The progressive movement would like to rebrand Pentecost Sunday as Pluralism Sunday. While a worthy goal, the church will never participate. If it is going to happen it is up to us.

"Luke’s story is just as unseemly. His is a story of chaos and disorder. God is running amok. Boundaries are crossed. Taboos are broken. The young’s visions and their elders’ dreams are being voiced in confrontational language to the established order. The old order is slipping through the fingers of power faster the harder they cling to it. The unpredictable new is in the ascendancy."

Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=448&id=838.