Ronald J. Sider (1939-2022): On a Most Conscientious Believer
…the peak year of the Jesus Movement, 1973, I had been taught that the main obligations of a Christian were to maintain one’s private devotions or ‘quiet times’, to attend…
…the peak year of the Jesus Movement, 1973, I had been taught that the main obligations of a Christian were to maintain one’s private devotions or ‘quiet times’, to attend…
…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…
…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 whether…
…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…
…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…
…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…
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…
…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…
…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…
…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…