Christian History

Issue 45

Camp Meetings & Circuit Riders: Frontier Revivals

Originally published in 1995

Christian History magazine was published by Christianity Today from 1982 to 2008.

Articles in this Issue

Camp Meetings and Circuit Riders: Did You Know?

Little Known Facts about Camp Meetings and Circuit Riders

Revival at Cane Ridge

What exactly happened at the most important camp meeting in American history?

Piercing Screams and Heavenly Smiles

An eyewitness account of signs and wonders at early camp meetings.

Wrestling with God and Man

Dramatic accounts from the frontier’s most popular autobiography.

Counter-Culture Christianity

A look at the radical utopian communities that sprang up across the early frontier.

Rejecting the Negro Pew

As revival religion blossomed, so did the independent black church.

All Sins Swept Away

A slave describes her delayed but dramatic conversion.

Focus on the Frontier Family

How Methodists strengthened the Christian home—and changed it.

The Great Spirit Descends

A stirring camp meeting among Native Americans.

Christianity on the Early American Frontier: Christian History Interview – Revivals That Changed a Nation

Frontier faith captured the heart of the common person—and molded America’s character.

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