By: Bill Dobrenen on October 11, 2013
In my twenties, theology was the primary focus of my life. In my fifties it is still a focus in my life, but it is no longer primary – or is it? In Who Needs Theology: An Invitation to the Study of God by Stanley J. Grenz and Roger E. Olson (1996), the field of…
By: Phil Smart on October 10, 2013
It’s a cult, it’s a cult! These were the words that described the Communidade da Graca in Brazil that Miller and Yamamori write of in Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement. For years, since the church’s founding, an expressed message of health and wealth had been its constant. Along with this theology…
By: Garrick Roegner on October 10, 2013
A Personal Journey I grew up in Bible and Baptist churches, so I never knew a Pentecostal growing up. They were strange people who did strange things, and we knew to avoid them. My senior year of college (where I had been involved in Cru) Chi Alpha (the campus ministry of the Assemblies of God)…
By: John Woodward on October 10, 2013
Several years ago I attended a theology conference at Wheaton College. I remember vividly one speaker who gave a presentation during which I understood nothing. His vocabulary could have been a foreign language for all the sense it made to me. I remember feeling especially stupid and wonder about the value of my thirty years…
By: Liz Linssen on October 10, 2013
In their book, Who Needs Theology? Grenz and Olsen attempt to romance us back into the love and attraction of Christian theology. They seek to heal the wounds that theology seems to be carrying around today, and remove the blemishes from this field of study. They know that the beauty of theology, much like marriage…
By: David Toth on October 10, 2013
Miller and Yamamori’s book, “Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement, is an encouraging read in the sense that it serves as a literary ‘news cast’ of sorts, giving the reader a multitude of updates on the many and various ways Pentecostals are engaging social ministries around the globe. The authors, on three…
By: Deve Persad on October 10, 2013
“Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on the bedrock.” Matthew 7:24-25 NLT Jesus’ conclusion to the…
By: Chris Ellis on October 10, 2013
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Donald Miller’s Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement. To be perfectly honest, my understanding of Pentecostalism is informed by experiences from my childhood that are, shall we say, less then ideal. When I was a senior in high school, I went on a mission trip to Ghana with…
By: Ashley Goad on October 10, 2013
(Note: Please forgive the formatting. I am submitting via cell phone under a mango tree on top of a mountain! Greetings from Haiti!) I was not looking forward to this next series of books. I much prefer reading about ethnography and practical application of any principle. Perhaps my conservative seminary background put a bad taste…
By: Richard Volzke on October 10, 2013
Krish Kandiah, Executive Director: Evangelical Alliance London, United Kingdom, made a faculty presentation on “Holistic Disciple Making” at the “Leadership Global Perspective Advance” conducted by George Fox Evangelical Seminary in London. In challenging the students and faculty to the task of Christian disciple making, Kandiah advocated that spiritual formation is essentially the church’s primary task…
By: Mitch Arbelaez on October 10, 2013
Allow me to apologize first of all for the tardiness of this post. For some reason I got into my mind that there was a reprieve of this assignment due to our traveling to London. But alas, I was incorrect. Upon my return there were things stacked against me in my absence. But here, at…
By: Sandy Bils on October 9, 2013
There are two persistent prejudices about Pentecostals. They always have their hands in their air (or laid on people in prayer) They are so tied up in charismatic worship, that they are not focused on social ministry. Both are not exactly right. Reading “Global Pentecostalism – The new face of Christian social engagement” the authors…
By: Sharenda Roam on October 9, 2013
From birth until 23 years of age I considered myself “United Pentecostal.” My father pastored a fairly large church in our “headquarters” location of St. Louis, Missouri. We did not own a television or go to movies and my female garb was restricted to skirts and dresses with no excesses such as makeup and jewelry…
By: Fred Fay on October 8, 2013
I am Pentecostal, although I prefer the word Charismatic. Pentecostals have been known for their extreme emotionalism and demonstrative behavior, neither of which I am. The importance of God’s immediate presence expressed and sensed are part of how I relate to God. Our church history has been one in which we withdrew from the community…
By: Raphael Samuel on September 30, 2013
Posted by: Raphael Samuel. In the “Doing Sensory Ethnography”, author Sarah Pink adapts a scholarly approach in documenting and assessing the many changes unfolding in the field of ethnography. To further help her audience process these development, pink also draws on her own experiences in research in the field of ethnography. The book is very…
By: David Toth on September 25, 2013
In the book Good to Great and The Social Sectors Jim Collins makes the case that greatness is a framework that belongs to both business and the social sectors. He writes that his “Good to Great” principles do indeed work in the social sectors even better than he anticipated. He continues to relate five questions that are…
By: gfesadmin on September 25, 2013
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By: gfesadmin on September 25, 2013
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By: gfesadmin on September 25, 2013
Richard Volzke: A Visual Ethnographer rvolzke: A Visual Ethnographer While reading Doing Visual Ethnography by Pink this week, the quote “a picture is worth 1000 words” kept coming to mind. Pink primarily focuses on photographic interpretation of society and culture and after reading the book, it dawned on me that visual ethnography has…
By: gfesadmin on September 25, 2013
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