Fall 2021

• Matthew King: I Will Abolish The Bow

  Matthew A. King, I Will Abolish The Bow: Christianity, Personhood, and the End of Animal Exploitation (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2021), ix-131 pages, ISBN 9781666700275. Matthew A. King is the cofounder and president of the Christian Animal Rights Association, an organization dedicated to ending animal ... Read More

• Vinson Synan: Where He Leads Me

  Vinson Synan, Where He Leads Me: The Vinson Synan Story (Franklin Springs, GA: LifeSprings Resources, 2019) 236 pages. ISBN-10 : 091186699X,  ISBN-13 : 978-0911866995 Vinson Synan is well known as a Pentecostal historian and scholar. He authored many books about the work of the Holy Spirit, these ... Read More

• The Beautiful, Challenging, Deliberate, Fulfilling Call to be a Missionary

  PneumaReview.com speaks with Dave Johnson about the publication of his book, Answering God’s Call: Reflections of a Veteran Missionary in Asia.   Pneuma Review: Please tell our readers how you came to understand that the Lord was calling you into missions. Dave Johnson: I was in the ... Read More

• Anti-Racist Strategies in the West Perpetuate Global Poverty: A Critique from Africa

  Missionary-scholar Jim Harries argues that the wide differences between the West and the Rest are being ignored by anti-racist strategies. These misunderstandings are perpetuating dependencies in the majority world and stunting sustainable development. However, there is a way forward, a path of humility that rejects ... Read More

• Will I Still Be Me After Death?

  In his series about Heaven, Pastor Daniel Brown asks, in the world to come, will we be who we were? There are two kinds of death—spiritual and natural. Death is not a state of oblivion or non-existence; it is, rather, a separation from the life that ... Read More

• Does God Still Give Revelation Today?

  Continuationists believe God still speaks today. This happens not only through the word of God in Scripture, but even through specific words or what we might term as “revelations.” These revelations can come in various manners – prophecies, words of knowledge, words of wisdom, visions, ... Read More

• New Testament Glossolalia

  What does the New Testament have to say about speaking in tongues? Read More

• Interview with Pastor Philip Mantofa

  Introducing Philip Mantofa: Pastor Philip Mantofa graduated from Columbia Bible College, in British Columbia, Canada, with a degree in theology. Since 1998, he has been serving Mawar Sharon Church, a growing church of 30,000 in Indonesia. Currently, he is one of the leaders of the ... Read More

• The Sovereignty of God Debate

  D. Stephen Long and George Kalantzis, eds., The Sovereignty of God Debate (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2009), 193 pages, ISBN 9781556352171. This collection of essays presented in 2006-07 to the students and faculty of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary is part of the on-going work of The Forum for ... Read More

• Christ-Centered Prayer

  This guest article is a chapter from David Broderick’s book, Christ-Centered Life. If YHWH is the preexistent God, if Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, if the Holy Spirit is the agent who created everything—then prayer begins and ends with God. Prayer is God’s work, not ... Read More

• Successful or Fruitful?

  Are we measuring success in ministry the wrong way? Read More

• Todd Rutkowski: Coming to Life

  Todd Michael Rutkowski, Coming to Life: The Journey to Identity, Passion and Purpose (Sisters, OR: VMI Publishers, 2004), 172 pages. Rutkowski subtitled his book “The Journey to Identity, Passion and Purpose.” It has eight chapters that are largely filled with pleasant anecdotal materials. We learn that ... Read More

• The Not-So-Tidy Christmas Story, 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 ... Read More

• The Emergence of Italian Pentecostalism: Affectivity and Aesthetic Worship Practices

  Editor’s Note: This academic paper by Paul Palma was first presented at the 2013 meeting of the Center for Renewal Studies. Less technical readers may want to start with the more accessible conclusion.   Introduction The early Pentecostal movement expanded among those seeking a more dynamic and vital ... Read More

• The Holy Spirit Never Left the Church

  In 1987, on the 250th Anniversary of its founding, I visited New Herrnhut Moravian Church on the island of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Visiting this mountain-side shrine and the jungle overhanging its cemetery impacted my life in a way I will carry to ... Read More