Our Father, in whom is the fullness of light Instill within us the passion for liberty; Make us willing to learn to fight For the passion to lead your people to victory. Inspire us to seek deeper levels of understanding, Enlightened by Your Spirit of grace, Obedience to Your Will and Law notwithstanding, […]
September 11, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
Michael Plekon, Ministry Matters: Pastors, Their Life and Work Today (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2024), 173 pages, ISBN 9781666789959. “Congregations are shrinking and in decline in the United States and elsewhere” (xiii). Michael Plekon (Emeritus Professor of Baruch College), begins the introduction to his new book, Ministry Matters, with this matter-of-fact statement, not to frighten […]
July 18, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
It happened on Thursday, July 4th, 2002, on that antiquated, post-Civil War Cavalry post—Camp Sturgis, built in 1878, east of Sturgis, South Dakota. It ceased to be an active-duty post in 1944. It was like a ghost town. The ancient parade fields were still there just as they looked in 1878, lined with the original […]
July 4, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
Myles Werntz, “You Don’t Need a Rule of Life: What you need is a church” Christianity Today (October 10, 2024). Paraclete journal now available online The Consortium of Pentecostal Archives has made the quarterly journal gratis available online. Paraclete (1967-1995) was a journal of practical theology for Assemblies of God pastors (replaced by […]
June 23, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post
Robin M. Jensen, From Idols to Icons: The Emergence of Christian Devotional Images in Late Antiquity, Christianity in Late Antiquity 12 (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022), 252 pages, ISBN 9780520345423. Depending on what Christian tradition one finds oneself in, the question of Christian art is a difficult and delicate topic. Are we permitted […]
June 16, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post