Pentecost rejects a tepid Christian life. The Lord Jesus said to the apostles, “I have come to cast a fire on the earth” ...

Like the vagueness typically associated with the Holy Spirit that has resulted in such limited (and limiting) metaphors like birds and fire, that we are all united to one another and Christ ...

The Holy Spirit might ... lives still resistant to the Spirit. T. S. Eliot called “Little Gidding” his Pentecost poem. Here the Spirit enters as purifying fire, one intended to break down ...

The book brings together the contributions of 17 members of the STM faculty to present contemporary understandings of the Holy Spirit in the life of the church. The contributions range from scripture ...

This is a feast about that transformative, refining, purifying fire that the Lord wants to kindle in us. Let’s consider two aspects. The reading from Acts 2 speaks of the Holy Spirit using two ...

The Holy Spirit is ... noise and fire. Though I presume Luke knew nothing about modern quantum theology, he would personally experience the arrival of the Spirit in his community's life and ...

John the Baptist’s reference to a baptism of “the Holy Spirit and fire” also came with its own story and explanation (Luke 3:16). Looking back, he was likely thinking of the kind of Messiah ...