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Faith, Trauma and Emotion: Pentecostalism in El Salvador
Pentecostal churches have grown in El Salvador since the end of the country’s civil war. CRCC Senior Writer Nick Street shows the appeal of Pentecostal worship and its role in responding to …
The Renewalist Movement at Brazil’s Nossa Sehnora del Penha Church
Women and young people are often the first in the family to go to Pentecostal and Charismatic Catholic services. Get a peek at a service at Nossa Sehnora del Penha (Our Lady …
Religion and Conflict in Nigeria: Learning to Play Well With Others
This post originally appeared on Huffington Post Religion. “On a brilliantly sunny Monday morning at the start of the rainy season, a couple of dozen young men gathered for a game of …
How Megan Fox Got the Holy Spirit
This commentary was originally published in The Wall Street Journal. In an interview with Esquire that is generating a surprising amount of buzz—and not just because she appears on the magazine’s cover …
Second Acts: Portraits from Christian Renewal Movements in Brazil
The name Silas Malafaia was on everyone’s lips. A sociologist at a secular university near Brasilia, the rector of a Catholic seminary in Campinas, a Pentecostal lawyer in Sao Paulo and a …
Redeeming Dallas
Though North Texas is hardly unchurched territory, metro Dallas has become a beachhead in the global missionary movement of Nigeria’s Redeemed Christian Church of God. About half a mile from Fellowship Church, …
Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Speaking in Tongues in Africa
In this video, Senior Writer Nick Street explores glossolalia (speaking in tongues), the Pentecostal movement in Jos, Nigeria, and a Charismatic Catholic congregation in Nairobi, Kenya.
Renewalism 101: Key Lessons from Kerala
Glory Moses, a pastor’s daughter, is no spiritual slacker. Other 20-year-olds in her native Kerala may be counting the days until the opening of Kochi’s mammoth Lulu Mall—billed as the largest shopping …
Spiritual Sargasso Sea: A Long Weekend in Dubai
The New York Times recently ran a piece on the network of volunteers tracking the drift of flotsam in the Pacific from the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan last year. The …
Axis Mundi: A Little Prayer Group on the Edge of Nairobi
On the Wednesday that marked the midpoint in the recent weeklong Pentecostal and Charismatic Research Initiative (PCRI) conference outside Nairobi, about 30 research fellows and CRCC staffers trundled onto a pair of …
Passing the Mantle: Faith-based Leadership in a Time of Change
In one of the most electrifying moments in “Eyes on the Prize,” the documentary about the civil rights movement that aired on PBS in 1987, an African-American teenager named Jimmy Webb tries …