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“Fake News” and the Holocaust: Charles E. Robinson’s 1934 Warning Against...
Charles E. Robinson, circa 1940s This Week in AG History —January 27, 1934 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 26 January 2017 The year was 1934, and a rising tide of anti-semitism...
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Melodies of Praise: 60th Anniversary of a Favorite Assemblies of God Songbook
The Melodies of Praise hymnal and orchestrations made their debut in 1957. Pictured here are Assemblies of God Music Division staff members Lorena Quigley (left), Marie Salisbury (center), and Edwin...
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O.W. Eubanks: The Highway Patrolman Who Pioneered a Black Church in Rural...
This Week in AG History —February 8, 1976 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 9 February 2017 Opal W. Eubanks joined the Mississippi Highway Patrol during the race riots of 1964. A...
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Revivaltime’s Global Radio Ministry: Paul Pipkin and the Philippines
Paul Pipkin on the air at DZAS in the Philippines, 1949 This Week in AG History — February 17, 1957 By Glenn W. Gohr Originally published on PE-News, 16 February 2017 Revivaltime, the weekly radio...
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Remembering the Assemblies of God’s Black Heritage
By Darrin J. Rodgers It is well-known that the interracial Azusa Street Revival (1906-1909), a focal point of the emerging Pentecostal movement, was led by an African-American pastor, William J....
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Albert Norton, Pioneer Pentecostal Missionary to India: Preaching Must be...
This Week in AG History —February 22, 1919 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 23 February 2017 In the early twentieth century, many mainline Protestant churches were in the process...
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T. K. Leonard’s Spiritual and Social Vision: An Assemblies of God Founder’s...
T. K. Leonard (seated, front left) with church members, converting the Opp Saloon into a Pentecostal church, Findlay, Ohio, March 1907 This Week in AG History — March 2, 1946 By Ruthie Edgerly Oberg...
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The Azusa Street Revival: What Frank Bartleman’s Eyewitness Account Reveals...
This Week in AG History —March 11, 1916 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 9 March 2017 It was an unlikely location for an event that would change the face of Christianity. In the...
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Hal Herman: From Hollywood to Assemblies of God Missionary Evangelist
Hal Herman (right) prays with attendees at his Hong Kong evangelistic outreach, 1957 This Week in AG History — March 17, 1957 By Glenn W. Gohr Originally published on PE-News, 16 March 2017 Harold C....
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“America Must Choose”: A Warning from 1968 about the Christian’s Response to...
Charles Scott and his wife, Gertrude This Week in AG History —March 24, 1968 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 23 March 2017 1968 was a year of social and political unrest. American...
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Clement Le Cossec: The French Pastor Who Became an Apostle to the Gypsies
Clement Le Cossec (far left), with a Gypsy family This Week in AG History — March 30, 1969 By Ruthie Edgerly Oberg Originally published on PE-News, 30 March 2017 When Clement Le Cossec (1921-2001) was...
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Smith Wigglesworth: How a British Plumber Became a Noted Pentecostal Healing...
This Week in AG History — April 5, 1947 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 6 April 2017 Smith Wigglesworth (1859-1947) was one of the most prominent healing evangelists of the early...
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The Revivaltime Choir: Over 1,300 Students were “Young Evangelists” in this...
Revivaltime choir, circa 1960s. Cyril McLellan, director, is standing in front, far right. This Week in AG History — April 15, 1962 By Glenn W. Gohr Originally published on PE-News, 13 April 2017 When...
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Don and Sharon Kiser: 25 Years as Assemblies of God Missionaries to Florida’s...
Don Kiser, 1970 This Week in AG History — April 20, 1975 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 20 April 2017 When Don Kiser and his wife, Sharon, graduated from Southeastern University...
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Dr. Stanley Horton: Influential Pentecostal Theologian, Educator, and Writer
Stanley M. Horton at his desk at Gospel Publishing House, working on the Adult Teacher, circa 1955 This Week in AG History — April 27, 1975 By Ruthie Edgerly Oberg Originally published on PE-News, 27...
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Dr. Howard Thomas: The Remarkable Deliverance of a Physician from Drug Addiction
Dr. Howard Thomas, preaching to an Assemblies of God congregation, circa 1970 This Week in AG History — May 3, 1970 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 4 May 2017 Dr. Howard Thomas...
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Church Stats, 1975-2015: Charts Show Decline of Mainline Protestants and...
The numbers are in! The annual statistics for 2015 have now been released by the following eight major Christian denominations: Assemblies of God, Episcopal Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in...
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50 Years Ago: Students at Filipino Bible College View America as a Foreign...
U.S.A. Prayer Band at Bethel Bible Institute, Manila, Philippines, 1966 This Week in AG History — May 14, 1967 By Glenn W. Gohr Originally published on PE-News, 11 May 2017 Missionary prayer bands...
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Five Lessons from the Great Cuban Revival of 1950-1951
Hands raised in prayer by those seeking salvation, Holguin, Cuba, February 1951 This Week in AG History — May 17, 1959 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 18 May 2017 The Pentecostal...
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Walter Evans: Rediscovering a Pioneer Black Assemblies of God Minister in...
By Darrin J. Rodgers Until this week, I had never heard of Rev. Walter Evans, a pioneer black Assemblies of God evangelist who was a faithful, well-loved member of the Nebraska District Council for...
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