Over the past century the Christian center of gravity has been shifting from the Euro-American West to the Global South, where the prevailing forms of Christianity are Pentecostal and charismatic in ...

The Rev. Jeff Rill, senior pastor at Lancaster Church of the Brethren, 1601 Sunset Ave., has preached about Pentecost for years. But he has never had a pre-Pentecost Sunday like last year. Pentecost ...

When I was in middle school and heard the account of the Pentecost and the tongues of fire, I remember asking why the apostles didn’t burn up. If tongues of fire fell upon them, why is it that they ...

Pentecost, the day Christians say the Holy Spirit of God descended on the first believers, is celebrated in churches worldwide today. According to the New Testament, the apostles of Jesus saw the ...

The original day of Pentecost saw dramatic events that are important to the life of the Church. But where did the feast of Pentecost come from? How can we understand what happened on it? And what does ...

Pentecost, meaning fifty in Greek, is an extraordinary memorial. The Greek name, little used today, for the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, “the Feast of Weeks,” recalls the presence of God coming down in ...

The Spirit’s descent at Pentecost is a model for diverse and distributed leadership. The modern church in the West has a suspicious relationship with power. When it serves our interests or protects ...

Speech was not God’s only miracle at Pentecost. The Spirit also gave the gift of understanding, overcoming division and contempt. Tongues of fire, everywhere. In this loud and furious age, a time of ...

It should not come as a surprise that a decade or more in the cloister leaves the monk or nun a changed human being. This is exactly as it should be. The radical separation from “the world” effected ...