Comments on: The hippies were religious and incontrovertibly hip at the same time https://www.isegoria.net/2018/05/the-hippies-were-religious-and-incontrovertibly-hip-at-the-same-time/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:37:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: C8 https://www.isegoria.net/2018/05/the-hippies-were-religious-and-incontrovertibly-hip-at-the-same-time/comment-page-1/#comment-2632050 C8 Thu, 24 May 2018 18:04:22 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=43521#comment-2632050 Nice nod to Tom Wolfe, with his “as if your eyebrows were being devoured by boll weevils…”

]]> By: Mike in Boston https://www.isegoria.net/2018/05/the-hippies-were-religious-and-incontrovertibly-hip-at-the-same-time/comment-page-1/#comment-2631959 Mike in Boston Thu, 24 May 2018 00:30:28 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=43521#comment-2631959 Readers of this blog will understand why some of the “Jesus People” went down a route that might be surprising to others:

Finally, the Jesus People discovered that grace needs to be preserved in institutional structures and ordered community if it is to be preserved at all. My group had no intention of becoming a church originally, but it still developed leaders [...] because they discovered the need for accountability. This was the experience of the first century apostolic Church as well—it began with a message and an experience, but it quickly required an ordered community to preserve the experience from distortion.

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