If you've been on Facebook in the last few weeks, chances are you've come across this image: Okay, so. Let's just do this. First of all: Easter is not about celebrating fertility and sex. Glad we got that off the table. Second: It's true, Easter is not the original term for the Feast of the Resurrection which all Christians celebrate. Originally, and from the dawn of the Church, this feast was called "Pascha"--and it still is in the Orthodox church. Why? Because it's time for

Did you know that in the Early Church, Christians celebrated days on which saints were martyred as their birthdays? Not instead of–as. To their mind (and to ours, if we truly believe what we say we do), the day a Christian dies is the day they enter into the eternal life promised to them by God–a day to be celebrated! It’s a homecoming! Today is one such day, the Feast of Saints Perpetua and Felicity. On March 7, sometime in the early 200’s, Perpetua, Felicity, and the re