Archives for February 2023

Asbury University revival roundup: February 14, 2023 (7:45pm)

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Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Some students are concerned about their safety. Today an alum with strong connections to Asbury wrote to me: “Our students are not coming […]

Is it still possible to teach Faulkner in Florida?

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Here is Florida State University Diane Roberts‘s piece at The Atlantic, “‘Most Important, We Must Not Upset DeSantis‘”: In my senior Southern Literature class, I’m about to teach Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner’s great novel about how racism has warped America. […]

The Author’s Corner with Brooks R. Blevins

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Brooks R. Blevins is Professor of History at Missouri State University. This interview is based on his new book, Up South in the Ozarks: Dispatches from the Margins (University of Arkansas Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Up […]

Asbury University revival roundup: February 14, 2023 at 1:30am

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Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. A visitor from Northern Ohio on FB: We are from Northern Ohio. On Thursday we heard about “Revival at Asbury” It’s been going […]

Asbury University revival roundup: February 13, 2023 at 6:00pm

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Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. A megachurch pastor from Minnesota is on his way to Wilmore: 100 hours and counting… Last Wednesday morning at 10am, chapel was held Asbury University in Kentucky. […]

Asbury University revival roundup: February 13, 2023 at 10:30am

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Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. The revival continues: A “prophetic reformer” named Amanda Schiflett on FB: Many have said that the Asbury Revival was the one that sparked the […]

Asbury University revival roundup: Day 4 update

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Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. A theology professor at Oklahoma Baptist University weighs-in: A student at Asbury Theological Seminary: Here we go: The leader of The […]

Every revival has its Old Lights and skeptics

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If you’ve been following my ongoing curation of the Asbury University revival going on right now, you will see that there are a lot of skeptics. Anyone who knows something about the history of revivalism in the United States is […]

Breaking the “pseudo-revival” of Christian nationalism

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This tweet comes from Pentecostal theologian Cheryl Bridges Johns and it speaks volumes. The Christian nationalist revivals that we see. for example. at Robert Jeffress’s First Baptist Church every Fourth of July are full of hubris and the celebration of […]

Keep Sean Feucht away from the Asbury University revival

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The MAGA worship leader and failed congressional candidate has commented on what is going on in Wilmore, Kentucky: I would encourage everyone to understand the above tweet in the context of the Feucht tweets that surround it on the platform. […]

Commonplace Book #241

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For many in the early labor movement, the goal of harmony demanded a rededication to the fundamental promise of the American Revolution: a classless society of citizens, acting in concert with God’s grace and intent on creating the new Jerusalem. […]

Evangelical roundup for February 12, 2023

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What is happening in Evangelical land? Revival continues to rage at Asbury University. We are covering that separately. Get up to speed with our regular updates here. So here is your non-Wilmore, Kentucky roundup: White evangelicals are most likely to […]