Post-Pentecostal Depression

by Robert P. Imbelli

We need festal time, to express our full joy at the coming of the Holy Spirit. Continue Reading »

6 Jun 2017 0

The Eruption of Pentecost

by Dale M. Coulter

This Sunday marks the day when churches commemorate the descent of the Spirit. This feast of fiery tongues and intoxicating presence has haunted the Christian imagination. Symbolizing the divine breath that filled the first humans with life, the rushing mighty wind overwhelms the senses, reminding believers that “there lives the dearest freshness deep down things. . .Because the Holy Spirit over the bent world broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.” Continue Reading »

5 Jun 2014 0

Chantal Delsol, Babel, and Pentecost

by Carl Scott

I concluded the Songbook #6 essay by quoting Chantal Delsol in partial defense of, or rather, in sympathetic re-conceptualization of, the idealistic anti-war impulse. Delsol is a philosophic, essayistic, “anthropological,” Tocquevillian, and Catholic analyst of our present “late . . . . Continue Reading »

11 Jun 2011 0