Birth, Breath & Pentecost Flames
It was so much fun to do a Live Podcast at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church-Chapel Hill with and Will Rose.
Birth, Breath & Pentecost Flames
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Grace Ji-Sun Kim joined me at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chapel Hill for a fantastic live Pentecost Podcast, and let me tell you, the Spirit was moving! Grace had just preached at Duke’s chapel that morning (complete with a birth story analogy that had people talking), and we dove deep into the connections between creation’s hovering spirit and the fire that made us human as a species.
We explored how every culture has words for spirit that sound like breath and why starting theology with the Spirit instead of Christology might just revolutionize how we do church. Grace’s latest book When God Became White sparked some serious conversation about how our imagery of God shapes everything from patriarchy to racism, and why the church desperately needs to reckon with these colonial legacies. Plus, I may have gotten a little too fired up connecting Pentecost to evolutionary biology and the role of fire in human development – but hey, that’s what happens when you put theologians in a room together.
If you want more conversations like this, come join us at Theology Beer Camp 2025 in Minnesota.
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Previous Episodes with Grace:
Intercession at the Intersection: The Gender-Bending History of the Holy Spirit
Before There Was a Bible & the Messy Origins of Spirit Doctrine
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