That the Spirit fills all and rests on all, not just some bodies, is the affirmation needed in the face of historical dehumanization and provides an opportunity for those deemed nonhuman to reclaim their humanity in God. Pentecost shows us that the spiritual is linked to the material, and thus that all human bodies matter to the life of faith. The glory of God is revealed through all human flesh and is “the sign of special favor from the spirit.”41 At Pentecost, each body and ethnicity is affirmed as sacred and of worth, a human being loved by God.
