The Feast of Pentecost: Justice and the Gift of the Spirit
Today — the Feast of Pentecost. Today, we remember the sending of the Spirit, the gracious outpouring of God himself on his people. As I meditate on God’s gift of his Spirit, I think of Jesus’ words: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind,to set the oppressed free,to proclaim the year…