Day of Pentecost (Year 3, NL)

Growing up bilingual primed me to see the gifts offered at Babel and Pentecost.

The dams on the Klamath River are coming down. Their removal reflects a very different theology than their construction.

The Duke Chapel dean writes as if the Holy Spirit makes all the difference for faithful preaching—and anti-racism.

How could Jesus assume that all those who heard him preach would never treat their children in such a way?

What does freedom in Christ taste like?

Luke slows down to elaborate the diversity of the crowd—simply for the pleasure of it.

To say creation is ex nihilo is to say that divine love is the only power at work in the creation of everything.

Five new books about Luke and Acts

Blessed are those who read this wise and lovely book.

Most days I hover somewhere between Adam’s “I was afraid” and John of Patmos’s “Come, Lord Jesus.”

Maybe we should see Pentecost as a celebration of land and labor in which the Holy Spirt is made known.

Six markers of what this means in the wake of the incarnation.

What if, when praying for our daily bread, we had real food in mind?

Prayer is ministry, and ministry is prayer.

Luther said we can judge a tree by its fruit. He never said doing so would be easy.

The Spirit affirms our differences, speaking in ways that each of us can understand—yet also drawing us together.

Divisions mark our society—and our churches. What could possibly bring us together?

Most social problems are rooted in the failure of the strong to be gentle with others.

What is the point of prayer? The question is writ large in the texts from both the Hebrew scripture and the Gospel for this Sunday. The terrain is fraught with places to trip and fall.