Tag: pentecost

The Sound of the Spirit

Sunday is Pentecost. I was reading through Acts 2 again, a description of when the Holy Spirit comes upon the disciples after Jesus had already ascended into Heaven. And I noticed something. Often when I...

/ May 18, 2018

Samwise’s Pentecost

Thinking on Pentecost, which comes up this weekend, I was struck in my reading of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers by a scene strangely reminiscent of what happened in the Upper Room. It is an...

/ May 16, 2018

A Theology of Refuge: Seeing Refugees in the Radical Light of Pentecost

At Pentecost, God sent his Spirit to his people—the Church—in order that they might have a helper, an ever-present companion, and a source of sustenance along their pilgrimage. Because the Spirit lit upon and within...

/ April 2, 2018