A lot of conservative evangelicals are calling for spiritual revival these days. Most of these calls are connected directly to a revival of American nationalism as if somehow the purpose of a religious revival is to advance a particular political […]
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Is evangelical Christianity a religious movement, or is it something else?
I first read historian Paul E. Johnson’s 1978 book A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 in 1989 while I was studying church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Johnson argued that evangelical religion in Rochester, […]
The great revival is coming and it will make America Christian again
Greg Laurie says it is coming and it will restore America to its Christian roots. Ted Cruz says it is coming and it will propel evangelicals into cultural prominence. Eric Metaxas and Greg Locke also say it is on its […]