Word: pentecostes
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...ecumenical movement and civil rights. In 1961, when he paid a courtesy call on John XXIII, he became the first U.S. Episcopal bishop in history to visit a Pope. Until last February, Lichtenberger was head of the National Council of Churches' Commission on Religion and Race, and last Pentecost he issued an impressive pastoral letter urging all Episcopalians to work actively for the cause of equal justice. "Bishop Lichtenberger has spent his life in the service of Christ," says Publisher Clifford P. Morehouse, layman-president of the church's House of Deputies. "He is widely recognized...
...before dawn on Pentecost, the great Christian feast that celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus' Apostles. In the cool June night, 5,000 people stood watch in the moonlit piazza of St. Peter's. Some prayed; some chatted; some-Rome being what it is-eyed their neighbors for the bulge of a wallet, the unguarded clasp of a handbag. Most of those at the vigil looked often to the lighted windows on the top floor of the Vatican Palace. There the life of Pope John XXIII was slowly, inevitably, ebbing away...
...suggests that many sayings of Jesus were shaped by the Evangelists, although they reflect Christ's thoughts. The Sermon on the Mount, for example, is obviously a compilation of Christ's teachings drawn from many different sources. The tongues of fire that came upon the disciples at Pentecost may be only the Biblical writer's attempt to express a supernatural experience which defies human expression...
Glossolalia has come to Yale. The ability to "speak in tongues," possessed by the Apostles at the first Pentecost, has long been claimed by fundamentalist Protestant sects. In the last three years, glossolalia has also been tried out by a number of Lutheran and Episcopal churches in the Middle and Far West. Now 20 students in the secular, skeptical confines of Yale University report that they can pray in the spontaneous outpouring of syllables that sounds like utter babble to most listeners, but has a special meaning to the "gifted...
...Pentecost & Pennsylvania. Claiming to be a movement rather than a denomination, the Churches of Christ trace their founding back to the first Pentecost. Historians generally date the origin of the churches from 1809, when the Rev. Thomas Campbell, a dissident Presbyterian minister from western Pennsylvania, founded a new "Christian Association" to bring the church back to the practices of New Testament times. The Campbellites eventually split into liberal and conservative camps over such issues as the right of pastors to use the title reverend and the introduction of organ music in church services. In 1906 the conservatives reported separately...