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Dear Editor, The late US Pentecostal historian Vinson Synan did extensive research on the genesis of the Pentecostal movement at the turn of the 20th century in his “The Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition”. Contrary to what Bahamian students are being taught in their religious classes in government schools, Charles Parham did not initiate the start of the

Auburn University and UAB historian, religion scholar David Edwin Harrell dies Updated Mar 15, 2021; Posted Mar 15, 2021 Retired Auburn University historian David Edwin Harrell died on Monday, March 15, 2021. He was 91. (Photo by Tamika Moore/AL.com) Facebook Share Harrell died on Monday afternoon, March 15. He was 91. “He died very peacefully at home,” on Ponte Vedra Beach, near Jacksonville, Fla., where he was born, said his wife, Adelia Harrell. Last fall, Harrell suffered two strokes,...

Testing time, a prolific religion scholar, and great white sharks: Down in Alabama Updated Mar 16, 2021; podcast: Three sharks that are being tracked by the research group Ocearch have been pinging within about 50 miles of the Alabama Gulf Coast. Note that these are just the big sharks that Ocearch is tracking. We can’t make any promises where the rest of the sharks are. Details are on today’s podcast episode. Also, we have this year’s standardized testing and the passing of well-known ...