On Revivalism and the Means of Grace

Mice from a Dirty Shirt

Two thousand years of believing life makes itself, and one Frenchman with a bent glass neck

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For two thousand years, spontaneous generation explained how life seemed to appear wherever the conditions were right. Pasteur’s open flask helped bury the theory in biology; this essay follows its logic into the altar call. The answer is not a better atmosphere or a stronger decision, but faith delivered from outside us through the Word and the Sacraments.

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