Todd Johnson, co-director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, couldn’t quite place the Chinese Christians he met at a conference in South Africa.

“Holy Spirit religion” is quietly infiltrating the church, revitalizing us all. I recently attended a Midwestern Baptist church in which the pastor directed his congregation to pray with hands ...

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8, NRSV). Pentecostals’ ...

Baptism in (or of) the Holy Spirit, in-filling of the Holy Spirit The primary experience in the pentecostal and charismatic movements, in which the believer receives spiritual gifts and empowerment, ...

A river baptism in South Africa in 1987. Many charismatic churches in Africa perform baptisms in rivers. (Credit: Larry Hills/Mennonite Church USA/Creative Commons.) Listen It’s a rite that dates to ...

“We never want to go over the heads of the people,” says Jesus Perez, pastor of Puerto Rico’s largest Pentecostal Church. “We want to go directly to their hearts.” Never swerving from this philosophy, ...

Bishop Otis Clark began his life as a Pentecostal as a young man in the same place where that movement was born: the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles. The 106-year-old Seattle resident was in ...

When Roberta Parham Hromas visits the the century old red-brick building at 335 S.W. Jackson, she feels the connection to her grandfather, Charles Fox Parham, the founder of the Pentecostal movement. ...