The Holy Spirit is present throughout the Nativity story. So why is the third person of the Trinity absent from our Christmas ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many people want to know where the Church “came up with” the Holy Spirit — as though he is something the Church invented in a spasm of needless complexification. Such people forget that revelation is ...

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” ...

In the New Testament, Jesus speaks of the Holy Spirit as another paraclete (helper). Jesus himself had been their paraclete, their divine helper. For He had strengthened them; He had comforted them; ...

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 ...

For many Christian believers, the Holy Spirit can feel like the most mysterious member of the Trinity — unseen but working on our behalf to provide wisdom and guidance, and even positive intervention.