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Acts 1: 6 -14 New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE May 17, 2026 Photo of a person with tanned arms wearing a yellow t-shirt and khaki pants, holding a wooden rosary in their hands, standing in front of tall dry grass. T-shirt is in Italian. La bellezza รจ nelle mani di chi si mette all'opera. ("Beauty is in the hands of those who put themselves to work") Today is Ascension Sunday: the day that Jesus started working from home. Which would make Christmas the beginning of the longest commute ever, Good Friday taking job cuts and severance to a whole other level, and Easter the day you got your job back because management was restructuring. And to this day, people still argue about all of it at the water cooler too. Of all the events in the life of Jesus that the Church observes, Ascension Day has got to be the one we least relate to. Or do much about. It’s so strange to our post-modern world and minds. It’s right “up there” with the Rapture and the Second Coming,...
