David Jonathan

                 Many Christians have heard of Lent, but do they all understand what it entails? Lent is defined as "the 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Easter observed as a period of penitence and fasting by the Roman Catholic, Eastern, and some Protestant churches." Lent is intended to be a period of repentance. That is not a sense of shame, but rather an awareness of how sin separates us from God and what it cost Him to be reconciled with us. “Shame has its place, but feeling shame over sin is not the same as repentance from sin,” because “our tempter can turn our obedience to God into a source of pride.” As a non-Catholic, my observation during Lenten season, Catholic people attend mass, giving their best to seek God’s kingdom, even if we are in the midst of this pandemic.  They also attend the called “Ash Wednesday” during February 17, as a start of the Lenten Season.  On Ash Wednesday, a priest gathers ashes and rubs ...

  I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. -Malala Yousafzai Women's History Month is an annual celebration of women's contributions to history, culture, and community that takes place in March. In Santa Rosa, California, Women's History Month started as a local event. In 1978, the Sonoma County Commission on the State of Women's Education Task Force organized and conducted a "Women's History Week" celebration. The week of March 8 was chosen by the organizers to coincide with International Women's Day. Many groups began their own Women's History Week celebrations the next year, spreading the initiative around the world. All throughout the history, women have suffered a lot of challenges throughout  their lives, but as they face those challenges with dignity and pride they’ve overcome all those things and coop up with it easy. Women’s des...