The Holy Spirit is like the backstage star of the conclave. One theologian compares the concept to “the deep music in a song, the deep bass line” under the rhythm and melody.

I was raised in a Korean American evangelical church, where people spoke in tongues as the Holy Spirit moved them. My Bible teacher referred to me as “devil’s spawn” because I had a habit of ...

Judaism, the Jewish spirit. It has used even its Exile for spreading light and learning. Palestine can help this people to understand itself, to give an account of itself, to an intensification of ...

The Holy Spirit has no face, but he does have a gaze. We can warm to, and benefit from, ... and the images that we produce rarely resemble a Jewish male of first-century Palestine.

Traditionally, the Church prays the novena to the Holy Spirit in the days before Pentecost. The name of the day itself is derived from the Greek word “pentecoste,” meaning “50th.” ...

Sometimes a very Jewish mother — ‘HAVE YOU EATEN ... the Christmas spirit, the Spirit of ’76, the Holy Spirit — each of these points to something that you know is supposed to ...