OVERDETERMINED: Today is Purim, Good Friday, the date that the One Ring was cast into the Crack of Doom, and my wife's and my sixteenth wedding anniversary. Carla Sulzbach points me to this article on the first two and she comments "Solar eclipses are less rare!" Now if you take only the times that Purim and Good Friday coincide on March 25th, you've got something really rare! Doubtless this confluence has vast cosmic implications, but I don't know what they are.

UPDATE: Ed Cook reflects on two of these. Reader Michael Peterson e-mails to point out that today is also the Feast of the Annunciation. The next edition of Haveil Havelim (this Sunday) will be devoted to Purim. And here are a lot of other things that happened on March 25th.

UPDATE (26 March): And here are some reflections on Purim and Good Friday by a Jewish writer. Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ makes an appearance.