Again following-up on last night’s post from mia_mcdavid, yesterday we loaded colgaffneyis trailer for our first camping show of the season, in Charles City, Iowa. Setup is Thursday evening, down there. I am busy Monday (Irish Class), Tuesday (colgaffneyis dance), and Wednesday (Church choir), so I got my traveling woodworking kit together (I hope) this afternoon, and did most of my other packing this evening.
From the Daily Mail: Family holidays ruined by earliest Easter in 90 years
God Plays Dice refers to this column, introducing a nice discussion of how the date of Easter is calculated. At the end of it she refers back to it, commenting
And I have no sympathy for the people quoted in that article. They’ve known this was coming since 1752, when the UK changed over to the Gregorian calendar.
Via Slashdot
Mikhail Gorbachev admits he is a Christian
Mikhail Gorbachev is a Christian say Franciscan friars
Via The Angels are in the Details, which asks some good questions and comments:
This going to be a major shock for the old “Gorby is the Antichrist” crowd. Or maybe not. After all, it seems that Gorbachev has embraced an ancient, liturgical form of the faith.
mia_mcdavid is in Michigan for the weekend and the first couple days of next week. Her aunt died after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s. She has posted about it, most recently here.
I cleaned off my workbench this morning, and am trying to make some progress on at least some of my unfinished projects. Quite a list
From a well-intentioned Washington Post column:
Some evangelical churches offer confession and weekly communion. They distribute ashes on Ash Wednesday and light Advent calendars at Christmastime.
Via GetReligion.
As mia_mcdavid forecast, we had a busy weekend. colgaffneyis basket making workshop yesterday was interesting and fun basketmaking
Today is “Super Tuesday” in the U.S. political process. It is also, in the Western Church Calendar, Shrove Tuesday, the eve of Lent. Not a problem for the churches. There are no special liturgical observances for the day. Pancake suppers are frequently found, but they are social (and perhaps fund-raising) events with no sense of religious obligation. So I was not surprised to see a notice at my church that there would be nothing happening on Shrove Tuesday this year: We were all encouraged to do our civic duty and attended our political party caucuses. No problem.
However, outside of the churches, some people are more upset: Read about Pancake day
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 