Archive: Trial By Fire In Havana By J. Lee Grady In the darker days of Fidel Castro's regime, many Cubans were afraid to set foot in a church. Christians did not fit into Castro's plan for a communist utopia, so his government severely restricted religious activities...

Archive: Hosannas in Havana By Thomas C. Oden My first Sunday evening in Cuba took me to an Afro-Caribbean Methodist church on the outskirts of Havana. An exuberant charismatic revival was clearly in progress. The church was crammed full; no seats anywhere. People of...

Archive: What is Biblical Revival? By Peter H. Davids Christians today are praying for revival, books are being written about it, and crowds gather at revival conferences. But what does revival look like in the Bible? John White defines revival as "an action of God...

Archive: When Will It Stop? by Dennis F. Kinlaw The Spring 1970 Asbury College Ambassador carried this column written by then president, Dennis Kinlaw. His answer to the question posed in the title has new significance 25 years after the Asbury College Revival. Two...

Archive: One More Divine Moment By David J. Gyertson, 1995 -- Throughout history, men and women have consistently exhibited a deep-seated need to know God and experience his presence. Even the most skeptical wrestle with the undeniable inward presence of a God-shaped...

Archive: A Wesleyan View of the Episcopacy By Kenneth Cain Kinghorn The roots of the United Methodist episcopacy reach back to September 1, 1784 when—in a private home in Bristol, England—John Wesley "set apart" the Anglican clergyman Dr. Thomas Coke as...