The Call: Spiritual Warfare in the Field of Martyrs

On November 1, 2008, I attended The Call – a rally organized by Lou Engle at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium – attended by 33,000 (according to organizer estimates) over a twelve hour period. Citing the state’s “fog of Jezebel confusion”* Engle organized this incarnation of The Call to support Proposition 8 – a California ballot proposition that would ban same-sex marriage in the state. During the event, Engle warned that the decadence in the state “will release a spirit that is more demonic than Islam”. The Call is a large-scale traveling revival that purports to offer participants an edifying day of fasting and prayer away from the temptations of secular culture. But far from being a quiet zone for collective meditation, TheCall was a anxious assembly of endtime spiritual warriors.

My documentation of the event can be seen in this video: