Nor did the "revivals" necessarily result in holy living and a purer church. Many, convinced that their emotional "conversion experience" had put them right with God returned to their old ways with a false assurance of salvation.
The piece also details a conversionexperience: Veteran auto correspondent Stephan Wilkinson confesses that when the Veyron was introduced, he considered it an arrogant status symbol and refused to test-drive it on principle.