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

On "Preach," Anthony SooHoo, S.J., draws on unexpected images from Celtic Christianity in his homily for Pentecost, Year C.

Let’s consider two aspects of this feast. The reading from Acts 2 speaks of the Holy Spirit using two images: rushing wind and tongues of fire. Notice how today’s text from Acts says “there ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...