The Next Great Awakening Will Be…

David Gellert­ner has a great arti­cle in the Week­ly Stan­dard called Bib­li­cal Illit­er­a­cy in Amer­i­ca. I liked the arti­cle well enough, but the last few para­graphs swept me off my feet:

My guess is that our next Great Awak­en­ing will begin among col­lege stu­dents. Col­lege stu­dents today are (spir­i­tu­al­ly speak­ing) the dri­est tim­ber I have ever come across. Most­ly they know lit­tle or noth­ing about reli­gion; lit­tle or noth­ing about Amer­i­can­ism. Most­ly no one ever speaks to them about truth and beau­ty, or nobil­i­ty or hon­or or great­ness. They are empty–spiritually bone dry–because no one has ever both­ered to give them any­thing spir­i­tu­al that is worth hav­ing. Plat­i­tudes about diver­si­ty and tol­er­ance and mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism are thin gru­el for intel­lec­tu­al­ly grow­ing young peo­ple.

Let the right per­son speak to them, and they will turn back to the Bible with an excite­ment and exhil­a­ra­tion that will shake the coun­try. In read­ing the Bible they will feel as if they are going home–which is just what they will be doing.

via GetRe­li­gion