![]() Evenings teenagers would gather, singing folk-music hymns with spooky minor chords: We are one in the spirit, we are one in the Lord./And we pray that our unity may one day be restored. The men would labor a week, perhaps two, mixing concrete to erect prefab chapels while the women taught Vacation Bible School. He founded a ministry known as “God’s Minority,” which traveled each summer to disadvantaged towns in West Virginia and Connecticut. ![]() I’d just entered grade school when my cousin was called to serve as youth pastor of my Baptist church in Tennessee. ![]() Few Gen Xers and zero millennials will recall, but there was a moment-call it 1971–when Protestant Christianity met the counterculture, when teenagers brimmed over with faith, hope, and love while wearing bell-bottom jeans and beaded necklaces, strumming guitars, even cursing and drinking beer. ![]()
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