Taking Flight
It only took thirty one years, but this week I finally got round to googling why the date for Easter is always different. Unlike Christmas, the Easter weekend is calculated using a lunisolar calendar, which combines the position of the sun with the phases of the moon. For a Christian celebration, it all sounds quite pagan, doesn’t it? Even the name orig…
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