Walking in Promise, Living in Reality: Exploring the Mental Health Implications of the Pentecostal Discourse of Divine Calling
This article was published as McBain, R. D. (2025). Walking in promise, living in reality: Exploring the mental health implications of the Pentecostal discourse of divine calling. Salubritas, 4, 35-63. Introduction This article takes a Foucauldian approach to discourse, which theorizes that power, knowledge, and language shape social realities by producing and maintaining societal norms and […]
‘Living in the gap’ between expectations of Spirit-empowerment and reality
This is the Zoom recording of a presentation I made on my dissertation research at the Center of Spirit-empowered Research at Oral Roberts University on 28th February 2025. How do Pentecostals experience depression when their theology emphasizes Spirit-empowered victory? This presentation explores the tension between Pentecostal expectations of healing and real-world struggles with mental health. […]
Exploring How Pentecostals Preach About Depression
A qualitative analysis was completed on twelve sermons into how Pentecostal preachers talk about depression from the pulpit using the Assemblies of God (AG) as a purposive sample. Findings illustrate that preachers talked about faulty thinking as the source of depression and interpreted depression as a transformative journey occurring within the context of a God […]
