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  • Presence Is a Verb

    Presence Is a Verb

    Presence Is a Verb—a State of Being and an Action The woman abruptly arose from the Sunday dinner table and accusingly spoke to her husband, “You wouldn’t care if I drowned in the waterhole.” She then turned and walked out the door. It had been a typical Sunday for the sixteen-year-old girl. The Pentecostal family […]

  • In the Midst: Biblical Hope and Suffering, an interview with Craig Keener

    In the Midst: Biblical Hope and Suffering, an interview with Craig Keener

    PneumaReview.com: What led you to write a book on the subject of suffering? Craig Keener: Seeing what dominates our culture’s interests reinforced my feeling that the church in the U.S. is largely unprepared for suffering. Although the Bible talks a lot about suffering, sometimes when it strikes people who have heard only messages about blessing, […]

  • A Sober Word to the Charismatic Movement: an interview with Frank Viola

    A Sober Word to the Charismatic Movement: an interview with Frank Viola

    Raul Mock of The Pneuma Review recently interviewed bestselling author Frank Viola about his new book The Untold Story of the New Testament Church (2025) with Foreword by Craig Keener.   Raul Mock: For PneumaReview.com readers that have not yet encountered you, please tell us about your spiritual journey and your ministry. Frank Viola: I’m […]

  • Word & Spirit Commentaries: interview with Holly Beers and Craig Keener

    Word & Spirit Commentaries: interview with Holly Beers and Craig Keener

    PneumaReview.com: If you were sitting down for a cup of coffee with a church leader for the first time, how would you introduce yourself and the work you do? Holly Beers and Craig Keener: We love the Bible, and at heart we want to understand it well and help others understand it also. That’s how […]

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  • Wolfgang Vondey: The Scandal of Pentecost

    Wolfgang Vondey: The Scandal of Pentecost

    Wolfgang Vondey, The Scandal of Pentecost: A Theology of the Public Church (New York: T&T Clark, 2024), 269 pages, ISBN 9780567712646. Here is a book that lingers in the mind like an unresolved chord. In the cacophony of modern theology,

    November 24, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Pentecost Makeover

    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,

    June 7, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • Paul Hattaway: Fujian: The Blessed Province

    Paul Hattaway: Fujian: The Blessed Province

    Paul Hattaway, Fujian: The Blessed Province (United Kingdom: Langham Global Library, 2025), 368 pages. ISBN-10:1786411326, ISBN-13:978-1786411327 This book is the latest release in Paul Hattaway’s “China Chronicles” series. Each book is published not only in English but also in Chinese,

    December 1, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post

  • How One Man's Secret Bible Mission Became a Global Lifeline

    How One Man’s Secret Bible Mission Became a Global Lifeline

    A Dutch man’s dangerous journey in 1955 – as told in God’s Smuggler – sparked seven decades of comprehensive support for the world’s most persecuted Christians Global ministry celebrates 70 years: In 1955, Brother Andrew began a work that this year

    July 29, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • Josiah Baker: A Visible Unity

    Josiah Baker: A Visible Unity

    Josiah Baker, A Visible Unity: Cecil Robeck and the Work of Ecumenism (Lanham: Fortress Academic, 2024), 278 pages, ISBN 9781978717206. A Visible Unity: Cecil Robeck and the Work of Ecumenism is a revised version of Josiah Baker’s dissertation, written under

    December 15, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post

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

    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.”[1] Philip Yancy acknowledges that at

    May 7, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post

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  • Winter 2026: Other Significant Articles

    Winter 2026: Other Significant Articles

    Jeremy Writebol, “Gen Z Is More Than Just Anxious: What the church gets wrong—and what it can get right—about forming a generation shaped by screens and longing for purpose” CT Pastors (September 8, 2025).    Craig S. Keener, “Apostles Today” YouTube (October 18, 2025). Pastor John Lathrop says: “At the link you can hear Dr. […]

    March 24, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Joseph Lee Dutko: The Pentecostal Gender Paradox

    Joseph Lee Dutko: The Pentecostal Gender Paradox

    Joseph Lee Dutko, The Pentecostal Gender Paradox: Eschatology and the Search for Equality (London: T&T Clark, 2024), 297 pages. “Women can be ordained and preach, but they are not permitted to teach theology.” These were the instructions I heard in a Pastoral Epistles class during my junior year at an Assemblies of God Bible college. […]

    January 16, 2026 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Fall 2025: Other Significant Articles

    Fall 2025: Other Significant Articles

    In case you missed it: Janet Epp Buckingham, “Ban the Mob, Not the Bible: Christians are the victims of hate in some places and the targets of hate speech laws in others. How can believers advocate for nations to address both threats in a consistent, principled way?” Christianity Today (June 6, 2024).   Dony Donev, […]

    December 29, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post

  • Aida Besancon Spencer: The Exegetical Process

    Aida Besancon Spencer: The Exegetical Process

    Aída Besançon Spencer, The Exegetical Process: How to Write a New Testament Exegesis Paper Step-by-Step (Kregel Academic, 2025), 274 pages, ISBN 9780825449161. Aída Besançon Spencer’s The Exegetical Process offers a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to New Testament exegesis designed primarily for seminary students and undergraduate biblical studies programs. The work systematically addresses each stage of the […]

    December 8, 2025 | 0 comments | View Post

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