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The Not-So-Tidy Christmas Story, by Scott Lencke

A guest article by Scott Lencke.

Anyone who knows me will know that I love Christmas. I think it’s fantastic – the carols, the trees, the lights, the goodies, the family time, the movies, some restfulness and more.

Yes, I love the truth of the advent, or coming, of Christ into our world. But I also like the not-so-religious stuff as ...

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Pneuma Review Fall 2013

Pneuma Review Fall 2013

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Robert Kimball Shinkoskey, Do My Prophets No Harm

Robert Shinkoskey's Do My Prophets No Harm, reviewed by Woodrow Walton

Robert Kimball Shinkoskey, Do My Prophets No Harm: Revelation and Religious Liberty in the Bible (Eugene, Oregon: Resource Publications, 2011), 206 pages, ISBN 9781608998456.

Robert Shinkoskey has two main proposals in Do My Prophets No Harm. The first proposal is that the Ten Commandments provide ancient Israel’s constitutional government. In theory, ...

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Back to the Original Church

Alan Delotavo's Back to the Original Church, reviewed by Jim Williams

From Pneuma Review Fall 2013.

Alan J. Delotavo, Back to the Original Church: The Secret Behind Church Movements (Eugene, OR: Resource Publications, 2010), 100 pages, 9781556355660.

Regular and careful Bible readers inevitably piece the Bible story together until they have a sense of the grand sweep of things. We do the ...

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Pentecostalism and Christian Unity 2

Pentecostalism and Christian Unity 2, reviewed by Jim Purves

From Pneuma Review Fall 2013.

Wolfgang Vondey, ed., Pentecostalism and Christian Unity, Volume 2 (Pickwick Publications, 2013), 301 pages, ISBN 9781620327180.

It can be a terrible thing when we believe that we ourselves are right and all others are, by inference, wrong. Terrible, because it can reinforce an arrogance caused by ...

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Prophetic Preaching, reviewed by Jonathan Downie

Prophetic Preaching, reviewed by Jonathan Downie

From Pneuma Review Fall 2013.

Leonora Tubbs Tisdale, Prophetic Preaching: A Pastoral Approach (Westminster John Knox Press, 2010), 138 pages, ISBN 9780664233327.

There are some occasions where the reader finishes a book unsure whether they should praise the author for writing a challenging and necessary work or criticise them for missing vital emphases. Prophetic ...

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Global Voices

Global Voices, reviewed by John Lathrop

From Pneuma Review Fall 2013.


Craig Keener and M. Daniel Carroll Rodas, eds., Global Voices: Reading the Bible in the Majority World (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2013), 144 pages, ISBN 9781619700093.

The chapters that make up this book were originally papers that were presented at a meeting of the Institute for ...

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In Conversation with Andrew Schmutzer, Part 2

In Conversation with Andrew Schmutzer, Part 2

An interview with Andrew Schmutzer about The Long Journey Home: Understanding and Ministering to the Sexually Abused, and part 2 of his chapter, "A Theology of Sexuality and its Abuse: Creation, Evil, and the Relational Ecosystem" as appearing in Pneuma Review Fall 2013.

Pneuma Review: You wrote, “Christian theology has historically separated ...

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