sawdust trail
Evangelist's church aisle
The sawdust trail is the path to religious conversion, from the sawdust-covered aisles at revival meetings where converts walked forward to declare their faith.
The phrase evokes old-time evangelical Christianity: He hit the sawdust trail after years of hard drinking.
By extension, any journey toward moral reform or spiritual commitment.
- sawdustPowdery timber waste
- revivalReturn after decline
- evangelistZealous advocate or preacher
- gospel preacherOne who proclaims Christianity
- tentPortable fabric shelter
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- revival practicesaltar call, camp meeting, tent revival, tent meeting, revival sermon
- tent revivaltent revival, camp meeting, altar call, altar calls, evangelist
- revivalismrevivals, revivalism, revivalist, revivalists, camp meeting
- revivalsrevivalism, resurgence, reawakening, rejuvenation, revitalization
sawdust trailapostasy
Renunciation of former beliefs
backsliding · falling from grace · deconversion · road to ruin · primrose path
sawdust trailatheism
Rejection of deities
secularism · godlessness · unbelief · irreligion · agnosticism
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