Revival is a funny concept if you think about it too hard. It can mean many things: a quickening of spiritual fervor, an increase in numbers, a return to some earlier golden age. Quakerism began as a revival of sorts—a brash new religious outlook that didn't have much regard for other denominations—and we have had many revivals in the 350 years since. The nineteenth-century Midwest was awash in revivals whose effects reshaped Quaker worship through much of the world. The new consensus of early twentieth century Friends created modern Liberal Quakerism that drew many people, as did the political activism of the 1960s and 1970s. 

What's the state of Quaker revivals today? Are there places where we're in danger of catching fire? 

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