THE FIFTIES: The Best of Times…The Worst of Times

The Road to Shalom

In Fran's new series, There And Back Again - A Hippies' Tale, we'll be flying at 50,000 feet over the past half century of American culture, attempting to sleuth our way into a better understanding of how we've arrived at our moment in history—as a nation and as Christians. Drawing from his past research as well as his own anecdotal memory, in this first episode, Fran will connect you to what it was like, living as he puts it, "within the circumference of the hulu-hoop and beneath the shadow of the Bomb” — life in the Fifties.
Why spend time looking back 50 years? Because in order to live life forward, you have to always be looking backward. In our always-on, Instagram-Instapot culture, we're forced to always be looking forward because we're driving at broadband speed, and thinking isn't encouraged.
So...push back a little...put your feet up and take time to be nostalgic. You might just discover that who you are is more of a composite of the past than you think.
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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)