the new book from Vern Fein

I WAS YOUNG AND THOUGHT IT WOULD CHANGE

out now

"Here, we work with everyone; it doesn’t matter what your background is, or what the color of your skin is. If we can see everyone as a whole, the world can be a lot better.”

the new book from Vern Fein

RADICAL FAITH

out now

Vern Fein’s interviews bring back an amazing time of transformation. He captures the intimate inside story of the journey through cultural alienation and radical politics to an equally committed and more lasting faith in Jesus. Those who lived this journey and anyone who wants to better understand the upheaval and the late 1960s and early ‘70s will love this book.

Martin Shupack, Director of Advocacy, Church World Service

Radical Faith offers something unique in the "Post-Jesus People" reminiscences that have come across my desk in the last few years.  It pulls together a "then-and-now" perspective, and one that doesn't always have a typical "storybook" ending in terms of where people ended up in their adherence to Christianity… I think it's a valuable addition to the history of the movement.

Larry Eskridge, Author of God’s Forever Family, Oxford Press Winner of the 2014 Christianity Today Book of the Year 

Very fun new book from longtime Blue Ocean faith friend about his own experience in the Jesus Movement of the 60s and 70s and also about interviews with others who went through it. What happened to them? What did it mean to them? Good stuff.

Dave Smeltzer, Founder of Blue Ocean Faith Movement.

EXCERPTS FROM RADICAL FAITH

What happened to those people who had the same life turns that I did? How did they become part of the first counter-culture revolution and how and why did they come into the second huge change?  How were they doing now, what had they done with their lives, where were they in their faith now that had blitzkrieged them without warning, what was their view of the church that had become a haven instead of the scourge it was for most of them during their radical days?

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The life style changes—the long hair, the psychedelic use, the introduction of the Pill, the swing toward Eastern religion —were concomitant with these political happenings.  Every aspect of what had been considered normal in this country was subject to protest and radical change.

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What caused this philosophical somersault? In a word—God, a relationship with God. They began to experience the reality and love of God coming in the message and presence of Jesus. From that new starting point they came to believe in the affirmations of the historic Christian faith. They found ourselves genuinely transformed in a personal relationship with Jesus.