{"id":84,"date":"2026-03-11T02:21:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jennimckinney.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2026-03-11T02:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:27:37","slug":"the-great-hawaiian-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennimckinney.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"The Great Hawaiian Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/jennimckinney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4992741453417209;width:652px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jennimckinney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1-980x653.png 980w, https:\/\/jennimckinney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1-480x320.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Historical Survey of the Totality of Events of the Great Hawaiian Revival from 1836-1842<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a thorough and well-researched <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.liberty.edu\/doctoral\/7840\/\">dissertation<\/a> by Dr. Nick Freeman that provides an overview of the leading players and locations of what is known today as the &#8220;Great Hawaiian Revival&#8221; of the mid-1800&#8217;s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How did Christianity spread in the Hawaiian Islands and who did God use to orchestrate this great movement? The most well-known single personage is Titus Coan, who pastored a church in Hilo, Hawaii, and under whose leadership the Great Hawaiian Revival culminated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what is less well-known are the other players: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Evangelists and pastors in different areas of Hawaii who experienced smaller revivals first and fanned the flames; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Members of the Hawaiian royalty who worked in concert with these evangelists, donating lands and other goods;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Influencers of the time period, such as Blind Bartimaeus and Governor Kuakini, among many others, whose actions were used by God to fill in gaps across the islands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn about these fascinating historical figures and island-hop along with Dr. Freeman to watch the Great Hawaiian Revival unfold, you can read his dissertation <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.liberty.edu\/doctoral\/7840\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Historical Survey of the Totality of Events of the Great Hawaiian Revival from 1836-1842 This is a thorough and well-researched dissertation by Dr. Nick Freeman that provides an overview of the leading players and locations of what is known today as the &#8220;Great Hawaiian Revival&#8221; of the mid-1800&#8217;s. How did Christianity spread in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,7],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","tag-dr-nick-freeman","tag-hawaiian-revival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennimckinney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennimckinney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennimckinney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennimckinney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennimckinney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jennimckinney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/jennimckinney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennimckinney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennimckinney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennimckinney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}