“Kumbaya worship is definitely not my worship style, but the Holy Spirit surely doesn’t need my permission to show up and change hearts.”
“But its appeal is actually its physicality and simplicity. In a time of factionalism, celebrity culture, and performance, what’s happening at Asbury is radically humble. And it gives me great hope for the future of American Christianity….Fox News’s Tucker Carlson was asked not to come to cover the revival, because it has nothing to do with politics or business. No one wants to pervert or disrupt what God is seemingly doing in this community.”
“Revival will have done its job if it sends its participants back into the everyday world of Christian life and practice with a new awareness that what we do there has everlasting meaning — and it changes how we live. The revival is not the point; it is only valuable insofar as it leads to repentance.”
- Democratic religious membership has fallen further than among Republicans, more than doubling the partisan gap in religious membership.
- Fewer than half of Democrats report being a member of a church.
- In 1998, two-thirds of Democrats agreed that religion was important to them but two decades later only 43 Percent of Democrats held that view.