Tag: The Holy Spirit

This passage presents a real challenge to what I’ve been thinking and saying about blaspheming against the Holy Spirit. Ever since reading Luke 12,...

This is a very long reading, the longest I think we’ve gotten in Forward Movement’s arrangement of Luke and Acts daily readings. The riot...

A friend recently asked me whether the Holy Spirit worked through nudges and intuition. I was quick to point out the moments when the...

Peter has just done a very surprising thing, and Luke is lavishing attention on it, as is Forward Movements calendar of readings and devotions,...

Simon of Samaria, known to the Christian tradition as Simon Magus, is one of those rare characters in scripture who have a particular sin...

Already there were two social identities at odd with each other within the community of the disciples, those who identify as Hebrews and those...

When my mother was in the hospital, I disliked the chaplains who came to pray beside her bed. Some of them were friends, and...

The Holy Spirit pours into the beginning of Luke’s Gospel, embodied by angels and the singing, leaping responses that human beings make to them....