A Guide to Pentecostal Movements for Lutherans

In just over a century, Pentecostalism has rocketed from its humble beginnings in an interracial congregation on Azusa Street in Los Angeles to a global movement counting more than six hundred million members. Confronted with the bewildering array of Pentecostal, Charismatic, and Neocharismatic beliefs and practices, Lutherans are often at a loss as to how to think about Pentecostals, much less how to engage them in positive ways that build up the whole body of Christ. In this guide, Lutherans will find tools for just such an engagement. Building on a foundation of Pentecostalism's history and varieties, Wilson undertakes an in-depth survey of biblical teaching on baptism, the Holy Spirit, and spiritual gifts. The guide then brings innovative new lenses to bear on the questions at stake: the use of church history in defending denominational borders, right and wrong approaches to prosperity, the power of the Spirit and corruptions of power, and the role of experience in theological discernment. Written in a style accessible to laity and clergy alike, this guide will strengthen Lutherans' appreciation of their own tradition while enabling them to encounter Pentecostals as fellow believers in the salvation given by the triune God.

Wilson, Sarah Hinlicky

Religion & Spirituality

Wipf and Stock

Wipf & Stock Publishers

Nenilava, Prophetess of Madagascar

About the Author\nJames B. Vigen is a retired ELCA pastor living in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Vigen served as a missionary in Madagascar from 1978-1996, where he served as an evangelist and later a seminary director and professor. Vigen has also served as a pastor of an ecumenical, English-speaking congregation in Stavanger, Norway, and an adjunct professor at the School of Mission and Theology of the Norwegian Missionary Society. Vigen authored the articles on the Fifohazana and on Madagascar for the Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran Traditions (2017).\nSarah Hinlicky Wilson is Associate Pastor at Tokyo Lutheran Church and Visiting Professor of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France. She co-hosts the podcast Queen of the Sciences: Conversations between a Theologian and Her Dad. She is the author of A Guide to Pentecostal Movements for Lutherans (2016).\nBefore she was baptized or knew anything about Christ, young Nenilava was called by Jesus to preach and exorcise in his name. At the age of twenty, newly married to a Lutheran catechist, she heard Jesus prompting her to intervene in a case of demon possession, and from there her ministry spread like wildfire. She spent the next sixty years of her life traveling around her native Madagascar, proclaiming Jesus’ victory over sin, guilt, and evil, and bringing countless people to faith.\nIn this book, her firsthand account of her early ministry, as told to a Malagasy pastor, appears for the first time in English. Complementing the immediacy of her narrative, former missionary in Madagascar, James B. Vigen, recounts the last thirty years of Nenilava’s life and describes the extraordinary impact of this illiterate peasant woman on African Christianity. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson concludes the book with a far-reaching exploration of demon possession, healing from illness and sin, emergent offices of ministry, and the relevance of Nenilava for Western Christianity.

Nenilava, Prophetess of Madagascar: Her Life and the Ongoing Revival She Inspired

Vigen, James B.

Pickwick Publications

About the Author\nJames B. Vigen is a retired ELCA pastor living in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Vigen served as a missionary in Madagascar from 1978-1996, where he served as an evangelist and later a seminary director and professor. Vigen has also served as a pastor of an ecumenical, English-speaking congregation in Stavanger, Norway, and an adjunct professor at the School of Mission and Theology of the Norwegian Missionary Society. Vigen authored the articles on the Fifohazana and on Madagascar for the Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran Traditions (2017). Sarah Hinlicky Wilson is Associate Pastor at Tokyo Lutheran Church and Visiting Professor of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France. She co-hosts the podcast Queen of the Sciences: Conversations between a Theologian and Her Dad. She is the author of A Guide to Pentecostal Movements for Lutherans (2016).\nSarah Hinlicky Wilson is Associate Pastor at Tokyo Lutheran Church and Visiting Professor of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France. She co-hosts the podcast Queen of the Sciences: Conversations between a Theologian and Her Dad. She is the author of A Guide to Pentecostal Movements for Lutherans (2016).\nBefore she was baptized or knew anything about Christ, young Nenilava was called by Jesus to preach and exorcise in his name. At the age of twenty, newly married to a Lutheran catechist, she heard Jesus prompting her to intervene in a case of demon possession, and from there her ministry spread like wildfire. She spent the next sixty years of her life traveling around her native Madagascar, proclaiming Jesus' victory over sin, guilt, and evil, and bringing countless people to faith. In this book, her firsthand account of her early ministry, as told to a Malagasy pastor, appears for the first time in English. Complementing the immediacy of her narrative, former missionary in Madagascar, James B. Vigen, recounts the last thirty years of Nenilava's life and describes the extraordinary impact of this illiterate peasant woman on African Christianity. Sarah Hinlicky Wilson concludes the book with a far-reaching exploration of demon possession, healing from illness and sin, emergent offices of ministry, and the relevance of Nenilava for Western Christianity.

Third Flatiron Anthologies feature multiple winners of science fiction and fantasy reader polls and recommended reading lists. 
Hidden Histories is a new speculative fiction anthology with the themes of alternate and secret (shadow) histories.
In Hidden Histories, agents of the ancient Library of Alexandria attempt to steer human history, a witch at the stake explains how she was framed, a missing airliner black box turns up, General Custer is defeated by wendigos, Queen Elizabeth tells Shakespeare she was cursed, a seance saves the Apollo-13 moon mission, an alien ambassador mentors Jimi Hendrix, a competing ship line plots to scuttle the Titanic, were-boars fight Nazis in WW2 Germany, the back room of a bookstore holds histories written in the future, and a girl learns the true history of Chinese dragons. These and many more stories entertain while exploring revisionist interpretations of real and fictional events.
Hidden Histories presents 28 original stories from an international groupof contributors. Writers include Bruce Golden, Matthew Reardon, BrendaKezar, Kai Hudson, Brian Trent, Jonathan Shipley, Dantzel Cherry,Edwina Shaw, Dennis Maulsby, Michael Robertson, Mike Barretta, RicardoMaia, J.D. Blackrose, John A. Frochio, Arthur Carey, Sandra UlbrichAlmazan, Elizabeth Beechwood, Robert Dawson, James Chmura, TonyGenova, Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, Simon Lee-Price, Shannon McDermott,Jennifer Lee Rossman, H. J. Monroe, Evan A. Davis, Tyler Paterson, andA. Humphrey Lanham. Edited by Juliana Rew.

Hidden Histories (Third Flatiron Anthologies)

Frochio, John A.

Trent, Brian

GOLDEN, BRUCE

Cherry, Dantzel

Rew, Juliana

Hudson, Kai

Reardon, Matthew

Kezar, Brenda

Shipley, Jonathan

Literature & Fiction

Third Flatiron Publishing

Jesus ascended the mountain and preached a sermon that was evocative, provocative, world-changing-and, by now, so familiar it's almost impossible to hear. This poetic paraphrase renders Jesus' strange and startling words afresh.

Sermon on the Mount: A Poetic Paraphrase

Thornbush Press

Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold

A man arrives at the gates of heaven holding a faith that's not his own; another clutches a suitcase he's unwilling to give up. One woman demands to be sent back, while another asks for a new name. Hands empty or full, hearts joyful or disappointed or appalled, these people and others approach the twelve open gates of heaven, only to discover the truth about their loves...

Short Stories & Anthologies

I Am a Brave Bridge: An American Girl's Hilarious and Heartbreaking Year in the Fledgling Republic of Slovakia

Once upon a time an American girl moved to a little town in Slovakia. And she fell in love with the country, and with a boy. And then another boy. And then about a dozen boys fell in love with her. Many linguistic and romantic antics ensued, and a happy ending unlike any she could have foreseen. This is a story for everyone-the armchair traveler and the real one, the lover of love stories and the connoisseur of culture clash-but above all, it's a story for anyone who is always homesick for somewhere else.

Biographies & Memoirs

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