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Saw the movie “The Jesus Revolution” yesterday. Amazing how seeing scenes and hearing phrases from decades before can instantly transport a person back in time.

I was a young teenager living in rural Oklahoma during the years of the Jesus Revolution. Very isolated and far removed from Haute Asbury, California. But I heard and saw what was reported, as we did have television. And from those televised images, I drew my conclusions about those young people.

I grew up in a non-churched family, but it did have a strict moral compass and the very traditional family values of that decade. So,...