As someone shaped by Roman Catholicism, evangelicalism, (though not Pentecostalism), and Italian-American culture (which I realize is quite different from Italian culture), I was pleased to see this. Here is Vatican News: Pope Francis has expressed his closeness to the...
Pentecostalism
A pro-Trump Pentecostal preacher will run against Jim Lankford in the 2022 Oklahoma U.S. Senate race
Jackson Lahmeyer is the pastor of Sheridan Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Here what is written on the “Who We Are” page of the church website: Most people are familiar with the name Sheridan Christian Center. It was one of the...
Kenneth Copeland one year ago today: “The United States is healed and well again”
After Copeland declared the U.S. was “healed” and “well again” over half a million people died of COVID-19. We will never know how many of those people died because they believed what Copeland said here. (HT: Right Wing Watch)...
What is going on at Lee University?
Lee University is a Christian university affiliated with the Church of God, a Pentecostal denomination based in Cleveland, Tennessee. (Lee is also located in Cleveland, Tennessee). I’ve been to the campus twice. In 2015 I interviewed Lamar Vest, the president...
Why Oral Roberts basketball is expecting a miracle
They may need a miracle on Saturday when they play third-seeded Arkansas in the round of 16 at the 2021 NCAA basketball tournament. Here is Baylor University sports historian Paul Putz and Oral Roberts biographer Jonathan Root at Christianity Today:...
The head basketball coach at Oral Roberts University is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary
This falls into your obscure NCAA tournament facts category. Paul Mills, the head coach of the Oral Roberts University basketball team, completed a masters degree in biblical and theological studies from Dallas Theological Seminary in the summer of 2020. (The program...
David Edwin Harrell, historian of Pentecostalism, has died
Most American historians know Harrell for his biographies of Oral Roberts and Pat Robertson. Here is an obituary of the longtime Auburn University professor: Retired Auburn University history professor David Edwin Harrell, who wrote biographies of TV evangelists Pat Robertson...