Cover 1
Title Page 3
Copyright Page 4
Endorsements 5
Dedication 7
Epigraph 8
Prologue: Plunging In 11
1. What Was It and Why Does It Matter? 13
2. A Black-and-White Decade 26
3. The Wonderful World of Color 36
4. The Pastor Who Downscaled 48
5. The Be-In, the Summer of Love, and a Nudist Vegetarian Hippie 58
6. Miracle in the Middle East 67
7. 1968: And the Wind Began to Howl 73
8. When Nitro Met Glycerin 86
9. Meanwhile, in Malaysia 93
10. Magnificent Desolation 99
11. The Long and Winding Road 107
12. The Adult in the Room 113
13. Jesus Music 120
14. Life as Usual, inside the Revolution 135
15. No Bare Feet Allowed! 145
16. “Yes, That Jesus!” 149
17. Love Story 154
18. Billy Graham’s Good Vibrations 163
19. The Church of Stone 170
20. If You Can Explain It, Then God Didn’t Do It 176
21. Hippie Preachers 184
22. Malaise and the Me Decade 191
23. Tea or Revolution? 199
24. Burning It Down 208
25. Muscle Memory 215
26. Desperate Enough? 226
27. Cultural Christianity Is Dead: Rest in Peace 236
28. Mere Revival 241
Epilogue: Plunging In, All Over Again 249
Acknowledgments 251
Notes 257
About the Author 266
Back Ads 271
Back Cover 272