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The Rich Feast of Pentecost

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5 min read

Pentecost gives us plenty to talk about each year. We must start with what it is we need to focus on—and some of what we don’t.

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2 min read

In Pentecost, we have the opportunity to reflect on our own witness, and what role that practice has in our own life of faith.

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1 min read

The word has its detractors. A lot of us have bad associations with it—in church or the courtroom. But it has a purpose worth noticing.

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4 min read

The other Pentecost reading, from the gospel of John, puts us once again into the place of examining the need to live differently.

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8 min read

Jesus asks his followers to live differently: from what they know, from their families, and from the world around them.

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6 min read

When Jesus says that we are not “of the world,” he isn’t talking spiritually. We try to avoid thinking about what it really means for us.