The headlines reinforce Babel, but we are in Pentecost!
In the midst of overwhelming news of the world, three enduring and reassuring teachings of Pentecost should prevail.
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Luke A. Powery: The Holy Spirit can inspire us to understand one another’s humanity
The Holy Spirit is key for Christians looking to communicate across divisions, says the dean of Duke University Chapel.
Evangelism and the Spirit at Pentecost
In his contribution to a new book on evangelism with immigrant communities, the director of the Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice writes that Christians should look to the Holy Spirit rather than pressure or power in their witness to others.
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Andrew F. Bush
Director, Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice
Considering a pandemic through Pentecost
Our fears and impatience in the season of COVID-19 are similar to the disciples’ experience following the resurrection, writes the director of the Thriving in Ministry Coordination Program at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Alaina Kleinbeck
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Alaina Kleinbeck
Associate Executive Director, Coordination Programs
Kyle Childress: Storm cellars and Pentecost
Like the storm-cellar vigils of his childhood in West Texas, Pentecost is wild and unpredictable, always hard and most always scary, a pastor says. We don’t know what might happen, but we know we’ll be changed.
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Kyle Childress
Pastor
Luke A. Powery: Our own native tongue
The image of God at Pentecost is multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic, not for a politically correct agenda, but because the gospel demands it. The gospel is polyphonic, the dean of Duke Chapel says in this Pentecost sermon.
Link to author Luke A. Powery
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Luke A. Powery
Dean of Duke Chapel
Natasha Jamison Gadson: Pentecost beyond church walls
Pentecost is God using God’s people to be a catalyst for transformation and to reach those who have been overlooked or considered beyond the bounds of ministry, writes an AME minister.
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Natasha Jamison Gadson
Executive minister, Turner Memorial AME Church
Jason Byassee: What is Pentecost?
Pentecost says this: We are called to be the church Jesus dreams about -- one that is on fire, that speaks in other tongues, one that is a hurricane, says a pastor.
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Jason Byassee
Senior minister, Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, Toronto
Resources for Pentecost
Reflect on Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit with essays and sermons from Faith & Leadership by C. Kavin Rowe, Jo Bailey Wells, Michael Jinkins and others.
Cheryl M. Lawrence: Pentecost and the biker church
A pastor finds that the Holy Spirit descends upon her -- on the back of a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
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Cheryl M. Lawrence
United Methodist pastor
Rhonda Mawhood Lee: The power of Pentecost
On Pentecost, Christians celebrate the power that is our only hope for living into our divine citizenship, the unsettling and sustaining power of the Holy Spirit, says an Episcopal priest.
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Rhonda Mawhood Lee
Priest, spiritual director and writer
