Advancing the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God.
June 4, 1873: Charles F. Parham, founder of the Apostolic Faith movement and one of the founders of the modern Pentecostal movement, is born in Muscatine, Iowa. In 1900 he founded the Bethel Bible School, where speaking in tongues broke out—launching the Pentecostal movement (see issue 58: Pentecostalism).
June 4, 1948: The Far East Broadcasting Company, based in the Philippines and broadcasting across Asia, goes on-air with the staff singing “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name.”
A conversation with Russell Moore, Book of the Year winner Gavin Ortlund, and Award of Merit winner Brad East.
Excerpt
As we learn from the surprising journeys of several holiday classics, the term defies easy definition.
As a curator, I love how contemporary art makes the world feel strange. So does the story of Jesus’ birth.
Motherhood is honorable, but being a disciple of Jesus is every woman’s primary biblical vocation.
Public Theology Project
How Christmas upends everything that draws our culture to astrology.
News
University president praises the community’s “calm resilience” as students and staff shelter in place in fireproof buildings.