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Da Vinci film gets attention from Christian critics: Fiction or religious tract?
The best-selling novel by Dan Brown upset an international and predominantly lay Catholic organization as well as conservative Protestants, but with the movie version of The Da Vinci Code sl...
Some 'Spirit-filled' Baptists feel targeted in SBC: New rule on private prayer practice
When Paul Pressler and Paige Patterson launched a revolution within the Southern Baptist Convention, they found an eager soldier in Ron Phillips....
Gay Episcopal bishop treated for alcoholism: Robinson plans to return after treatment
New Hampshire bishop V....
Alabama church fires stoke renewed concerns: Motive for latest arsons unknown
A series of church fires last month in Alabama has renewed a perennial, nationwide concern for protecting congregations and prosecuting arsonists. ...
Hispanic evangelicals break ranks, advocate immigration reform: Legal status for undocumented immigrants
Breaking rank with leading evangelical groups that have chosen to stay out of current immigration debates, a new coalition has formed to represent more than 20 million Hispanic evangelicals and to ...
Briefly noted
The Ohio State Board of Education has voted 11-4 to discard portions of its tenth-grade biology guidelines that critics said opened the door for teaching intelligent design....
Slain by the music: Praise music's triumphant spread
The images abound in stock video footage accompanying stories on evangelicals, the religious right, megachurches and the culture wars—the obligatory shots of middle-class worshipers, usually white,...
Discerning the Spirit: Pentecostal spirituality and practice
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth (Act...
Reality show: Mark 9:2-9
Do not look for this mountain on a Bible map. It juts out not from the topography of Galilee, but from the topography of God.
Dancing the Decalogue
The Ten Commandents are prefaced not by an order but by a breathtaking announcement of freedom.
Pray without yawning: The power of intercessory prayer
Some questions just will not die. “Why is there something instead of nothing?” is a perennial....
New-car smell: Intimations of heaven
When you get to the car lot, you have a decision to make—which way should you go?...
Global and local: Pentecostals' independent spirit
As the message of Pentecost spread, it adapted to fit existing cultures....
Pentecostalism's dark side: Troublesome teachings and practices
I was raised in a tiny Pentecostal denomination, the Open Bible Standard Churches, founded in part by disillusioned followers of 1930s revivalist Aimee Semple McPherson....
Charismatic and mainline: Domestication of a movement
One Sunday morning in 1960, the Episcopal pastor of a 2,500-member parish in suburban Los Angeles told his congregation that he and 70 other members had been “speaking in tongues."At the end of the service, an assistant priest pulled off his vestments and stalked out, saying, “I can no longer work with this man!” Tumult reigned. One man stood on a chair, shouting, “Throw out the damn tongue-speakers!”
Azusa Street revival: Historiography of Pentecostalism
On April 9, 1906, at a prayer meeting in a modest home on Bonnie Brae Street in Los Angeles, a few men and women spoke in tongues....
The Messiah waits
Here is a lovely parable—all the more lovely considering that it comes from the chief rabbi of Great Britain’s Orthodox Je...
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There are good books, there are great books, and then there are books that make you want to send copies to all...
Welcoming Children
I must admit that I am drawn to books with the word children in the title....