• Within Pentecostal Bible schools and liberal arts colleges, how can teachers help students see the history of their own tradition in terms that are meaningful to themselves as well as to outsiders?
  
• Within non-Pentecostal schools, secular and otherwise, how can teachers enable students to understand Pentecostalism as an aspect of American and other cultures, without reducing it to a “mere” artifact on one hand nor allowing it to stand independent of culture on the other hand?
  
• Within seminaries, both Pentecostal and non-Pentecostal, how can teachers assist men and women preparing for ministry to see the connections between Pentecostal history and contemporary pastoral concerns?
  
• Within doctoral programs in universities, how can scholars in a variety of disciplines (religion, history, anthropology, and folklore) apply methods to Pentecostal phenomena that they apply to other aspects of culture?
  
• Finally, how can teachers offer resources for clergy persons and thoughtful laity who want to study the tradition in their institutional schools or simply for personal knowledge?

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