Spring 2025

• MP3, Oral Learners and Christian Mission

  Pastor Ojoli Moses takes Proclaimer MP3 players throughout rural Uganda. Cybermissions funds this outreach ministry. Most of those Pastor Ojoli Moses speaks to are partially literate, they are not comfortable with reading and writing, but they love listening, They are oral learners! Solar-powered MP3 players, ... Read More

• Torleif Elgvin: My Lips Play Flute for the Highest

  Torleif Elgvin, My Lips Play Flute for the Highest: Jewish Hymns and Prayers before Jesus (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2024), 225 pages, ISBN 9781666770018. “His engraved precepts shall be on my tongue as long as I live, as the fruit of praise and portion of my lips. I will ... Read More

• Lee Barrett: T&T Clark Reader in Kierkegaard as Theologian

  Lee Barrett, ed., T&T Clark Reader in Kierkegaard as Theologian (T&T Clark, 2018; New York: Bloomsbury, 2018), 285 pages, ISBN 9780567670380. He has been called a boring windbag who “…deliberately sets out to be tortuous.” They ... Read More

• Elle Hardy: Beyond Belief

  Elle Hardy, Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World (London: Hurst, 2021), 328 pages, ISBN 9781787385535. Beyond Belief It is a, fascinating, extensively researched, encouraging, insightful (but sometimes exasperating) description of the expansion of the worldwide Pentecostal/charismatic churches. For the American Spirit-filled believer, ... Read More

• Robin M. Jensen: From Idols to Icons

  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 ... Read More

• Spring 2025: Other Significant Articles

    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 ... Read More

• Pentecost Makeover

  “After the Holy Spirit is come upon you…” Acts 1:8 You’ve seen it before … an old house that goes through an extreme makeover—It’s like a brand new home! The attraction is the compelling contrast between life before and life after. Consider, then, the contrast between the Christian life before and the Christian ... Read More

• Tim Tschida: The Garden of Scripture, Illusions and Fullness

  Read Introduction to The Garden of Scripture Read A Storm of Perfection The Garden of Scripture Illusions and Fullness   An enchanted Christian social imaginary will involve revisiting what it means to be human and the nature of the divine–human relationship. —Cheryl Bridges Johns I am a fan of the ocean, particularly ... Read More

• Love Is Not Rude!

  A Bible teacher’s take on the current crisis of Christian manners   This article disputes the idea that it is ok for Christians to be rude. Bad manners are not trivial. Rudeness is hurtful to believers and a poor witness to the world. I am not talking ... Read More