Out of the Flames by the Goldstones

Mar 12, 2023 | Book Reviews

Pulmonary circulation, heresy, and John Calvin make for an intriguing trio of historical companions. Still, these three elements all played a role in the life and death of Michael Servetus, who—lashed to the inquisitor’s pyre—“was slowly roasted, agonizingly...

An Elevated Pulpit: Redeeming Truth from the Cult of Self

Mar 11, 2023 | Posts

In a 2019 Symposium presentation on Biblical Illiteracy in a Post-Christian World, I remember feeling a slight buildup of anxiousness as I moved toward the Question and Answer segment of the presentation. The reason for this anxiousness was due to the awareness that I...

Responding to Biblical Illiteracy in a Post-Christian World

Mar 9, 2023 | Academic

When America was founded, the language of the newly established constitutional republic spoke volumes of the foundational tenets that undergird its revolutionary development. The societal moorings of such a fledgling nation owed much credit to the homage and...

Norming the Abnormal by Aaron T. Friesen

Mar 7, 2023 | Book Reviews

The doctrine of initial evidence, a dogma oft associated with the early theological approaches to Spirit Baptism by Charles Parham, is a doctrine that has historically met with a diverse range of reactions and concerns (positive and negative) over the past century....

William J. Seymour and the Origins of Global Pentecostalism by Gaston Espinosa

Mar 7, 2023 | Book Reviews

The retelling of the modern Pentecostal movement seldom emphasizes the impact of William Joseph Seymour enough.  As a one-eyed Black man in the early 1900s, Seymour offered a deeply divided society an eschatological view of the kingdom that struck at the very...