Easter is an uneven holiday. In Britain it leads to days off work. In the US, which prides itself on being religious, it’s business as usual. Nobody closes for any days surrounding the holiest day of the Christian year. That irony has always struck me about this season. Of course, going to college there were breaks in the spring, and at a Christian school, special observances for sacred times. In seminary it goes without saying. In my case, working on a doctorate in the UK (an activity with few true breaks), we experienced the British sense of holidays surrounding Easter. ...
