Day of Pentecost (Year C, RCL)

In a mainline church, the pastor tends to have limited unilateral power.

John’s Gospel is permeated with an encouragement, indeed an insistence, on intimacy.

To speak Black Church is to dwell in a world of metaphors about a God who is engaged in the lives of Black people.

Acts points us to a better communion, one that preserves and celebrates diversity.

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

Before Satan, there was the biblical sea monster Leviathan.

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

Hope has not seen, and hope does not know.

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

The Spirit-driven tendency to undermine barriers goes all the way back to Peter and Paul.

Five new books about Luke and Acts

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

Martin Luther went looking for God—and found Christ on the cross.

Theodore Hiebert’s deft reading elicits a fresh awareness of the legitimacy of the other in Genesis.

An incident in Germany reminded me who we all belong to.

Kate Ott looks at the moral implications of digital language.

God called all of them good. Humans are rapidly destroying them.