The Pneuma Review 80

A Movement Actually on the Move: An Appreciative Response to An Evangelical Manifesto

There seems to be a move by some Evangelicals to engage more effectively today's culture and society. This has been building for some time. Neither do these appear to be isolated incidents. Several Evangelicals are moving in similar directions. "An Evangelical Manifesto: A Declaration of Evangelical Identity and Public Commitment" (see www.evangelicalmanifesto.com) is an especially significant example. First, several …

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Highlights from Black Theology and Leadership Institute 2014

The 2014 Black Theology and Leadership Institute Candace Laughinghouse sent these highlights with her report of the 2014 annual Black Theology and Leadership Institute at Princeton. From right to left: Worship in the chapel. In the midst of a great conversation within my cohort for the week. Me and Prof. Dr. John W. Kinney – Dean of the …

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The 2014 Black Theology and Leadership Institute

Highlights from Black Theology and Leadership Institute 2014 Yolanda Pierce This summer, I was selected to attend the annual Black Theology and Leadership Institute (BTLI) at Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Yolanda Pierce - the Elmer G. Homrighausen Associate Professor of African American Studies and Literature and Liaison with the Princeton University Center for African American Studies - has managed …

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Consumer or Consumee

Are misplaced priorities making you a bad report to the world around you? Pastor Mur asks if you are living in the Promised land or if your life is being eaten up by promising to do too much. Numbers 13:32 contains a thought or sentence that most of us have never noticed. This section of scripture discusses the various reports …

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Roger Stronstad: The Prophethood of All Believers, reviewed by Amos Yong

Roger Stronstad, The Prophethood of All Believers: A Study in Luke’s Charismatic Theology, Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplemental Series, vol. 16 (Sheffield, UK: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999). 136 pp. There are at least three reasons why every Pentecostal and charismatic pastor, minister, or leader should read this book. Let me briefly attempt to convince the reader by elaborating on …

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God's Heart for Unity

From the Worship Leader series. How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity (Psalm 133:1). Copyright Stan Myers. Used with permission. When my teenage daughter walks out the door, and I say, "Drive safely" she looks at me and says, "Absolutely, Dad." I reassure myself that I have really communicated. I assume she understands "Drive safely," …

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75th Church of God International General Assembly: Historic Encounters, Hints of What Lies Ahead

Official church historians consider the Church of God (Cleveland, TN USA) the oldest continuing, and one of the largest, Pentecostal ecclesial organizations in the world. It dates back to 1886 with roots in the Unicoi Mountains of Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina. It considers itself more of a movement than a denomination, more of a dynamic and organic …

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Perspectives on Spirit Baptism: Five Views

Chad Owen Brand, ed., Perspectives on Spirit Baptism: Five Views (Nashville, TN: Broadman and Holman Publishers, 2004), 338 pages. Perspectives on Spirit Baptism is a collection of five scholarly essays that define Spirit Baptism from five traditions: Reformed (Walter C. Kaiser), Pentecostal (Stanley M. Horton), Charismatic (Larry Hart), Wesleyan (H. Ray Dunning), and Catholic (Ralph Del Colle). Each view …

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