Tag Archives: Jesus Revolution

Jesus Revolution – The Music

Watching the film Jesus Revolution, I was struck by some things about the place and time that hadn’t hit me before. I remember seeing news reports and photos of the mass baptisms, but pictures don’t convey the power of the event the way a video does. The sense of joy and celebration came through on the big […]

Jesus Revolution – The Movie

I met Chuck Smith once. Back in the summer of 1980 it never occurred to me they would one day make a movie of his life Chuck was a pastor of a small, somewhat uptight, church in southern California back in the late sixties when the hippies arrived. His is one of the stories in […]

Jesus Revolution – The Book

As the opening credits rolled, I remembered I had read the book and posted my thoughts on it here, back in November 2018. The movie Jesus Revolution hit theatres this past weekend, and I’ll give my review tomorrow. (If you can’t wait for the details, go see it today. It’s a good film). I thought […]

A Simpler Time?

I remember the late 1960s and early 1970s almost as if they were yesterday. Those were my teen years. Life was good and exiting things were happening in something called the Jesus Movement. California, the epicentre of the movement, was a long way from Montreal and Ottawa, the places I spent those years. But we […]