Timothy H. Wadkins (PhD, 1988), professor of religious studies and theology at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY, has been awarded the Graduate Theological Union’s second annual Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship for his 2017 book The Rise of Pentecostalism in Modern El Salvador: From the Blood of the Martyrs to the Baptism of the Spirit (Baylor University Press). The Borsch-Rast Book Prize is awarded annually to encourage innovative and creative theological scholarship by GTU graduates and current faculty and carries a prize of $10,000.