March 18, 2005
The Jesus Generation by Graham, Billy
Filed under: Spirituality | Buy on Amazon
Take a retro ride into Christianity circa 1971 with your favorite crusading hipster, Billy Graham.
In a book that's understandably out-of-print, Graham tries to "rap" with the youth of America and get them to "turn on" to Jesus. Graham often borrows campy '60s and '70s expressions in an attempt to connect with the younger generation, and thirty years later it's kind of funny. As a challenging and encouraging devotional book it falls a little short. As a retro ride it's very insightful and entertaining. The book is very telling of the times (there's a lot of environmental doom and gloom), and you even learn that on a few occasions Billy Graham himself visited various rock festivals, protests and love-ins in an attempt to understand the masses. Of coures he intended "incognito" (meaning he donned a hat, sun glasses, and a big sweater).
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