Sex Sinners And Hippies

The story of how one woman overcame the dynamics of a youth filled with drugs, alcoholic parents, and an abusive husband to build a new life as a hippie in the mountains of Colorado during the late 1960's and early 1970's. From raising a family that grew from two children to five in three years, to living in a converted 1900's era post office at 5,280 feet in the Rocky Mountains the family shared pioneer type experiences with the rest of the small town of Ward. Heat was provided by a wood stove, the water pipes often froze, outhouses were essential, and the her home had the only shower in the entire town. Through all this Susan manages to survive, thrive and discover a sense of belonging. This book sheds light on the pioneer spirit that enriched the small hippie community in Ward; as well as the free sex and attitudes that engendered the hippie generation. With lucid writing Susan marshals the characters and events of her past to overcome the obstacles of time, illuminating and recording the history of a community obscured in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains.

An endlessly entertaining and informative look at how musicals have both reflected and adapted to America's changing mores

This is a book of hope for those in the midst of despair or darkness in their lives, that Jesus is there, the light for our path. Laura goes through her life story, in the first part of the book, with its struggles and heartaches as well as the victories. She faces the problems with honesty as she seeks God and follows Him and comes to the knowledge of the truth. In the second part of the book she gives her insights on different aspects she has had to deal with in her life (single parenting, divorce, depression, forgiveness, etc.). With each subject, she gives Biblical references as she encourages others through what she has learned. This book is for the believer to come to greater understanding or for the non-believer to see how God works and loves us in the midst of our lives.

While investigating the sewers of their hometown in California, two boys come across the body of a woman. They flee the scene but return later to find her alive. They help her recover and in return the woman offers them sex. Narrated by one of the boys, Ben, 15.

Here is a phenomenological inquiry into the fruitful ministry of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa’s Sunday Morning Worship Service. The purpose was to uncover and explicate the quintessential elements of worship leading from the life experiences of those worship leaders who shared the platform with Pastor Chuck Smith, known as the father of the Jesus Movement. The book examines Calvary Chapel’s inauspicious beginnings in a senior citizen trailer park recreation center as it explores key elements of Kay and Chuck Smith’s ministry. The church and the couple combined in 1965. By 1968, the church and the Smiths became a spiritual home replete with a spiritual mama and papa, ministering to hippies seeking everlasting love and eternal peace. The fruitfulness of Calvary Chapel’s ministry is its ability to reproduce maturing Christians that reproduce maturing Christians. This replication occurred thousands of times as the movement blossomed and spread to new churches and new ministries across the United States and globally. The phenomenon spawned a megachurch movement and birthed the modern Christian worship music industry. The hippies were alternately loathed and loved in their era. Perhaps the hippies’ most enduring and endearing contributions to twenty-first-century culture are traced to the Jesus movement.

Offers a sardonic view of the mysteries of evangelical Christian conservatives, from mega-churches with ATMs to Bibles designed to look like glossy fashion magazines.

Whether you lived through the sixties and seventies or just wish you had, this revised and expanded edition of the Hippie Dictionary entertains as much as it educates. Cultural and political listings such as "Age of Aquarius," "Ceasar Chavez," and "Black Power Movement," plus popular phrases like "acid flashback," "get a grip," and "are you for real?" will remind you of how revolutionary those 20 years were. Although the hippie era spans two decades beginning with the approval of the birth control pill in 1960 and ending with the death of John Lennon in 1980, it wasn't all about sex, drugs, and rock'n' roll. These were the early years of pro-ecology and anti-capitalist beliefs-beliefs that are just as timely as ever. So kick back and trip out on the new entries as well as the old, and discover why some are dubbing the sixties and seventies "the intellectual renaissance of the 20th century."

The Jesus People were an unlikely combination of evangelical Christianity and the hippie counterculture. God's Forever Family is the first major examination of this phenomenon in over thirty years.