It's always interesting coming here and hearing about things I otherwise would never have known about.
What makes this special though? I browsed the Wikipedia article about it and this event doesn't even seem significant enough to warrant its own article.
There was apparently a similar revival at the same college about fifty years ago that had a lasting influence on the direction of American Protestantism. It's also unusual to see this sort of thing so heavily prioritizing specifically young people's religious expressions, apparently at times to the point of barring people past college age from the auditorium.
Yes, the fact that it 1. happened spontaneously (we would say by the influence of the Holy Spirit) with no evidence of coordination or showmanship
I have my doubts about that, as this college has Very frequent "revivals", with previous ones in 1905, 1908, 1921, 1950, 1958, 1970, 1992, and 2006. By now, I'm pretty sure the execs know full well how to exploit them
