Easter. As a kid, I imagined a wooden cross and golden sunlight piercing through purple clouds. I grew up jaded on words like “resurrection” and “redemption,” which felt as distant as lavender skies. Now I feel differently. The good news of Christianity is that nothing is impossible with God. For Christians, Jesus Christ’s resurrection is […]
Sixty one, and waxed for the very first time… (sing to Madonna’s Like a Virgin). Why has it taken me years to join this private ladies’ club (or read backwards, a club of ladies’ privates)? My gynecologist asked, “Do you have any questions?” I replied, “Do you see a lot of older women getting waxed […]
Equal pay between men and women is a spiritual issue to Mamak Charepoo, a money coach, speaker and trainer in Quincy. In her Bahai’ Faith, a major tenet holds one element of a just society is the equality of men and women. As of 2016 women are paid only 79% in salary compared to their […]
Light symbolizes hope, realization, a new path. The Winter Solstice is the turning point from darkness toward more daylight. At an aha! moment, the “lightbulb goes on” over our heads. Nine Hanukah lights recall miraculous triumph by faith against the odds, and Christmas marks the birth of Jesus Christ. “I have come into the world […]
I had my first Christmas in prison. No, not as an inmate. In 1998 I was a Bible study volunteer at Webster Correctional Institution, a low security prison for men in Cheshire, CT (since closed). That year we threw a Christmas party for the 9 inmates in our group. However, word got around and 50 […]