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"Contrary to widespread perceptions, Pentecostals are anything but apolitical," Lugo said.

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Earlier Christianity Today coverage of tongues includes:

Tongues Tied | Southern Baptists bar new missions candidates from glossolalia. (Jan. 3, 2006)

Should We All Speak in Tongues? | Some say speaking in tongues is proof of 'baptism in the Holy Spirit.' Are those who haven't spoken in tongues without the Holy Spirit? (Mar. 6, 2000)

Recent Christianity Today articles on Pentecostalism include:

Embrace Your Inner Pentecostal | "Holy Spirit religion" is quietly infiltrating the church, revitalizing us all. By Chris Armstrong (Sept. 19, 2006)

Grading the Movement | Three leaders talk frankly about Pentecostalism: the good, the bad, and the unpredictable. (Mar. 31, 2006)

Full Gospel's Fractured Thinking | The problems with shunning the life of the mind. (Mar. 30, 2006)

Our Anti-Intellectual Heritage | The history and beliefs of the Pentecostal movement, often shared by evangelicals, hold the seeds of a bias against the life of the mind. An excerpt from Full Gospel, Fractured Minds? by Rick M. Nañez (Mar. 30, 2006)

A Wind that Swirls Everywhere | Pentecostal scholar Amos Yong thinks he sees the Holy Spirit working in other religions, too. (Mar. 29, 2006)

Africa's Azusa Street | East Africa has experienced Pentecost continually for nearly 80 years. (Mar. 28, 2006)

Stepping to Success | One reason Without Walls is one of the country's fastest-growing Pentecostal congregations. (Mar. 27, 2006)

Pentecostals: The Sequel | What will it take for this world phenomenon to stay vibrant for another 100 years? (Mar. 24, 2006)

The Pentecostal Gold Standard | After 50 years in ministry, Jack Hayford continues to confound stereotypes—all to the good. (July 1, 2005)

Hand-Clapping in a Gothic Nave | What Pentecostals and mainliners can learn from each other. (March 11, 2005)

Christian History Corner
The Roots of Pentecostal Scandal—Romanticism Gone to Seed | The sexual stumblings of prominent ministers point to a hidden flaw in Pentecostal spirituality. (Sept. 17, 2004)

Christian History Corner
Romanticism Gone to Seed—Part II | Have the holiness and Pentecostal movements really been "hyper-vertical" and "anti-domestic"? (Oct. 01, 2004)

God's Peculiar People | Historian Grant Wacker explains why Pentecostals survived and even flourished. (March 18, 2002)

Are Pentecostals Sex-Crazed? | John Steinbeck and Robert Duvall have portrayed them that way, and such criticism even came from inside the movement. But was it ever warranted? (Sept. 11, 2001)

Christian History Corner
Explaining the Ineffable | In Heaven Below, a former Pentecostal argues that his ancestors were neither as outlandish as they seemed nor as otherworldly as they wish to seem. (Aug. 31, 2001)

Should We All Speak in Tongues? | Some say speaking in tongues is proof of 'baptism in the Holy Spirit.' Are those who haven't spoken in tongues without the Holy Spirit? (March 6, 2000)

A Peacemaker in Provo | How one Pentecostal pastor taught his Congregation to love Mormons. (February 7, 2000)

Christian History & Biography devoted an issue to The Rise of Pentecostalism. More on Pentecostalism from CT sister publications include:

Whither Pentecostal Scholarship? | The overlap between "people with the Spirit" and "people with Ph.D.'s." (Books & Culture, May/June 2004)

El Espiritu Santo | Exploring Latino Pentecostalism. (Books & Culture, May/June 2004)

A Global Pentecost | The fastest-growing religious group? (Books & Culture, March/April 2002)

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