By Rev. Henry Sun Special to the Herald On Sunday, Christians completed their annual celebration of Holy Week, the most important week in the Christian calendar. This celebration started with Palm Sunday, reached its nadir on Good Friday, and culminated with the celebration of the Risen Lord on Easter Sunday which, in Western traditions, fell […]
Volunteer groups requesting Easter donations
Hoppy Helpers is asking, well, for help. The local volunteer group is in need of completed baskets, empty baskets, plastic eggs, Easter grass, small toys, chocolate bunnies and stuffed animals, bubbles and candy for the children served by the Benicia Community Action Council, Child Haven, Vallejo Together and local shelters. Donations can be brought to […]
A Different Drummer: One recent random Tuesday
Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny were playing poker one evening, not for money of course; that would not be a wholesome story. Santa played with candy canes and the Easter Bunny rolled with nougats. Currently, the Easter Bunny’s stack of canes was twice the size of Santa’s nougats. The Thanksgiving Turkey was in the […]
Jeff Burkhart’s “Rhyme and Reason”: Jonah and the Great Fish
This piece is a synthesis of religiosity and politics. It is as much commentary, as it is an open letter to those that would kill in the name of righteousness for, in the end, belief cannot be forced into a soul. Would a rose of a different color smell as sweet? Is a God, a […]
Easter traditions in the United States and Europe
Does the word “Easter” conjure up images of chocolate bunnies and Easter eggs? Or does it bring to mind the resurrection of Jesus Christ, or the end of Lent? Do you think of flying kites, exploding carts or mystery novels? What about witches and bonfires? Believe it or not, these are all ways the versatile […]
Jerome Page: Happy Easter!
TO MY FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES, to liberals, progressives, conservatives, right wing, left wing, centrists — to decline-to-statists — to all of Benicia, this lovely town we share: Happy Easter! Today is clearly a day for removing the barriers, junking the labels and recriminations and rejoicing together. The excited children are surely uninterested in politics — […]
Jerome Page: The perils of reality denied
FIRST, A (PARTIAL!) PAUSE FROM THE UNENDING AND UNENVIABLE TASK of responding to those folks who feel that denying reality (climate change) often enough and cleverly or vehemently enough will release us all from the heavy burdens of that future reality. I want to acknowledge a debt (of reader pleasure) to two outstanding columnists, Carolyn […]