inspiral blog

We spent some time looking at two readings, and what stood out for us was the practice of unity in diversity – that Pentecost was essentially the undoing of Babel, where everyone was separated and scattered, and the 1 Corinthians passage is about a bunch of different people all being part of the one body…so, the Spirit inspires unity not in a monoculture, but in diversity. And so as a small way of beginning a Pentecost here in our own community (which is remarkably ethnically diverse), we spent some time chalking our streets with the phrase “one in spirit” in the different languages of those who live around here. We had the phrase in English, Italian, Greek, Farsi, Arabic and Hebrew. So here are some of the results: