To Think God as Love

The following is an excerpt from an article in the Church of God Evangel magazine in 1918 regarding the murder of Dave Allen, a 26 year old member of the Church of God (Cleveland, TN). He was killed by two Alabama policemen for refusing to register for the draft. The author of the article, J.B. [...]

As part of the research required for my PhD thesis – in case you don’t know I’m writing a Pentecostal theology of the Eucharist – I’m reading the periodical literature of the early Pentecostals. Presently, I am reading the manuals of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, and I’m uncovering a wealth of interesting artifacts. For [...]

There is nothing old or stale about the memorial feast, the fruit of the vine is not old, the shed blood is not aged, the bread is not stale, the Lord’s body is not a mere thing of the past, the way is new and living. The thing most striking about the character of the [...]

1. Jesus, the victoriously wounded one, is the giver of the charismata. This is what Ephesians (4.7-11) tells us: “It was he who gave…” Jesus’ gifts are from the Father through the Spirit to the church for the world. The charismata are manifestations of Jesus himself and in the realest possible sense his action in the [...]

In spite of the fact that Pentecostalism (in myriad forms) has found and continues to find wide acceptance, the distinctive Pentecostal phenomenon, speaking in tongues (glossolalia), has not enjoyed the same success; this is especially true now in the West. According to Charette (“Reflective Speech: Glossolalia and the Image of God,” Pneuma 28:2 {Fall 2006}), tongue-speaking in most North American Pentecostal/Charismatic [...]

Andy Rowell has made this panel discussion from last month’s SPS meeting available for download. If you’re interested at all in issues of peace and justice you should take time to listen to it (it’s a couple hours long). Each of the panelists gives a brief lecture outlining h/er view of the matter. The following discussion is moderated [...]