By Will Hall, Baptist Message executive editor DEVILLE, La. (LBM) – Former Vice President Mike Pence did not reveal his plans regarding the 2024 presidential election; however, in an exclusive interview with the Baptist Message, March 19, he did ask for Louisiana Baptists and other people of faith to pray for him and his wife Karen as they seek “to discern our path forward.” NATIONWIDE REVIVAL Pence, whose spiritual awakening took place during a Christian music festival in Wilmore, Kentucky, home of Asbury University, site of the 1970 revival that served as one of the significant events of “the Jesus movement,” said he hoped the multiple revivals reported across the country today are the “beginning of another Great Awakening in America.” He offered that the movie “Jesus Revolution” (about the 1970s spiritual phenomenon) was making a big impact on the nation. “But to see young people stepping forward today at Asbury and campuses around the country is deeply inspiring to me,” he said. In that context, Pence shared about a phone call with the AU president, who told him the chapel service that began the recent Asbury revival was “’actually very ordinary.’” But he told Pence that at the end of it “’people stayed and … [Read more...]