By R. Kevin Johnson This coming Sunday is Pentecost. Coming 50 days after Easter, Pentecost commemorates the day that Jesus’ promise to the disciples was fulfilled and the Holy Spirit descended like flames of fire. This date on the Christian…
It may now seem surprising to many United Methodists, and even more Baptists, that for most of our histories in the United States, all Methodists and Baptists were regularly designated as evangelical denominations. The most important reason is that both...