In This Issue
Pentecostals may be the least known and most unpredictable group on the landscape.
Latino Pentecostals are increasingly seeing political action as an act of faith.
Paintings by Rudolph Valentino Bostic
During the Second Great Awakening, the fruits of conversion included social reform.
Latino believers don't fit a single mold, and they have expressed their faith in the world in a variety of ways.
Columnists
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Pentecostals may be the least known and most unpredictable group on the landscape.
Latino Pentecostals are increasingly seeing political action as an act of faith.
Latino believers don't fit a single mold, and they have expressed their faith in the world in a variety of ways.
Features
During the Second Great Awakening, the fruits of conversion included social reform.
Commentary
Columns
After 40 years, we might finally be ready to come out of the wilderness.
Culture Watch
More than seven years ago, James Carroll, award-winning novelist and Boston Globe columnist, wrote Constantine’s Sword, which traced the history of anti-Semitism in the chu
In his 2006 book, The Irresistible Revolution, Shane Claiborne urged us to be careful what we pray for, because God may call us to live it out—often in profound ways.
How many of your friends and neighbors know, as Barbara Slavin writes in Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies, that during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini vetoed the use o
Departments
The books of Luke, Acts, and 1 Peter dominate the readings this month; Peter and Paul are key players.
It's easy-and human-to apply labels according to our assumptions. But we know that categorizing anything, especially whole groups of people, is risky business.





