscure one that replays the old 640/280 SD screen size programming on 720 HD screens. …

Lent Day 40 Here it is Easter Saturday, the day before the big mystery about Jesus rising from the dead. I looked forward to Easter when I was a kid, I’d say through junior high school. That meant our family ritual of going to the church early for a pancake…

Lent Day 39 On the “Today Show” this week, the hosts interviewed an author about her book about the five languages of apology: asking for forgiveness, being accountable, offering restitution, changing future behavior, and expressing sorrow. Being a screenwriter, I hadn’t qualified apologies like that, but those five languages are…

You thought God was an architect, now you know He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow — Jason Isbell Whether you’re religious or not, I highly recommend Lent. It’s a time to reflect and reset. …

Lent Day 38 If we’re talking about material abundance, there’s plenty of that in the world. The main problem is the wrong people are the most abundant. Tevye, the poor Jewish milkman in “Fiddler on the Roof,” lamented that God made many poor people. …

Lent Day 37 The role of elders has changed since the advent of the internet. It used to be that the older members of a family or community were the keepers of wisdom and stories of their ancestors. Their main job was to record that information or pass down the…