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(7,311 posts) Wed May 2, 2018, 05:23 PM May 2018

17 shopping days 'til Pentecost

Wendy Thomas Russell (PBS)

Pentecost is this Sunday. What the heck is Pentecost?

From a historical perspective, Christianity didn’t start with Jesus’ birth, his death or even his storied ascension to heaven. It started with Pentecost — the day the “Holy Spirit” entered a room holding Jesus’ apostles and entered each of them, an event which — as my minister uncle tells me — “makes the church the church.”