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From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net

A web site in Russia has begun to publish a list of hippies in the
Church.

These are all in the Russian Orthodox Church, and I think it is a very interesting project, and I've blogged about it in more detail here:

https://methodius.blogspot.com/2020/07/hippies-in-church.html

I think it would be worthwhile to try to document this movement in all countries, and not just Russia, now, while it is still within living
memory.

It is interesting on many levels. It is a way in which Christians
related to or became involved in certain youth sub-cultures, or,
conversely, ways in which people involved in those sub-cultures
encountered the Christian faith. Some Christians became hippies, and
some hippies became Christian.

Recording how this happened could be interesting for missiologists and
church and cultural historians.

So I'm appealing to anyone who has or knows of any information on this
to pass it on to me, if possible using the following template (just
copy and paste it into your e-mail reader, or a separate text file
which you can send as an attachment).

WHO
WHAT
WHEN
WHERE
HOW
WHY
NO
QU
SO
$

Copy it as many times as you need. The $ sign indicates the end of
each record.

The last three items are Notes, Quotes and Sources.The source can be
you, or an article, or a web site, or a book.

The first six come from a poem by Rudyard Kipling, and serve as a
check list for journalists of the information they should try to
include in every story --

I KEEP six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east and west;
But after they have worked for me,
I give them all a rest.

What happened?
Why did it happen?
When did it happen?
How did it happen?
Where did it happen?
Who did it happen to, or who made it happen?

Put names in order Surname, First names

Feel free to forward this to anyone you think may have information on
the topic.
--
Stephen Hayes, Author of The Year of the Dragon
Sample or purchase The Year of the Dragon: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/907935
Web site: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk

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