LATE SIXTIES: "All Ya Need Is Love" (or maybe not)

The Road to Shalom

As the Sixties were winding down, hopes were ramping up. This, after all, was "the age of Aquarius." In the words of The Fifth Dimension, "harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding, no more falsehoods or derisions, mystic crystal revelations and the mind's true liberation." Surely the best days were ahead! Woodstock was proof.
Yet, five years later they were singing, "ashes to ashes, dust to dust, we'll never be the same, we're all forgiven because we're only living to leave the way we came." What happened? In the words of Annie Gottlieb, "'No!' can be shouted from a million throats, but 'yes' has to be said face-to-face, in response to love or reason." We were good at saying 'No!' but had no idea the cost of saying 'yes.' To be a part of rebuilding what we had torn down.
The collapse of the Sixties ideology is a vital piece of the puzzle we're building in this series to understand how and when we wandered off the Road to Shalom.
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OTHER RESOURCES BY FRAN SCIACCA:

• "What's Wrong With the World?" - evangelism & discipleship video curriculum
• "Knot or Noose? - Recovering the Mystery of Marriage" - small group video resource
• "The Darkside Challenge" - social media and tech self-audit
• "Getting the Big Picture" - Old Testament survey course
• "Yeshua in Four Dimensions" - the four Gospels (survey course)
• "To The Ends of the Earth" - New Testament survey course
• "The 15/30 Series" - studies for spiritual formation (Genesis, Psalms, Mark, Paul)