The Dust of Death: The Sixties Counterculture and How It Changed America Forever (Biblia.com)

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In 1968, at the climax of the sixties, Os Guinness visited the United States for the first time. There he was struck by an impression he’d already felt in England and elsewhere: beneath all the idealism and struggle for freedom was a growing disillusionment and loss of meaning. “Underneath the efforts of a generation,” he wrote, “lay dust.” Even more troubling, Christians seemed uninformed about...

In stating this second principle the qualifying proviso should perhaps be emphasized first. There must be no compliance with the violent nor the slightest condoning of their violence. And we must not use this understanding to smuggle a Christian justification of violence through the back door. The principle of non-violence must not be contradicted. There is no justification for “Christian” violence, nor in fact for any violence at all. The identity of violence is still the same. Its reciprocity and

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