
Kat Armas discusses the significance of the Ascension and the call to be witnesses in the context of resisting empire.
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses…to the ends of the earth.” — Acts 1:8 Friends, This Sunday, we mark the Ascension, the day forty days after Easter when, according to Luke’s Gospel and the Book of Acts, the risen Christ is taken up into heaven. In both tellings of the story, the disciples are called to become witnesses — to carry forward the story of Jesus’s life, his execution at the hands of empire, and his resurrection by the ...
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