You Say You Want a Revolution?

by Kathleen Edwards Chase

In the heart of the Catskill Mountains in New York is a small town known 'round the world for its countercultural residents, its music that touched the heart of a generation, its radical ideas and protests, but mostly for the festival that exemplified all this--Woodstock.

For many people, simply mentioning the name Woodstock brings to mind memories of an era. But for me, Woodstock is the community of my first call to pastoral ministry. It was where I got my feet wet, where I learned to be a minister, and where I took my first dive into the pool of church revitalization. It is where I learned to love people inside the church, but also the people who are not only anti-church, but anti-anything that reeked of institutionalism--the hippies.

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