What Women Want

Kimberly Ervin Alexander, (Ph.D., Open University/St. John’s College, Nottingham) is Associate Professor of the History of Christianity at the Regent University School of Divinity. Alexander is a past president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies.  She is the author of Pentecostal Healing:  Models of Theology and Practice and, with R. Hollis Gause, Women in Leadership:  A Pentecostal Perspective.  Her research interests include early Pentecostal thought and practice; gender and Pentecostal experience; and the development of theological and pedagogical approaches congruent with Pentecostal experience and spirituality.  

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James P. Bowers (Ph.D., Southern Seminary, Louisville, KY) is Vice-President for Institutional Development and Professor of Spiritual Formation and Historical Theology at William Seymour College in Bowie, MD.  A seasoned pastor, educator and leader, James is the founder of the Center for Renewal Leadership and was founder/director of the Center for Pentecostal Leadership and Care , a Lilly Endowment-funded Pastoral Excellence project, for ten years. He is the author of You Can Have What You Say:  A Pastoral Response to the Prosperity Gospel, editor of Portrait and Prospect:  Church of God Pastors Face the 21st Century, and co-author of So Much Better:  How Thousands of Pastors Learned to Thrive.

His research interests include leadership, human flourishing, pedagogy and social witness.