After being canceled in 2020, and being held online in 2021, the Society for Pentecostal Studies annual conference was finally able to meet in person once again in March of 2022. It was held at Vanguard during the week of spring break with about four hundred people attending from all over the world. This year’s…Read More
Society for Pentecostal Studies 2021
As was the case for many professional conferences in the past year, the Society for Pentecostal Studies met online for its annual event. A few participants did make the trip to The King’s University in Southlake, Texas, but the vast majority of attendees participated virtually from the comfort and security of their own offices or…Read More
Reception History Theme at the Society for Pentecostal Studies Conference
In February I had the privilege of attending the annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (SPS) held in Washington D.C. This year’s theme was “Reception History: Receiving Scripture in the Pentecostal and Charismatic Traditions.” Unlike traditional Biblical hermeneutics which seeks to understand what the text meant in its original form and setting so…Read More