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Is it a movie or documentary?
If it's like Godspell or JC Superstar. Might have a chance.It's coming out this year. It's about the charismatic movement of the '70s and also the Christian communes of the seventies. Let me know if it's any good.
Oh oh...It's a "based on a true story" movie.
No thanks.Let's give the trailer a shot...
No thanks.
Hippies. Hippies for Jesus.Hah. It looks cool. It's got the actor who plays Jesus in the series The Chosen. What looks interesting about it to me is that's my generation, and there was this whole "Jesus is cool" movement going on back then when I was around 13 or so.
My introduction to Jesus was at Jesus Christ Superstar in the local theater. And then there was the whole Doobie Brothers, "Jesus is just Alright" song on the radio. Plus other popular songs of the day that made Jesus a "thing" for the young folks, without it being this "preachy" garbage of the different evangelists. It was in its own way a subculture.
They had the Jesus People church in the Twin Cities, and the like. I think this movie is to kind of bring to light some of that early hippy Jesus movement that was happen back then. Revolution to Revival: How the Jesus People Movement Turned North Central From Cynicism Into Awakening
Very interested in see this touching on that time.
Looks pretty good.Let's give the trailer a shot...
Exactly what it was. That's when the charismatic movement really started. It was youth counterculture who found an alternative to the destructive drug culture through an experiential form of religion, hence some of the pentecostal experience broke free from denominational separation and found its way into mainstream churches. That's what the charismatics were.Hippies. Hippies for Jesus.
If I was still a Christian, I'd agree.Looks pretty good.
Chosen is amazing!
Exactly! It was Hippies recognizing that Jesus -- as depicted in his teachings -- was one of them; same peace, love, equality rhetoric.Hippies. Hippies for Jesus.
I have a friend who is a product of that movement in California. Amazing how many lives were transformed in that movement.Exactly! It was Hippies recognizing that Jesus -- as depicted in his teachings -- was one of them; same peace, love, equality rhetoric.
I haven't seen it yet, but my parish showed it last year and went over very well. I couldn't attend because of the timing.Chosen is amazing!
You nailed that on the head!Exactly! It was Hippies recognizing that Jesus -- as depicted in his teachings -- was one of them; same peace, love, equality rhetoric.
We still have that at our parish, and my wife and I truly enjoy it.I think we've been there, done that, about the time when the folk mass had its demise.