What a privilege it has been, these past months, to be giving our attention to revival. Focussing on the historical interventions of God.

The title suggests how a move of God’s Spirit in a Church near Toronto airport in the mid 1990’s became a hot button issue for Christians and thirty years later, still divides opinion.

It appeared to be a strange anomaly; so I assumed I must have made a simple transcription error in copying the data I was researching.

In 1900, for many Christians in Wales, revival was part of their shared history.

The late Canadian historian and theologian W. Stanford Reid made the bold claim, writing in Christianity Today in 1965, that the Reformation is the greatest revival since Pentecost. But was the Reformation a revival at all?

Can you imagine the newspapers being full on with reports of revival? The Evening Express and the Evening Mail in Wales dated 16th January 1905 had a caption at the top of the page – REVIVAL EDITION.

Imagine what could happen as the result of the conversion of a powerful, popular and capable president or prime minister.

On a Hebriadean Island, almost as close to Norway as it is to Bournemouth…