The Center for the Study of World Christian Revitalization Movements

  Are We Rome? The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America  by Cullen Murphy (Houghton Mifflin, 2007; 262 pp.). Comparisons between the Roman and American empires abound—this is one of the better ones. Murphy, former managing editor of the Atlantic Monthly, notes that the Roman Empire was “too big to fail,” but fail it did. Includes recommendations for the contemporary U.S. Azusa Street: Mission and Revival: The Birth of the Global Pentecostal Movement by Cecil M. Robeck, Jr. (Thomas Nelson, 2006; 342 pp.). Long in preparation, this foundational book traces the many connections to and from Azusa Street—including the…