Sisters, Mothers, Daughters: Pentecostal Perspectives on Violence against Women
Pentecostals from around the world talk about the epidemic of violence against women.
Spring 2026
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Amos Yong: The Hermeneutical Spirit II
Amos Yong, The Hermeneutical Spirit II: Migrations, Diasporas, and Cultures After Pentecost (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2026), 257 pages. Amos Yong’s The Hermeneutical Spirit II reads less like a sequel and more like a fresh unfolding of a long-standing theological journey. In these essays, thoughtfully edited by Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III, Yong revisits concerns that have…
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Choosing Peace in a World of Ragebait
On September 10, 2025, the nation was stunned when popular conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah. In the months that followed, a deeply disturbing trend emerged. Social media was flooded with posts that did not merely report the tragedy, but openly mocked it. What should have been a moment of sober reflection became,…
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Spring 2026: Other Significant Articles
Kara Bettis Carvalho, “The Safeguard of Good Church Governance: Strong ecclesiology is more important than ever. Four church leaders weigh in on the function of their church governments” Leadership Journal (Fall 2025). This introduction from Kara Bettis Carvalho provides the gateway to 4 perspectives on how to do church from Jonathan Leeman, Hershael W. York,…
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New look and new server
After a great deal of work, PneumaReview.com has finally moved to a new server with a new look and an updated software stack behind it to run things. Thank you to everyone that tested pages and looked things over before the cutover. Special thanks to my brother, Tony Mock, and to Dave Meyer who assisted in…
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Jackie Pullinger at Harvard
This year from March 26th through March 29th a gathering called Faith & Veritas 2026 was held at Harvard University. The official website for this conference (https://faithandveritas.law.harvard.edu/) says that the participants in this conference include: “Harvard alumni, faculty, chaplains, and students.” Many noteworthy speakers were brought in for this multi-day event. One of the speakers…
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Baptists and Charismatics: How Wide Is the Divide?
In a time when division seems to define both culture and the church, it is worth asking a simple question: how wide is the divide between Baptists and Charismatics, really? The answer may surprise us. Despite long-standing stereotypes and theological disagreements, the truth is that there is far more that unites these two groups than…
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Revealing the Unseen Realm
Michael Heiser’s The Unseen Realm (2015) has generated significant interest in evangelical and broadly biblical-theological circles for its claim to recover a neglected “divine council” worldview as the organizing framework for reading Scripture. This review essay by Rick Wadholm Jr argues that Heiser’s project, while erudite and stimulating in its Ancient Near Eastern scholarship, erects a maximalist theological superstructure on a textual and hermeneutical foundation that will not bear the weight placed upon it.
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The End of an Era? Does Skopos Theory Spell the End of the “Free vs. Literal” Paradigm?
Introduction While most discussion of Bible translations take place around the traditional “free vs. literal” debate, modern, non-Biblical translation theory has become suspicious of such easy dichotomies (e.g. Pym 1997: 39). Many translation scholars now tend to examine translations based on the purpose for which they were written.1 This article will examine skopos theory, one…
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Bobby Welch: You, The Warrior Leader
Bobby Welch, You, The Warrior Leader (Broadman & Holman, 2004) 0805431365. Are you a warrior-leader? Bobby Welch’s book is an impassioned and heartfelt call for Christians, laymen and clergy alike, to adopt a warrior-like approach to Kingdom work and Christian living. One of the later chapters, “Dying Words Of A Warrior Leader,” illustrates the title’s…
