CHARISMATICA

J. Lee Grady writes about how Pastor Medad Birungi brought change and revival to St. Kakumba Chapel in Uganda, an Anglican Church:  “The Radical New Look of African Anglicanism”
One quote from Pastor Birungi:
"Personally I feel called to revive the Anglican Church, so I cannot leave it,I want people to know that miracles still exist. [...]

I ran across one of my favorite John Wimber quotes reading this article about his daughter-in-law Christy. I personally heard John tell this story on a number of occasions when I attended Vineyard CF Anaheim while Wimber was the head pastor:
"A professional musician who played the Las Vegas circuit for 5 years, John later [...]

I don’t know if you have seen the now famous Oliphant ‘tongues’ cartoon that was published in the Washington Post. I warn all Charismatics/Pentecostals to view it at their own risk. Rich Tatum posted on this with links to some articles and responses including one from the AG Church. Rich’s perspective on the issue is [...]

Talbot Seminary professor J.P. Moreland shook up the recent Evangelical Theological Society conference in San Diego by telling attendees that evangelicals were ‘over-committed’ to the Bible and disregarded other ‘extra-Biblical’ forms of guidance from God. During his address, Dr. Moreland pointed out that evangelical scholars and the movement, as a whole, many times reject:
“…guidance, [...]

A surprising study shows that half of the Southern Baptist senior pastors actually believe in the gift of tongues. On the downside the study also shows that recent Southern Baptist seminary graduates are (55%) far more cessationist in their views.
The study also found that 66% of non-SBC Protestant senior pastors believe in the gift [...]

Islam and Christianity have very different views about the Holy Spirit and Spiritual gifts.
1. The Holy Spirit: Read my article comparing the views and different identity of the Holy Spirit within the two religions -posted on my Apologetica blog.
2. Spiritual Gifts According to Islam:
There are no spiritual gifts in Islam. All signs [...]

I just finished reading an incredible article that I received from Christianity Today. It actual made my day and my night also! It is an anonymous testimony from a professor of theology which is obviously not Pentecostal or Charismatic. In fact he says:

I’m a middle-aged professor of theology at a well-known Christian university. [...]

The University of Pennsylvania has been conducting tests viewing brain images of people while they were speaking in tongues. I found reference to this in the January copy of Charima Magazine (pg. 15). A complete article on this research can be read at Newswise with this link, including the following important quotes: [...]