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February 27, 2023

In Analyzing the Decline of Religion, Expect the Unexpected

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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