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. …
