Don’t Blame the Boomers for Everything
…week. A remnant of our generation was redeemed by this Jesus Movement and the Seeker Movement that followed. But it came in two distinct waves. The first wave, the Jesus…
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The Politics, or a-Politics, of the Evangelical Church in the 1970s
I came to Christ in 1973, at the high tide of the Jesus movement. No, we weren’t all hippies; the movement swept through secular colleges [even fraternities!] and youth groups…
Vigen Guroian on Politics vs. Witness
…of its own interests’. Absent that, they fear that the Church will be unable to fulfill its mission. The Jesus Movement and the Seeker Movement, in my opinion, were real…
Book Notice: “Losing the Good Portion,” by Leon Podles
…as Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Athletes in Action. In fact, when I was considering the faith in the early 1970s [before the Jesus Movement set in], I actually wondered…
A ‘Protestant-ish’ Argument for Icons?
…Britain because of redecorated church buildings. This is quite foreign to the era of the Jesus Movement in the 1970s, when so many of my notorious Boomer generation came to…
Welcome to My New Website!
…a-Politics, in the 1970s. What it was like in the days of the Jesus Movement and the Seeker Church. Yes, most white ‘classical Protestants’ [a term I’m using instead of…
The Political Meaning of ‘God’
…high school, and the speech class did give grace before lunch, and those of such an inclination [mostly Catholics and High Anglicans in those days before the Jesus Movement] were…
The H-word, and the Other H-word
…rendered by “gut” or “bowels.”) And when the Jesus Movement came, and evangelicalism began to change its styles to follow cultural changes, rightly or wrongly (which is beyond the scope…
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
…administration. I never really personally met people of a different view (except for a few conservative Catholics) until I ran into Jesus Movement people in college after 1970. The one…