Day of Pentecost (Year A, RCL)
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We need a Pentecost
Divisions mark our society—and our churches. What could possibly bring us together?
by Keri L. Day
April 8, Easter 2B (John 20:19-31)
When Jesus walks into the locked room, the first thing he offers is peace.
by Diane Roth
Strengthened for holiness (Psalm 104:24-34, 35b)
I've experienced Pentecost as sweet, serious, or neither.
Limited faith in a risen savior (John 20:19-31)
The disciples don't believe Mary—or do they?
On the verge of comprehension
Those who heard the disciples preach on Pentecost comprehended the message in their own language. But that was only the beginning.
May 15, Day of Pentecost: Genesis 11:1-9; Acts 2:1-21
In Acts comes Luke’s imaginative way to build upon ancient stories. The tongues of fire are no longer seen from afar on top of God’s mountain. And the multiplicity of languages becomes God’s vehicle for bringing salvation to the entire world.
by Gail Ramshaw
Europe’s Pentecost
Pentecost offers a vision for Europe: not one megastate or one system for everything, but a model of diversity as peace.
by Samuel Wells
Meditation on a crucifix during class
Why is the Jesus on that crucifix so small?
The cross overshadows him, dwarfs him. This is what I think about in my Aquinas class.
Fluent in God’s work
Learning a language requires us to focus our attention on something outside ourselves. It's a lot like learning to pray.
January 17, Second Sunday after Epiphany: 1 Corinthians 12:1-11
From Paul’s letter, we can infer that the Corinthians tended toward the same bias from which many of us suffer: the belief that there is little collective wisdom in the church.
by Joyce Shin
Downpour
California is in a severe drought. Normally it rains in the time from mid-October to March, but for the past few years it has been bone dry. Some say we may only have a year of water left. We are thirsty.
By Theresa Cho
Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-21)
It is clear in Acts 2 that a party is taking place—that dreams and visions are not meant to be dreamt alone.
by Theresa Cho
All (not each) of them were filled
I learned many Bible stories by watching movies in Sunday school. They were those old-fashioned movies, shown on a reel-to-reel projector, that tried to portray the stories as some Cecil B. DeMille wannabe imagined they took place. They were seldom more than a few steps grander than the local Christmas pageant; most of the disciples basically wore fancy bathrobes.
The Pentecost movie was dramatic.
Sunday, June 8, 2014
We may experience division in our cries to God, hearing only what’s loud right next to us. But God hears us as one human family, crying out for blessing.
Painting Pentecost
Painter Sawai Chinnawong saturates the outpouring of the Spirit with the colors Thai art traditionally associates with the holy.
by Amos Yong and Jonathan A. Anderson
Resurrection by inches
It’s been seven years, and I cannot access Jesus' word of peace. The tears still sting and slosh over my pail of remorse.
Let the Spirit do the talking
Back in the dark ages of the 20th century, I remember an ad for the Yellow Pages that urged, “Let your fingers do the walking.” Now that texting has become the preferred means of communication, it seems our fingers actually do the talking.
I’ve been thinking about the complexity of communication with God, especially the challenge of praying at times when words are hard to come by. In response to such a dilemma, Paul essentially tells the Romans to let the Spirit do the talking.
By Barry Howard