David Livermore, “The Group Excluded from Diversity Programs” Center for Cultural Intelligence (November 11, 2020).

PneumaReview.com author David Livermore challenges DEI advocates not to exclude the white working class from their efforts. “I’m not suggesting we should shy away from calling racism what it is. Nor am I suggesting that polite conversations that treat all viewpoints as equally valid are the answer. But we have to stop and consider why so many working-class individuals feel like diversity programs teach people to tolerate and include everyone except them.”

J. Lee Grady, “Don’t Put a Lid on the Holy Spirit” Fire In My Bones (November 18, 2020).

The former editor of Charisma magazine writes: “People need the reality of God’s power. I wish we would stop being so worried about how the Holy Spirit might show up in church. Here are seven practical things we can do to encourage the freedom of the Spirit.”

Paul King, “Tribute to My Most Intensive Mentor—Dr. Chuck Farah” The King’s Round Table (November 28, 2020).

Paul King writes of Chuck Farah, who wrote the critique of the Word Faith movement, From the Pinnacle of the Temple: “He was a man of the Spirit—who combined the academic and the supernatural, a Ph.D. who experienced speaking in tongues.”

“We Prayed for Healing. God Brought a Pandemic: A coronavirus outbreak at France’s biggest Pentecostal megachurch changed their view of providence, judgment, and fellowship” Christianity Today (November 23, 2020).

In this (translated) interview with Jean-Paul Rempp, he describes how his church has taken a stance of forgiveness for those that accused them of becoming vectors for COVID-19 and how they have learned how to be a renewed and more welcoming community.

“Stanford E. Linzey, Jr. Collection Deposited at Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center” iFPHC.com (December 2, 2020).

For more on Stanford Linzey, Jr., see John Miller’s review of his book, The Holy Spirit in the Third Millennium: Handbook on the Holy Spirit: A Guide to the Spirit within.

Image: Le Duc

Frank Macchia, “How Flawed Is Our Gratitude? Learning from Jonah” FrankDMacchia.wixsite.com (December 7, 2020).

Roger E. Olson, “Critical Race Theory Examined and Analyzed” Patheos (December 21, 2020).

Brian Blount, “How Vineyard History Can Give Practical Insight to Discerning Prophetic Words” CrestwoodVineyard.org (December 12, 2020).

Pastor Brian Blount reflects on Bill Jackson’s book, The Quest for the Radical Middle and on what going through the prophetic movement taught him and other leaders in the Vineyard association. “We need to remember all three parts of discerning prophecy. We should weigh not only the revelation, but also the interpretation and the application. Correct revelation with incorrect interpretation or application can be very damaging.”

Thanks to William De Arteaga for pointing out this article.

Roger E. Olson, “About ‘Socialism’ and Christianity”  Patheos (December 26, 2020).

Historian of religion and theology, Roger Olson, discusses the many definitions of socialism, including the long-forgotten calls from Christians leaders of the past to urge the State to help the poor.

Michael Brown, “Don’t Let Anyone Threaten You With Prophetic Manipulation” YouTube.com (January 5, 2021).

John Lathrop writes, “Here is a new video, about 10 minutes long, in which Dr. Michael Brown speaks about manipulative prophecies.” Brown describes how “Touch not the Lord’s anointed” is often abused and says, “As leaders we are not just accountable to God, but we are accountable to other leaders and ultimately accountable, on a certain level, to whom we minister.”

Dave Johnson, “Interview with Lora Timenia about her book Third Wave of Pentecostalism in the Philippines: Understanding Toronto Blessing Revivalism’s Signs and Wonders Theology in the Philippines” (December 14, 2020).

In this interview from APTS Press, PneumaReview.com author Dave Johnson interviews Lora Timenia about her book.

David Livermore, “What I’ve Learned From 10 Years Leading The CQ Center” Cultural Intelligence Center (January 6, 2021).

Pneuma Review author David Livermore reflects on his work bringing Cultural Intelligence to the world. What is CQ and why is it important? Quick introduction: https://vimeo.com/468569477

“Revival Timelines” Revival-Library.org

The Revival Library has announced the publication of easy-to-read timelines of all major revival movements that have occurred in biblical history as well as prior and since the Great Reformation.

Médine Keener, “Lessons from Susie King Taylor” Asbury University (February 24, 2021).

A chapel message given by PneumaReview.com author Médine Keener has been converted into a podcast. From the introduction: “Dr. Medine Keener shares what we learn about racial and ethnic reconciliation through the life of Susie King Taylor—an invitation to embrace all God’s people.”

Paul J. Palma, The Antioch Legacy, by John P. Lathrop PJPalma.net (February 27, 2021).

Pentecostal scholar Paul Palma reviews Pastor John Lathrop’s book, The Antioch Legacy. Roger E. Olson, “American Evangelical Christianity: A Failed Movement?” Patheos (February 27, 2021).

Anthony Bradley, “Critical Race Theory Isn’t a Threat for Presbyterians” MereOrthodoxy.com (February 3, 2021).

While written to Presbyterians, the principles apply to all followers of Jesus: “CRT is not a real threat to the work of the Presbyterian Church in America. It does not tell us any more than what the Bible and the Christian tradition already acknowledge as a point of fact—namely, that people can be evil and that the parasite kingdom is wreaking havoc as far as the curse is found. There is racism in America and, at times, that racism can take on structural forms. It is proper to the work of the church to actively seek to bring solidarity and peace where there is racial conflict because of the hope of Resurrection. Presbyterians, then, can eat the meat and spit the bones of CRT, or any other secular social theory that does not presuppose the Triune God because the real war is against any manifestations of the principalities and powers (Eph 6:12) at work parasitically undermining the goodness of God’s creation.”

Thanks to Mark Galli for recommending this article.

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Michael Brown, “Wheat and Weeds: A Prediction About the Coming Split in the United Methodist Church” Stream.org (January 5, 2020).

Roger E. Olson, “Pentecostal Theology: A Brief Description” Patheos (January 16, 2020).

Andrew K. Gabriel, “Pentecostal Women in Ministry, What they Want, and #MeToo” AndrewKGabriel.com (January 16, 2020).

Andrew Gabriel introduces this video: “In today’s video, I interview Dr. Kimberly Alexander from Regent University’s School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, [VA]. I ask her about how Pentecostals have typically thought about women in ministry, what women in ministry say they actually want, and about Pentecostals and the #MeToo movement.”

Paul J. Palma, “The Legacy of Massimiliano Tosetto: Italian American Pentecostal Pioneer” iFPHC.org (January 22, 2020).

Roger E. Olson, “Why Theology Is Necessary” Patheos (January 21, 2020).

This article by Roger Olson is the second part of a series entitled, “Christian Theology–Answers to Questions.”

Geir Lie, “Oneness Pentecostalism in Norway” Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association (January 23, 2020).

Abstract: “This article examines and analyzes the evolution of Oneness Pentecostalism in Norway, a tradition which has literally passed under the radar of Scandinavian researchers. The article identifies nine Oneness groups and different denominations whose impact is growing particularly among immigrant Christians. The essay provides biographical data on various founders and the churches and denominations they established. Highlighting the theological and ethnical diversity of the movement, Lie suggests that missionaries, immigration, and reverse migration have significantly diversified the structures, theologies, ethnicities and leadership of Oneness Pentecostalism in Norway.”

Roger E. Olson, “Are All ‘Christians’ True Christians?” Patheos (January 30, 2020).

Church historian Roger Olson strongly challenges church leaders to state clearly and publicly when so-called Christians are behaving immorally.

Mark Deymaz with Harry Li, “Here Come the Skinny Cows: Four reasons tithes and offerings are about to drop dramatically” CT Pastors (Fall 2019).

In this book excerpt from The Coming Revolution in Church Economics: Why Tithes and Offerings Are No Longer Enough, and What You Can Do about It (Baker, 2019), this special edition of Christianity Today looks at the future of giving and sustainability for churches.

J. Lee Grady, “Brazil Has Become a Global Hot Spot for Revival” Fire In My Bones (February 12, 2020).

Congratulations to Craig Keener being elected by the Evangelical Theological Society as their president for 2020.

Jonathan Smith, “Smart Budgeting for Tech Purchases: Why it’s time to rethink the three-year replacement rule for hardware” Church Law & Tax (January 27, 2020).

Image: Francois Olwage

Craig Keener, “A Worldwide Vision for Theological Education” The LOGOS Academic Blog (February 20, 2020).

Marian L. Tupy, “Globalization and Poverty’s Unprecedented Decline: The last forty years have seen a massive and historically unprecedented decline in global poverty” HumanProgress.org (November 22, 2016).

Reminder of good news: This article was originally published in 2016, but this under-reported good news is worth repeating. “[T]he economic liberalization and globalization that started in the late 1970s and accelerated in the 1980s, has led to a massive and historically unprecedented decline in global poverty. Contrary to much of the public perception, liberalization and globalization have not led to an increase in U.S. poverty rates, which continue to fluctuate within a comparatively narrow and, by historical standards, low, band. … In 1981, the year Ronald Reagan became America’s 40th President, 44.3 percent of the world lived in extreme poverty (i.e., less than $1.90 per person per day). Last year [2015], it was 9.6 percent. That’s a decline of 78 percent.”

“While overall violence has declined in 2018, conflict is spreading” ACLED (December 21, 2018).

This Press Release from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project has both good and bad news. Thanks to our friends at Brigada for suggesting this article.

Ed Stetzer, “Three Markers for Discipleship” EdStetzer.com (April 23, 2018).

In case you missed it: A practical article on discipleship.

Peter Gräbe, “Do These And You’ll Always be Successful!” PeterGrabe.com (June 30, 2018).

Cletus Hull wrote, “My PhD adviser at Regent University asked me to share something for his blog and I believe it can pertain to healing and the Lord.”

Geir Lie, “The Origin of T.B. Barratt’s Concept of ‘Missionary Tongues” Cyberjournal for Pentecostal-Charismatic Research #26 (November 2018).

Gordon Govier, “Biblical Archaeology’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2018: A glimpse at the important excavation work revealed this year” Christianity Today (December 27, 2018).

2019 Risk Map from ControlRisks.com

What areas of the world are projected to be the most dangerous in 2019?

Caleb Courtney, “Researching Canadian Pentecostalism” CalebSourtney.com (January 30, 2019).

Author of A History of Bethel Pentecostal Church in Sarnia, Ontario writes about the rewarding but often neglected work of recording and sharing history.

Jeff Oliver, “Why the Church May Be Ignoring the Powerful Significance of Pentecost” Charisma (May 9, 2017).

James F. Linzey, “The New Year that Ushered in a World War” Assist News Service (December 28, 2017).

Douglas Groothuis, “Learning to Say Hello Again: A New Year’s resolution that could make a big difference” Christianity Today Online (January 5, 2018). |

“Throughout the day, we can pronounce a silent blessing on many we encounter. I often pray, ‘May God bless you and keep you, make his face shine upon you, and give you peace.’ The Bible is packed with blessings and benedictions for our discovery and use. Thinking and praying this way opens us up to greeting people with heartfelt good wishes and without fear.”

Alec Ryrie, “Beyond the Reformation of Politics” Modern Age (Fall 2017).

In an age when Western societies think most problems are susceptible to political solutions, what can we learn from the apolitical heritage of people like Martin Luther, Pietism, early Pentecostals, and South Korean Christians? “Protestantism is not, in any of its forms, a political movement. It is about God, and it is about human salvation. The centrality of those spiritual concerns has often been exasperating to secular politicians who want to make Protestants their allies and are frustrated by all the wearisome Jesus-talk, but it is unavoidable. Naturally, Protestants’ spiritual preoccupations have political consequences, sometimes dramatic ones. When an overwhelming encounter with God has turned your whole world upside down, nothing, politics included, will be quite the same. Yet if we misread these secondary effects as primary, we will not be able to understand their impact.”

Marshall Shelley, “What Christians in the US Can Learn from Immigrant Pastors: For those who met Christ elsewhere, Americanized Christianity can look a bit strange” Christianity Today Online (January 2018).

“The temptation there is hypocrisy, to appear more spiritual than you actually are. But in the US I pray less than I did in Korea. No one checks on my discipleship; we don’t talk about it. It’s all left up to the individual. Here we’re not hypocrites; we’re just lazy.”

Kate Bowler, “Death, the Prosperity Gospel and Me” The New York Times (February 13, 2016).

Did you miss this insightful 2016 article by a historian of the prosperity gospel?

Dorothy Littell Greco, “Pastoring the Victims of #MeToo: Four steps your church can take to minister well” WomenLeaders.com (January 21, 2018).

“Escalators to heaven: Evangelicalism is spreading among the Chinese of South-East Asia” The Economist (January 4, 2018)

“Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity is growing more quickly in Asia than most parts of the world, with over 200M adherents in 2015, up from 17M in 1970. The largest congregations are in South Korea and the Philippines, where dazzlingly large mega-churches hold tens of thousands of people. But Christian zeal is also increasing in other parts of the continent, including Indonesia and Malaysia, where proselytising among the Muslim majority is well nigh impossible, but where Buddhists, Confucians and Christians of other denominations, almost all of them ethnically Chinese, are proving receptive.”

William Spencer, “We Saw Trees Walking: Our Stories of Eye Healings” Applying Biblical Truths Today (December 27, 2017).

John Lathrop writes: “Here is a healing testimony by one of my former seminary professors. Dr. William Spencer.”

Shawna Songer Gaines, “How to Make Finding a Mentor Less Awkward: Three shifts in the way I thought about mentoring freed me” WomenLeaders.com (January 24, 2018).

Craig S. Keener, “What Is the Mark of the Beast?” Zondervan Academic (January 5, 2018).

The byline of this blog by Karl Vaters reads, “Long-term pastorates are almost always good for the church and the pastor. But when these things happen, it’s time to go.”

Eddie Hyatt, “Learning to ‘Think Critically’ Without Quenching the Spirit” Global Christian Awakening (December 31, 2016)

PneumaReview.com writer Eddie Hyatt talks about gifts and manifestations of the Spirit, personal prophecy, and a warning about how being careless about how we approach these things can create life-arresting problems. “When it comes to the supernatural, we should have an attitude of being open without being naïve and being critical without being judgmental. This will allow us to enjoy the fullness of God’s blessings and at the same time be protected from the many deceiving spirits at work in the world today.”

Karl Vaters, “5 Problems With Top-Down Vision-Casting – And a New Testament Alternative: Acts 2 does not give us a picture of Peter hearing from God in private, then coming to the disciples with the vision” Pivot (December 19, 2016).

In this blog from Karl Vaters, hosted by ChristianityTodayOnline, we are asked, “Have we been doing vision-casting wrong?”

George Thomas, “Radical Revival Falls on China’s State-Controlled Churches” CBN News (January 5, 2017).

Pastor John Lathrop invites us to watch this encouraging testimony and read this introductory article about what God is doing, “an unprecedented Christian revival happening in parts of China. What is unique about this story is how God is moving among communist-controlled government churches.”

Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, “The Favorite Bible Verses of 88 Nations” Christianity Today (January 10, 2017).

PneumaReview.com editor Raul Mock says: “In this short article and the Country-Verse table that follows you will find interesting, current, relevant, and biblically-centered ideas for sermon starters and anecdotes.”

Roger E. Olson, “Who Were the First Protestants? Reflections on the ‘500th Anniversary’” Patheos (January 16, 2017).

Lee Grady, “How to Leave an Unhealthy Church” Fire In My Bones (Nov 25, 2015).

“What’s So Dangerous About Grace?: Biblical scholar John Barclay explains why Paul shocked his religious peers—and reminds us how radical the gospel really is.” Christianity Today (Jan-Feb 2016).

NT theologian John M. G. Barclay speaks with Wesley Hill about grace and his book, Paul and the Gift (Eerdmans, 2105). He says that the theological conversation about the New Perspective on Paul has become polarizing, getting some things wrong and some things right. “The New Perspective has tried to rediscover the original historical context in which Paul himself was ministering. … I’m also trying to unearth the root of Paul’s theology. The New Perspective has said that the theme of grace wasn’t at the core of Paul’s theology. The New Perspective also believes that Paul’s theology was formed in his historical context, in and for his mission among non-Jews. As a result, the New Perspective has focused more on the social dimensions of Paul’s thought, and has sidelined grace. But grace really was at the center of his theology.”

“While there is no prior worth for receiving the gift of grace, God expects something in return. Paul expects those who receive the Spirit to be transformed by the Spirit and to walk in the Spirit.”

“[T]here are no limits to the reach of God’s grace. Both Paul and Jesus stood alongside people who were not at all respectable. In doing so, they took big social risks. God’s grace operates beyond our norms of what is civil, proper, or fair. And it challenges our hidden prejudices. Why do we distrust immigrants, stigmatize the poor, or disdain certain socioeconomic groups? Why are we tempted to think that people who do not have a spouse or a job, or who do not have a physique matching cultural ideals, have somehow failed? Whose values are we applying?”

Roger E. Olson, “Narrative Theology Explained” Patheos (January 15, 2016).

Olson offers his “revised and updated admittedly concise description of ‘narrative theology’ and why this approach to Scripture and theology has no need of ‘inerrancy.’”

Craig S. Keener, “My Real Life Hosea Story: Even when my wife was unfaithful, I continued to experience the faithful love of God” Christianity Today (January 15, 2016).

For the first summary paragraph, Craig Keener wrote, “Most people know me as a New Testament scholar. To keep my reading of Scripture balanced, however, I do most of my devotions from the Old Testament. Indeed, I have encountered God especially deeply in prophetic books such as Hosea and Jeremiah, where God laments over his people who have wandered far from him. God intended for his people to have an intimate relationship with him, a covenant relationship that the Bible compares with marriage.”

Catherine Clark Kroeger, “My Story, My Mission, My Hope” God’s Word to Women (February 3, 2016).

The late Dr. Cathie Kroeger shares her story and her reasons for standing against violence and abuse towards women and advocating egalitarianism. With an introduction by Susan Stubbs Hyatt.

Philip Jenkins, “History and the Limits of the Climate Consensus: Acknowledging the science of global warming does not require accepting that it is immune to criticism” The American Conservative (January 21, 2016).

While he does not disagree with the global warming consensus, Christian historian Philip Jenkins says that a stable, pre-industrial global temperature is a myth.

I began my career as a historian of the century following 1660, an era of harsh climatic conditions that often affected political and cultural history. Some periods in particular, especially the years around 1680 and 1740, stand out as uniquely stressful. Extreme cold led to crop failures and revolts, social crises and apocalyptic movements, high mortality and epidemics, but it also spawned religious revivals and experimentation. If you write history without taking account of such extreme conditions, you are missing a lot of the story.

“An Interview with Candy Gunther Brown” PCPJ (February 18, 2016).

“How does science relate to the supernatural?”

“On Dying and Reckoning with the Prosperity Gospel: How church historian Kate Bowler’s cancer diagnosis brought her face-to-face with the beauty and terror of the popular movement” Christianity Today (February 23, 2016).

This interview by Morgan Lee is introduced: “Kate Bowler is a Canadian professor at Duke Divinity School who researches the prosperity gospel movement. She’s also 35, a wife and mother, and critically ill with cancer.”

David Garrison, “Muslim movements to Jesus”.

Doug Lucas of Team Expansion wonders if this is the most encouraging talk of the decade. Watch David Garrison, author of A Wind in the House of Islam: How God Is Drawing Muslims Around the World to Faith in Jesus Christ (2014), speaking about the history of movements made up of Muslims deciding to follow Jesus and what is happening today. More movements exist today than any time in history. This recording was made at the Finishing the Task 2015 conference held in December of 2015 at Saddleback Church.

Jo Maym “David Suchet: faith, the Bible and doubt” Church of England Newspaper (December 19, 2015).

British actor David Suchet discusses how he prepared for reading the New International Version of the Bible, and how receiving a letter about a woman healed of blindness helped motivate him to pursue the recording project.

Lee Grady, “5 Ways to Pray for the Muslim World” Fire In My Bones (March 30, 2015).

The exclusively digital edition of The Pneuma Review, Winter 2015 (18:1).

Some of what you will find in this issue:

The Holy Spirit, The Missing Finger: Comparing the Pneumatology of Alexander Campbell and Don Basham

A conversation that started with “What Bible Did Jesus Use?” and continued with “What Yeshua Quoted” and “Bishops, Aramaic, and the LXX.”

Find all of these articles individually in an easy-to-read format on the archive page: http://pneumareview.com/winter-2015/

Full issue coming soon.

Wesley Hill, “The Way God Conducts Us: Saved Through Childbearing? Perhaps We All Are In the End” First Things (November 6, 2014).

William De Arteaga writes: “This is a masterpiece on the theology of motherhood.”

Ed Stetzer, “A Decision in Ferguson: How Should Evangelicals Respond? The grand jury has made a decision in Ferguson, now we have to make ours. How will we respond?” Exchange (November 24, 2014).

Michael Brown, “Now Is a Good Time to Test Our Prophecies” In the Line of Fire (December 29, 2014).

Michael Brown asks prophetic leaders, “What is your track record so far? How many of your past prophecies have come to pass?”

Warren Bird, “Putting ‘Success’ in Succession: Prominent pastors go public with how to wisely pass the leadership baton” Christianity Today (November 2014), pages 50-53.

Carol Kaminski, “CASKET EMPTY: An Overview”

Dr. Carol Kaminski of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary explains the dual study resource of CASKET EMPTY as a tool for memorable Bible study.

John Lathrop writes: “Looking for a little help with your Bible study? In this brief video (about 2 and a half minutes) one of my former seminary professors, Dr. Carol Kaminski, talks about a study help that she had a hand in creating.”

Ben Witherington, “News Weak—The Problems with Mr. Eichenwald’s Article” Patheos (January 6, 2015).

David Livermore, “Cultural intelligence in an age of terrorism” Management-Issues.com (January 13, 2015).

Speaking to business leaders, Dave Livermore offers solid advice about how leaders of all kinds, including church leaders, should respond to horrific incidents of terrorism.

Andrew Gabriel, “There is No Such Thing as Spiritual Gifts (Kind of)” January 13, 2015.

Monte Lee Rice pointed out this quote as significant: “Paul did not create a technical category, limited list, or box, called spiritual gifts. Rather, when Paul talks about ‘spirituals’ or ‘gifts’ in 1 Corinthians 12 and elsewhere, Paul is simply offering a number of examples of ways that the Spirit uses and enables believers to minister. There are many other ways that the Spirit can use believers!”

Chris Green, “The Spirit of Baptism: Sharing Christ’s Identity and Vocation” Seedbed (January 20, 2015).

William Simpson, “Supper Is Served: Reflections on the Temple as a Liturgical Paradigm” The Imaginative Conservative (November 24, 2014).

Philosopher-physicist William Simpson asks, “Where then shall we seek the true bread of life, in this world or beyond, and what are we willing to chance to obtain it?”

Robert Marquand, “In China, a church-state showdown of biblical proportions: Christianity is booming in China, propelling it toward becoming the world’s largest Christian nation. But as religion grows, it spurs a government crackdown” Christian Science Monitor (January 11, 2015).

Suggested by William De Arteaga.

Andy Lord, “Pivotal points in Renewal” Transforming Renewal (January 30, 2015).

Monte Lee Rice selected this quote as significant: “We often look and long for new moves of the Holy Spirit, new points that will become pivotal in our lives and the life of the church. Yet rather than the dramatic and most in the news, perhaps we are best looking for the relational …”

Teaching Video: “Craig Keener: Who is the Thief that Comes to Kill, Steal, and Destroy?” Seedbed (January 30, 2015).

John Lathrop writes: “Dr. Keener speaking about John 10:10. What he says may be different from what you have heard.”

Ed Stetzer, “The Real Reason the Pentecostal Movement Keeps Growing” CharismaNews.com (February 4, 2015).

Rick Wadholm Jr. writes: “Ed Stetzer recently offered a number of sociological factors for Charisma magazine which he believes are contributing to the continuing growth of Pentecostalism globally. 1) Pentecostals Value Their Shared Experience 2) Pentecostals Want to Share Their Values 3) Worth Sharing the Spirit-Filled Experience And he offers the following towards the end: ‘Well, I’d have some theological nuances I’d like to bring in, but from a sociological perspective my response is: “I wouldn’t downplay what is in the engine.” You don’t care for some of their expression? That’s fine. But Pentecostals are trying to reach the lost and grow the kingdom. Their distinctives apparently aren’t hindering their growth—their distinctives are propelling growth globally.’”

Laura Joyce Davis, “Meet the Mom Who Stopped Joseph Kony: How Shannon Sedgwick Davis helped dismantle the Ugandan warlord’s reign of terror” Christianity Today (Jan/Feb 2015).

As quoted in the article: “We are not simply to bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice; we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. … Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Roger E. Olson, “Must You Believe in the Doctrine of the Trinity to Be a Christian?” Patheos (February 5, 2015).

Rick Wadholm Jr. writes: “Roger Olson offers a thoughtful piece on the value of Trinitarian confession while still admitting its ultimately non-essential nature to being a Christian. This is suggestive, in my estimation, toward some form of reconciliation among Trinitarian and Oneness Pentecostals (and follows a similar angle as that of David Reed who is the foremost Oneness expert who is Trinitarian). I write this as one whose preaching, teaching, and writing is thoroughly Trinitarian, and yet holds sympathy for Oneness Pentecostal brothers and sisters.”  

Jim Dettmann and Raul Mock on February 8, 2015.

The Pneuma Foundation and our journal, The Pneuma Review, have been very blessed these last two years with how Cup and Cross Ministries enabled us to move from print to digital. What a boost this has been. All of us are thrilled with the new website.

Although some of us do miss having the paper journal in our hands, becoming PneumaReview.com has enabled us to reach farther and wider than ever before. Now we have a future that was not available to us before.

I want to express my appreciation for Mike Dies, Joe Joslin, Kevin Williams, John Lathrop, Tony Richie, and Amos Yong for their long term support and for the specific ways they have assisted Raul Mock in publishing the journal.

We look forward to placing our entire library of past issues online with open access for all. Speaking of past issues, there are several writers I want to personally acknowledge for their significant contributions to the journal: Wayne Grudem, J. Rodman Williams, Robert Graves, Jon Ruthven, Gary Grieg’s Kingdom and the Power, and Craig Keener. With the continued support of our writers and readers, we will continue to publish new material from today’s Pentecostal and charismatic scholars.

We want to get your feedback about the differences you’ve seen or how PneumaReview.com has been a blessing to you. Perhaps you had not been aware of what we were doing, publishing a journal for Pentecostal and charismatic church leaders, before our move to an online publication. Is there something you would like to see us cover? Is there a book you would like to hear a different perspective on? Please leave a comment or suggestion below or write to the editors through our Contact page. Please pray for us.

One of the big reasons Pneuma Review came into existence years ago was to offer a consistently biblical and thoughtful voice to answer for the continuation of the charismata. We thank God for the opportunity to be part of the renewal of the ministry of the Holy Spirit today.

In the service of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit,

James M. Dettmann
Pneuma Foundation President
February 15, 2015

Dale M. Coulter and PneumaReview.com editor Raul Mock at the Society for Pentecostal Studies convention March 8, 2014.

Dale M. Coulter, “The Demons of African Pentecostalism” First Things (Jan 19 2014).

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/01/pentecostals-and-the-demonic

Dale M. Coulter, “Evangelicals, Pop Culture, and Mass Culture” First Things (Feb 2014).

Monte Lee Rice pointed out this quotation: “by emphasizing the Spirit’s role in creation and redemption evangelical revivalism and its offshoot of the Pentecostal and charismatic movement have advanced a program that both democratizes Christianity and inculturates it in a way that preserves and fosters folk culture.”

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/02/evangelicals-pop-culture-and-mass-culture

Gary Gutting, “Is Atheism Irrational?: Skeptics may not have the evidence (or the arguments) on their side” New York Times (Feb 9, 2014).

William L. De Arteaga writes: “This is a wonderful interview article with America’s greatest Christian philosopher, Alvin Plantinga. It is from the New York Times – do not be surprised to see more articles like this out of the Times, as the new owner is a Christian. Share and email this link to your agnostic and atheist friends.”

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/is-atheism-irrational/

Jason Margolis, “This African church hopes to spread across America ‘like Starbucks': European and American missionaries have gone to Africa for centuries to spread the word of Christ. That trend is now working in reverse.” PRI’s The World (February 12, 2014).

In the Pentecostal Theology Worldwide Facebook group, BF wrote: “A great story about Pentecostal Nigerian missionaries to the USA.”

http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-12/african-church-hopes-spread-across-america-starbucks

Tony Richie speaking at the Society for Pentecostal Studies convention March 7, 2014.

Tony Richie, “Pentecostalism’s Wesleyan Roots & Fruit” Seedbed.com (March 14, 2014).

http://seedbed.com/feed/pentecostalisms-wesleyan-roots-fruit