Speaking Your Language [Acts 2:1-21 - Pentecost C]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Acts 2:1-21 Speaking Your Language But others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.” Which makes me question whether the others were familiar with the general concept of intoxication. Because, typically, drunkenness does not endow one with heightened linguistic abilities or the grasp of previously unknown languages. At least that is what I have been told. I guess I don’t really know; I don’t drink. Then again, also I don’t speak Phrygian. Is that a coincidence? Would I speak Phrygian if I imbibed a healthy dose of that new wine? There was someone in that chaotic crowd, described in our reading from Acts, who did speak Phrygian. One Galilean, for one day and probably never again, spoke the language of a people very far removed from the Galilean hills. One Galilean, after being set on fire and then blown out the door by a powerful gust of interior wind...