Paul Wilczynski's Observations

All Souls Unitarian, NYC

This past Sunday, we had the privilege of attending a UU service at All Souls in New York City and hearing Rev. Forrest Church give the sermon. His subject was The Third Great Awakening?. Church's first reading was from the September 13 Washington Post ...

President Bush said yesterday that he senses a "Third Awakening" of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided with the nation's struggle with international terrorists, a war that he depicted as "a confrontation between good and evil." Bush told a group of conservative journalists that he notices more open expressions of faith among people he meets during his travels, and he suggested that might signal a broader revival similar to other religious movements in history. . . .

"A lot of people in America see this as a confrontation between good and evil, including me," Bush said during a 1 1/2 -hour Oval Office conversation on cultural changes and a battle with terrorists that he sees lasting decades. "There was a stark change between the culture of the '50s and the '60s—boom—and I think there's change happening here," he added. "It seems to me that there's a Third Awakening."

posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 7:36 PM