Editorial August 4, 2003 Issue

Primitive Christianity—alive with healing

Editor

There is a climate change underway that is more certain and yet less understood than global warming. In the Southern Hemisphere, Christianity is undergoing a Renaissance. Because Christianity is being reborn within the global South's rapidly growing population, the faith itself—in revived forms—is far more alive and well than it's generally perceived to be north of the equator.

From Montevideo to Mombasa to Manila, Christians are on fire with a faith marked by Bible-based, Spirit-moved evangelism. And in many of these expanding faith communities, Christian healing is a basic component of life and worship.

With The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, Philip Jenkins has published an extensively researched, persuasive, and (in some quarters) disputed argument for viewing this religious climate change as perhaps the new century's most significant social movement.

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