SPS

Cheryl and I attended the Society for Pentecostal Studies (SPS)annual meeting last week (Wednesday through Saturday). About six hundred people were registered. This year it was a joint meeting with the Wesleyan Theological Society. We met at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. We were able to spend time with a number of former church members (Larry McQueen, Eloy Nolivos, Dale Coulter)and friends (Mel Roebeck, Bill Faupel, David Reed, Susie and John Stanley, and many more). I was involved as a respondant to several papers and I chaired one session. As a former president of the SPS, Cheryl chaired one of the plenary sessions.

One of the Plenary speakers was Dr. Koenig from Duke. He has done extensive research into the rlationship between religiosity and health and has provided evidence it pays to be religious. I would recommend everyone take a few minutes to check out the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke.