The #CDC on Friday issued a health alert for doctors and health officials to be on the lookout for #measles cases after a person with a confirmed, contagious case attended a massive religious event in #Kentucky last month, potentially exposing 20,000 people to one of the most infectious viruses on the planet.
The event at #AsburyUniversity, drew tens of thousands of worshippers to the small, private #Christian institution in #Wilmore from Feb 8th to 23rd.
"I actually wonder if exhaustion from culture wars, purity codes and the idolatry of ideology on all sides have led these young people to seek revival in the simplicity of constant prayer and singing in the first place." https://open.substack.com/pub/thecorners/p/on-longing-and-the-asbury-revival
As I write this, I have a YouTube livestream open and playing in the background, listening to the singing in the chapel at Asbury University in Kentucky - where a regular chapel service that started 12 days ago has not yet ended. From everything I have seen, the “revival” is a quiet one - it’s mostly just singing led by college students - on simple acoustic guitar and piano. I cannot claim to understand it, all I know is that every time I have tuned in over the past few days, it has made me a little teary. Which surprises me. I have not always been prone to mixing sentimentality and religion. Irony and religion, fine, but this Gen Xer usually recoils from anything that smacks of sap. But here I am, longing to sing in that room with 1,000 other open-hearted people.
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