The rise of populist and nationalist movements around the world is a fact of our time. A quick survey finds the tide rising the world over: the recent Brazilian presidential …
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How diverse is YOUR bookshelf?
“Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.” John Green There is something precious about lying down with your children at night and having them actually read …
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Engaged Pentecostalism Editors
Engaged Pentecostalism has always been a communal enterprise. Indeed, our goal is to present diverse perspectives from around the pentecostal landscape on relevant topics that affect our world today. While …
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Working out my Pentecostalism
On a warm Sunday in the early eighties at age 8, I sat on a brown folded up table listening to a tape of “Farrel and Farrel”, a Christian pop …
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Secular Megastar Gives Worship Album to Entire Audience and Christians are Mad
Ellen DeGeneres gave her entire audience copies of Lauren Daigle’s latest album, “Look Up Child,” and Evangelicals are furious. What’s the deal?
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Being Wrong
If you were an American Evangelical Christian in the late 1990’s, you are almost guaranteed to be familiar with Joshua Harris’ culture-shaping book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Disenchanted with the idea …
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Of Pipe Bombs and Our President
One of the stickier parts of becoming an adult is learning how many of the truisms from your childhood were outright lies. Today, I’m reminded about a particular favorite from …
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‘Saul’s Armor’ or ‘David’s Sling’: A Reflection on Pentecostal Apologetics
Does Pentecostalism offer any resources for Christian apologetics? That is the focus of our brief reflection. In the spring of 2014, for a course on theological method, our teacher and …
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Should we care that the Earth is dying?
It was widely reported last week that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change presented new research that says we humans have just over decade to change the way we …
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Discerning Amid Our Social Chaos
For those not paying attention, here’s a public service announcement: the United States is in a prolonged moment of societal crisis. That seems a bit overblown, I know, but those …