My sister asked this question in a letter to me back when she prepared for Confirmation twenty-four years ago. The question seized my imagination, but I knew my own experience to be insufficient as an ...

As I mentioned in my last column, I'm focusing a series of columns on the Holy Spirit over the next few weeks. Next I want to invite us to consider how and where we are to find the divine presence of ...

We can experience the Holy Spirit by becoming attuned to the Spirit's movement in our experiences, says Franciscan Fr. Daniel P. Horan. We just might find that she defies our preconceived notions of ...

Understanding who the Holy Spirit is within the Godhead is as difficult as understanding how God is one in being yet three in persons. Perhaps, someday, when we come into God’s presence this sort of ...

Mega-church pastor J.D. Greear has been quietly amassing influence among conservative evangelicals. Now, he's making waves with a new book about the Holy Spirit. Pastor J.D. Greear may be one of the ...

Vigil: Genesis 11:1-9; or Exodus 19:3-8, 16-20; or Ezekiel 37:1-14; or Joel 3:1-5; Psalm 104:1-2, 24, 35, 27-30; Romans 8:22-27; John 7:37-39 Sunday: Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34; 1 ...

ROME — As the cardinals walk into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening to open the papal conclave, they’ll chant the plaintive prayer that their forebears have sung for centuries: Veni Creator ...

For 2007-2008 the Chapel staff at Calvin College has planned a worship series around the theme of the Holy Spirit, a theme not often emphasized in the Reformed tradition of Christianity. “God is ...

I once went on a blind date. He was a law student, a friend of a friend, and I was a seminarian. We met for drinks. He was nice, funny. He was a self-identifying Christian--the first one, actually, I ...