SPS News – April 2023

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SPS News – April 2023

Annual Meeting Highlights

Recognitions

2023 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient:
Kim Alexander

2023 Pneuma Book Award Winner:

Performing Power in Nigeria: Identity, Politics, and Pentecostalism by Abimbola A. Adelakun

Pentecostal Foundation Awards of Excellence

Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship Lifetime of Excellence award: Paul Elbert

Book Award: Timothy Laurito, Becoming Speaking in Tongues: A Multidisciplinary Defense (Wipe & Stock)

Essay Awards:
A. Rebecca Basdeo-Hill, “‘Dismembering Israel: The Downward Spiral of the Abuse of Women in the Book of Judges” (Journal of Pentecostal Theology)

Matthias Wenk, “The Kingdom of Peach in Luke-Acts and What Glossolalia Has to Do with It” (Journal of Pentecostal Theology)

SPS Welcomes New Leaders

Second Vice-President

Congratulation to Marcia Clarke who was nominated and selected for the role of Second Vice-President.

Incoming Committee Members:
Editorial Committee: Steven Félix-Jäger & Daniel Isgrigg
Membership Committee: Alicia Jackson, Peter Neumann, Becky Basdeo-Hill, & Marcia Clarke

2023 Conference Photos

Additional pictures and meeting highlights are available here.

2024 Annual Conference

Save the Date: March 14-16, 2024

Hosted by Candler School of Theology ・ Atlanta, GA

Call for Papers

The Society for Pentecostal Studies is pleased to announce a Call for Papers to present at the 2024 Annual Meeting. Proposals should be submitted electronically by June 30, 2023, using the online submission form. All submissions will be reviewed by Interest Group Leaders and Program Chair—with preference given to proposals that align with the conference theme, “I was a stranger and you took me in: Pentecostal Responses to the Refugee Crisis.” Submission guidelines and additional information, including a detailed description of the conference theme, are available on the SPS website.

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