This article is from a larger, forthcoming chapter “On the Warpath for God: The Adventures of Pentecost Band Women 1885-1890“ in Spirited Sisters, a forthcoming collection from Pennsylvania State University Press about Holiness and Penecostal women. In the spring of 1889, in the small town of Camargo, Illinois, a local drama unfolded that would capture the attention of regional newspapers across the Midwest. The catalyst was faith. Nineteen-year-old Nettie Davis and her seventeen-year-old sister Lillian felt a strong call to join the Free Methodist Pentecost Bands, a dynamic, traveling evangelistic movement. They were inspired by the preaching of Sievert Ulness … Continue reading Family Feuds and Fierce Faith: The Media Circus of the Pentecost Bands