In this post I’d like to broadly consider ethics: why are ethics important, and assuming they are, what is required for ethical living? Disgust Perhaps the most fundamental question regarding …
On May 7, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the justice department will begin to criminally prosecute every person who illegally crosses the border. This hard-line policy has resulted in …
In one of my first classes at Boston University School of Theology, we explored the expansive terrain called “Christianity.” At one point I asked my professor (who eventually became my …
The rest of this is more or less my own thinking, so it is open to huge amounts of disagreement. Before Pat Robertson lured Pentecostals to dominion theology, there was …
So how does any of that translate into the political stance of Pentecostals for Trump? Cox explains part of that transition this way: In the beginning Pentecostals were totally focused …
…The church is a place where women and children speak and are loved and valued, where young people are given a chance to lead, and where people from across unimaginable …
I (Joel) had the privilege of hearing Dr. Carolyn Dirksen present this paper at the Society for Pentecostal Studies 2018 conference in March, and I was so moved by it that …
Memphis, Tennessee, April 4, 1968, 6:01pm. 50 year ago today, one of the world’s foremost leaders of civil rights and non-violence was stolen from the human community. Dr. Martin Luther …
To allow the holy spirit the freedom to transform the market place as we know it would require that we take up the hard work of learning how the United States became “America,” the deeply racist land that we call home today.
It seems appropriate to begin 2018 with this topic since “gender fluid” made Collins Dictionary’s 2017 words of the year shortlist. It’s also an important topic because it is often misunderstood: …
