Meet Amanda Berry Smith, an AME preacher, singer, missionary, and orphans’ home founder. Since the holiness movement was the focus of my graduate studies, and since the current issue of Christian ...

Historian Colin Chapell’s latest book explores gender in the South through the lens of the Holiness movement. What inspired you to write Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him? I am fascinated by the ways in ...

The Independent Congregational Church at Rock was formed in 1879 by some twenty members of the Third Calvinist Baptist Church of Rock under the leadership of W. Clarkson Ryder (1840-1905). Born at ...

Wedded to the emphasis on the right ordering of human desire was a populism that flowed from the democratized view of the Spirit ... You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in ...

For some critics, the term “holiness movement” has conjured images of navel-gazing holy rollers too interested in getting a spiritual thrill or (at most) saving souls to care about alleviating social ...