As much as possible, the cantatas were programmed according to their appointed place in the liturgical calendar, so that Christmas works were played at Christmastime, Pentecostal ones on Pentecost, and so forth.
While mainline Protestant churches in the U.S. continue to experience decades-long decline, the memberships of Pentecostal traditions are on the rise, according to new figures compiled by the National Council of Churches.
The Times Square Church is a nondenominational Protestant church whose worship style draws on the Pentecostal tradition.
PASTOR DANILO FLORIAN, on the Pentecostal experience of speaking in tongues.
In the world of my childhood – spent on a Pentecostal compound in Oklahoma – my uncle Ronnie was a hothouse flower: the way he laughed; the way he smiled through his beard; his professorial cardigan; his glasses; his pipe.
In a particularly lurid and ill-informed chapter on the Pentecostal movement, reference was made to the Christian fellowship active within this Parliament in Brussels.
Jones grew up in Jamaica among a family of leaders – on one side there were pentecostal ministers, on the other politicians.
One challenge to orthodoxy comes from charismatic priests who use pop-star tactics, and are taking on the upstart Pentecostals at their own game.A second challenge comes from the popular Catholicism that tends to flourish best in those parts of rural Brazil where the church has little presence.
Vinson Synan, a professor of church history at Regent University in Virginia and an expert on Pentecostalism, estimates there are 15 to 20 million Pentecostals in the United States; of those, maybe 1 million are Apostolic Pentecostals.
She was in New York on an artist's grant from her native Norway, where she had grown up Pentecostal on a remote island.
