Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@Plough @Drkeriday @joynessthebrave Frankly, I've long wondered whether Azusa was less Pentecost’s American arrival than the eruption into historical visibility of an African current of the Spirit—carried anonymously across the Atlantic by the enslaved and kept alive beneath plantation Christianity.
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5/ America, our religion? As Ida Bae Wells noted, “Those who commit the murders write the reports.” For all I know, Charles Parham’s pejorative dismissal of the Azusa revival as a ‘negro camp meeting’ points to the spirit of Pentecost arriving on a slave ship called Jesus. …