Day of Pentecost (Year B, RCL)

In catacombs, crypts, and ossuaries, I’ve seen the ugliness of death transformed into something beautiful.

How could it be better for Jesus to go away?

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.

When I’m tempted to click “Add to cart,” I hear creation groaning.

Hope has not seen, and hope does not know.

We are often told that “negative” emotions are to be ejected, tossed aside, and forgotten as quickly as possible.

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

We are not the first to face complex global crises and wonder, “How can we possibly come back from this?”

Five new books about Luke and Acts

“Yearning for life is a part of what it means to be human.”

Early-20th-century European and North American missionaries grew concerned about it—but never in their own churches.

God’s Spirit before birth and after death

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

Grant Macaskill’s reflection on neurodiversity becomes a stimulus to renewal of faith.