Something remarkable is happening in Wilmore, Kentucky.
On Wednesday, Feb. 8, as daily chapel was wrapping up at Asbury University, a private Christian college in Wilmore, one student stood up and continued speaking. That small act led to other students staying in chapel and not leaving as they normally would. Over a week later, that chapel service is ongoing, with people flocking from around the world to join in what is increasingly being described as a “revival.”
What is going on? In a Feb. 15 interview with Tucker Carlson, Asbury Student Body President Alison Perfater described the phenomenon this way:
On the deeper side of things, what’s been happening here since Wednesday is there’s a young army of believers who are rising to claim Christianity, the faith, as their own, as a young generation and as a free generation, and that’s why people cannot get enough.
Indeed, it’s a marvel to see, and an inspiration and encouragement to anyone of faith. I know that as a 50-something Baby Boomer, I have not felt so discouraged about the world in my entire life as I am now. I could list all the reasons, but then we’d be here all day, and anyway, you know what they are.
But after several years of empty churches and livestream services and now churches struggling to keep their doors open because people haven’t come back, I am heartened by the images of people of all ages coming together for worship rather than
