Copyrighted Reprinted with permission of Radical Religion Collective. Radical Religion Collective Contact Graduate Theological Union, Special Collections, 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709 1973 Copyright 1973 Radical Religion Collective
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Richard York provides thoughts on the experience of the Free Church in "I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing", Radical Religion, Vol 1 (1), pp 23-25. He concludes, "What we are to be developing is not more spiritual politics, but rather political spirituality, and there is no room in that for media-freakery, grandiose rhetoric, personality cult, undisciplined yipping, nor even for defeat." The journal Radical Religion represented a continuation of the publications side of the Free Church. Revisiting the street ministry aspect of the Free Church, Robert Bellah wrote, "A group like the Berkeley Free church, which began in 1967 as a ministry to hippies and street people and became more and more political in the years that followed, tried to maintain a religious presence in the midst of the most militant Left but was itself pulled down in the ultimate collapse. Translating religion finally into nothing but politics, it lost its raison d'etre and, incidentally, its community support and funding." ("The New Consciousness and the Berkeley New Left," In Charles Y. Glock and Robert N. Bellah, The New Consciousness. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. p 85.)
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Journal Article, pp 23-25; 7 x 10 in. (17.8 x 25.4 cm)
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