Easter and Passover

I'm used to the concept that Easter happens on a different day each year (unlike Christmas which is reliably on the 25th). But aren't Easter and Passover supposed to happen the same week? I mean, Jesus went to Jerusalem for the Passover, right (the Last Supper)?

So how is it that Easter was last month and Passover is this month? Did someone important miss an ecumenical council meeting?

An Easter Parody

If you're easily offended by gay camp or religious mockery, don't watch. This was made by a local theater group here in DC. For extra blasphemy points, the church scene is in St. Matthews, the church where John F. Kennedy's funeral took place and the steps of which was the scene of the famous photo of John-John saluting his father's casket.

Easter Weekend

It was a totally wholesome Easter weekend with the family, with mom, sister, niece and nephew in town not to mention our son. Here we get into coloring Easter eggs.

My niece learned to her dismay that Uncle Scott is agnostic: "You mean you're not a Christian" she asked, with the same tone of voice she might have used to say, "So you're a murding rapist?" I'm now going to Hell twice, already condemed for being gay.

But surely I earned a few "halo" points this weekend, coloring easter eggs, hiding them and then hunting them, throwing a big party for friends, neighbors and children, etc. And I think everyone had a good time. Now I'm here alone with Eli and having to endure being viewed as mean for not letting him eat all the chocolate he wants. "I need it" are his three new favorite words. "Need" and "Want" are vastly different things, a lesson Eli will struggle with -- like all of us, the rest of his life. I'm employing the help of Mick Jagger in this lesson: You Can't Always Get What you Want." Not working yet.