Rev. Dr. Kristin Adkins Whitesides, pastor of First Baptist Church, Winchester, Virginia, begins today’s Pentecost sermon from Acts 2:1-21 with a story of the church in the Middle Ages. The celebration of Pentecost was one...

“Nearly fifty years ago, the astronauts on board the Apollo 17 spacecraft took a photograph known as the ‘blue marble.’…This was the first clear image of the planet Earth floating in the inky black vastness...