by James L. Evans | Apr 29, 2002 | Opinion
My grandfather never owned a Bible. In fact, he could not read. He never attended a church, didn’t sing any hymns, and never prayed—out loud anyway. He also seemed to have a certain contempt for preachers. Although he never said it directly, I got the idea...
by Pam Durso | Apr 29, 2002 | Opinion
In the 1950s, Pentecostalism emerged as one of the most visible and growing forms of Protestantism. The beginning of the modern Pentecostal revival is generally traced to a prayer meeting led by Charles Parham. At the meeting on Jan. 1, 1901, at Bethel Bible College...
by Ben Leslie | Apr 26, 2002 | Opinion
It was near the end of a semester in Christian ethics, and one of the students had never quite accepted the church’s obligation to the poor and the oppressed. He summarized his frustration this way: “Give a hungry man a meal, and you keep him alive for a...
by Robert Rhodes | Apr 26, 2002 | Opinion
It is astonishing the way that errors of thought can hook onto otherwise harmless facts and spread generations, even centuries, of mistaken impressions. Many accounts of our Anabaptist history are replete with these left-field clinkers, even among some august and...
by Barry Howard | Apr 25, 2002 | Opinion
During Jesus’ life and ministry, he regularly advocated and practiced the discipline of private, personal prayer. For Jesus, public prayer had a didactic purpose. For example, Jesus offered a model prayer in teaching his disciples to pray. Then, Jesus...
by Cliff Vaughn | Apr 25, 2002 | Opinion
In a stall, on the wall. In a hole, on the pole. In a store, on the floor. There’s more, more, more … “ambient advertising.” There’s more, more, more … “ambient advertising.” By its very definition, there’s virtually no...
