I included this in today’s roundup, but I wanted to call attention to it again. Yesterday Missouri senator Josh Hawley spoke at MAGA worship leader Sean Feucht’s Washington D.C. rally. Here is part of what he said: It’s a privilege […]
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A bunch of white, patriarchal nationalist Christians who “seek power to transform American culture through conservative-leaning politics and free market economics” held a baptism ceremony at Ohio State
In a recent essay at the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, one of the most important journals in the study of religion, historian Matthew Avery Sutton writes: “…post-World War II evangelicalism is best defined as a white, patriarchal, nationalist religious movement made up of Christians who […]
“REVIVAL OR BUST”
Earlier this week, Commonweal published my piece on the way the Christian Right uses the supposed links between the First Great Awakening and the American Revolution to advance its political agenda. And then this comes across my X feed today: […]
Our Asbury Revival roundups come to an end. Thanks for reading.
While I am sympathetic to the spiritual experience that took place over the last two weeks at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, I tried to cover the revival here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home as a curator or […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 23, 2023 (10:50PM)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. This is the last night of services at Asbury University. Tonight was the Collegiate Day of Prayer. Asbury was scheduled to host this […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 22, 2023 (10:30PM)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. A photo essay from Asbury University sociologist Lisa Weaver Swartz: Jennifer posts a pic from Texas A&M: Cayla’s son: Saturday at Asbury’s Revival, […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 22, 2023 (12:20PM)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Today: On Tuesday and Wednesday, February 21-22, the Outpouring services in Hughes Auditorium are reserved for participants 16-25 years old. However, a public live […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 21, 2023 (7:55PM)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Asbury’s director of strategic communication: A reminder that Asbury University is an institution of higher education: The president of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 20, 2023 at 11:05PM
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Christian influencer Alisa Childers: More from Samford University. And here: Krystle, a Pennsylvania resident, with a testimony: I hesitate to try and encapsulate […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 20, 2023 at 11:58AM
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Asbury University president Kevin Brown announces the new schedule change: Asbury University’s director of communication: The local NBC affiliate in Lexington, Kentucky published […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 19, 2023 (9:30pm)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Asbury President Kevin Brown. Live streaming will begin. He also addresses claims that Asbury is trying to end the revival. Here is the […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 19, 2023 (4:00pm)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. The latest: Former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Facebook: Here’s a story that’s getting little attention from the mainstream media, […]
The MAGA evangelical revivalists are no longer silent about the Asbury Revival
Last week I wondered why the pro-Trump, Make America Great Again, Christian nationalist revivalists were not noticing the spiritual revival going on at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. These people believe that the United States was founded as a Christian […]
Asbury revival roundup: February 16 at 12:39AM
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Insiders tell me that they heard from a student who did not recognize anyone in Hughes Auditorium tonight. What happens when the dust […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 15, 2023 at 11:25AM
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. No playbook: Agnus Dei: Another testimony via FB I can type what God is doing and what I experienced but it will never […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 14, 2023 (7:45pm)
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 […]
Asbury University revival roundup: Day 4 update
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 […]
The MAGA evangelical revivalists are silent about the Asbury University revival. Why?
Charlie Kirk, the MAGA evangelical who runs Turning Point USA, wants a national awakening: Kirk believes that the only way to stop what he calls “The Great Reset” is a new Great Awakening. He believes that such a reawakening is […]
Special evangelical roundup: Asbury University revival edition
NOTE: I’ve decided to move the updates to this original post to separate posts. You can read them all here. What is happening in Evangelical land? Revival has hit Asbury University again. Get up to speed here. What are people […]
Revival comes, again, to Asbury University
Something is happening at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky and it has some striking similarities to 1970: Here is Alexandra Presta at The Asbury Collegian: I have been in Hughes Auditorium for almost twelve hours now without an intent to […]