A GREAT AWAKENING tells the true story of the unlikely friendship between Reverend George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin. As the colonies near collapse, Whitefield sparks the first Great Awakening, ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, two spiritual “great awakenings” shook up much of our young nation. Ministers stopped reading their sermons — and started preaching directly to the masses via what we ...

(RNS) — On the Sunday after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated, I sat in an evangelical Christian church in the upper Midwest thinking about the First Great Awakening. This ...

With the colonies on the brink of collapse, the Reverend George Whitefield ignites the first Great Awakening, uniting an entire generation with his thundering and faithful sermons and proclamations of ...