God builds into creation a rhythm of creative action, followed by rest, renewal, and restoration.

At Pentecost, the Spirit fills everyone gathered with a spirit of boldness, a spirit of generosity, and a spirit of real and lasting community.

In the forty days leading up to the Ascension, Jesus and the disciples had the chance to say good-bye – part of the aliveness that they experience in Resurrection. In Resurrection, no good-bye is ever final.

The Apostle Paul walks around Athens and notices a temple to “An Unknown God.” The God who is beyond our knowing, reaches out to us, in the Risen Christ, and is close at hand.