Only once, for a period of ten days, have the followers of Christ ever been found in a state of waiting. The Lord himself was no longer physically present to teach his own, and the promised Spirit had ...

Pentecostal spirituality calls Christians to the public sphere—to pour our lives out for others. The Holy Spirit is not a life hack. We are not empowered by God to avoid responsibility. But too often, ...

On the feast of Pentecost, Pope Francis focused his homily and Angelus address on the work of the Holy Spirit in guiding and giving life to the Church. The first Pentecost "does not remain only ...

Sunday is Pentecost, the most important day in the Christian calendar after Easter and Christmas. Unlike those two well-known holidays, Pentecost -- commemorating the arrival of the Holy Spirit -- is ...

Leading a Christian life means living a life guided by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit living in us and through us helps us to do the will of God. The Holy Spirit guides and convicts our ...

Traditional language about Christian spiritual formation has long been shaped by the impulse to imitate Jesus, a call we hear ringing in Paul’s exhortation to “be imitators of me, as I am of Christ” ...

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 ...

Christians must allow themselves to be guided by the Holy Spirit if they expect to live a Christian life, Pope Francis said. Only through the Spirit can men and women "rise from our limitations, from ...

In the constant race for distinction among central Pennsylvania hospitals, Holy Spirit Health System has something its counterparts will probably never possess: a convent, occupied by nuns. Holy ...

Fed up with bad music and the meat-market mentality of many chain gyms, champion bodybuilder Gil Yurly opened Holy Spirit Gym – the only Christian-themed gym in the county – in Costa Mesa last year.