Cecil M. “Mel” Robeck, Jr., Ph.D. is Professor of Church History and Ecumenics and director of the David J. DuPlessis Center for Christian Spirituality, Fuller Theological Seminary. He has written more than 200 articles published in a range of historical, theological, and ecumenical journals, periodicals, and denominational magazines. Professor Robeck’s historical research centers on the Azusa Street Mission and Revival. Since 1997, he has worked with civic and religious leaders from the Japanese American, the African American, and the Pentecostal communities in Los Angeles as part of the Azusa Street Memorial Committee.