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"God's Great Dance Floor," Or, Why You Don't Need Ecstasy to Have an Ecstatic Good Time

On New Year’s Day 2013, I filed into the lower deck of the Georgia Dome along with more than 65,000 evangelical Christians between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. We were all there to attend a four-day concert event known as the Passion Conference, which occurs in Atlanta each January.

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