“The Great Awokening”

A critical glimpse inside the latest viral (and counterfeit) religious movement

John Monaco

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Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash

As you may remember from your high school U.S. History course, the “Great Awakening” was a period of revival within American Christianity, beginning in the 1730’s. At the time, the Enlightenment’s influence on religion started to wear out its welcome. Congregationalist and Episcopalian…

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John Monaco

Doctoral student in theology, seeking the true, good, and beautiful.