Israeli Democracy Rests in the Democratic Spirit of Its People
Why the international obsession with the country’s judicial reforms?
February 27, 2023
Making sense of the Asbury awakening.
When Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend in 1822 that he anticipated the rapid decline of traditional Christian belief in the U.S., he was unaware that a young preacher named Charles Grandison Finney had already set in motion what would later be known as the Second Great Awakening. So observes Ross Douthat in commenting on a recent gathering that may turn out to be significant in the history of American religion:
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Neither an endless cycle of violence nor a sudden eruption.
Making sense of the Asbury awakening.
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Reading Exodus as a tale of two ancient Near Eastern construction projects.