From San Joaquin-There will be no tents, torches or sermons threatening hell and damnation.
The Episcopalian Church doesn’t do revivals that way.
That it’s doing a revival at all is a startling break from tradition, but it’s holding a three-day revival in the San Joaquin Valley beginning Friday at University of the Pacific.
“It’s not typically something coming out of the Episcopal Church,” said the Rev. Anna Carmichael, Canon to the Ordinary of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin. “We’re usually heady, not so emotive. We don’t do a lot to get anyone’s attention.”
All of that is changing under Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry, who was elected to lead the national church for a nine-year term in 2015.
Curry has called on Episcopalians to join the Jesus Movement and said the three-day San Joaquin Revival — which continues with events Saturday in Fresno and Sunday in Bakersfield — is just the beginning. More revivals are planned across the country.
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