Why Place Matters – By James Bielo
James Bielo on Mark Mulder’s Shades of White Flight Racial inequality plagues America. This fact is central to our national story and continues
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Modern Christianity
Pressing On: Pentecostalism and Perseverance – By Anna Strhan
Anna Strhan on Girish Daswani’s Looking Back, Moving Forward What does it mean to keep going? And what new avenues might be opened
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Tracing out the Limits of Pentecostalism in Africa – By Konstanze N’Guessan
Konstanze N’Guessan on Martin Lindhardt’s edited volume, Pentecostalism in Africa On 18 September 2010, I witnessed about 500 women following the call of
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Redeeming Jimmy Carter – By Andrew R. Murphy
Andrew R. Murphy on Randall Balmer’s Redeemer Just in case readers might miss the significance of the title emblazoned across the book’s front
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Marriage, Metaphors, and Melodramas – By Darryl W. Stephens
Darryl W. Stephens on Leslie Harris’s State of the Marital Union It is easy to get tripped up by the tropes of our
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The Importance of Premillennialism – By Dan Hummel
Dan Hummel on Matthew Sutton’s American Apocalypse In 1970, an ex-tugboat captain and self-described prophecy expert named Hal Lindsey published The Late Great
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On Dreams and Disconnects: the Ambiguities of a Liberal Sage – By Suzanne Schneider
Suzanne Schneider on Michael Walzer’s The Paradox of Liberation In 1935, the British-run Government of Palestine convened a meeting between the Zionist National
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Is There a Message In the Music? – By Anthony B. Pinn
Anthony B. Pinn on Robert Darden’s Nothing But Love in God’s Water Think about the following scene: Enslaved Africans physically abused, mentally tortured,
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When America Was Born Again – By Neil J. Young
Neil J. Young on Steven P. Miller’s The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years In 1976, as Jimmy Carter campaigned for the White
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The Politics of Prosperity: Pentecostalism as Critique – By Naomi Haynes
Naomi Haynes on Ilana Van Wyk’s The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa In 2013, ten years after I
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