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Why Students in Kentucky Have Been Praying for 250 Hours
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‘You need to come back to chapel, something is happening.’ On the ground at the Asbury Revival.
By Olivia Reingold
02.19.23 — Culture and Ideas
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For the last four years at her Christian college, Gracie Turner had been keeping a secret.

She had lost her faith.

In high school, she watched cancer ravage her great-grandmother. Then she saw her family fall apart. One fight drove her to call the police on a relative. 

“I just remember thinking, why is this happening? How could this happen? And my first t…

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Olivia Reingold

Olivia Reingold cocreated and executive produced Matthew Yglesias’s podcast, Bad Takes. She got her start in public radio, regularly appearing on NPR for her reporting on indigenous communities in Montana. She previously produced podcasts at Politico, where she shaped conversations with world leaders like Jens Stoltenberg.

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