This coming Sunday is Pentecost, which, in the Christian tradition, marks fifty days after Easter (the Resurrection), and the event often considered by some to be the beginning of the Church.
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Ascension Sunday is the point in Luke’s gospel narrative where we see Jesus float up to heaven as if he is being beamed up to the mothership. Nevertheless, it is not the first time we see the resurrected Jesus acting rather un-human.
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By the Christian year, we are in the stretch of Eastertide. Here’s where we meet the resurrected Jesus - when he walked upon the earth as the one from beyond death. The disciples are in totally unfamiliar territory. Days before, they were in Jerusalem with Jesus present. And now he’s gone. And they are scared, and locked up, like hostages.
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“God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.” (Genesis 2:3)
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I grew up as a tried and true Evangelical in a modestly liberal church in Oregon. I was mostly unaware of “Evangelical culture” and expected all Christians to believe and behave as I did. It wasn’t until I was well into college and my studies as a Theology major that I learned about the Church calendar and the lectionary that millions of Christians follow. My first visit to Seattle Pacific University included an observation of a theology class where they happened to be studying the Apocrypha that day. I was shocked that there were books in their bibles that I had never heard of and all I could think was, “Why didn’t anyone ever tell me?”
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