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, ...

To write of the Holy Spirit is to write of God, as the ecumenical creeds affirm; to write of his works is to write of the action of God through all of human history (he “convicts the world of sin, ...

A Christian earns his ability to speak with authority from the Holy Spirit, not from a theology degree, Pope Francis said during his daily Mass at the Vatican's Saint Martha Residence Sept. 2.

In the last lesson we understood from the Bible that Christians not only have the “indwelling of the Holy Spirit,” they also have the indwelling of God and Christ by keeping the commandments of God ...

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 ...

Pope Francis explained that the Holy Spirit's gift of understanding allows Christians to obtain "intimacy with God" and helps them understand things "as God understands them." "When the Holy Spirit ...

Year after year, as students of mine worked their way through the Divine Comedy, they found it strange—magnificently strange at times, at times disturbingly so. One feature of Dante’s poem that ...

The point is that after Pentecost, God had created a new kind of man who did not exist before the coming of the Holy Spirit ...

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 ...

"My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working"--Jesus (John 5:17). I have been thrilled to see the Asbury University revival spark chatter on a national level in the last ...

In response to a heart-rending note from a reader, T, who knew that the only unforgivable sin in Christianity is blaspheming the Holy Spirit and who feared that during a recent medical crisis she had ...