Prompted by the 2025 sPs Annual Meeting and the "More than a Song" project an initiative exploring the intersection of worship practice and pentecostal thought this Presidential Address engages the current call for formal liturgy within Pentecostalism. This paper argues that Pentecostal worship necessitates a liturgical expansion beyond traditional ecclesial geography into a dynamic spatiality marked by Divine-human encounter. Such an expansion validates the lived experience of ordinary theologians who, through the Spirit, "name" and consecrate the world around them a theological reality ripe for exploration. By examining undesignated sacred spaces like the home and the classroom, this study envisions a Pentecostal liturgical theology that accounts for a God who is neither fixed nor stayed, ultimately broadening how the tradition defines sacred space and practice.
ENGLISH DE ALMINANA, Margaret and Lois E. OLENA (eds), Women in Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministry: Informing a Dialogue on Gender, Church and Ministry. Leiden: Brill, 2016. 410pp. Pbk. IBSN 9789004332522. €79.00.
The material for this expansive publication originated from the ‘African Christianity and the Neo-Diaspora Conference’ hosted by Luther Seminary, St Paul, Minnesota in March 2007. The conference presentations focused on the development of immigrant African independent Christian congregations in the United States; subsequently additional essays were included to reflect developments in Europe.The volume is comprised of twenty-three chapters divided into five sections with appendices. The first section, ‘The African Christian Presence in the West and Discourses on Migration,’ begins with an introduction by the editors that includes brief synopses of the chapters. The late Ogbu Kalu authored the second