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100,000 COVID deaths, George Floyd and Pentecost Sunday

I’m writing on Pentecost Sunday, filled with powerful images of breath and fire. I think of 100,000 people (and many more) who ceased to breathe. And one unarmed black man named George Floyd, who could not breathe under the weight of a white police officer on his neck. And the fires that have erupted in the midst of protest, leaving all of us mesmerized and breathless. 

Wild, joyful, porous…

Last Sunday was Pentecost and I’ve been thinking about how we experience the Holy Spirit in our lives. I remind myself: science and imagination are more powerful together than either one alone. Practicality and wildness are both necessary.