Pentecost

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.

By Andrew F. Bush Director, Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice

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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.

By Alaina Kleinbeck Associate Executive Director, Coordination Programs

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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.

By Kyle Childress Pastor

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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.

By Luke A. Powery Dean of Duke Chapel

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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.

By Natasha Jamison Gadson Executive minister, Turner Memorial AME Church

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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.

By Jason Byassee Senior minister, Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, Toronto

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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.

By Cheryl M. Lawrence United Methodist pastor

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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.

By Rhonda Mawhood Lee Priest and author

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Michael Jinkins: Hearing with Pentecost ears

By Michael Jinkins Retired president, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

The miracle of Pentecost was a miracle of hearing. It still is.