The Charismatic Movement; a perfect storm of unsound teachings, abusive practices, and emotional roadshow gone amok.
The following piece was posted by Kenneth Tanner on his Facebook page a few days ago. I am reposting it here, with his permission. Having had some experience in the Charismatic Movement some decades ago (though not born into it as was Mr. Tanner), reading the following Facebook post really resonated with some of what I saw and experienced. "I was born into a family of multi-generational Southern Pentecostals and while it got wild now and then its embodied wisdom and beauty—present especially in its music, hospitality, elderly saints, and prayer—impresses itself on my heart more and more even decades down the road. At 12, I was drug from the joy, fervency, and occasional theatrics of my childhood religion—against my will, I…