Bodies need nourishing whether it is an individual body a corporate body or a spiritual body We need to be fed with the food that sustains that is most appropriate to each body Historically we see the corporate body of Israel fed by God in the wilderness with the material stuff of manna necess

The Acts of the Apostles presents a reverse Babel at Pentecost when the confusion of tongues described in Gn 11 1 ndash 9 is transformed into understanding among the earliest disciples of Jesus who find themselves speaking ldquo other languages rdquo The confusion of tongues at Babel gives to u

One of the overlooked aspects of Jesus rsquo ascension has to do not with the continuing materiality of the risen Lord or the ldquo whereness rdquo of Jesus rsquo glorified body but with the earthly implications of the ascension for the church Between the apostles rsquo hopeful question ldqu

To be a Christian witness in the ancient church was to make known the euangelion literally ldquo good news rdquo or ldquo gospel rdquo from which we derive our word evangelization The Acts of the Apostles reports a great number of overt ldquo signs and wonders rdquo including exorcisms and

Jesus was a tekt n or craftsman by trade Mk 6 3 someone who built things with wood brick and stone We do not know what types of physical structures he worked on with his father Joseph but we can speak of his spiritual legacy as the one who built the house of God The master builder constru

There is a richness to the story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus that makes it difficult to consume it in its entirety or to exhaust its sustenance Even seemingly minor details nourish the reader in surprising ways Emmaus itself the village to which Cleopas and the unnamed disciple are jou